Modalities of Treatment

All treatment modalities at Serenity are based on empirical research. The most common modalities of treatment are described below, with others used when appropriate.

 

  • Motivational Interviewing (MI)

    • This is a collaborative approach where the therapist and client partner together to enhance the client’s own motivation for change, and commitment to their own change. This approach eliminates judgement and prevents clients from feeling “forced” into change, by “meeting them where they are at” and growing from there.

  • Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT)

    • This approach primarily involves building skills that encourage clients to be better able to regulate and express their emotions, and thus reduces self-destructive behaviors that often result from intense, extreme emotions. DBT focuses on four main skill sets: distress tolerance, emotion regulation, mindful/being present “in the moment,” and interpersonal effectiveness.

  • Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)

    • This approach promotes the identification of recurring, destructive thoughts in order to reduce and phase out those which are negative or no longer serving the client in a healthy way.

  • Rational Emotive Behavioral Therapy (REBT)

    • This is similar to CBT, and assist clients with replacing unhealthy and negative thoughts with more effective and adaptive thoughts, promoting healthier emotional well-being.

  • Family Systems

    • This approach assesses the family’s readiness for change, in addition to the client who is a member of that family. This approach involves a significant amount of psychoeducation for all family members, and the processing of how each member as impacted the other, as means of increasing conflict resolution, communication, and cohesiveness.

  • Harm Reduction Model

    • While all illicit substances, non-prescribed substances, and alcohol are prohibited from Serenity, we do recognize that ceasing all at-risk behaviors at once is not always feasible. We do permit cigarette use as well as caffeine intake in our program, while working with each client to consider reducing or eliminating these substances as well.