Detox is the essential first step in the journey to recovery, focusing on safely removing substances from the body. Typically, detox lasts 3-10 days, depending on the substance and individual needs. The process is carefully monitored by medical professionals to ensure safety and comfort.

Key Aspects of Detox:

• May involve medication to manage withdrawal symptoms, 24/7 medical monitoring, and nutritional support.
• Aims to alleviate physical dependence on substances, minimizing discomfort and health risks associated with withdrawal.
• Detox is not a standalone treatment but prepares individuals for subsequent stages of addiction treatment.
• Crucial for substances with dangerous withdrawal effects, such as alcohol and benzodiazepines.
• May include an assessment for co-occurring mental health issues
• A Partial Hospitalization Program (PHP) provides a thorough level of care without requiring complete hospitalization or staying at a treatment facility.

Residential treatment provides 24/7 care in a controlled environment, offering structured daily routines to support recovery. This program is ideal for severe addictions or when outpatient care isn’t sufficient.

Key Components:

• Medically supervised detox (if needed)
• Individual and group therapy sessions
• Educational programs about addiction
• Life skills training
• Relapse prevention planning

Therapies Offered:

• Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
• Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT)
• Family therapy
• 12-step programs

Residential treatment provides a drug-free environment, peer support, and community living. It addresses co-occurring mental health issues, focuses on healthy coping mechanisms, and prepares individuals for daily life, often followed by outpatient care or sober living arrangements.

Holistic treatment addresses the entire person: body, mind, and spirit. It aims to balance physical, emotional, and spiritual health by combining traditional and alternative therapies.

Key Components:

• Traditional counseling and medical care
• Nutritional therapy
• Exercise and physical activities
• Meditation and mindfulness practices
• Yoga or tai chi
• Acupuncture
• Art or music therapy
• Massage therapy
• Herbal medicine

Holistic treatment focuses on overall wellness, not just abstinence, addressing underlying causes of addiction and emphasizing stress reduction and lifestyle changes. It aims to improve the overall quality of life and tailors treatment to individual needs and preferences, often integrating with evidence-based practices. This approach promotes long-term healing and personal growth.

The 12-Step model treatment, based on Alcoholics Anonymous principles, adapts to various addictions like drugs and gambling.

Key Components:

• Admits powerlessness over addiction
• Believes in a higher power (non-religious options available)
• Makes amends for past wrongs
• Helps others with similar struggles
• Emphasizes:
• Peer support and sponsorship
• Regular group meetings
• Personal inventory and accountability
• Spiritual growth (individually defined)

Encouraging lifelong participation for sobriety, it integrates with other treatments, providing a structured recovery path in a supportive community. Adapted freely to diverse beliefs.

Uses scientifically researched therapies and interventions for addiction recovery, focusing on therapies backed by controlled studies and clinical trials. Includes:

• Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
• Motivational Interviewing (MI)
• Medication-Assisted Treatment (MAT)
• Contingency Management
• 12-Step Facilitation
• Family Behavior Therapy

Focuses on measurable outcomes and treatment efficacy, adapting to new research findings while tailoring treatment to individual needs with validated methods.

Dual diagnosis treatment addresses addiction and mental health issues together, recognizing their interconnected nature.

Key Components:

• Integrated care from a multidisciplinary team
• Includes:
  • Detoxification
  • Medication management
  • Psychotherapy (individual and group)
  • Behavioral therapies
  • Life skills training
  • Relapse prevention strategies
  • Often involves longer-term care and support
  • Can lead to better outcomes by treating both conditions concurrently

Approach:

• Tailors treatment to each individual’s specific needs
• Aims to improve overall mental health and maintain long-term sobriety

A treatment approach that addresses unique needs based on gender.

• Tailors treatment to gender-specific issues
• Provides a safe space for discussing gender-related concerns
• Focuses on problems more common to a particular gender
• Encourages peer support among same-gender individuals
• Considers societal gender expectations
• Addresses gender-specific traumas
• Accounts for biological differences affecting health and addiction
• Recognizes different communication styles
• Tackles gender-specific coping mechanisms
• Takes a holistic view of gender’s role in overall identity

Relapse prevention education provides individuals with strategies to avoid returning to substance use. It helps identify and manage triggers and high-risk situations by recognizing early warning signs of relapse, developing coping skills for cravings and stress, and creating a personalized relapse prevention plan. Understanding the stages of relapse is a key component.

Focus Areas:

• Building self-efficacy and confidence
• Improving problem-solving skills
• Enhancing social support networks
• Developing healthy lifestyle habits

Methods:

• Individual and group counseling sessions
• Role-playing exercises
• Mindfulness and relaxation techniques
• Ongoing support group participation

This approach addresses both mental and behavioral aspects of addiction, emphasizing that relapse is a process, not a single event. It teaches individuals how to recover if a slip occurs and aims to extend the benefits of treatment into daily life.

Life Skills

Essential abilities for maintaining recovery and functioning in society:

• Stress management
• Communication skills
• Financial planning
• Time management
• Healthy relationships
• Job search skills

Taught through workshops, counseling, and practical exercises.

Coping Skills for Addiction Treatment

Techniques to handle triggers and emotions:

• Mindfulness
• Deep breathing
• Cognitive restructuring
• Journaling
• Exercise

Provided through therapy sessions and group workshops.

Alumni Program

Our Alumni Program at Cornerstone of Southern California guides clients from early treatment into aftercare, connecting them to a supportive fellowship. We aim to create a healthy atmosphere for continued healing, family reunification, and positive connections in sobriety.  Learn more on our Alumni Page.

