Acupuncture
Our acupuncture team has often had the pleasure of witnessing clients’ healing process through the use of acupuncture. Even clients who initially expressed doubts as to its efficiency have noted the many benefits, such as alleviation of anxiety, depression, and withdrawal symptoms. Acupuncture has helped clients to get the most out of their treatment plans and recovery.
Auricular Acupuncture
Traditional Chinese medicinal practice of using needles to stimulate specific points on the ear to aid detoxification and reduce withdrawal symptoms.
Full Body Acupuncture
Traditional Chinese practice that stimulates specific points on the body to re-balance energy, ease aches and pain, and promotes circulation.
Adventure Therapy
Addressing certain feelings or traumas in a traditional therapy setting can be challenging. Through experiential activities, you stretch beyond your comfort zone and build confidence in your abilities to surmount any challenges that may arise in your recovery journey.
Change In Action (CIA)
Three-day, two-night therapeutic outdoor experience to foster greater self-awareness, healthy decision-making, and positive relationships.
Ropes Course
High and low ropes challenge courses help develop teamwork and communication skills, deepen self-reflection as well as provide fun in sobriety
Rock Walls
Indoor and outdoor rock climbing activity to hone focus and determination, enabling you to push through self-limiting beliefs.
Exercise & Movement
Regular physical activity can help alleviate the impact substances have had on your mind and body by improving cardio-vascular health, stimulating your immune system, and lessening feelings of depression. Our exercise and movement therapies are a form of holistic wellness that will not only help you get back in shape but help to release endorphins, positively altering your brain chemistry and giving you a more positive outlook on life.
Cardio and Weight Training
Series of endurance workouts and muscle-building exercises to help strengthen your body and improve your overall physical health.
Qigong
Combination of movement, meditation, and breathing to enhance energy flow, improve blood circulation, and stimulate immune function.
Yoga
Sequence of postures and breathing exercises to unite your physical, mental, and spiritual self in order to strengthen total wellness.
Expressive Therapies
Often, painful feelings and traumas associated with alcoholism and addiction are repressed, preventing you to progress in your recovery. Our expressive therapies help you tap into subconscious emotions, allowing you to more easily process your thoughts and gain deeper self-awareness.
Therapeutic Art
Emotional exploration and personal fulfillment through art therapy techniques including drawing, collages, and hands-on crafts.
Recovery Through Writing
Creative writing workshop to encourage you to explore and release your inner feelings and emotions, relieving the pressures that can lead to stress and anxiety.
Healthy Living
During active addiction, self-care suffers tremendously. Relearning to make your physical health and mental well-being a priority is essential to sustainable recovery. Our healthy living workshops provide you with knowledge and tools to develop holistic wellness and create healthy lifestyle routines.
Sleep Education
Tips and practices to promote deep relaxation and enhance sound sleep, allowing you to sleep better and longer while in addiction treatment and after.
Nutrition Education
Education on the role food plays in aiding recovery, including learning mindful eating habits through label reading, food preparation, and tastings.
Personal Empowerment
Dynamic coaching that creates a more positive mindset for the future by helping you gain clarity on your true desired feelings and identify strengths to achieve your goals.
Mindfulness
Taking stock of your actions and emotions without judgement or criticism is key to personal growth. Our mindfulness therapies help increase your self-awareness and sense of control, allowing you to let go of negative emotions and make clearer, more thought out decisions.
Horticultural Therapy
Therapy that uses gardening to encourage a deeper bond with nature, allowing you to nurture a healthy mind and feel calm and connected with your environment.
Labyrinth
Therapeutic journey along a circular the path to facilitate self-reflection and aid in processing thoughts and feelings.
Meditation
Practice of centering the mind on breathing and sensations of the body to achieve mental clarity, cultivate serenity, and emotional stability.
Spirituality
Feeling connected to something greater than yourself helps give your life perspective and purpose. Our non-religious spiritual therapies encourage you to discover and connect with your Higher Power – whether that’s nature, love, or humanity – to become grounded in your recovery.
Hikes and Walks
Staff-supervised hikes and walks throughout our more than 300 acres and the abutting Housatonic State Forest to help you practice self-reflection and recharge your spirit.
Spiritual Enhancement
Reflection workshop to encourage peace of mind and spiritual development through readings and discussion of non-religious parables.
Sweat Lodge
Purification practice based on the Native American spiritual cleansing ritual to promote openness, and detoxification of the mind.
Meet Our Wellness Team
Certified and skilled practitioners trained in alternative therapies help you foster personal growth, reduce stress, and form connections between physical and emotional well-being.
