The Basics
Lifestyle Counseling, located in Bloomington, Minnesota, is an outpatient substance abuse treatment facility. Both an Intensive Outpatient Program (IOP) and a standard outpatient protocol are provided for adult men and women. Lifestyle Counseling offers an array of modalities, including CBT, the 12-steps and holistic methods through group and individual therapy sessions.
Treatment and Staff
Lifestyle has a variety of programming options, including those for clients who are court ordered due to a DUI, and flexible treatment schedules in order to accommodate the client’s home and work lives. The most common program is the IOP, which is broken into two phases. The entire process usually takes about 30 sessions and the first phase ends up being about nine hours of treatment per week, broken into three hour sessions. During this stage clients are introduced to the 12-steps, required to participate in on-site AA meetings and encouraged to begin to establish a support system within their community.
The next phase lessens in intensity to six hours a week and required continued regular attendance of AA or NA meetings, obtaining a sponsor and beginning to take part in sober activities. At this point the clients also work on-on-one with a counselor to put together a solid relapse prevention plan. In addition to the regular schedule of group therapy, every client also meets with his or her assigned therapist once a week to check on his or her progress and individual treatment plans.
Lifestyle has weeknight and weekend hours for group therapy and, depending on what track the client is on, the sessions can last three to four hours at a time. The relapse prevention group offers education and coping techniques including anger management and relaxation. Therapeutic methods include evidence-based best practice methods like DBT and Motivational Interviewing (MI) and some holistic like music and art therapy, meditation and nutritional counseling. If a client comes to the program with an existing co-occurring disorder the staff is able to provide referrals to outside agencies for medication management. The staff at Lifestyle are LCDCs and LPCs.
Extras
Lifestyle requires all of their clients to have a family member participate in the family program, which is an education-based counseling session. The family only has to attend once in order for the client to successfully graduate from the program.
In Summary
The treatment at Lifestyle Counseling of Bloomington is in depth and detailed, covering all the bases from the root of where the addiction began to include family members in the process. The programs are structured giving each client a clear path to success and sets the individual up to achieve ongoing recovery in a peer support community.
Lifestyle Counseling of Bloomington
9613 Girard Ave S
Bloomington, MN 55431
Lifestyle Counseling of Bloomington Cost: $7,050 for 30 sessions. Reach Lifestyle Counseling of Bloomington by phone at (952) 888-3511 or by email at info@lifestyleofbloomington.com.
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