Innovative Alternatives - The Children's Center
Drug Rehab Center in Galveston, Texas
Innovative Alternatives The Children's Center in Galveston, TX has been providing personalized and comprehensive mental health and dual diagnosis treatment, including various therapies and aftercare support, for over 30 years.
About This Galveston, TX Facility
Innovative Alternatives – The Children’s Center, based in Galveston, Texas, is a comprehensive treatment center dedicated to serving individuals with dual-diagnosis and mental health needs. Founded in 1989, the center is dedicated to providing clients with the highest levels of care and treatment options. Innovative Alternatives focus on couples, family and individual therapy, cognitive behavioral treatment, eye movement desensitization and reprocessing, hypnotherapy, recreational therapy and more. Furthermore, the center offers aftercare support, dual-diagnosis, intervention and a variety of other levels of treatment ensuring that each patient receives the care and attention they need. The center is state licensed and accepts private health insurance, making treatment and recovery options available to more families and individuals.
The qualified and dedicated staff at Innovative Alternatives focused on evidence based practices and techniques that enable individuals to address their addiction and other behavioral health issues. The team at Innovative Alternatives is devoted to helping each individual and family find the pathway to recovery and long-term success. All services provided are tailored to the needs of the client and their families in order to reach the best possible outcome for their treatment. For those in need of mental health and dual-diagnosis services, Innovative Alternatives offer a comprehensive treatment program to meet their needs.
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People with dual diagnosis have coexisting addiction and a mental disorder. 9.2 million US adults had a co-occurring disorder in 2018, so not just limited to Texas residents. Best treatment combines medication, psychotherapy (talk therapy), support group, and inpatient rehabilitation. Sometimes, complementary therapies – yoga, massage, and acupuncture – may also be used.
Levels of Care Offered
This center offers a variety of custom treatment tailored to individual recovery. Currently available are Aftercare Support, Dual-Diagnosis, Intervention, Outpatient, Residential, with additional therapies available as listed below.
Outpatient treatment can be considered the lowest intensity level of addiction treatment in Galveston, TX. It is ideal for early phase addiction or lower intensity addictions. Innovative Alternatives - The Children's Center peer group support, 12-step programs, and individual counseling may still be involved.
Residential treatment programs are those that offer housing and meals in addition to substance abuse treatment. Rehab facilities that offer residential treatment allow patients to focus solely on recovery, in an environment totally separate from their lives. Some rehab centers specialize in short-term residential treatment (a few days to a week or two), while others solely provide treatment on a long-term basis (several weeks to months). Some offer both, and tailor treatment to the patient’s individual requirements.
An intervention is a meeting held by families and friends of the addicted party, managed by Innovative Alternatives - The Children's Center. It lets the person know that their loved ones are concerned about them. It is intended to make the addicted party agree to get help.
Interventions are often hosted by a mental health professional in Texas who knows how to communicate with people dealing with addiction. These intervention services can make all the difference when it comes to getting loved ones to agree to treatment.
After treatment, addiction treatment can be frightening for newly sober people. Aftercare support provided by Innovative Alternatives - The Children's Center is designed to give resources and help on a continued basis. It can involve finding housing in and around Texas, setting up 12-step meeting groups, continued medical monitoring, and counseling.
Innovative Alternatives - The Children's Center‘s Therapies & Programs
Individual therapy aims to identify the core issues that would have led the patient to substance abuse and address the root cause effectively. Patients find the therapist as a person who they can trust. It helps them to open up and discuss personal and sensitive issues, which they may not be comfortable discussing in a group.
Couples therapy is an approach wherein the patients and their partners are engaged together as a part of the treatment process. When a person becomes a victim of substance abuse, it affects the patient and the people around him, particularly his partner. Their relationship can become strained due to lack of communication, financial issues, loss of trust, lack of intimacy, and physical abuse in more severe cases.
Couples therapy addresses these issues and tries to rebuild the trust between the partners. The partner’s involvement in the process will result in greater chances of treatment success and sustained recovery.
Family therapy is a set of therapeutic approaches that assumes that the entire family is a system. It utilizes the strengths and resources of the family to help the patient refrain from resorting to substance abuse. It helps to repair relationships and improve communication between family members.
Group therapy happens at Innovative Alternatives - The Children's Center in a controlled group environment, as opposed to a one-on-one setting. It supports Galveston, TX patients’ recovery by offering a sense of comfort and letting them know that they are not alone. Through shared conversations, patients also learn to develop faith and understanding and gain insight on their addictions.
Unresolved trauma is often a key reason why many patients resorted to substance abuse. Trauma therapy refers to treatment wherein specialist therapists help the patients to resolve the trauma that led the patients to substance abuse. The trauma could be physical abuse, sexual abuse, war, natural disasters, divorce, accident, loss of a loved one, etc. Thinking of these traumatic events causes emotional disturbances like anxiety, depression and results in addiction. If trauma is the primary cause of substance abuse, then both issues must be addressed. Otherwise, there is a risk of relapse. Trauma therapy also improves the cognitive functions and provides long term benefits.
Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is a way of addressing concerns through talking. It can be used in individual counseling sessions. Talking through issues with professionals at Innovative Alternatives - The Children's Center can identify sources of discomfort or unhealthy thoughts. It is a way of learning about yourself and your individual perceptions. CBT is a healthy way of addressing some behaviors which may be bringing unintended consequences in your life.
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is designed to support patients in treating trauma. Patients follow a bar of light throughout the session or watch their therapist’s finger travel back and forth. All this imitates the eye movements of REM sleep. These are the same movements that enable memories to be reprocessed by the brain. This reduces the impact and reprocesses traumatic memories have individuals, reducing the desire to shelter or escape by abusing substances.
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Experiential Therapy at Innovative Alternatives - The Children's Center
Experiential therapy works on the principle that the perception of individuals determines their behavior. It is different from medication and talk therapy and suits those who have difficulty in expressing themselves and interact. Experiential therapy works by using tools and activities to recreate past experiences and encourages the release of suppressed thoughts that were responsible for the negative feelings and drug addiction.
Role-playing, arts and crafts, music, animal care, rock climbing, etc. are some of the activities used in this therapy. Gradually the individual will experience calmness and love and change their perception positively. Other than drug addiction, Experiential therapy is useful in various behavioral and eating disorders.
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2127 Ave M
Galveston, TX 77550
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Galveston, Texas Addiction Information
Texas is one of the primary hubs for drug smuggling into the country. The border between Texas and Mexico is more than 1,000 miles long. More than 10 million residents use alcohol every year and more than 25% of those are minors. Alcohol and drug use has become so common in Texas that almost 15% of all deaths can be attributed to these substances.
There were over 300 drug-related deaths in Galveston in 2016. Methamphetamine, heroin, and cocaine are the three most prominent drugs being trafficked into the city. About 1 in 3 adults in Galveston County abuse alcohol. The use of drugs also takes a toll on the city's economy. Treatment is not mandatory in Galveston. However, if you are struggling with addiction, it is highly recommended that you seek treatment.
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