Our clinical program is designed for students to get the best out of their stay at Sober College. Each student’s treatment plan is individualize to work on their substance abuse issues and grow into an independent person by practicing what they learn in therapy in real life.
Using a Treatment Team Mentality to Provide the Best Care Possible
A Student a Equine Therapy
Sober College incorporates a comprehensive and integrated clinical approach by licensed practitioners that specialize in addictive and co-occurring disorders in young adults in early recovery, including recovery from eating disorders. The heart of our clinical approach is a treatment team mentality that utilizes a multidisciplinary approach based on comprehensive assessment and diagnostic criteria. All levels of staff meet together on a weekly basis to discuss the progress of each student. This attention to detail keeps the team focused and the best interests of each student client at heart.
Our clinical treatment of addictive behaviors means recognizing them as manifestations of deeper underlying clinical issues. Students’ embedded emotional patterns have led to negative and self-destructive behaviors. Our clinical process addresses these behaviors and patterns by matching therapies and techniques with the correct diagnosis, allowing students to re-engineer personal addictive belief systems.
Applying Traditional Therapy Methods in Nontraditional Ways Through Experiential Therapy
Sober College offers a plethora Urban Experiential Therapy options including Surf, Trapeze, and Wind Tunnel Therapy. Students work with our therapists and Program directors to get in touch with some hidden emotions by participating in these unconventional, emotion provoking activities students are able to get in touch with some different, deeper emotions than they would in a traditional office setting. Students go through the process of fear, courage, and success and are able to connect with their therapist, heir peers, and themselves in a profound way. Sober College’s Experiential Therapy Program takes therapy outside the office to appeal to the young adult population and promote personal growth.
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Offering Age-Specific, Individualized Care Through Individual and Group Therapy
Every week students at Sober College participate in a minimum of one individual therapy sessions, and three to five group therapy sessions. One a new student admits to Sober College they are assigned a particular therapist based on their particular needs and history. In most cases, this therapist is the students primary therapist through all phases of the Sober College Program.
Therapists regularly participate in Experiential Therapy Activities and Group therapy which gives students the opportunity to build strong and honest relationship with their therapist which can last many years after a students leaves the program. If a student stays local after they move out of Sober College their therapist can be incorporated into their After Care or Extended Care Program.
It is important to understand that therapy at Sober College is provided by licensed or licensed eligible clinicians. In the state of California, “therapy” is a term and practice reserved solely for individuals that have completed a graduate level of study and completed over 3,000 hours of supervised clinical training. Programs in this field use the idea of therapy loosely and in many cases, what is termed “therapy” is actually counseling or case management. This is an important distinction and one that Sober College takes seriously.
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Students at Surf Therapy
Specialized Therapies Help Students Address, and Begin to Resolve Issues that Might Have Impacted their Using
Specialized Therapy, or Adjuncts are groups, activities and/or workshops designed to address the needs of particular subsets of the student population. Although the groups offered may not be fore every student, having groups like Adoption are available so no matter what a students history is, they know they are not alone.
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We Offer On-Going Family Workshops
There is a family workshop that takes place at Sober College every six weeks. The workshops last for an entire weekend, and help the students and their families to work through their issues. Allowing the family to begin to heal while the student is in treatment makes it so the student does not step back into the same family situation.
