Answers to Your Questions

Our program began in a home, and we have continued to maintain that environment and culture at both locations. Unlike a hospital setting, our environment helps nurture the healing process.

Your treatment at Tara will be delivered by a team of professionals representing many disciplines including nurses, physicians, psychologists and addiction counselors.  This multi-disciplinary team allows Tara to meet your specific needs while recovering and moving forward.

Our treatment program is holistic in nature - focusing on various approaches to help individuals learn the concepts of recovery while healing physically, emotionally, mentally and spiritually.

Our Relapse Prevention Therapy (RPT) is modeled after Terence Gorski, an internationally recognized expert on substance abuse treatment and best known for his contribution to relapse prevention. It is designed to aid you in recognizing and managing your core personality and lifestyle. This mindfulness and self-awareness increase your understanding of the impact of your addiction and can lead you to create a life without the pain of the addiction. 

Using various strategies, counselors educate you on the basic and advanced concepts of addiction and recovery, anger management, relationship dynamics, coping strategies, vocational skills, as well as many other important facets vital to the success of their recovery.

We have s a rich history of treating individuals and their families. Our program is designed to address the challenges of family dynamics. We provide opportunities for you to connect with your loved ones and begin to heal relationships.

Family members will be permitted to visit with you bi-weekly. We encourage everyone who has been impacted by addiction and is seeking support, to improve relationships among the family unit. 

Our highly qualified therapists help you emotionally process many of the feelings involved in early recovery.  We use many different approaches for treatment. Specifically, Tara provides the following three well-regarded and proven therapies:

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

This is directed toward problem-solving and teaching skills that are needed to modify thinking and behavior.

Motivational Interviewing

Motivational interviewing is a behavioral and cognitive psychotherapy method that focuses on helping people find their own motivation for changing undesirable behaviors.

Gestalt Therapy

This therapeutic approach focuses on the here and now.  It helps you understand what is happening in the present rather than what you perceive to be happening based on experience.  It leads you to view your life through a clearer lens.

We recognize that treatment and recovery is a dynamic learning process. We utilize many team-building and recovery concepts. These groups help you express feelings that may not come easily in formal “talk therapy.” These group exercises are taught by trained team-building facilitators. Here are some examples of these activities:

Equine-Assisted Therapy

This group process uses horses as a tool to teach recovery skills.  These exercises are conducted by Equine Growth and Learning Association (EGALA) certified instructors.

Yoga and 12 Step Recovery (Y12SR)

The combination of yoga with addiction counseling services creates a model that truly addresses addiction as the physical, mental and spiritual disease that it is.

Art Therapy

Utilizing art as a means of self-expression, you tap into your creative mind and in doing so, learn to enjoy things again. Enjoyment and hobbies are valued skills in recovery.

Honesty is crucial from the day a person enters treatment and throughout their life in recovery. It's so foundational to recovery that it's the basis for the first step of any 12-step recovery program. Dishonesty at any stage of recovery can pose an immense risk to a person's sobriety, which is why it must always be carefully guarded against.

Overcoming the habits and thought patterns of addiction is challenging. The most effective way to beat addiction is also the simplest and most straightforward: by putting in the work. Just as we expect our clients to work hard on their recovery, our staff members hold themselves to the same high standard. Our team always strives to work just as hard as the individuals they serve because they know that the effort they put into their clients' treatment directly impacts their chances at being successful in recovery. 

Trust is an absolutely essential component of treatment and recovery. We believe that it is impossible to recover from addiction unless we have trust with each other and in the process.

Commitment is the desire to achieve a goal plus a personal pledge to do so. Any person who hopes to succeed in sobriety must be willing to go "all in" and dedicate themselves to the path that lies ahead. We believe the same level of commitment is also required from addiction treatment professionals, which is why we strive to cultivate this value among our staff and clients alike.