Description
Supportive-Expressive Therapy is an evidence-based treatment for a variety of mental health problems including substance use disorders. At Wholeview, we provide a specific manualized form of SET group based on the Harvard Cocaine Recovery Project. In this approach, a substance use disorder is viewed as an outgrowth of difficulties in four areas; (1) self-esteem; (2) managing feelings; (3) managing relationships; and (4) self-care.
SET uses two primary types of techniques:
- Supportive techniques to help you promote self-esteem; build knowledge and skills; reduce anxiety and other distressing feelings; encourage self-awareness; and build and maintain group cohesion
- Expressive techniques to help you explore and change repetitive relationship patterns that have a negative effect on your life, understand and modify coping patterns that have been counterproductive, and deepen your experience and expression of feelings.
Group Therapist
Wholeview Direct, is a fully virtual outpatient addiction treatment program. Through this program, physicians, nurse practitioners, masters-level clinicians, and peers provide the most effective treatment techniques and therapies for alcohol and substance use disorders using a proven telehealth model designed to make treatment as convenient and accessible as possible. All of our clinicians will work with patients to design a comprehensive individualized treatment plan.
