What is Substance Abuse Counseling?
As with any disease or condition, addiction affects various elements of the user’s thought processes and behaviors. It’s these very thought processes and behaviors which may also be responsible for the onset of the drug or alcohol use. Substance abuse counseling is a method of community outreach in which those who are suffering from addiction speak with certified addiction professionals about their past and present substance use problems, about the problems that may have led up to substance use and about the underlying elements that are responsible for their current state.
Set Free Indeed is a place where the grips of addiction are broken while hopes and dreams are restored.
We believe that recovery is not haphazard, instead builds through a process using treatment, education, and encouragement guided by the 12 step principles. This has proven to be a major steppingstone for those who have been bound with no hope, no vision, and no liberty….to becoming Set Free from the grips of addiction, to being
empowered, equipped and to develop into a productive, dynamic individual in society.
Trauma-Informed Care:
An approach to treating a person in a holistic manner,
considering past trauma and the resulting coping mechanisms when attempting to understand behaviors while treating the client.
Motivational Interviewing Techniques:
A counselling method that involves enhancing a patient's motivation to change by means of four guiding principles, represented by the acronym RULE: Resist the righting reflex; Understand the patient's own motivations; Listen with empathy; and empower the patient.
Recovery:
A process of change through which people improve health and wellness, live self-directed lives, and strive to reach full potential in life.
Substance Use Disorder Services:
A comprehensive term
intended to describe activities undertaken to address any substance-related disorder as well as prevention activities. The term includes the provision of screening, assessment, referral, treatment for substance abuse counseling and education.