Prominence Non 12 Step Addiction Treatment Center

Equine Therapy at Prominence Treatment Center

2011-11-28T11:44:00.000-08:00

Chrome is extremely perceptive and tuned in to people. He is a dedicated psychotherapy horse, as he cannot be ridden. He had been a ranch horse in Colorado until an accident where he fractured a bone in a front leg. He is now eleven years old.

Prominence Treatment Center works with Reins of H.O.P.E is located in scenic Ojai, California to provide our excellent Equine services. Our facility is secluded on an acre nestled among the sweet aroma of orange trees and surrounded by the majestic Chief Peak and the Topa Topa Mountains. Ojai is known as the original Shangri-La.

Equine Assisted Learning (EAL) is an innovative, transformative and solution- focused program utilizing the natural herd dynamics of horses as co-facilitators. Our professional team consists of an EAGALA Certified Licensed Marriage Family Therapist, an Equine Specialist and the horses. This type of learning approach is experiential in nature. We offer a unique non-riding experience with horses.

Through activities tailored to couples, corporate teams and organizational groups, we explore your leadership, team dynamics, patterns and communication styles. We develop synergy and capitalize on strengths and resources to achieve effective results, increase performance and meet your goals.

Through the use of interactive experiences we offer insightful and effective means to redefine corporate and management goals and practice effective ways of leading. Research states that in order to survive as a corporation or organization, it is necessary to be in constant and permanent states of learning. Furthermore, it is self-awareness that will transform management into leadership.

As so eloquently stated by John F. Kennedy, "Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other."

The Prominence Solution for Addiction

2011-10-31T06:21:00.000-07:00

-patients are brought into our program and treated with dignity and respect in a positive, comfortable environment
-Care at our facility is provided by educated, experienced professionals considered some of the top in their field. (see professional staff page)
-Our Doctors, Therapists and Life Coaches combine to design a detailed program unique to the individual needs of each patient.
-Each aspect of each patients program will be addressed with great care and devotion.
-Finally, this is not guess work. This is proven, detailed, combined therapy that works! Every other form of medical and psychiatric treatment has evolved over the past 50 years as new information and findings have presented themselves. Now, here at prominence, so has addiction treatment!

Extended Care & Outpatient Rehab Available at Prominence

2011-10-14T13:48:00.000-07:00

Prominence Treatment Center California now offers extended long term residential sober living for our clients. While we acknowledge that a traditional Twelve Step program can be used for continued maintenance, one of the main issues that inhibits so many from obtaining success in such a program is that a large focus is based on dredging though past failures and shortcomings. Re-enforcing the negative view that many of our patients already hold of themselves only leads to further thoughts of doubt and hopelessness. Inner anger and depression thrive on pessimism, low self worth and negative self talk. We can and will inspire just the opposite.

Prominence Treatment Center is designed to re-store the patient’s dignity and integrity by promoting self worth, self discovery and introspective happiness. Optimism in regards to the future leads to replacing negative, self-destructive thoughts based on fear and regret with the projection of a positive, meaningful life.

It is of great importance that each patient becomes able to view themselves as a valuable individual capable of achieving their goals and finding inner peace. Implementing strategies of empowerment will further open the door to change and success in our therapeutic environment. Strong emphasis on personnel freedom from ones past lifestyle choices takes away from the patient’s feelings of dread and insecurity while our “moving forward philosophy" drives our patients further away from previous failures and into the perspective of a positive outcome.

Through professional, motivational life counseling/coaching our clients are enlightened to the fact that previous failures do not dictate future success. In self discovery each individual develops his or her own awareness of the strengths that lie within thus becoming more resilient to life’s challenges. By creating an environment focused on the positive patients begin to become more secure, committed and open to a new way of life.

Staff at Prominence Treatment Center

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We form strong, loving, and supportive one-to-one relationships with our patients on a very personal level. This allows us to gain the necessary trust that is so crucial to discovering and healing the underlying issues contributing to dependence on drugs, prescription medication, and alcohol today.

Our professional clinical staff possesses decades of addiction treatment experience which continues to provide our patients with successful long term sober recovery outcomes. Many 12 step drug alcohol rehab centers will offer their clients minimum one to one therapy, and utilize outside AA meetings that are free to the public as the rehab center's modality of addiction treatment.

