Harm Reduction Therapy is a revolutionary client-therapist collaboration that combines substance abuse treatment with psychotherapy, so clients can address both their substance use and the issues that are behind it. Unlike traditional “quit now and forever” programs, we do not ask that clients stop all substance use, unless that is their goal, and we help families find alternatives to “tough love.
” The therapist helps the client to lay out, clearly and honestly, the harm being done to themselves and to others. The client, or the client and family together, choose the most urgent issues on which to focus. Together, client and therapist then work to reduce the harm that is being done, establishing goals and implementing gradual, realistic steps to achieve them. At the Center, we work with the whole person. Drug and alcohol problems are addressed alongside other social, emotional, health and occupational concerns. Our Program:
- Comprehensive assessment of substance use, emotional or psychiatric, social and vocational issues
- Brief educational group to orient new clients to the harm reduction model
- Individual therapy centered on collaboratively developed goals
- Trauma-specific treatments
- Group therapy (optional)
- Medication-assisted treatment: psychiatric and addiction medicine, including op**te replacement therapy
