Our Approach

The treatment approach is client centred and based on a modified Minnesota Model with abstinence as its core aim and employing the 12 Steps of the AA/NA Fellowship, working with Steps 1 to 5 in Primary Care and Steps 6 to 12 in Secondary Care.

Addiction is considered in terms of a primary illness with physical, mental and spiritual (relationship) symptoms.  Each of these is treated in a multi-dimensional approach with the aim of responding to the whole person rather than their individual parts.  People come to be treated because they are ill and not because they are bad or weak.

Therapy is based on individual and group work and this aspect of treatment employs an integrative approach where Motivational Interviewing, an Inter-Personal Model of group work and a range of counselling models are combined.  Every attempt is made to provide a treatment process that balances support and challenge, as we believe that this will provide the best medium for change and one of the greatest assets in this process is the peer group.