Therapies
The success stories at Timberline Knolls Residential Treatment Center are a direct result of our experience crafting individualized treatment plans and program schedules to meet each woman's individual needs.
Our clinical team employs therapies proven to help women learn to feel and express their emotions in healthy ways. With constant support and reinforcement from experienced staff, women begin to experience a life free from symptoms.
Specific elements of our therapeutic program include:
- one-on-one therapy sessions
- weekly psychiatric consultation
- expressive and experiential therapy
- psycho-education about disease processes and recovery principles
- group and individual sessions to teach and practice new behavioral skills and emotion management techniques
- weekly family therapy
- multi-family education and support group
- twelve-step study groups
- onsite and offsite twelve-step meetings
- trauma informed treatment, trauma aware staff and education
- nutritional planning and support
- body-centered therapies such as Dance Movement Therapy
- EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) for trauma recovery, if appropriate
- educational services for school-age women
Every resident recovering from eating disorders, drug addiction or alcohol abuse, or psychiatric conditions practices skills she learns from therapy in order to trust that they work. Unlike at many rehab centers, support doesn't end at the close of a particular group or individual therapy session. At a residential treatment center like Timberline Knolls, a woman's entire living environment is a therapeutic community. Each resident finds constant support from staff members, who are familiar with her story and trained to support her in practicing new skills, and also from her peers in recovery. This continuous feedback and reinforcement helps women learn to experience emotions in a healthy way instead of turning to destructive thoughts or actions.
As a woman experiences renewed perspectives on her life and emotions, she will be increasingly able to make healthy choices about which tools to apply when confronted with specific feelings and challenges. We recognize the transition and growth taking place as she learns and practices these recovery skills. The positive reinforcement that comes from the residential setting nourishes all aspects of the woman's being and inspires hope in her ability to trust others. The individualized and collaborative process gives the resident a sense of participation that promotes her empowerment and ownership of her recovery process.
For school-age women, attention to their therapeutic needs extends into the classroom at Timberline Knolls Academy. A woman's primary focus during residential treatment will be on achieving remission of her primary disorders, and this does not stand in the way of her progress in school. During the schooling portion of her day, she will be supported by master's level teachers who are learning behavioral specialists. These educational experts are specialists trained to help her apply elements of her therapeutic program to classroom situations and to help her prepare to succeed in school once she leaves residential treatment.
