Most mental health treatment tends to focus on what’s been going wrong. Recovery-oriented cognitive therapy (CT-R) starts with what’s been working, taking a strengths-based approach to building a life that helps people discover what matters most to them.
CT-R therapy is an evidence-based framework developed from Dr. Aaron Beck’s famous cognitive model. It builds outward from your inherent strengths, values, and aspirations to help you reconnect with how you define a meaningful, purposeful life.
At A Mission For Michael, we’ve partnered with the world-renowned Beck Institute to participate in ongoing training that informs how we deliver individual therapy and structured group work that’s built on your inherent, infinite possibilities as a human being. Read on to learn more about how we deliver CT-R therapy at our facilities.
Every clinician at AMFM delivering CT-R completes specialized Beck Institute training, bolstering their understanding of this unique modality and how to best apply it to your unique needs and circumstances. Our training and outlook always assumes that people are capable of change, adapting our approach until we find what works best for you.
CT-R mental health treatment in the outpatient setting is delivered via a combination of individual therapy and group-based work. This is alongside psychiatric care and medication management when necessary, as well as holistic offerings and a full range of other evidence-based care.
Recovery-oriented cognitive therapy works to actively build toward increasing your felt sense of purpose, your connection to yourself and others, and growing sense of agency. Sessions draw on your natural strengths and aspirations, utilizing them as the primary drivers for change – change that you define as something truly worth moving toward.
From your very first session, CT-R treatment at AMFM keeps the focus on you and what you’re capable of accomplishing. Here’s what the process typically looks like:
Before the therapeutic work begins, your assigned therapist will truly take the time to better understand who you are as a person. This includes your interests, values, and the things that matter most to you.
You and your clinician will collaboratively explore what you want your future life and self to look like, which becomes the map for your treatment. Every goal and activity connects back to what genuinely matters most to you, and no aspiration is too big or small to be important.
CT-R is built upon the idea that everyone has what’s known as an “adaptive mode”, or a version of themselves when they’re at their very best. You’ll work with your therapist to identify when your adaptive mode tends to show up most, striving to create the conditions and thought processes in your life that bring it forward most often.
Instead of merely challenging negative thoughts, CT-R assists you in accumulating real experiences that reinforce positive beliefs about yourself and your future. These small wins build up as treatment progresses, helping you gradually shift how you see yourself and what’s possible to accomplish.
As treatment goes on, the focus expands to building up your tools and confidence to handle life’s challenges on your own. The goal is for you to leave treatment with a clearer sense of your inherent strengths and a practical, applicable plan for maintaining your momentum in daily life.
A Mission For Michael offers a structured, eight-week therapy curriculum that was developed to guide people through the core principles of recovery-oriented thinking in a stepwise, progressive way. Each week builds on the last, moving along from foundational concepts toward developing practical tools for long-term recovery. The following is an outline of this process:
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CT-R works in combination with a range of research-backed modalities at AMFM that help to reinforce its messages and core aim. Cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) also draws on CT-R’s roots in Beck’s cognitive model, targeting maladaptive thought patterns while CT-R builds to cultivate positive beliefs and forward-looking vision.
Dialectical behavioral therapy (DBT) works to equip you with new emotional regulation and resilience skills to support the primary modules of CT-R. Plus, several trauma-informed treatments like eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) therapy can help you work through past experiences and clear the way for the strengths-based work of recovery-based cognitive therapy.
A Mission For Michael is honored to be one of the few residential treatment providers in the nation to partner with the Beck Institute, shaping how each member of our clinical team is trained and how our treatment services are delivered.
All our clients have access to a genuinely comprehensive care experience, including holistic activities and a supportive environment designed for rest and recovery. To learn more about taking the first step, contact us today and let us verify your insurance benefits to get started.
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