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How Addiction Can Change Your Personality

Oak Forest Recovery on February 10, 2021

Addiction is one of the most prevalent diseases in the world. And yes, it is a disease, as it alters the way the brain and the body function – potentially even years after a person has stopped using drugs or alcohol. That’s why it’s important to notice the behavioral signs of addiction as early as possible.

According to the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), more than 23 million adults in the United States have struggled with problematic drug use. For this reason alone, it’s important to understand the underlying causes of addiction, its relationship to other psychiatric conditions and how to treat it most effectively. Repeated and regular substance abuse drastically alters your brain activity and tricks it into prioritizing drugs or alcohol over everything else. Because drugs or alcohol then consumes the brain, a person’s personality can change dramatically and may even cause mental health problems.

What Is Addiction?

Addiction is a strong compulsion to use substances despite the consequences of doing so. In most cases, it leads to behavioral changes as well as changes in personality. Speaking of which, let’s take a look at some personality changes you can expect to see in a person that is an addict.

Addiction Based Personality Changes

Common addiction-based personality changes include:

Abusiveness
Aggressiveness
Dishonesty
Fatigue
Forgetfulness
Impulsiveness
Laziness
Manipulation
Mood swings
Paranoia
Restlessness
Secrecy
Selfishness

Erratic or impulsive behaviors and negative changes in your personality as a result of addition often have the following devastating effects:

Social

Frequent mood swings; erratic behavior and poor anger management can cause relationships to deteriorate.

Professional

Loss of interest, apathy and an inability to focus can lead to termination from work or expulsion from school.

Legal

Aggression, impulsiveness and poor decision-making can lead to erratic behavior, unnecessary risks and unlawful behavior.

At Oak Forest Recovery, we understand treating a substance addiction isn’t just about eliminating access to drugs or alcohol. It’s also about diagnosing and treating the underlying psychological disorders or diseases. When a person is struggling with depression, anxiety or bipolar disorder they are more likely to misuse, or become dependent on, alcohol, medications or illicit drugs.

To learn more about how addiction changes your personality, contact Oak Forest Recovery at 1-888-597-6257 or submit the form below to begin your journey. We are dedicated to helping you find your path to recovery, and helping you each step of the way through individualized emotional, spiritual and physical healing.

Reference:

https://www.drugabuse.gov/publications/drugs-brains-behavior-science-addiction/drugs-brain

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Gestalt Therapy for Addiction Recovery & Mental Illnesses

Oak Forest Recovery on February 9, 2021

Gestalt Therapy is a very useful tool in a therapist’s arsenal. While most substance abuse treatment programs would agree that the support of others is most beneficial in helping one to stay sober, it is through one’s personal journey that the change really starts to occur behaviorally, cognitively, and emotionally. I have found that there are many modalities of treatment that help one to recover, but very few stay focused on the emotional component that the Gestalt modality brings us. It uses the “here and now” concept so that one can understand and gain an awareness of their feelings and learn how to manage them usefully.

Developed in the 1940s by Frederick “Fritz” Perls and collaborators Laura Perls and Paul Goodman as an alternative to conventional psychoanalysis, gestalt therapy has been used today to successfully treat a host of addiction disorders and mental illnesses treatment, including substance use disorder, sex addiction, compulsive gambling, eating disorders, trauma, bipolar disorder and depression.The word gestalt comes from the German word shape or form, and can be defined as “unified whole.” It makes sense, then, that gestalt therapists use this technique to enhance awareness, freedom, and self-direction.

How Does Gestalt Therapy Work?

The goal of Gestalt therapy is to increase self-awareness in the present moment. Psychologists who use Gestalt therapy believe that when a person is genuinely self-aware, they will consistently improve their physical and psychological health and make improvements to their immediate environment, which will perpetuate future health and holistic growth.

