About Our Services
At Steps Recovery Center, there is always hope. Taking the first step down the path to recovery can be challenging, but with the right support on their side, many people can overcome those challenges, break through addiction, and move forward with sober living and better overall mental health.
Steps Recovery Center uses a variety of therapy options, including cognitive behavioral therapy, to help clients achieve better overall mental health and wellness as they move toward sobriety.
What is Cognitive Behavioral Therapy?
Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is a therapy method that focuses on addressing negative thought cycles, including patterns that increase the risk of addictive behaviors.
This talk therapy style can help patients manage symptoms of mental illness, address conflict, overcome emotional trauma, and learn new ways to handle emotions, including anger.
During cognitive behavioral therapy sessions, patients have the chance to learn about many mental health conditions and develop more positive coping mechanisms.
Our Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy Program
Cognitive-behavioral therapy starts with an initial assessment of the patient’s symptoms and how they impact everyday life. For example, patients might discuss symptoms of anxiety or depression, addiction, or other challenges they may face.
Those early sessions are a chance for both the therapist and the patient to determine whether cognitive behavioral therapy is the right solution and to give patients a better idea of what to expect as they move forward with treatment.
Next, patients will work with their cognitive behavioral therapists to understand the specific challenges they’re facing. For example, if a patient suffers from a mental health condition, such as anxiety, the patient and therapist might discuss what thoughts are most likely to cause a high level of anxiety and when they are most likely to crop up. The therapist will then work with patients to develop healthier thought problems that are less likely to cause a damaging reaction.
Once the therapist and patient have developed new coping mechanisms, the therapist will ask the patient to start implementing them. That may begin with questioning upsetting thoughts when they come up.
For example, a patient who believes that things will never go their way or that they are not “allowed” to have nice things may replace that thought with the one that they can take control of his life. The therapist might also ask the patient to work toward making things better rather than taking steps, like giving in to an addiction, that could make those thought patterns or those issues worse.
Over time, patients will work with their therapists to determine how they are implementing those new practices and how they are working. The principles learned in cognitive behavioral therapy can be applied years after the initial sessions. Over time, patients learn how to utilize those new skills and coping mechanisms in everyday life without relying on a therapist.
Benefits of Our Utah Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy
Improving oneself is a major step in the therapy process and the recovery process. Patients can expect the following benefits after working hard with one of our therapists.
Improved Coping Skills
Cognitive behavioral therapy can help patients build the coping skills they need to handle the many emotional challenges they face in everyday life. During sessions, patients often have the chance to address triggers, discuss problems they may face, and learn new strategies for dealing with them.
Reducing Symptoms of Mental Health Conditions
Many types of mental health disorders, including depression and anxiety disorders, are impacted significantly by the patient’s thought patterns and habits. During cognitive behavioral therapy sessions, patients can identify problematic thought patterns, address trauma, and address common symptoms of mental illness.
Learning Strategies for Handling Emotions
Many people never learn how to cope with emotions, especially strong ones. Through cognitive behavioral therapy, on the other hand, patients can learn how to more effectively cope with those feelings, address them, and move forward on their mental health journey effectively.
Developing Communication Skills
During cognitive behavioral therapy, many patients learn how to cope with their feelings and challenges and how to talk about them, including communicating their needs and desires more effectively with others. Enhanced communication skills can help avoid conflict and restore relationships.
Decreasing the Risk of Relapse
For patients suffering from drug addiction, relapse is a real risk. Sober living brings with it its own set of emotional difficulties and challenges. Often, patients fall back into their old habits when they leave residential treatment and return to their normal patterns and lives. However, with cognitive behavioral therapy, patients learn more about their behavioral responses, coping mechanisms, and how to change thought patterns that may increase the risk of relapse, allowing them to live a more sober lifestyle long-term.
What is Cognitive Behavioral Therapy?
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is a widely used and evidence-based form of psychotherapy that focuses on identifying and altering negative thought patterns and behaviors.
It aims to help individuals understand how their thoughts influence their emotions and actions. By challenging and changing these unhelpful thought patterns, CBT assists patients in developing healthier coping mechanisms and improving their overall mental well-being.
