Mission Statement

Back to Life Recovery Center’s mission is to provide and facilitate non-judgmental counseling services in a safe and nurturing environment that inspire individuals with addictive disorders and their families to embrace recovery in an Outpatient, American Society of Addiction Medicine (“ASAM”). Level I (“OP”), or Intensive Outpatient, ASAM Level II.I (“IOP”), program depending on the client’s specific assessed needs.

Individuals with addictive disorders are often frustrated, saddened, and distanced by their family, friends, and co-workers, many times leading to depression and a feeling of hopelessness about their future. Overwhelming numbers of these individuals develop low self-esteem and a lack of dignity causing the addiction to evolve into a form of self-punishment and a source of shame so deeply embedded that they give up on themselves.

Repairing an individual’s dignity requires an approach that is both firm and forgiving. No one can fully recover from addiction if they are treated within a punitive system. While lying and manipulation are the foundations by which substance abusers maintain their addiction, punishment only serves to further the addictive mindset and behavior. Humility and acceptance must replace punitive measures in the efforts to promote positive changes in those suffering with addiction.

All individuals seeking the Center’s services undergo a detailed biopsychosocial interview to assess the various biological, psychological, and social factors that could be contributing to their problem(s). The Center’s fully-credentialed staff then utilizes the information to determine the individual’s appropriate level of care (and whether or not the Center can provide it).

Both the OP and IOP’s respective staffs address the individual’s harbored judgments and teaches them how to accept and forgive themselves and others. Therapy at the Center focuses on the use of two well-accepted modalities:

Psychodynamic Therapy. This is used to help gain self-awareness and understanding of the influence of the past on present behavior; and
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. This is used to change patterns of thinking or behavior that are behind client’s difficulties, thereby changing the way they feel.

These modalities are utilized in three kinds of therapy sessions to help addicts move forward with their recovery, understanding that individuals do not live in a vacuum and benefit from the support of their families and others who are similarly situated:

Weekly Individual Counseling. So that every client’s specific needs may be addressed.
Bi-weekly family counseling. May take place or more frequently, if indicated. To ensure that clients have a sold home foundation for and assistance with their recovery.
Group Counseling. Typically, 4 to 12 clients, 4 to 5 days each week which helps clients develop communication and socialization skills, learn how to express their issues, and accept criticism from others, and develop self-awareness by listening to others with similar issues.

To facilitate these various counseling sessions, the Center maintains a minimum client to counselor ratio of 1:35 for the OP and 1:24 for the IOP.

These above approaches, along with relapse prevention therapy, afford substance abusers a safe, nurturing, and non-judgmental forum in which they can lay the groundwork for a sustainable recovery. Our goal is for individuals to be self-accepting, self-forgiving, and self-aware, ultimately developing the self-efficacy and coping mechanisms required to live their life instead of running away from it.