London: The Awareness Centre
London: The Awareness Centre
The Awareness Centre Addiction Recovery Programme
About us:
The Awareness Centre Addiction Recovery Programme is a non-residential programme for alcoholics and drug addicts in recovery as well as for those who engage in destructive compulsions. The Awareness Centre offers a safe, drug-free environment in order to provide an intensive, holistic programme of rehabilitation that aims to equip clients with the cognitive and behavioural skills as well as emotional resolve to live a healthy, addiction and compulsion-free life.
Based upon the 12-step treatment model, the programme integrates elements drawn from motivational enhancement therapy and cognitive behavioural therapy, bodywork and humanistic psychotherapy offering a holistic approach to recovery and lasting change.
Eligibility: Men and women over eighteen years of age who are in recovery from alcohol, drug and gambling addiction as well as other behavioural compulsions (such as sexual compulsions and food issues) and who want to build a healthy and fulfilling future while remaining abstinent.
Clients will be assessed by The Awareness Centre Recovery team for willingness and ability to positively engage in all aspects of the programme. Clients will also need to have been drug and alcohol free for 24-hours before joining the programme.
Referrals are welcomed from Social Services, Probation, the National Health Service, voluntary and private sectors and self-referrals.
Programme Ethic: We recognise that clients’ substance dependency and compulsions develop in response to life experiences that impact upon clients on emotional, cognitive, behavioural and physical levels. In order for healthy, lasting change to occur, each of these levels requires effective and co-ordinated intervention. Consequently, the programme’s wide-ranging holistic remit has been developed to comprehensively address all levels of clients’ lives.
The Awareness Centre has integrated the 12-step treatment method within an over-arching humanistic framework. The programme structure is thus grounded in the 12-step treatment method, developing a philosophy of addiction as a ‘dis-ease’; a lifestyle choice involving emotional, cognitive, behavioural and physical patterns that can quickly develop into a rigid and seductive routine that individuals feel powerless over; a self-perpetuating cycle that makes change difficult to accept or begin. Consequently, we recognise that clients require support to challenge and change their lives.
The programme aims to provide such support. Each of the cognitive, emotional and physical interventions developed are geared first towards challenging existing rigid behavioural patterns by developing awareness of such patterns, the defensive motivation behind them and the consequences of clients’ actions. Clients’ autonomous ability to take responsibility for and control over their lives is encouraged and supported and, nurturing clients’ desire for healthy and more fulfilling lives, the programme then supports clients in the development of alternative choices and, finally, in taking practical steps to implement tangible and lasting changes in their lives.
Contact Details:
The Awareness Centre
41 Abbeville Road
Clapham
London
SW4 9JX
Telephone: 020 8673 4545