Recovering from addiction can be an overwhelming process. Going through treatment helps you to be successful in your long-term recovery. However, this means staying afloat in treatment and getting through moments that are difficult. Small group treatment at Rancho Recovery can help. It provides you with support and care from both providers and other clients who are going through a similar path to healing. In this setting, you can get through difficult moments and learn how to manage challenges that you will face further along with recovery by leaning on support from your community.
Challenges of Addiction Treatment
Addiction is a disease that impacts how your brain and nervous system function. This makes it difficult to stop using drugs or alcohol and creates many challenges in your recovery process. For you to recover successfully, you need to heal physically through detox and treatment.
However, you also need to make many changes to your life. Essentially, you need to learn what aspects of your life are impacting your relationships with addiction and adjust them. These changes include self-care. However, they also involve improving your mental health, knowing how to manage triggers, and building a community.
Small Group Treatment
In small group treatment, you work with others in treatment and a counselor. The counselor leads the group, helping each client individually and the group as a whole. Small group treatment sessions will vary depending on the individuals. However, they are oriented towards each individual learning new skills, processing their history of addiction, and successfully recovering long-term.
In small group treatment, compared to large-group treatment sessions, you are a significant part of the group. This means that you are not overlooked. You play an important role. While this can be intimidating at first, it encourages your participation and helps you gain the benefits from group therapy.
Advantages of Small Group Treatment
There are many benefits to small group treatment. While working with a small group, you learn to build positive relationships, discover a culture that can help in your recovery, and be a part of other’s healing process.
Building Relationships
As a person, you are a social creature. Your relationships play an important role in your life. Unhealthy relationships cause stress and can add to your challenges with addiction. However, when you learn to build healthy and supportive relationships, these serve as support posts for you in your recovery.
Small group treatment is an ideal place to build relationships with peers. A counselor helps you interact with each other, guiding you as you learn new communication skills. These skills, however, go far beyond small group therapy. You can use these skills to benefit your relationships outside of treatment in your community.
Witnessing Other’s Recovery
Every person’s road to recovery is unique. In small group treatment, you witness and interact with others’ experiences of recovery. This is a very helpful process. By interacting with others as they heal, you see different sides to common issues in recovery. In addition, you see how they have handled these situations and what they are learning. Essentially, you learn from their experience.
Additionally, witnessing others’ recovery helps you feel less isolated. Addiction is a disease that is commonly associated with loneliness. However, you are not alone. Small group treatment helps you to see and feel that you can connect with others regardless of your past history with addiction.
Discovering Effective Recovery Culture
There is a culture that surrounds addiction. When you have struggled with addiction, you know this culture and how it functions. Therefore, you become very accustomed to it. As such, it feels normal in terms of how you interact with others, deal with stress, and more.
In order to effectively recover, it is important to discover that there are other cultures that you can be a part of. This includes recovery culture. In recovery culture, you support others on their path to healing while they support you. Small group therapy is a perfect place to discover this culture, as it is not overwhelming. However, as you become accustomed to the culture, you can begin to interact with larger groups, knowing that you are accepted and appreciated as part of the recovery community.
Small Group Treatment at Rancho Recovery
Addiction treatment at Rancho Recovery is individualized and aims to support you in all aspects of recovery. Small group treatment plays an important role in this. It allows you to build community and communication skills in a manner that is not overwhelming. However, it does not allow you to be overlooked, and therefore, you get the attention and care that you need.
Small group treatment does not function alone. As a result, at Rancho Recovery, treatment also includes individual work that helps you learn skills and hone them as you interact more with the small group of peers in treatment.
While individualized addiction treatment is important, working with a small group has many benefits. As a result, at Rancho Recovery, we offer treatment to a small group of individuals. In treatment, you can interact with peers in set small group sessions, as well as throughout your day in common areas. While addiction can feel isolating, you do not have to be alone in the process of healing. We can help you to interact with others in a healthy manner, learn communication skills, and begin to build a life where you are connected to others while in recovery. To learn more about addiction treatment at Rancho Recovery, call us today at (877) 484-1447.