Ways Dialectical Behaviour Therapy Helps in Overcoming Addiction and Trauma
Addiction treatment requires a multidisciplinary approach to kick out the cycle of addiction and focus on each element that triggers the craving for a substance. Numerous factors drive addiction, it could be genetics, emotional and physiological factors, early exposure to drugs, peer pressure, and much more. Dialectical Behaviour Therapy is an integral part of the recovery process that has proven to be one of the highly effective treatments to break the cycle.
Dialectical Behavioural Therapy (DBT) combined with other therapies is the most comprehensive option for treating substance use disorders and underlying mental health conditions that have deteriorated. If you know someone struggling with addiction and requires treatment, The Luminous Care Dialectical Behaviour Therapy is there for you.
What is Dialectical Behaviour Therapy and how Does it help in Addiction Treatment?
Often people struggling with addiction and substance abuse always turn away from their own internal issues. They are bundled with untold and busted thoughts like self-harm and suicide, poor eating habits, anxiety and panic attacks, depression, post-stress traumatic disorder, and more. These thoughts intersect with substance misuse and lead to unhealthy and life-threatening behaviors. The core concept of Dialectical Behaviour Therapy can help a person understand their thoughts and bring acceptance and change.
Dialectical Behaviour Therapy at The Luminous Care is highly effective in treating addiction because our goal is not to treat addiction from the outer core, instead, deep diving understands the irrational behaviors derived due to substance use and helping clients transition back to healthier living. In a nutshell, DBT enables you to manage and shift both hurtful beliefs and risky behaviors and transform them into a healthier way of living by developing skills to do that.
How Does Dialectical Behaviour Therapy Work?
Substance abuse intersected with trauma and can produce different effects on a person’s life and mental health. As per the loved one’s condition, a therapist can integrate behavioral therapy to treat stress and triggers. It ensures that a person undergoing chaos should get immediate professional assistance and treatment that soothes their wounds and helps them come out seamlessly from the inner battle. A person in Dialectical Behaviour Therapy would learn to adapt to their current situations.
Substance abuse intersected with trauma and can produce different effects on a person’s life and mental health. As per the loved one’s condition, a therapist can integrate behavioral therapy to treat stress and triggers. It ensures that a person undergoing chaos should get immediate professional assistance and treatment that soothes their wounds and helps them come out seamlessly from the inner battle. A person in Dialectical Behaviour Therapy would learn to adapt to their current situations.
- Mindfulness
When a person is wrenched in the shackles of addiction their mind suffers and leads to impulsive and reactivity due to stress or extreme emotions. Mindfulness practices like meditation and deep breathing help soothe the mind and stagnant wandering thoughts of fear, and unwanted suicidal attempts.
- Distress Tolerance
People addicted to addiction often have difficulty dealing with their own sets of emotions tolerating hardships, upset, and unexpected issues. When they encounter these distressing and unmanageable emotions it leads them to incline towards alcohol or drugs to cope with such challenges. Distress tolerance and mindfulness practiced with DBT can help a person to a huge extent.
- Cognitive and Behavioural Modifications
Unlike CBT, DBT Therapy in Florida is designed to pinpoint thoughts, beliefs, and expectations to positively affect behaviors. A therapist at The Luminous Care would craft a treatment plan and DBT therapy that strengthens your positive beliefs and expectations that are rational and healthy for you. Once you recognize your thoughts and beliefs, your behavior will change to reflect these healthy ways of living.
- Communications and relationships
People who struggle with addiction often suppress and mask their emotions, and feelings and abandon the thought of asking for help. We have seen many people wrapped in addiction fail in sustaining their relationships and binding collectively. Overcoming all these issues at DBT therapy would help you to become a confident, moral communicator while opening up and asking for help when needed. A therapist would work with you and collaborate with you to create healthy boundaries and meaningful human connections.
- Emotional Regulations
As aforementioned, addiction is caused due to multiple situations and one of them could be suppressing their emotions and stress triggered due to it. DBT helps you to surf in the extreme low and high tides of behavior while maintaining proper equilibrium which helps in healthy sobriety.
Dialectical Behaviour Therapy at The Luminous Care
As to the complexity and intensity of addiction, there are numerous treatment programs at The Luminous Care. At our Addiction Treatment Center in Florida, we have a series of structured and well-tested steps that reinforce and enlighten the path to recovery. Therapists at The Luminous Care offer range of counseling services, including:
- Dialectical Behaviour Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
- Group Therapy
- Trauma Therapy
- Family Therapy and more
Our comprehensive individualized treatment plan helps you through every phase of addiction, from initial assessment, and detox to aftercare. Our mission is to help you rebuild your hope and healthy living through quality treatment. Connect us for a brighter future and restructure your life. Reach us.
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