Changes by Choice:
Broad-Based Options for Recovery
909 Broad Street + Durham, NC 27705 + (919) 416-4800
We offer a wide range of evidence-based therapeutic approaches to equip you with the information, skills, and support you can use to make and maintain the changes you seek. Together with your primary counselor and/or physician, you will develop an individual plan incorporating your preferences and the professional's recommendations based on his or her skilled assessment of your particular needs.
Available treatment components include:
Medication-assisted treatment:
Craving reduction
Outpatient detoxification
Suboxone for dependence on pain pills & other opiates
Individual, couples and family counseling
Trauma Reprocessing Therapy (EMDR)
Mindfulness meditation and other stress reduction techniques
Group counseling, including:
Leader: Jon Murphy
Medications such as buprenorphine/naloxone (Suboxone) and naltrexone (ReVia or Vivitrol) are useful tools to help those recovering from addiction to opiates or alcohol. However, research and experience show that they are most effective when combined with counseling and peer support. This therapist-facilitated group provides a structured sequence of exercises to facilitate recovery while building and drawing upon the strengths of the group participants. Clients do not have to be taking adjunctive medications to attend and benefit.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) for Substance Use Disorders
Women's Group:
Wednesdays, 5:45 - 7:30 pm
Co-leaders: Jane Finch and Maria Michalski
DBT skills training can help individuals stop engaging in destructive behaviors and develop a healthier lifestyle by changing behavioral, emotional, and thinking patterns that cause misery and distress. It does this by combining strategies from cognitive-behavioral therapy with Eastern meditative techniques and compassion for oneself. The three main skill sets -- Distress Tolerance, Emotion Regulation and Interpersonal Effectiveness -- are each taught in ten weekly sessions, with mindfulness practice incorporated throughout. Clients are recommended to complete the entire sequence of thirty sessions but may enroll in one ten-week sequence at a time.
Yoga for Women
Tuesdays, 6:15-7:30 pm
Leader: Donna Eash
The class focuses on yoga skills to manage issues of recovery, emotional dysregulation, anxiety and depression. A participant can be coping with any one or a combination of issues. Participants do not need prior yoga experience. The sessions are designed to create/introduce a safe environment to ground, reacquaint and discover your physical, emotional and spiritual self. Class content builds progressively on understanding movement and body mechanics as well as embodying positive self-regard and self acceptance. These sessions are introductory level, non-vigorous Hatha style yoga. Through breathing, movement, and relaxation you will learn self-calming skills, body awareness, balance, strength, flexibility and concentration. Contact Donna to enroll: eash.dr@verizon.net.
This is a personal development group that will focus on relationships – past, present, and within the group itself – while also exploring how substance abuse or addiction has affected these relationships, including relationship with the self. It will be run in 12-week increments and participants may elect to remain in the group as long as they experience benefit. The group leader uses an interpersonal approach along with motivational interventions and relapse prevention strategies as needed.
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