Substance Abuse Program - Center for Creative Living, Royal Oak MI

Substance Abuse Program

The Center for Creative Living is an organization committed to the mental health and wellbeing of its client population through an integrative approach of combining traditional therapy with experiential, alternative, and holistic methods. We believe in the individual’s ability to recover from addictions, stop self-destructive lifestyles, meet their personal responsibilities, reclaim their lives, grow and change.

We believe the therapist is a stable and ethical partner who safely guides the process of change by helping others regain control of their lives, and discover the truth within.

L.A.S.T Life and Sobriety for Teens

An alternative to or added intervention with long-term suspension or expulsion.

This is a discussion series for teens, usually held in five to ten meetings, that will target teens known of or suspected of using alcohol or other drugs. The groups are held at the referring school.

The education component will include:

The behavioral precepts of behavior and consequence.

How regular users think and behave.

Patterns of a user’s behavior.

Drug and alcohol use as a progressive disease.

Long term harm of drugs and alcohol.

The symptoms of chemical and alcohol dependency.

The harm to the family.

The harm on education and career.

Legal problems.

Recovery techniques and living free of drugs and alcohol.

Other available services

Separate programs for adults or families.

Substance Abuse Assessments.

Individual therapy at our clinic.

Outreach program consulting to aid the school counselors and staff.

“After the Gavel Group”

This is a 26 week, intensive, gender-specific group therapy program for the repeat drunk-driving offender that is intended as an alternative to or in addition to incarceration.

Group therapy will include or address:

Discussions of an offender’s pathological need for repeated, high-risk behaviors.

Confronting the excuses of the repeat offender.

Discussions of “personal responsibility”.

Confronting “victimhood”.

The consequences of repeated using:

Harm to the family.

Harm to other innocent people.

Harm to the employer.

Harm to the user both physical and mental.

Financial consequences.

The potential for long-term prison sentences.

Daily life in prison.

Alcohol and Drug education.

Other available services:

Substance abuse assessments – long and short forms.

Separate counseling for families.

Separate counseling for victims.

Individual therapy.

“First and Last Group”

An 8 week substance abuse group program for first-time drunk-driving offenders.

Group therapy will include:

An education series:

The biological effects of drug and alcohol use.

The consequences of repeated using.