Gestalt therapy uses guided visualization exercises that promote self-awareness and personal ownership. A key concept in Gestalt therapy is that the perceptions of past events are unreliable, and these misperceptions can have disproportionate effects on perceptions about the present. By becoming aware of the negative effects that memories can have while working to develop self-regulation and effective coping skills, people are able to free themselves from constricting ties to the past and move into a stage of growth and personal betterment

The Benefits of Gestalt Therapy

Generally speaking, gestalt therapy helps promote awareness of your thoughts, emotions and perceptions, and helps you better understand how these internal dialogues play a role in actions and behaviors. When used as an integrated approach to addiction treatment, gestalt therapy can also help you:

Monitor thoughts and actions in “real time”
Discover suppressed feelings or feelings masked by other feelings
Accept and trust your emotions
Provide a greater sense of freedom, control and serenity
Promotes conscious and thoughtful actions
Gain a new sense of self as overall awareness

Finding Treatment for Addiction

If you or someone you love is struggling with a substance use disorder, help is available. The Oak Forest Recovery at Agoura Hills CA, experts can give you a more explanation about Gestalt therapy and other forms of behavioral therapy. Please contact us today at 1-888-597-6257 or submit the form below to begin your journey.

Reference:

Gestalt Therapy: Advances in Theory and Practice

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Massage Therapy for Addiction Treatment

Oak Forest Recovery on February 8, 2021

Massage therapy is a treatment focused on stimulating healing within the body while also encouraging the central nervous system to release feel-good hormones. As a component of addiction treatment, massage therapy works to help you in a variety of ways. Yet, massage therapy can offer much more to individuals in addiction treatment. Massage therapy helps individuals to sleep better. Withdrawal and early treatment can create insomnia in many people. You are facing numerous emotions and changes in the recovery process. At any point – from the early side effects of withdrawal to the worrisome feelings of failure – you may have sleepless nights. Massage therapy can help to ease the mind and encourage more sleep and better quality of sleep in many people.

Massage therapy and bodywork are one of the many holistic therapies offered at our Oak Forest Recovery Addiction Treatment Center. On a physical level, massage therapy eases muscle tension and promotes relaxation. On an emotional and spiritual level, massage releases endorphins (natural pain killers) that lead to a feeling of well-being. The difference between massage therapy and other holistic addiction techniques is that the client does not have to talk or think through the therapy process. Bodywork demands little from the patient but produces proven results for pain management, stress relief, and recovery success.

Advantages of Massage Therapy for Addiction Recovery

People in the early stages of recovery often face difficult roadblocks emotionally and physically. It can be an uncomfortable process that requires ongoing treatment and medical management of symptoms. Massage therapy is one therapeutic treatment method that has many benefits for people in recovery.

Massage therapy helps with the detox process
Massage therapy increases dopamine and serotonin in the body
Massage therapy reduces pain, agitation, and anxiety
Massage therapy promotes better sleep
Massage therapy improves self-awareness
Massage therapy is relaxing
Massage therapy builds trust
Massage therapy is a natural, alternative treatment

If you need more information about this potentially life-saving therapy, please get a hold of us today. Our Oak Forest Recovery addiction treatment experts can give you a more in depth explanation and Contact us today at 1-888-597-6257 or submit the form below to begin your journey.

References:

https://www.amtamassage.org/articles/3/MTJ/detail/2729/massage-addiction

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3018656/

https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/neuroscience/substance-p

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Existential Therapy for Addiction Recovery

Oak Forest Recovery on February 8, 2021

Therapy plays a major role in the process of an addiction rehab program. Across the country, recovery programs combine therapeutic modalities with proven treatment for a complete care plan. The overall purpose of existential therapy is to allow clients to explore their lived experience honestly, openly and comprehensively. Through this spontaneous, collaborative process of discovery, clients are helped to gain a clearer sense of their experiences and the subjective meanings they may hold.

Drug addiction doesn’t just affect people physically. It also seriously impacts them emotionally, to the point where many develop a severe existential crisis. This serious condition can cause depression, anxiety, increased addiction dependency, and even suicidal thoughts. Thankfully, existential crises and drug addiction can be addressed with a process called existential therapy.

What Is Existential Therapy?

Existential therapy addresses your mental health concerns and your drug addiction by examining your life and your life choices, centering on several different aspects, including:

Personal values
Deepest desires and dreams
Mortality/death
Personal isolation
The meaning (or meaninglessness) of life
Personal responsibility for your life
Freedom of choice in sculpting the direction of your life

Existential therapy focuses on multiple very serious aspects of your life and can be an emotionally difficult and wildly probing treatment method. However, tackling these big questions can help you get a grip on your life, find out what truly matters to you, and help steer you away from an existential crisis and back to a deeper understanding of reality.

How Does Existential Therapy Work?

