The unique aspects of Harmony Place Monterey’s program are a blending together of effective psychotherapy, medication management, relapse prevention, life coaching and 12 step or spiritually based interventions, including Buddhist principles and relapse prevention to help maintain sobriety and then psychotherapy work on the deeper issues that often maintain and perpetuate addiction.
Typically, the individual is flooded with all issues “put under the rug” that they avoided dealing with for years. Following abstinence and detox, the challenge to recovery really begin. Lee Larimer as Chief Clinical Officer and his over eighteen years of experience in treating addiction issues. Buddhist and 12 step approaches are adjunctive as desired. We provide intensive psychotherapy for 4 to 6 hours each day and four individual sessions allowing for optimal treatment in a supportive environment. At Harmony Place Monterey we offer a transitional living house with peer support to further facilitate the process of recovery. Certain medications such as naltrexone or buprenorphine can greatly decrease the pain of withdrawal. Opiates are used to treat pain, and with long term use the individual can develop a dependence. The US is in the midst of an opiate addiction crisis. Also, the Directors formerly were Director of Masters and Johnson Treatment Programs for Trauma and Dissociative Disorders for more than 15 years. Our contract with TriCare has availed us a great deal of experience with combat veterans. Having worked with hundreds of veterans and thousands of sexual abuse survivors, we are very experienced in compassionately facilitating the healing process. When an individual has experienced PTSD from combat or sexual assault there is both the impact of events, and typically secondary traumatic events and stuck points or cognitive distortions such as blame and shame that prevent healing. We have over 40 years of experience working with Complex Trauma. We utilize a combination of evidence-based treatment approaches such as Cognitive Reprocessing Therapy, EMDR and Internal Family Systems and other forms of Exposure Therapy as well as the group process. Typically, numbness, hyperarousal and intrusive symptoms can appear with poor emotional regulation and exaggerated startle response. For example, one part feels so much rage, they want to hurt someone, while another part is compassionate. Often trauma is associated with dissociation, such that the self becomes fragmented and part of the individual feels one way and another part feels the opposite. Trauma is now used in a broad sense to describe events of such a great magnitude that a child’s brain cannot consolidate into long term-memory, or the adult’s brain cannot make meaning and thereby integrate the experience.
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