Therapy Intensive: Recovering from Codependency

Santé Center for Healing’s Recovering from Co-Dependency offers a 4-day Intensive therapy program to identify and address each attendee’s stuck points preventing the necessary footing to move past symptoms and conditions that maintain their codependency. Codependence, often misunderstood to be someone who chooses to assist individuals in their addictive behaviors. More accurately, codependence is a manner of learning the skills to survive in a chaotic environment. Spending a significant amount of time using these survival skills can take over healthier ways of living; hence, day-to-day ways of thinking lead to continual stress and anxiety and significantly interfere with our most important relationships.

Santé’s Therapy Intensive: Recovering from Co-Dependency offers new skills and ways of thinking to assist in their recovery in a safe, serene, supportive environment using an innovative theoretical approach that seamlessly and meaningfully integrates Relational Cultural Theory (RCT: Jordan), Bowen Family Systems (Bowen) and skills from Cognitive Processing Theory (CPT: Resick, Chard, Monson). This 4-day healing journey integrates Experiential Therapies throughout the Therapy Intensive and includes Equine Therapy, Art Therapy, and DBT (Dialectical Behavioral Therapy: Linehan) grounding mindfulness skills. The format is primarily group therapy, including 30+ hours to identify, acquire, practice, and integrate vital and effective tools for healing and recovery. Participants’ receive supportive individual sessions as needed.

What previous attendees have said: 

“I would not have healed from this trauma without the Santé Trauma Intensive. I feel like I did a complete 180.”

“I see light where there was darkness. I feel hopeful where I was hopeless. I know that if I continue this work I can be free from the pain that caused me to drink.”

“After many years of inpatient and outpatient therapy, this is the first time I feel hope for the future, that I am finally treating the root problem. Thank you. Big smile! Thank you to the kind, compassionate, brilliant and insightful staff. I am truly blessed.”

Who should attend:

• New to recovery
• Outpatient therapy has stalled
• Past therapy did not meet your goals
• Need more than outpatient sessions but do not need a residential-level of care
• Believe individuals and families can regain vigor and vitality after experiencing hope,health and healing
• Desire a more immediate, intense concentration on your trauma experience(s) and to see positive outcomes and results more quickly
• Looking for recovery renewal
• Recognize if left unaddressed, the trauma experience(s) will prevent you from experiencing needed relief and full-potential in life and relationships
• Completed residential treatment but recognize the need for additional work on core issues, like traumatic life experiences
• A Monday-Thursday therapy intensive aligns with your schedule
• Looking for recovery renewal and enhancement

Goals for the Intensive: 

• Move past trauma without normal daily distractions
• Identify, understand and address the impact trauma has on all aspects of one’s life
• Identify beliefs about the causes and consequences of traumatic events which produce strong negative emotions, which ultimately prevent accurate processing of the traumatic memory and the emotions resulting from the events
• Explore how you potentially block the natural recovery process by using avoidance of traumatic triggers as a strategy to function in day-to-day living
• More accurately appraise “stuck points” and progress toward recovery
• Gain confidence and ability to understand and re-conceptualize your traumatic event(s) and use adaptive coping strategies in a way that reduce trauma’s ongoing negative effects on your life.