HEALTHY HEALING COUNSELORS

We have completed the first month with our subject client going through the entire HEALTHY HEALING ADDICTION TREATMENT PROGRAM. I would like to share a few of the insights so far starting with this one:

-Not only are the clients vested in 12-step recovery treatment plans, so are the counselors. On the counselors part it seems more reactionary then anything. All of the counselors presently working on this case are committed to offering an alternative approach to addiction. Yet, after their first meeting with the client and/or client’s husband, they each reached into their counseling tool bag and pulled out—you guessed it!—12-step! All the counselors were willing to back-up on what they did, and we had a great discussion about what happened. Reaching in their tool box and pulling out 12-step was more reactionary then therapeutic. Even if Healthy Healing had a 12-step component, it was not appropriate for either client or husband in this particular case. Following a few more sessions with each, the client and husband, two of three counselors stated “This is hard work.” And it is. Developing a treatment plan that is exclusively for a particular client IS hard work—for the client and the counselor. What I do know from years of developing this program is that, after a while, you wouldn’t think of doing it any other way. There are so many good therapies out there—both Western and Eastern—that we short the client if we try to make one plan fit all.

What I have learned from this insight is that I need to get really busy creating curriculum to train counselors for the HEALTHY HEALING PROGRAM. Also, addiction counselors for the HEALTHY HEALING PROGRAM will have to have a minimum of a CDCII (requires Bachelor’s Degree).

The other thing I personally learned from this first month is that I don’t like being a Program Director. Guess I also need to get busy on a job description for a Program Director.

Tomorrow I will talk about introducing exercise and diet up front into the HEALTHY HEALING PROGRAM.

Learn more about the HEALTHY HEALING TREATMENT PROGRAM at

http://www.lifestylechangescounseling.com