Alcohol Help

Holgate House, Clitheroe
Person Centred Alcohol Therapy, Cognitive Therapy, Individual and Group Therapy, 12 step framework

About us:

Most service users who go through Alcohol treatment, complete an intensive, structure, inpatient programme synonymous with their core needs. We believe this is the best opportunity to arrest the Alcohol addiction and begin to make the changes necessary to live an abstinence-based life.

Group therapy helps to understand the disease of Alcohol addiction. We follow the 12-step framework, with clients learning about themselves and how to deal with their own issues. One-to-one sessions and therapeutic duties are also part of the programme. Family visits, outings and weekend leave are all provided on the weekends.

We are dedicated to help you, support, and empower on going abstinence alcohol dependency exploring opportunity for personal growth and development.

Holgate House residential unit is staffed twenty-four hours a day. It offers a structured programme, i.e. looking at dealing with unresolved, here and now issues that would be too painful to deal with, without using mood altering substances. It is warm, friendly, safe and a healthy environment for people who struggle living without any mood altering substances for a period of time, and as a professional team we can offer support, structure and discipline in a caring nurturing way.

Our Alcohol treatment, approach is person centred therapy, cognitive therapy to help service users find the real self after month or years of being mood altered we also use narcotics, alcohol anonymous meetings. The resident will be involved in the day to day running and upkeep of their home, cooking cleaning and shopping all on a rota system.

Home visits; Everyone is encouraged to visit family providing the necessary risk assessment forms are completed.

Visitors; Visitors to the house are welcomed providing prior arrangement has been made, this is purely for safety and respect for each other.

Family therapy; Can be arranged with your counsellor on a weekly basis.

Outings consists of country walks and places of interest. Accompanied by a member of staff when organised in group.

Contact Details:

Holgate House
Mill Bridge
Mill Lane
Gisburn
Clitheroe
Lancashire
BB7 4LP

Telephone: 01200 445 200

Witton Bank, Blackburn
Provides a caring environment for men 18+ who want to address their drug & alcohol problems.

About us:

Witton Bank offers them the opportunity to rebuild their lives by finding a solution to addiction, giving people a chance to enjoy a life of recovery.

It is a three story spacious building about 2 miles from the centre of Blackburn, Lancashire, offering a 26 week rehabilitation programme, encompassing the Minnesota concept (12-steps), combined with cognitive and psychotherapy techniques. It can accommodate 21 people in single and shared bedrooms.
This takesplace within a group dynamic atmosphere and focuses on:

* Exploring Self
* Managing Feelings
* Interpersonal Skills
* Understanding and Identifying with Others
* Manageability of Life
* Positive Life Review
* Negotiation Skills
* Action Planning

What is a Group Dynamic Programme?
T.H.O.M.A.S. operates a group dynamic programme where each person is encouraged to give feedback to others. Interactions between group members are highly encouraged and it provides each person with an opportunity to try out new ways of behaving and to deal with their addictive behaviours. It is a safe environment in which members work to establish a level of trust that allows them to talk personally and honestly. Group members make a commitment to the group and are instructed that the content of the group sessions is confidential.

How Can this Help?
When people come into a group and interact freely with other group members, they usually recreate those difficulties that brought them to group therapy in the first place. Under the direction of the group facilitator, the group is able to give support, offer alternatives, and comfort members in such a way that these difficulties become resolved and alternative behaviours are learned. This is achieved through integrative development approaches where we introduce substance misusers to an eclectic model of rehabilitation that includes:

* Minnesota Approach
* Psychodynamic Approach
* Cognitive Behavioural Approach
* Creative Approach

What is the Minnesota Approach?
This is characterised by the 12-step philosophy. Its facilitators are ex-addicts who give an in-depth experience of how they apply the 12 step principles to their every day lives.

What is the Cognitive Behavioural Approach?
This approach is based on the assumption that human beings are born with the potential for both rational and irrational thinking. It attempts to change the way in which a person thinks about life experiences and it concentrates on finding ways in which to change negative thought patterns into more constructive ones. It is not ‘Minnesota’ and it can provide an alternative method of manageability or be used collaboratively with the above.

A CBT counsellor facilitates the group with many years experience of working within the NHS in a social work background.

What is the Psychodynamic Approach?
Our psychotherapist uses several techniques within the group setting to bring repressed or forgotten experiences to the mind, helping the client to resolve them and to change patterns of behaviour.

