Phase Work
Identifying past, present, and future motivations to get clean and sober.
What is Phase One?
A network of people, such as family, friends, colleagues, and professionals, who provide emotional, practical, and informational assistance to help individuals manage life's challenges.
What is a support System?
A feeling that arises when you feel like you are a flawed person because of behvaiors you exhibited.
What is Shame ?
Deeply ingrained, fundamental ideas about yourself, others, and the world that form a mental framework, shaping your thoughts, feelings, and actions.
A structured, evidence-based treatment program for addiction that provides a high level of care without requiring 24-hour care. Typically, participants attend therapy sessions for at least 9 hours per week, focusing on relapse prevention, coping skills, and therapy to manage substance use or co-occurring mental health disorders.
What is an IOP?
Develop a structured schedule to support your recovery.
What is Phase Five?
Conscious, active strategies—thoughts and behaviors—used to manage stressful situations, regulate intense emotions, and navigate life's challenges.
What is a Coping Skill?
A feeling of unease or remorese that you feel after you have done something wrong.
What is Gulit ?
A set of persistent, long-lasting psychological and neurological symptoms that occur after the initial physical detox phase of substance addiction ends, often lasting for weeks, months, or even years.
What is Post Acute Withdrawal Syndrome?
A highly structured, intensive, non-residential treatment option that offers 6–8 hours of therapy per day, 3–7 days a week, in-residence hospitalization, acting as a bridge between inpatient rehab and outpatient care. Patients receive daily medical and therapeutic support for addiction, including group and individual therapy, while returning home in the evenings.
What is a PHP?
Identifying triggers and coping skills; increasing understanding of the people, places, and things that can lead you to relapse.
What is Phase Four?
Thoughts, images, mood, situation, and behaviors that may indicate a crisis is developing.
What is a Warning Sign?
A feeling of nervousness of self-consciousness that arises when someone is worried about what other people might think of them.
What is Embarrassment?
A Distress Tolerance skill (DBT Skill) designed to quickly reduce intense emotions, anxiety, or dissociation by anchoring you in the present moment.
What is Grounding ?
Groups are peer-led or facilitator-led gatherings—in-person or online—that provide emotional support, coping strategies, and shared experiences for individuals recovering from addiction.
What is AA, NA, Smart Recovery, Peer 360, etc.
Identifying the reason you are here, gain insight about yourself and the nature of your addiction in detail. This includes information from all ages and areas of your life.
What is Phase Two?
Events, people, feelings, thoughts, and situations that may cause you to feel or act in an unsafe manner.
What is a Trigger?
What is Humiliation?
Types of Cognitive Distortions
What is Magnification and minimization, Catastrophizing, Overgeneralization, Magical thinking, Personalization, Jumping to conclusions, Mind reading, Fortune telling, Emotional reasoning, Disqualifying the positive, “Should” statements, All-or-nothing thinking, Black and White thinking, etc?
A structured, collaborative process where a trained mental health professional helps individuals manage, treat, or overcome emotional, mental, and behavioral challenges.
What is Therapy?
Identifying and developing a sober support system.
What is Phase Three?
Example of a change you plan on making to reinforce a safe home environment.
What is an alcohol or subtsance use free enviorment?
Intentional or unintentional behaviors, thoughts, and actions that undermine a person's own goals, success, and well-being.
What is Self-Sabotage?
The practice of directing the same kindness, care, and understanding toward oneself during times of failure, suffering, or inadequacy that one would offer to a close friend.
What is Self-Compassion?
Medications combined with behavioral therapies to treat substance use disorders. It involves regular monitoring by professionals to manage withdrawal, reduce cravings, and stabilize brain chemistry for alcohol, opioid, and tobacco addictions.
What is Medication-Assisted Treatment?