What happens in individual therapy?
Every client at ANew Recovery is assigned a primary therapist at admission. You meet one on one on a regular schedule throughout the program, in sessions built around a simple principle from our Clinical Director, Dr. Jayne Payne: understanding before advising. Your therapist’s first job is not to correct you. It is to understand how your patterns came to be, because, as Dr. Payne puts it, many of the problems we face today began as solutions to a problem that once worked.
Early sessions focus on your story: your history with substances, your family, your losses, your stresses, and the moments that left marks. From there, the work becomes practical. Using CBT, you and your therapist map the thoughts and situations that drive use and build new responses. Using DBT skills, you practice handling cravings, conflict, and intense emotions without a substance in your hand. When trauma sits underneath the pattern, your therapist works trauma informed, at your pace, never forcing a door open before you are ready.
Individual therapy is also where your treatment plan lives. Progress, setbacks, medication questions, family issues, and aftercare planning all come back to this room. It is your hour. Clients tell us it is the hour that changes the most.