Our psychotherapist is available to all our service users.

What is the Creative Approach?
The Creative Approach offers a nurturing environment for self-exploration, insight and communication. The desired outcome is to unblock inborn creative abilities using creative arts to facilitate emotional healing, resolve inner conflict and awaken individual creativity through the mediums of art, music, drama, imagery, meditation, poetry and writing. It emphasises that it is the process and not the product that is important and recognises that each group member’s individuality is recognised. By using this approach the group member’s self-understanding increases dramatically and communication between the group and the discovery of new insight becomes possible.

Contact Details:

Witton Bank
Spring Lane
Blackburn
BB2 2PW

Telephone: 01254 59240

Covenant Dependency Centre, Gisburn
We help the individual to enjoy life free of alcohol and other drugs.

About us:

Situated within 200 acres of private parkland in the Northwest of England, the Covenant Dependency Centre (CDC) offers a comprehensive range of facilities. Set in peaceful rural surroundings away from the noise and stress of urban life we are able to provide you with a compassionate medical detoxification programme. We treat patients from 18 years of age, and specialise in offering treatment in a non-judgemental manner with confidentiality assured. Group therapy and counselling helps the patient to share experiences with others who have similar problems.

We help the individual to:
# Enjoy life free of alcohol and other drugs
# Gain confidence and independence
# Develop greater self worth
# Decrease daily tension and anxiety
# Plan and structure each day
# Develop an effective strategy to change
# Cope with stressful situations
# Develop closer relationships

About the Covenant Dependency Centre

The Centre has been helping people rebuild and transform their lives for over 17 years and has successfully treated more than 1000 patients. As a founder of the European Association for the Treatment of Addiction (EATA) and a member of the Covenant healthcare group – you can be confident that you\’ll receive the very best care.

The Centre is situated within Abbey Gisburne Park Hospital, which provides full hospital services. All patients therefore have full benefit of the care of the resident doctor and nursing team.

We enjoy easy access by motorway and rail networks being one hour from Manchester, Leeds and Liverpool airports. As well as patients being able to refer themselves, we also see patients referred by GPs, Consultants and alcohol and drug specialists.

What is Alcohol Treatment?

Alcohol treatment involves an in-patient stay. It begins with a thorough assessment undertaken by members of the counselling team, nursing staff, doctors and psychiatrist. During the first few hours\’, details of what can be expected from us and what is expected by us are discussed. A guided tour of the facilities and grounds follows. Belongings and personal effects are transported to the private en suite bedroom.

Each patient is provided with an information pack that contains a timetable of events for the duration of their stay. An average day may include, for example, a one on one meeting with a member of the counselling team, reflective diary session where patients comment on the previous day\’s events, relapse prevention, educational and therapy groups.

A year long free after care service is provided (As deemed appropriate by the counselling team). This consists of three meetings per week at which all patients are welcome to attend.

Treatment We Provide

The focus of the treatment at the Covenant Dependency Centre is to help the alcohol dependent person achieve two goals:

Goal 1: Increased ability to remain abstinent from mood altering drugs

Goal 2: Achieve an improved life style

In order to achieve these goals we have set two treatment objectives:

Objective 1:
Compassionately help the patient safely detoxify whilst aiding them to recognise the severity of their condition.

Objective 2:
Offer guidance and support in recognising the need for help and that the condition can be put in remission.

The pursuit of these goals is not an overnight matter. In light of this we provide a comprehensive year long aftercare programme free of charge in-conjunction with the inpatient treatment. All Covenant treatment stems from validated research. It is understood that alcohol dependent people need help to achieve and maintain abstinence.

Patients can expect the following:

# Free initial assessment
# Detoxification
# Unrivalled five star setting
# Group, individual and family counselling
# A dedicated service within a private acute hospital set in 200 acres of attractive parkland
# All single rooms with en-suite facilities.
# Multidisciplinary team using abstinence based, integrated systematic approach.
# Discretion assured

An increased ability to recognise individual potential and form meaningful relationships are considered vital in the recovery from alcohol dependency.

Free 12 month Aftercare Programme

Free Family Support/Educational Programme

Contact Details:

Covenant Dependency Centre
Abbey Gisburne Park Hospital
Gisburn
Lancashire
BB7 4HX

Telephone: 01200 445693