Preferred Counseling Services
Drug Rehab Center in Durango, Colorado
Preferred Counseling Services offers addiction treatment services for individuals and families, providing a personalized, evidence-based approach with a focus on developing skills for a healthy, substance-free life, and offers a wide range of services including counseling, assessments, relapse prevention, family therapy, and holistic approaches such as mindfulness and nutrition education.
About This Durango, CO Facility
Preferred Counseling Services, located in Durango, Colorado and provides addiction treatment services for individuals and their families. They focus on helping their patients develop the skills to live a healthy, substance-free life, while also providing support and guidance through the recovery process. Their staff consists of certified professionals and licensed addiction counselors who are dedicated to helping individuals and their families find solutions that will help them achieve a lifetime of sobriety.
Preferred Counseling Services provides a wide range of services including individual and group counseling, assessments, educational programs, relapse prevention strategies, family therapy and support, and medication-assisted treatment. They also offer holistic approaches such as mindfulness and meditation, and nutrition education. With their evidence-based, personalized approach to care, they are able to meet the needs of all their clients.
Preferred Counseling Services is licensed and accredited by the Colorado Department of Health, and is a proud member of the Colorado Behavioral Health Association and the National Association of Addiction Treatment Providers. Additionally, all of their counselors are certified by the Colorado Addiction Counselor Credentialing Board. They have also received recognition from the American Society of Addiction Medicine's Award for Excellence in Addiction Treatment.
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Substance abuse refers to the intensive and inappropriate use of psychoactive substances. Psychoactive substances are those that affect brain function. These include illegal drugs, alcohol, and even the excessive use of prescription drugs. The overuse of psychoactive substances leads to severe physical or psychological dependence. It also affects the social life and relationships of the affected individual. Substance abuse is treatable.
The duration of treatment at Preferred Counseling Services in Durango can require weeks or even months depending on the severity of the condition as there is a risk of relapse. Treatment options include medications, counseling sessions, various types of behavioral therapy, and group therapy in different combinations.
Addiction to prescription opioid painkillers like oxycodone and hydrocodone, and illicit opioids such as heroin, leads to potentially life-threatening withdrawal symptoms when discontinued. Opioid addiction treatment typically involves an inpatient stay at facilities like Preferred Counseling Services to make sure they get through withdrawal safely. Treatment also includes comprehensive mental health counseling.
Levels of Care Offered
This center offers a variety of custom treatment tailored to individual recovery. Currently available are Aftercare Support, Drug Rehab, Outpatient, with additional therapies available as listed below.
To assist with alcohol or opioid abuse, or a co-occurring condition, Preferred Counseling Services offers an outpatient treatment program. For their rehabilitation and other services, the Colorado patient will go to the treatment center, yet return home every night. After most of the program is completed, the level of mandatory participation reduces.
Treatment is just a first step in sustaining sobriety. After rehabilitation, counseling for aftercare helps the person adapt to a life without drugs. A sober living facility in Durango, job therapy, or educational assistance may be included in this service, managed by Preferred Counseling Services. This is when a preventive strategy for relapse starts to take shape.
Preferred Counseling Services‘s Therapies & Programs
Recovering from addiction involves recovering relationships as well. One of the most common areas of stress and damage during addiction is in intimate relationships. Couples therapy at Preferred Counseling Services can rebuild trust and joy that may have been damaged. Addiction involves everyone in the family, not only the addict.
Family roles can change in damaging ways that may require professional help to rebalance. Successful intimate relationships can decrease the chances for relapse by ensuring a healthy environment after rehab in Durango, CO.
Many people turn to drugs and alcohol as a way of processing trauma that has affected them in the past. Trauma can include abuse, neglect, the loss of a loved one and other unpleasant incidents. Trauma therapy at Preferred Counseling Services helps patients process trauma. It gives them the tools to deal with it in a healthier manner.
Dialectical behavioral therapy (DBT) is a type of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy that focuses on eliminating specific negative thoughts such as suicidal thoughts that can potentially lead to an individual inflicting self-harm. It is useful in the treatment of patients exhibiting uncontrollable emotions, intense mood swings, and borderline personality disorders.
The term “Dialectic” means the integration of opposites. In the substance abuse context, DBT refers to accepting the patient’s addiction and working to change their thoughts and behavior. It improves life skills such as controlling the intense emotions without reacting impulsively, resolving the interpersonal conflicts effectively, and promoting awareness about self and others.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) examines the relationship between a patient’s thoughts, feelings and behaviors. Preferred Counseling Services aims to establish a healthy response to thoughts and feelings as an alternative to turning to drugs and alcohol. It also promotes healthy communication between addicts and those around them. It is and effective therapy for people suffering with all types of addictions.
Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT) is a type of cognitive therapy. It is based on the principle that irrational thoughts are responsible for the emotional and behavioral changes in addiction. So, the therapy starts with identifying the underlying irrational thoughts. These thoughts are then challenged and opposed logically and then replaced with positive thoughts. It also helps to change unwanted behavior with techniques such as meditation.
By imparting positive thoughts and emotions, Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT) makes the individual self-reliant with a capacity to handle the emotional and behavioral issues in future by themselves without professional help. This self-dependence benefits the patients and prevent relapses.
Contingency Management (CM), also called motivational incentives, is a type of pure behavioral therapy. It’s based on the idea that behavior is shaped, motivated, or controlled by its outcomes. CM is a clinical application at Preferred Counseling Services of operant conditioning, which helps clients eliminate unwanted behaviors by the use of positive and negative reinforcement.
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Durango, Colorado 81301 Phone Number(970) 259-3952 Meta DetailsUpdated November 25, 2023
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1315 Main Avenue Suite 212 Ste 212
Durango, CO 81301
(970) 259-3952
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Durango, Colorado Addiction Information
The Centennial State has slipped to a ranking of 12th in the country for drug abuse. Each year around 24% of the state's population uses illegal drugs while nearly 5% of its population abuses alcohol. Substance-related deaths in Colorado were responsible for 15.12% between 2008 and 2017. Fortunately, Colorado drug and alcohol addiction treatment are available to help a person overcome addiction.
In 2013, 1,743 people were living in Durango who was dependent on or abusing drugs. Additionally, in 2013 there were 682 admissions to treatment centers for drug abuse in the Durango area. In Durango, there are 4 addiction treatment centers. A few different drug treatment options are available in Durango, Colorado. The most common type of drug rehab is an inpatient facility.
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