Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Addiction
Our cognitive-behavioral therapy for addiction can help you overcome the underlying causes of substance abuse and co-occurring mental health symptoms.
Live Oaks Wellness helps people overcome addiction and dual diagnosis disorders. Contact us today to get started.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Addiction
Our cognitive-behavioral therapy for addiction can help you overcome the underlying causes of substance abuse and co-occurring mental health symptoms.
Live Oaks Wellness helps people overcome addiction and dual diagnosis disorders. Contact us today to get started.
Someone in the grips of addiction usually has difficulty picturing what type of therapy can help them break free from their substance use disorder. Once they begin a quality treatment program, they are often surprised to find their options include something as powerful as cognitive behavioral therapy.
Live Oaks Wellness understands how deeply-rooted addiction to drugs or alcohol becomes in a person. We also know that providing highly effective and evidence-based therapies gives people the best chance to overcome their drug and alcohol abuse. That’s why we offer cognitive behavioral therapy for addiction at our facility. This allows the individual to make a real connection between their urges to abuse substances and how to control them.
For more information on our addiction therapy near San Francisco and surrounding areas, call us today at 415-891-6148 or verify your insurance.
How Does Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Work?
At the heart of cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is teaching people to recognize their negative thoughts and how they hold great influence over their resulting feelings and behaviors. For example, if someone in recovery from addiction thinks something negative about themselves, someone else, or a situation, they often have a knee-jerk response to drink or use drugs. Cognitive behavioral therapy helps people stop themselves before the relapse because they have learned to tolerate distress and make better choices.
When beginning cognitive behavioral therapy, the therapist will explain the goals and what the steps will entail. One of the big advantages of using this type of therapy is that it can be done during therapy sessions but also outside of them. Once a person learns the skills, they can practice them outside of therapy appointments and after treatment concludes.
Types of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Cognitive behavioral therapy for addiction can be done in more than one form. This gives people options to gain the benefits of this powerful therapy through a variety of ways. The types of cognitive behavioral therapy include:
- Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT): DBT therapy helps people learn to tolerate stress in healthy ways without automatically reaching for drugs or alcohol.
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT): This helps people learn to identify and accept their emotions and commit to healthier reactions to them.
- Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT): This helps people accept their emotions and thoughts without judgment by using activities like yoga and meditation.
- Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP): This helps people face their fears by exposing them in gradual steps so they can learn to reduce their fearful reactions and feel safe. ERP for obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) can be highly effective.
- Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT): This helps people live in the present and learn not to be controlled by self-defeating behaviors and feelings.
What Types of Addictions Can Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Treat?
Using cognitive behavioral therapy for addiction helps provide the ability to stop being controlled by drugs or alcohol. The types of addiction that can be helped by cognitive behavioral therapy include:
Techniques for Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Cognitive behavioral therapy showcases certain steps that help people understand the genesis of their addiction, why it continues, and how to end it. It helps people identify negative thought patterns they have that recycle into negative feelings and behaviors. Through this therapy, people learn healthy coping skills to deal with their troubling thoughts, emotions, and behaviors. This way, when the urge to drink or use drugs happens, they will have solid ways to help keep them from slipping into a relapse.
Cognitive behavioral therapy helps people recognize a problem and solve it without the need for using substances. They learn to set goals along the way in the beginning weeks and months of recovery that also bolster their mental health. Many people also use a journal to help keep track of how they feel and handle things and the progress they make.
What To Expect In a Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Session
During a session, the therapist will help the person identify what triggers them to crave drinking or using drugs. They learn toxic situations and people to avoid and how to handle them when they are forced to interact with them.
The therapist and the individual discuss what led to developing a substance use disorder and ways to put to rest unresolved past issues, such as trauma. When some of the triggers are no longer present, it calms the desire to compensate by getting high or drunk.
Our Programs That Offer Cognitive Behavioral Therapy For Addiction
We offer cognitive behavioral therapy for addiction as part of each of our levels of care. We include it in our detox program, drug rehab, alcohol rehab, residential program, medication-assisted treatment, and dual diagnosis treatment.
Drug and alcohol addiction can negatively impact your life. But, there is hope for recovery. Contact Live Oak Wellness to begin your recovery journey today.
Begin Cognitive Behavioral Therapy For Addiction at Live Oaks Wellness
Live Oaks Wellness offers first-class treatment for people ready to end their reliance on drug and alcohol abuse. We believe in the power of the right kind of therapy to help people better understand themselves, why they drink or use drugs, and how to stop. Our skilled and experienced therapists provide cognitive behavioral therapy for addiction that changes people for the better. We believe in using our expertise and compassion to help people lead substance-free lives.
Contact us today and find out how our range of programs can help you begin a new life. We believe that everyone has the power to overcome addiction for good.
