Outpatient Counseling
- Crisis intervention up to 8 weeks
- Short term weekly counseling for up to 6 months
- Long term weekly counseling for up to 1 year
We serve Individuals, not addicts in general
The Vitanova Foundation describes itself as a client-centred agency, “…focused on restoring the individual's potential as a valued member of a fully-functional family and a contributor to the community-at-large”. In light of this commitment, we acknowledge that all of our clients are individuals with their own mix of strengths, weaknesses, needs, and circumstances---all of which are to be considered in developing and executing an individualized treatment plan.
Relapse is a Stage in Recovery
Understandably, this process is marked by a tension between those who impose order and those upon whom such order is imposed. Clients’ failures to observe rules and regulations (including relapses) are therefore to be expected from time to time, and indeed, their absence may be indicative of a client “biding his time” until discharge and intentional relapse.
Relapse is an Opportunity for Enhanced Recovery
If occasional failures to observe rules (up to and including relapse) are part of the recovery process, the response to these failures must be carefully measured, as “automatic consequences” may fail to take appropriate account of individual progress made to date in terms of personal growth and the potential for enhanced recovery once a “lesson is learned”.
Positive lessons promote recovery
Such lessons must be educative, rather than punitive. Guilt, shame, and fear of consequences may be useful from time to time in controlling socio-pathic tendencies in certain clients, but they are not universally appropriate tools for building a sense of responsible autonomy in individuals.
Family Support Groups
Work with families to help them heal and learn about addiction for their own personal healing and to learn/educate families about addictions. Family groups are held once weekly every Tuesday evening from 7:30 pm to 9:00 pm.