The key goal of existential therapy is to create “personal authenticity” in your life. Essentially, it helps you realize when you are deceiving yourself, why you are deceiving yourself, and why your life keeps falling into a rigid series of unfortunate actions. You and a therapist will discuss these difficult subjects and identify actions and beliefs which block your true nature and lead to the compulsive actions that have derailed your life. Raising your awareness of your behavior and guiding you away from them is essential to existential therapy.

How Does Existential Therapy Help With Drug Addiction?

People are creatures of habit and often allow for their minds and behaviors to be dictated by whatever feels comfortable and normal, no matter how harmful the result of said behaviors. This is true even of drug addiction: people addicted to drugs often feel more comfortable and “normal” when high. They are suffering from an existential crisis: they no longer understand reality and cling to any type of comfort they can find. Existential therapy will take the comforting behavioral blanket of addiction, tear it from your hands, and give you the freedom you need to regain control of your life.

Contact Us For Help & Free Consultation

If you need more information about this potentially life-saving therapy, please get a hold of us today. Our Oak Forest Recovery rehabilitation experts can give you a more in depth explanation and Contact us today at 1-888-597-6257 or submit the form below to begin your journey.

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Depression & Addiction Treatment for Women

Oak Forest Recovery on February 5, 2021

Depression and addiction frequently occur simultaneously. In fact, one out of three depressed people also suffer from some form of substance abuse or dependence. We understand you may be hurting. You may feel alone, suffering under an unbearable sense of grief, sadness, hopelessness, or isolation. But you are not alone. In the United States, 16 million Americans battle depression every year, according to the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Those with depression are fighting against persistent feelings of loneliness, pessimism, and worthlessness that cause normal daily interaction with family and friends to seem daunting. Depression affects every person differently, but depression is treatable. At our Oak Forest Recovery depression treatment center in Los Angeles, we can provide you the effective depression treatment you need to recover.

What Does Depression Look Like?

Depression symptoms vary from person to person and involve more than just a blue mood. Depression is a brain disorder and it can impact a person’s day-to-day functioning, making it difficult to hold a job, complete school, or maintain a healthy relationship. Experiencing even some of the symptoms of depression for a prolonged period of time might be an indicator that seeking treatment at Oak Forest Recovery depression treatment clinic would be helpful. Depression symptoms include the following:

Restlessness, fatigue, or lack of motivation
An increase in irritability or impatience
Fear of expressing strong emotions or constant anxiety about the future
Constantly feel unappreciated by others
Process your anger through a pattern of impulsive thinking or brash judgments
Recurrent or persistent headaches, muscle aches, body pains, and gastrointestinal problems
Keeping yourself socially isolated and distanced from family and friends
Feel trapped by life or showing a pattern of pessimistic comments and behavior
Ignoring eating or binge eating
Preferring to do things alone instead of with others
Having zero motivation for new activities, new ideas, or new relationships

About Our Depression Treatment Center

Oak Forest Recovery isn’t just another substance abuse treatment program; it’s a program devoted to young women dealing with a co-occurring mental health issue, trauma, and substance abuse, such as depression. Whether drug and alcohol abuse led to your depression or you began self-medicating to escape the pain of a mood disorder, chances of successful long-term recovery are greatest when co-occurring conditions are treated together. To this end, we provide our female clients with truly individualized and integrative mental health support. Clients at Oak Forest Recovery participate in conventional and holistic treatment modalities that focus on the whole body, including:

Depression Help at The Oak Forest Recovery Center

For women struggling with mental illness and addictive tendencies, rehabilitation and treatment may seem like an impossible journey. The Oak Forest Recovery offers integrated therapeutic, holistic, and medical support for women dealing with co-existing addiction or substance abuse, trauma, and depression. For more info, call at 1-888-597-6257 or submit the form below to begin your journey.

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Family Therapy for Addiction Recovery

Oak Forest Recovery on February 5, 2021

As the family member of someone who struggles with addiction, you are likely a driving force behind your loved one’s decision to get help. We honor you as an individual who will be deeply impacted by your family member’s treatment experience. Therefore, we include you in the process and provide meaningful opportunities for your own personal growth and healing. Our approach to working with family and friends is layered and comprehensive. We understand that your schedules and geographic locations may pose some limitations in terms of how you are able to participate, so we make several options available.

