Individual Therapy Program
At Cliffside Malibu, residents are offered individual therapy sessions (including equine therapy) at least five times per week. Individual therapy provides the opportunity for primary counselors to review with residents specific treatment goals, individual therapy issues, relationship issues and discharge plans, and is a place where residents are encouraged to explore deeper issues pertinent to recovery.
Residents are encouraged to use individual therapy as a means to share these deeper issues in group process meetings as a means to gain group support and feedback. For instance, in individual therapy a patient may identify a traumatic experience which exacerbates his or her using and impeded recovery. Individual therapy is the place to become aware of and desensitized to such traumatic events and group process can then be utilized for healing purposes and additional support.
