Enhanced aftercare therapy
Graduating from our range of residential treatment centres and securing your ongoing journey to recovery can be long, sometimes painful and difficult to achieve alone. Steps Together can help you along the entire process and make sure you have a successful aftercare plan for you and your family by providing you with specialised outpatient therapy services.
Our customised private aftercare programmes might be the best fit for you and your family to continue your healing and general wellbeing:
Private 1-1 counselling packages
Private therapy sessions with one of our BACP qualified counsellors are available to purchase in blocks of four weeks, providing you with a dedicated private counselling session each week for one hour at a time that suits you and your lifestyle. Additional sessions are available up to a maximum of two sessions per week.
During these sessions you will be able to:
Discuss and identify circumstances and triggers that could have made you use again, or where you have felt most at risk and vulnerable to relapse- Gain motivation to keep going, and explore new techniques to help you overcome your fears and vulnerability.
- Celebrate and acknowledge your recovery achievements each day, and continue to build strength, hope and resilience to addiction or mental health crisis
- Continue to challenge your dependency on drugs, alcohol or old behaviours
Discuss and identify circumstances and triggers that could have made you use again, or where you have felt most at risk and vulnerable to relapseDuring these sessions, our qualified therapists will use different types of therapy to help guide and explore with you the connections between feelings, thoughts and actions, and help you increase your own awareness of your day-to-day situations and how these can trigger relapse.
5-4-3-2-1 post discharge package
Leaving the safety and care of residential treatment can be a scary and daunting prospect for many clients in our care. Our 5-4-3-2-1 programme has been designed by many former clients, who told us how vulnerable they felt leaving the safety and sanctuary for their care at Steps Together during the first few weeks after they return home.
How does it work?
Simple, by signing up to this service you will receive a call from one of expert team each day at a time to suit you, 5 calls in week one, 4 calls in week two and so on. Over the course of 5 weeks, you will receive a total of 15 calls from your allocated worker who will:
- Check in with you and explore what you have done for your recovery today
- Understand what triggers and risks you have faced during your day or week
- Discuss techniques and strategies to help you cope better, and sustain your motivationk
- Help you find ongoing support in your community, or explore Steps Together’s range of outpatient services to help you on your journey to lasting recovery