Issues like addiction, intimacy disorders, eating disorders and mental illness can tear families apart. If one member is struggling with addiction or behavioral health problems, the entire family is struggling in some way. Research shows addiction and mental health treatment is more effective when family members are actively engaged in the recovery process. The Oak Forest mental health treatment programs involve family members so that everyone can recover together.

What is Family Therapy?

Overall, family counseling is a type of talk therapy that helps relatives resolve conflicts. Additionally, families learn skills for strengthening their relationships and getting through hard times. Each person has the opportunity for further emotional support as well. Licensed therapists provide this service to our families. As a part of treatment, therapy might include every family member or only those willing to participate.

The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration recommends that families are involved in treatment. Studies suggest that addiction treatment is more effective when it includes family therapy. Family support plays an important role in the success of people recovering from addiction and mental health issues. Family participation can:

Increase the chances people stay in treatment
Improve social and family relationships
Help prevent relapse

Family-based approaches address the client’s primary substance abuse or mental health disorder during the recovery process. Treatment programs focus on improving family communication and addressing conflicts. They also educate loved ones on co-occurring disorders or substance use disorders. There’s extensive research on the role of family programs in addiction treatment. While much of this research is specific to adolescents, similar principles apply to all ages and types of behavioral health problems. Drug and alcohol abuse and other behavioral health issues put the entire family under immense stress. The Oak Forest Recovery family programs are both educational and therapeutic. Activities and topics help families learn more about addiction and mental illness, while connecting them with people experiencing similar struggles. Knowing other families are struggling with the same issues can be empowering.

Don’t let mental health, trauma, substance abuse, or any other issue destroy your family. Seek help to rebuild your relationships. Reach out to Oak Forest Recovery, Agoura Hills, California today at 1-888-597-6257 or submit the form below to begin your journey.

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The Importance of Nutritional Therapy for Addiction Recovery

Oak Forest Recovery on February 4, 2021

Recovery from addiction requires your body to heal from months or years of self-abuse. This includes learning about and paying attention to nutrition, because the foods you consume affect your body, and they also can affect your mental health. Restoring your physical and mental well-being requires not only learning new coping skills that don’t include turning to drugs or alcohol, but also getting adequate hydration and nutrition. Nutritional therapy is a method of obtaining counseling and nutrition education from a registered dietitian as part of your treatment plan for long-term addiction recovery.

Nutritional Deficiencies Caused by Addiction

When drugs or alcohol is the most important thing in your life, there’s a good chance you aren’t consuming the nutrients you need. Addiction can lead to malnutrition, because it’s not uncommon for addicts to go days without eating. When active alcoholics or addicts do eat, they usually grab something fast and easy that may have very little nutritional value.

Good Nutrition in Addiction Recovery

Nutritional needs can vary from one individual to another. Factors that need to be considered include the substance of choice along with the impact of any co-occurring conditions such as eating disorders or diabetes. An important aspect of recovery from addiction is learning to begin to practice new habits of self-care. Good nutrition is part of an overall healthy lifestyle that can help lead to good mental health. As part of your recovery, you need to be sure to eat healthy meals and snacks and avoid relying on fast foods or high-calorie foods with low nutritional value. Your diet should include nutrient-dense foods such as:

Vegetables
Fruits
Low-fat dairy products
Whole grains
Protein from lean meats, fish, poultry, nuts or legumes

Nutritional therapy is an important part of the healing process in addiction recovery. A registered dietitian can give you expert guidance regarding changes you may need to make to your diet in order to help your body heal and to reduce the risk of cravings triggered by poor nutrition.

If you or a loved one are struggling with addiction to drugs or alcohol, please call us at 1-888-597-6257 or submit the form below to learn more about our addiction treatment programs in Los Angeles.

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Source:

https://www.healthline.com/health-news/how-nutritional-therapy-is-helping-people-overcome-alcohol-addiction

Trauma Therapy Program

Oak Forest Recovery on February 3, 2021

Are you struggling with trauma or post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)? Trauma can be an excruciating experience. If you’re in such a situation, seek a trauma therapy program to treat the condition. When you experience trauma, you may not know how to process it or start your healing journey. Although many people feel overwhelmed by such situations, the good news is that help is readily available in a Oak Forest Recovery rehab center. The relationship between trauma and addiction isn’t a typical connection we think about. However, it’s very likely for these two conditions to coincide in the same person. What is trauma? How do traumatic events relate to substance abuse and addiction?

