Robert Alexander Center for Recovery

Partners work to improve their communication patterns, using advice from their therapist to better their relationship and make healthy changes.

This experiential therapy uses dance to improve body awareness, physical health, and social skills.

Guided interactions with trained horses, their handler, and a therapist can help patients improve their self-esteem, trust, empathy, and social skills.

With this approach, patients heal by doing. Therapists help patients process difficult emotions to speak, using guided activities like art or dance.

Creative processes like art, writing, or dance use inner creative desires to help boost confidence, emotional growth, and initiate change.

Lateral, guided eye movements help reduce the emotional reactions of retelling and reprocessing trauma, allowing intense feelings to dissipate.

Family therapy addresses group dynamics within a family system, with a focus on improving communication and interrupting unhealthy relationship patterns.

This treatment teaches self-awareness, interrupts negative thought patterns, and gives patients insight into how their environment impacts mental health.

Gardening can be both meditative and inspiring. This therapy encourages social, emotional, and physical recovery.

A hypnotherapist guides patients through a trance-like state. This helps them identify and process subconscious emotions and regain inner control.

This brief and structured therapy addresses present relationships and improves overall communication at work, home, and other social settings.

Teaching life skills like cooking, cleaning, clear communication, and even basic math provides a strong foundation for continued recovery.

Combined with behavioral therapy, prescribed medications can enhance treatment by relieving withdrawal symptoms and focus patients on their recovery.

MBCT combines mindfulness practices—like meditation—with cognitive therapy techniques to help patients work through negative thought patterns.

Singing, performing, and even listening to music can be therapeutic. Music therapy sessions are facilitated by certified counselors.

Through narrative therapy, patients rewrite past events with a positive focus. They separate themselves from the problem to see their purpose and capabilities.

Patients act out real or imagined scenarios under a therapist's guidance. These exercises foster creative thought, sponteneity, and problem-solving skills.

This method combines treatment with education, teaching patients about different paths toward recovery. This empowers them to make more effective decisions.

In recreation therapy, recovery can be joyful. Patients practice social skills and work through emotional triggers by engaging in fun activities.

Relapse prevention counselors teach patients to recognize the signs of relapse and reduce their risk.

Muscle relaxation techniques relax mind and body. They can easily be practiced outside treatment, making it a valuable coping tool for continued recovery.

A quick goal-oriented therapy that helps patients identify their current and future goals, find out how to achieve them, and empower future problem-solving.

Sound therapy incorporates music, sound waves, and vibrations to promote emotional and spiritual healing.

Tending to spiritual health helps treatment become more effective, allowing patients to better cope with their emotions and rebuild their spiritual wellbeing.

Patients learn specific stress management techniques, like breathing exercises and how to safely anticipate triggers.

A self-paced, graceful exercise that aligns physical and mental energy, using ancient Chinese practices for modern-day wellness.

12-Step groups offer a framework for addiction recovery. Members commit to a higher power, recognize their issues, and support each other in the healing process.

This cognitive behavioral therapy teaches patients to accept challenging feelings and make the appropriate changes to reach personal goals.

Yoga is both a physical and spiritual practice. It includes a flow of movement, breathing techniques, and meditation.

PTSD is a long-term mental health issue caused by a disturbing event or events. Symptoms include anxiety, dissociation, flashbacks, and intrusive thoughts.

Synthetic drugs are made in a lab, unlike plant-based drugs like mushrooms. Most synthetic drugs are either stimulants or synthetic cannabinoids.

Symptoms of depression may include fatigue, a sense of numbness, and loss of interest in activities. This condition can range from mild to severe.

Drug addiction is the excessive and repetitive use of substances, despite harmful consequences to a person's life, health, and relationships.

Consistent relapse occurs repeatedly, after partial recovery from addiction. This condition requires long-term treatment.

Anxiety is a common mental health condition that can include excessive worry, panic attacks, physical tension, and increased blood pressure.

Some traumatic events are so disturbing that they cause long-term mental health problems. Those ongoing issues can also be referred to as "trauma."

Using alcohol as a coping mechanism, or drinking excessively throughout the week, signals an alcohol use disorder.