Family Program

At Cornerstone of Southern California, we understand recovery involves more than the individual. Our family program empowers families with support and education at every stage of the journey toward mental health and substance use disorder recovery. Visit our Family Programs Page to learn more.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is a highly effective therapeutic approach for mental health issues, focusing on identifying and restructuring negative thought patterns that lead to negative behaviors. It helps individuals gain control over their thoughts, fostering clarity and calmness in addressing challenges. CBT is particularly beneficial for conditions like depression, anxiety, addiction, OCD, PTSD, phobias, chronic fatigue syndrome, insomnia, and eating disorders. It emphasizes transforming thought processes and equips individuals with skills to manage ongoing mental health 

Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT)

Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) focuses on managing intense emotions by helping individuals understand and accept them. By reducing destructive behaviors, DBT improves quality of life and mental well-being long-term, beyond therapy sessions. It is effective for conditions like bipolar disorder, anger management issues, and PTSD, particularly in individuals who have experienced trauma like sexual abuse.

Schema Therapy

Schema therapy integrates cognitive, behavioral, and psychodynamic approaches to address deep-seated negative thoughts and feelings, known as schemas, that contribute to mental health issues. These schemas heavily influence a person’s sense of identity, beliefs, and behaviors. Schema therapy is particularly effective for individuals who have not seen progress with Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT).

Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) focuses on managing intense emotions by helping individuals understand and accept them. It aims to reduce irrational and destructive behaviors, leading to significant improvements in quality of life and mental well-being. DBT is highly effective for conditions like bipolar disorder, anger management issues, and PTSD, particularly among individuals who have experienced trauma such as sexual abuse.

Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) Therapy helps people heal from traumatic memories. During EMDR sessions, a therapist guides the patient to focus on distressing thoughts while moving their eyes back and forth. This process helps reprocess traumatic memories, reducing their emotional impact.

In the context of substance abuse treatment, EMDR is utilized to address the underlying trauma that often contributes to addiction. By reprocessing these traumatic memories, EMDR helps individuals reduce their dependency on substances used to cope with emotional pain. This therapeutic approach supports long-term recovery by addressing the root causes of addiction, enhancing emotional regulation, and improving overall mental health.

Art Therapy

Art therapy offers non-verbal expression for patients who find communication challenging. Through art, individuals can express subconscious thoughts and emotions that are difficult or distressing to verbalize. This form of therapy allows patients to access and communicate these feelings without relying on spoken language, making it a preferred option for many.

Psychodrama

Psychodrama, a form of group therapy, provides individuals with a new perspective on themselves and others. It explores how past experiences influence current mental states, empowering patients to change dysfunctional behaviors. Through group interaction, participants experience cathartic release and acknowledge deeply repressed feelings, facilitating effective treatment for PTSD, phobias, depression, self-harm, and eating disorders.

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) is highly effective for anxiety and depression-related disorders, emphasizing acceptance and mindfulness. It addresses behavioral change and commitment, recognizing that the intensity of mental illness can lead to feelings of helplessness. ACT encourages patients to accept these feelings and focus on commitments to improve mental well-being, fostering flexibility during and after therapy.

Person-Centered Therapies

Person-centered therapy (PCT) centers on the belief that humans strive to fulfill their potential, considering past experiences’ role in mental health. Therapists build empathetic relationships to facilitate effective dialogue, promoting self-acceptance and a strong sense of self-worth. PCT enhances emotional understanding, empowering patients to improve their mental well-being independently. It’s effective for depression, anxiety, personality disorders, and addiction treatment.

Integrative Counseling

Integrative counseling is highly effective for treating PTSD, drawing from multiple therapeutic approaches to tailor treatment to individual needs and backgrounds. Unlike singular therapies, it combines methods like CBT, psychodynamic, and humanist therapies in sessions. This approach recognizes the complexity of each patient’s experiences, making it versatile in addressing PTSD, anxiety, and depression effectively.

Emotion-Focused Therapy (EFT)

Emotion-focused therapy aims to enhance emotional awareness and understanding in individuals by encouraging them to engage deeply with their emotions. Therapists work to shift perspectives from negative to positive, empowering patients to gain control over their entire emotional range. Sessions emphasize practical coping strategies applicable to daily life.

Compassion Focused Therapy (CFT)

Compassion-focused therapy aims to alleviate self-criticism by fostering self-worth, especially effective for individuals with a history of abuse, anxiety, depression, anger management issues, low self-esteem, and tendencies toward self-harm.

Mindfulness therapy promotes recovery through accepting the present moment. By acknowledging emotions such as sadness, anger, or anxiety without judgment, individuals learn to manage negativity without feeling overwhelmed. This therapy is highly effective for treating severe anxiety and depression, particularly when combined with activities like meditation to enhance overall well-being and symptom relief.

Interpersonal Therapy (IPT)

Interpersonal therapy examines how negative relationships contribute to mental health issues, helping patients develop healthier interaction techniques. It’s effective for treating anxiety, depression, and eating disorders.

Cognitive Analytic Therapy (CAT)

Cognitive analytic therapy focuses on addressing negative memories and emotions, equipping patients with skills to evaluate their impact on current mental health. Our experts at Cornerstone collaborate with patients to plan personalized coping strategies. CAT sessions promote cooperation and empathy between patients and therapists.

Psychoeducation

Psychoeducation workshops help patients gain a deeper understanding of their mental health challenges and how they impact themselves and others. They focus on self-worth, anger management, trauma impact, and relationship co-dependency, providing crucial insights into behavioral consequences.

Existential Therapy

Existential therapy offers a unique approach to mental health, viewing each individual’s experiences as deeply personal and significant. It focuses on the existential challenges individuals face, empowering them to confront and address their anxieties and worries directly. This therapy emphasizes personal control and choice, enabling patients to manage their mental health independently, grounded in the present moment.