Therapy
Having poor mental health means not measuring up to your full potential and getting all you can out of life. By taking part in different types of therapy, people with mental health disorders can find strength and healing that carries them through each day.
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Valor Behavioral Health provides several types of therapy for those who have a mental illness and need complex care from licensed therapists who understand how to match people with the kinds of therapy that help ease their symptoms. Therapy can also be combined with prescription medications that help ease symptoms such as depression, anxiety, moodiness, and more.
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Understanding Mental Disorders
Mental health disorders can develop for a variety of reasons, including genetics, brain chemistry imbalance, experiencing traumatic or other disturbing situations, and more. Some are curable, while others are chronic and can be managed over a person’s lifetime.
Common mental illnesses include:
Understanding Addictive Disorders
On the surface, addiction to drugs and alcohol may seem like the addiction itself is the problem to fix. Instead, when people seek treatment for a substance use disorder, it’s important to attend different types of therapy to uncover and discuss the experiences and emotions that cause them to drink and use drugs. When they address these issues, it reduces their desire to abuse substances and allows them to live sober lives.
For many, having a mental illness contributes to their addiction to drugs and alcohol.
Behavioral Health Therapies
Many types of therapy modalities can be implemented to help a person struggling with a mental health disorder. They can be done one at a time or combined for the most effective approach to minimizing a person’s symptoms and helping them build healthy coping tools.
Common types of therapy include:
- Psychiatry: A psychiatrist meets with the person to talk about their mental health history and current symptoms. From there, a diagnosis can be made of which mental health disorder a person has, and the psychiatrist will recommend a program for treatment.
- Individual Therapy: A therapist has one-on-one sessions with a person that include conversations about the person’s thoughts, emotions, and behaviors influenced by their mental illness. They learn to develop healthy coping mechanisms that improve their disorder.
- Group Therapy: A small group of people meets under the guidance of a therapist who will direct conversations and ask people to share their struggles, victories, and experiences so everyone can benefit from peer support.
- Family Therapy: Families meet with a therapist to help understand how their loved ones experience their mental illness. Family members learn how to communicate more effectively and offer realistic support to their loved ones.
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy: People learn how their negative thoughts and emotions influence their behaviors and make necessary adjustments to improve their moods and actions.
- Dialectical Behavioral Therapy: This therapy focuses on teaching a person four important tenets that include mindfulness, distress tolerance, emotional regulation, and interpersonal effectiveness.
- Trauma Therapy: When someone experiences trauma, either recently or going back to childhood, it can influence the development of a mental illness. Trauma-based therapy helps them discuss what happened and learn to disarm the power it has over them.
- Somatic Therapy: This therapy focuses on the mind-body connection and helps free the parts of the body that are holding on to things like trauma and other negative past experiences.
- Holistic Therapy: Holistic therapy operates from the viewpoint that a person who addresses their physical, psychological, and spiritual health simultaneously has the best ability to heal their poor mental health.
How Can Therapy Help With Substance Use Disorders?
When someone who is addicted to drugs or alcohol attends therapy, they can delve into the reasons they started abusing substances and why they continue to do so. When they identify stressors and triggers, therapy helps them learn to achieve closure with them so their need to drink or use drugs becomes manageable and then disappears.
How Therapy Can Help With Mental Disorders
Therapy helps people understand any contributing ongoing or past factors that influence the development of a mental health disorder. They learn to manage their symptoms, change how they act and react, and enjoy a more even emotional keel. Mental health disorders that are curable can be overcome with therapy, and those that are chronic can be managed at a higher level.
Valor's Integrative Approach
When people think about therapy, they often picture a person attending just one type, such as individual or group therapy. However, most people do well when they participate in two or more types of therapy at the same time. They can speak privately with a therapist one-on-one, enjoy the peer support of group therapy, and get something out of holistic therapy all at the same time.
Upon admittance to a treatment program, the person will be assessed to determine what combination of therapies will help them improve their mental illness.
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Valor Behavioral Health opened its doors to provide highly effective therapies that help people meet their treatment goals and enjoy better mental health. We understand that each person is unique and needs to have a plan put in place that includes more than one type of therapy to give them an elevated ability to minimize their symptoms of mental health disorders.
Are you ready to take the important step of getting into therapy to help you feel better emotionally, physically, and spiritually? Contact Valor Behavioral Health today and find out how easy it is to enroll in our programs.
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