This type of cognitive therapy is particularly effective in treating various mental health conditions, including anxiety, depression, and addiction, by promoting a more positive and adaptive way of thinking.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Anxiety – How Does It Help?
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is highly effective in treating anxiety by addressing the negative thought patterns that fuel anxious feelings.
Through CBT, individuals learn to identify and challenge irrational fears and beliefs, replacing them with more balanced and realistic thoughts.
This process helps reduce the intensity and frequency of anxiety symptoms. Additionally, CBT equips patients with practical coping strategies and relaxation techniques to manage anxiety-provoking situations more effectively.
By systematically confronting and altering the cognitive distortions associated with anxiety, individuals can achieve long-lasting relief and improved mental and emotional health.
Addictions We Treat
CBT helps patients with emotional regulation, which helps prevent patients from self-medicating. Through cognitive-behavioral therapy, people struggling with substance use disorder learn healthy coping skills to manage their addictions.
Cognitive-behavioral therapy can be used to treat several substance abuse issues, including:
Alcohol
Cognitive-behavioral therapy can be highly effective in treating alcohol addiction. It helps patients identify the triggers that lead to excessive drinking and develop healthier coping mechanisms to manage stress and cravings.
Opiate
CBT is instrumental in addressing opiate addiction by helping individuals understand the underlying thought patterns that contribute to their drug use. Patients learn to replace negative thoughts with more constructive ones, reducing the likelihood of relapse.
Benzodiazepine
For those struggling with benzodiazepine addiction, cognitive-behavioral therapy offers strategies to manage mental health conditions like anxiety and insomnia without relying on medication. Patients gain tools to cope with withdrawal symptoms and maintain long-term sobriety.
Cannabis (Marijuana)
Cognitive-behavioral therapy aids in treating cannabis addiction by helping individuals recognize and alter their reliance on marijuana for stress relief or escapism. Patients learn alternative ways to handle emotional and mental health challenges to improve their well-being.
Cocaine
CBT provides a structured approach to combat cocaine addiction, focusing on the psychological aspects of dependency. Through therapy, patients develop coping skills and resilience against triggers and build a foundation for a drug-free lifestyle.
Methamphetamine
Treating methamphetamine addiction with CBT involves addressing the severe psychological and physical effects of the drug. Therapy sessions focus on rebuilding self-esteem and developing healthy habits to replace destructive behaviors.
Heroin
Heroin addiction treatment with cognitive-behavioral therapy emphasizes breaking the cycle of dependency by addressing the emotional and mental health issues that fuel the addiction. Patients are taught effective coping strategies to prevent relapse and sustain recovery.
Codeine
Cognitive-behavioral therapy helps individuals addicted to codeine by addressing the root causes of their dependence. Through therapy, patients learn to manage chronic pain, and stress without turning to substance use.
Percocet
For those addicted to Percocet, CBT provides a framework for understanding and overcoming the addiction. Patients work with therapists to identify triggers and develop healthier ways to cope with pain and emotional distress.
Why Choose Steps Recovery Centers
At Steps Recovery Centers, we offer treatment and recovery strategies that can aid patients at every stage of the rehabilitation process. We help address both addiction and the underlying challenges and mental health conditions that can lead to it, providing patients with the tools they need to live a healthier, happier, sober lifestyle.
Our comprehensive treatment plans are specifically designed for the needs of each patient. Our CBT therapists work with patients to determine what healthy coping strategies will help support them in their recovery. See what others have said about our services:
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy at All Levels of Care
At Steps Recovery Centers, we provide treatment for those struggling with addiction at any level of care. This means we can help those who need to undergo medical detox, provide support with residential housing, or accommodate outpatient treatment.
Our cognitive-behavioral therapy program benefits patients at each stage of the recovery process and all levels of care. Whether patients are checking in for our residential treatment program, attending a day treatment program that allows them to head home at night, or going through intensive outpatient treatment, they can benefit from cognitive-behavioral therapy.
Find Healing in Utah with Steps
Patients struggling with addiction can find help and recovery at Steps Recovery Centers in Utah. We offer a wide range of treatment options for mental and behavioral health concerns. Our treatment team has proven experience in supporting patients as they start their road to recovery.
Contact us today to learn more about our services and the support we can offer.
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