DreamLife will go to any lengths to help someone who wants help with their addiction, mental health issues and in becoming their butterfly and beginning a dream life.
Description of Service, Individuals Served and Program Philosophy
Dream Life LLC’s Intensive Outpatient Services provides intensive outpatient psycho-education and therapy to individuals who are experiencing a mental health and/or substance abuse issues.
Separate groups and psycho-educational curriculums are provided for mental health and substance abuse. Individuals who are aged 18 to 75 with a diagnosis of chemical dependence or mental illness are eligible for services.
Mission: To provide an environment, tools and structure to build a strong foundation of recovery. Dream Life’s mission is to not only help clients stay sober but change the core issues that has manifested the addiction. Dream Life wants to help clients visualize and work towards individual realistic real world goals.
Program Philosophy: Dream Life LLC’s philosophy is to use the Matrix system as a foundation while using the 12 Step program supported by Cognitive Behavior Therapy as the tools needed to maintain long term sobriety. Dream Life promotes an improved quality of life for persons seeking services by focusing on the mental, physical and spiritual parts of disease of addiction. Our counseling services are client-centered where individuals have the opportunity to take an active role in creating and completing a service and recovery plan that is personally meaningful and customized to meet their specific needs and goals. Counseling services are provided by licensed and experienced clinicians who are dedicated to understanding the needs and concerns of their clients while treating them with dignity and respect.
Program Goals: The goal of Intensive Outpatient Treatment is to assist clients that are transitioning out of more intensive programs such as inpatient or partial hospitalization programs, and getting them ready to return to a level of healthy functioning at home and work, by gaining the skills to cope with their addiction or mental illness effectively. Dream Life will help build a strong knowledge of the 12 steps, support clients in attending 12 meetings, and help create a fellowship among peers to assist in their new ways of thinking and living. Our goal is to demonstrate our program success by our previous clients achieving continued sobriety through goal driven actions, in hopes that someday existing clients will help others to do the same and move them closer to their Dream Life.
Treatment Modalities/Evidence Based Best Practices:
The Matrix Model is an evidence-based intensive outpatient program backed by over twenty years of research providing your adult clients with the structure of an inpatient treatment experience on an outpatient timetable. It includes the latest information and statistics, including information on medication-assisted treatment, and meets DSM-5 classifications. Comprehensive as well as intensive, the Matrix Model covers individual/ conjoint therapy, early recovery skills, relapse prevention, family education, social support, and drug screening strategies, with participation in a Twelve Step program encouraged throughout. The manualized format allows clients across your facility to use the same materials–giving you a standardized tool for measuring outcomes. Although the program can be completed in a 16-week time frame, the Matrix Model can be extended up to 12 months through continuing care and aftercare. The Matrix Model includes a therapist’s manual with a complete research bibliography on CD-ROM reproducible worksheets and handouts on an additional CD-ROM three lecture videos medallions to commemorate successful program completion calendar stickers to help clients track their sobriety.
Our Approach and Services
Our clinicians aim to partner with their clients throughout the therapeutic process in order to assist them in achieving a healthy, balanced, and productive lives. Our approach is based on evidenced-based practices such as cognitive behavior therapy, solution focused therapy, motivational interviewing and trauma informed services.
Services include:
- Initial intake/referral information
- Individual assessment and diagnosis
- Treatment and recovery plans
- Individual and group counseling minimum of 9 hours per week.
- After hours on call support by a licensed clinician 24/7