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Treatment at Western Counselling is split into Primary Care, Secondary Care and Aftercare:
Primary care is the initial period of treatment and lasts for 12 weeks. Medicated withdrawal is provided within this stage as necessary. Clients live in one of two properties, Meijer and St. Davids. Meijer has 9 dedicated female beds and eleven male beds; St. Davids has twelve male beds. During this stage of treatment focus is on the addiction and its impact on the individual, their family, friends and community. Clients look at the reality of their situation and past, take responsibility for what has happened, thereby enabling them to move on in to the future with a positive attitude. Clients attend 2-3 Group therapy sessions per day in addition to workshops and lectures and one to one counselling.
Secondary care has two properties, Kintyre has 9 male beds and clarence Park Lodge 14 mixed male/female beds. In this period of care clients are encouraged to review the therapeutic work already undertaken and explore relapse triggers, reintegration into the community, family relationships and support networks, review skill goal setting and start voluntary work and training courses in the local area helping them to review their life and social skills.
The properties enable clients to truly explore and address their issues within a place of safety and support. In this environment they are encouraged to attend voluntary work and/or an educational/vocational training course in the community; this is in addition to regular group therapy sessions and one to one counselling sessions. We also have an allotment and clients are encouraged to take an interest in its development and harvesting of the produce for their meals. Workshops are undertaken on parenting, budgeting, goal setting, relapse prevention etc.
A free of charge service available weekly to all ex clients of Western Counselling who are drug and alcohol free and/or abstinent from their addictive behaviours (gambling, etc).
Meeting every Saturday morning, ex service users attend a group session and have access to 1:1 counselling also. This is an opportunity to discuss issues arising from their reintegration and share and identify with others, learning from each others experiences. Relapse triggers, cravings, relationships, employment and training, housing etc can all be explored in a place of mutual respect, trust and safety.
Those who are attending from a distance can often be accommodated within the service, however notice of attendance is required if you wish to access this. Attendance is initially weekly/fortnightly reducing to monthly dependent on the individual and their personal needs.
There is no time limit for this service and ex clients can attend for as long they need or wish to, we have individuals with over 10-15yrs sobriety who still attend bi-annually or annually, assisting them with their ongoing recovery.