Common Causes of Trauma

While many people can experience trauma, the events they consider to be traumatic can be different. A trauma could include an accident, sexual or physical abuse, or a devastating natural disaster. When a person experiences an extremely stressful event of this type, the negative feelings associated with the event can linger for years to come. Thus, the trauma can impact all areas of their life.

Trauma is a mental health condition that can result from experiencing excessive physical, emotional, or psychological stress. The stressing factor can be a single, repetitive, or ongoing event. An intensive single event trauma occurs when a one-time event becomes so devastating that your brain is unable to recover. Such circumstances include rape, horrible car accidents, robbery, mugging, natural disasters, and acts of terrorism. With professional help, a person’s traumatized mind can reconcile the sense of self with the trauma. Failure to seek prompt medical intervention interferes with your life since your brain will be stuck in the past due to the troubling traumatic memories. The trauma therapy program can help you understand your trauma, the connection between your present life and the traumatic event, and your inability to manage it.

Insight Into Trauma and Addiction

Trauma and addiction often occur together in the same individual. There are three main factors relating to the ways that these two problems overlap.

Addiction can Lead to Trauma

In some cases, a person may already be struggling with addiction. The circumstances of their addiction can put them into situations where trauma may be more likely. For example, a person under the influence of addictive substances may be more likely to experience an abusive situation.

Previous Trauma Can Increase Risk of Addiction

In other cases, a traumatic event may occur first. The individual may have a hard time coping with the negative emotions that result from this trauma. As a direct consequence of trying to deal with the effects and feelings of the event, an individual may begin to abuse addictive substances.

Trauma Can Influence Addiction Recovery

Trauma also affects how a person responds to the treatment process. For the most part, rehab centers recognize that co-occurring disorder treatment is complicated. Most facilities place importance on treating both conditions as their separate entities. Each problem requires its treatment plan to cover all concerns associated with it adequately.

Finding the Best Rehab Center

If you have a loved one who is experiencing the harmful effects of trauma or addiction, it’s understandable to be overwhelmed, anxious, or frightened. Trauma and addiction can be isolating issues that can seem to shut you off from the rest of the world. Your loved one is likely experiencing a great deal of stress as well. Try to be sure they are aware of your love and concern on a regular basis.

Oak Forest Recovery is an addiction treatment facility that serves the Agoura Hills, Westlake Village, California. Oak Forest Recovery features many unique programs designed to target the complexities surrounding a dual-diagnosis. Their young adult rehab programs excel at getting to the heart of the issue for long-term success.

Don’t let trauma and addiction ruin your chances of living a full life. Call Oak Forest Recovery Center today at 1-888-597-6257 to learn about our facility and the services we offer. Find lasting recovery today.

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Addiction Recovery For Young Women

Oak Forest Recovery on February 3, 2021

Drug abuse and addiction affect millions of young women every year. For this reason, The Oak Forest Recovery offers life-changing drug addiction and mental health treatment that promotes lasting change. With the support of our dually credentialed, substance abuse and mental health Master’s level clinical team, women can regain control of their lives and gain the confidence needed to succeed in sobriety. Addiction is a problem impacting millions of women of all ages and ethnicities in the United States. Unfortunately, many women put off treatment because of guilt and shame, cultural expectations, or family reasons.

Women and men respond to addiction (and treatment) in different ways. When women become mentally and physically dependent on a substance, they show earlier signs, face more severe symptoms, and deal with mental health complications more often than male counterparts. Designed to meet the unique emotional, psychological, medical, and social needs of participants, our Oak Forest Recovery rehab programs help adult women get their lives back on track.

Why young women face unique challenges

Studies indicate that women:

Progress from substance use to substance abuse more quickly than men, even when they are using less.
Struggle more with relapse than male clients.
Recover differently than their male counterparts.

While addiction to alcohol and other drugs is an equal opportunity disease, young women are affected differently than young men. Generally speaking, young women progress faster in addiction than young men, face different barriers in getting help, and recover differently.

The following is a list of common challenges young adults face, and how our program addresses each area.

Addressing Brain Development: The brain is still developing well into a young adult’s 20’s-and with late bloomers, beyond. Oak Forest Recovery Center clinicians are trained in brain development of young adults and their propensity for risky behavior and lack of reason.

