Our Services
Addictions treatment can come in many different forms. Research tells us that at least 4 months of abstinence-based treatment gives people the best chance of sustained recovery. Our treatment plans require a 4 months commitment, but the program is designed to be a one year program to establish the skills and knowledge you will need for success for your path to recovery.
Before you are able to schedule an appointment with us, you must complete the following steps:
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Submit a Consult Request Form.
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Complete the New Client Intake Form.
Rapid Access to Psychiatric Assessment
We offer pharmacist consultation and psychiatric evaluation to assess and treat co-occurring mental illness. Rather than wait 6-9 months, begin your psychiatric assessment within 4 weeks and typically in the first week of starting the program.
Bloodwork can be ordered to assess if there are any medical complications from the use of substances or contributors to your health that should be addressed.
Suboxone Assessment
We will work with any client and problem solve around any substance to assess if a harm reduction strategy can work. We are developing an opioid addictions stream that provides support while recognizing that Suboxone or other opioids can be the focus of a client’s strategy to reduce the harms associated with their opioid use disorder while still being prescribed an opioid safely. Well you are free to choose your own pharmacy, we partner with the pharmacy that can work with you and your prescriber to facilitate safe flexible options to minimize the inconvenience often associated with Suboxone or other opioid agonist therapies.
Trauma Informed Practice, and access to Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) Therapy
Substance use disorder are known to be much more common in survivors of childhood adversity and trauma. We approach every client with the awareness that they may have been impacted by trauma and incorporate strategies to heal from trauma. We have made arrangement for rapid access to EMDR as a component of the program.
Individual Counselling and Group Therapy
Every client receives individual weekly counselling that utilize a trauma-informed approach that borrows from dialectic behavioural therapy (DBT) cognitive behaviour therapy and other addictions specific strategies. We also offer 1-3 groups a day that are at the core of treatment and involve detailed examination of different topics essential to recovery each week. Virtual attendance is available, but attending in person is ideal.