Overcome the Consequences: Our clinicians will provide age-appropriate therapy that helps them understand their risk-taking behaviors with drugs and alcohol have dangerous, life-threatening consequences. Therapists teach them how to overcome the consequences of bad decisions of the past and look forward to the future.

Understand the Brain and Body: Young adults learn best through sensory experiences, action and visual engagement. We offer a wide range of therapeutic activities in purposeful spaces which are designed for the psychological and physical well-being of our young adult patients in recovery.

Succinct Teachings: Clinical content created for the Young Adult’s Program with handheld technology and the pace of information delivery, we work within the young adult’s attention span. Now they can focus on the work of recovery and learn the tools and skills necessary for continued sobriety without social intimidation or distraction.

Overcoming Anger and Shame: From day one in treatment, our clinicians are trained to establish trust and rapport with our patients. Our therapists are skilled at allowing young adults to feel comfortable in group therapy so they can identify and discuss their feelings without fear of appearing weak or ashamed. We counsel young adults to dig deep to identify their feelings and learn to react appropriately to those feelings in recovery. Issues with anger and shame frequently prevent recovery, our clinicians are trained to teach anger management skills and give young adults the tools to combat feelings of shame.

Understanding Trauma: Our therapists are trained in the types and patterns of trauma that a young adult battling substance use disorder might have experienced.

Treating Trauma: Our clinicians are highly skilled in integrating evidence-based practices combining time-tested and research-supported techniques from several scientific and psychological disciplines to meet the individual needs of our patients.

Recover Life: Our therapies enable a young adult to address his or her past and help the individual face their future with positivity and confidence.

Life-Long Relationships: Our Young Adult’s Program provides what frequently lacks in society for a young adult with substance use disorder: a sense of belonging. Young adults have a need to be a part of a group or fellowship. By bringing young adults together in an age-specific environment to address their specific physiological and psychological needs, they become part of an important group.

Friends Supporting Friends: We give patients the opportunity to feel they belong to a supportive community with a common goal of tackling addiction and beginning a life of meaningful and sustaining recovery.

Oak Forest Recovery Women’s Rehab Program

Social and community support is vital to a young adult’s success in recovery from substance addiction. Experience proves that building a strong support foundation now will help each individual launch into sustainable, long-term recovery. If you are a young person 18 to 30 years old who is struggling to find meaning in life beyond addiction, call 1-888-597-6257 to speak with an Oak Forest Recovery specialist.

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Adventure Therapy for Addiction Recovery

Oak Forest Recovery on February 2, 2021

Adventure therapy is a form of psychotherapy originating in the 1960s. The therapy combines nature, community, and daring exercises for therapy. The intent of adventure therapy is to improve an individual’s physical, social, spiritual, and psychological well being through the healing power of the wilderness with evidence-based, experiential therapy, recreational activities, and wilderness expeditions. When you and your family are researching the appropriate substance addiction programs for your young adult, you may encounter references to adventure therapy and wonder what role it can play in assisting your loved one back to full health and well-being.

Adventure therapy assists individuals, groups and families as they overcome behavioral issues, substance abuse problems, or various mental health concerns. Adventure therapy is a highly effective method, and the adventure therapist seeks to actively stimulate clients with different tools. For example, some adventure therapists encourage healing by allowing patients to use ropes to build trust while enjoying outdoor activities.

Benefits of Adventure Therapy

Adventure therapy is a powerful treatment approach for anxiety, depression, trauma, PTSD, grief, loss, eating disorders, and substance use disorders.
It is an exciting and productive element of family or relationship therapy.
Adventure therapy has shown to be beneficial for schizophrenia treatment.
It is highly beneficial for adolescents, teenagers, young adults, and individuals with various mental health concerns.

How Does Adventure Therapy Work?

Effective adventure therapy is not simply temporary escapism from problems that are simply returned to as soon as the patient leaves the treatment program. Adventure therapy promotes rehabilitation, growth, development, and enhancement of an individual’s physical, social, and psychological wellbeing through the application of structured activities involving direct experience. Adventure therapy includes the use of activities supported by traditional therapy.

Empowering activities utilized in adventure therapies include:

Canyoneering
Mountain Biking
Rock Climbing
Backpacking / Hiking
Alpine Skiing
Snowshoeing
Primitive Skills

This is why adventure therapy and experiential therapy are avenues everyone on the road to recovery should explore. If you want to find out more, be sure to give us a call at Oak Forest Recovery on 1-888-597-6257.

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