Many people initially feel uncomfortable in this foreign setting and although we do not discourage people from attending AA, NA, CA and Ala-non meetings, we just think it best to undergo professional addiction treatment first, in a safe therapeutic and serene setting.

Top Non !2 Step Addiction Treatmnt Cnter

2011-08-16T08:02:00.000-07:00

Prior to attending Prominence Treatment Center, many of our clients have attended drug rehabs and addiction treatment centers based on the 12 step recovery model. Unfortunately however, and for whatever reason, they had not been able to stay sober and enjoy any lasting sobriety.

Prominence Treatment Center's non 12 step addiction treatment recovery program is clinically therapeutic and holistic in nature. Our professional treatment team is credentialed and trained in chemical dependency, and our focus is to identify and address the underlying issues and/or trauma in each individual patient's life, that is now precipitating their addiction.
So again, we do not frown upon the 12 step program of recovery, and when some of our clients finish treatment at Prominence, they will go on to attend 12 step meetings that can now support their long term recovery lifestyle.

We believe that by first clinically and successfully treating the base catalyst of the addictive behavior, our client can then successfully choose any number of supportive after care programs to align themselves with, all of which we encourage and support.

Prominence Treatment Center offers a full continuum of care with unsurpassed drug and alcohol rehabilitation. Our program is professional, respectful, compassionate, focused, and designed individually for each of our patients. That is why our clients receive outstanding and long term results. Please contact us today for more information. We would love to tell you more about how we at Prominence Treatment Center can aid you or your loved one in overcoming their addictions once and for all.

Holistice Luxury Rehab in Calabasas, California

2011-06-27T08:28:00.000-07:00

Prominence Treatment Centers Holistic based treatment has not only been successfully used to treat Drug and Alcohol addiction but also mental health and emotional disorders as well.

Prominence Treatment Center provides individualized Holistic treatment with the concept of holism: a state of harmony with body, mind, emotions and spirit that emphasizes the whole person. Prominence Treatment Centers Holistic approach provides our clients therapeutic massage, meditation, hypnotherapy, art therapy, diet, nutrition and physical fitness.

Through this Holistic approach our clients find the peace and contentment that leads to long term recovery and true happiness. We assist our clients to remove negative thinking and influence them to replace it with positive techniques that support a healthy lifestyle. All of our Holistic groups and activities are based on Prominence Treatment Centers non 12 step Holistic approach.

Prominence Treatment Centers Holistic treatment focuses on the overall wellness of our clients, taking into account one’s physical health, mental health and emotional well-being. Incorporating a Holistic approach along with non 12 step therapy gives our clients the tools to overcome their addictions and find personal power within themselves.

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2011-06-13T06:46:00.000-07:00

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Non 12 Step Drug Rehab Testimonials from Prominence Treatment Center

2011-05-24T11:50:00.000-07:00

I came to Prominence after two failed attempts to stop drinking at very well-known and respected 12-step treatment facilities. At Prominence I finally realized that the key to my recovery was not simply to not pick up another drink for the rest of my life (a daunting thought to me at the time), but to start living. Really living. Through the individual therapy and many things I referred to as voodoo (boy was I wrong), I have found my true self.

Even better still, I have learned to trust and love what I have found. What I have discovered here about myself, along with the tools and insights I have been given by everyone right down to the house chef, has given me an excitement and hunger for life I have never experienced.

I left Hazelden with the daunting task to never drink again; I leave Prominence with the amazing gift to go out and live my best life. I will be forever grateful.

Depression-Non 12 Step Rehab Works-Self Medication

2011-04-06T08:50:00.000-07:00

Dual Diagnosis and Co-Occurring Disorders

What is Depression?

We often use the expression "I'm feeling depressed" when we are feeling sad or miserable about life. Usually these feelings pass in due time. But if the feelings are interfering with your life and don't go away after a couple of weeks, or if they come back for days at a time it could be a sign that you're depressed in the medical sense of the term.

Depression in its mildest form can mean just being in low spirits. It does not stop you from leading your normal life, but makes everything harder to do and seem less worthwhile. At its most severe, major depression (clinical depression) can be life-threatening. It can make people suicidal or simply give up the will to live. Alcohol and drugs will intensify these feelings, so can stopping certain drugs or quitting drinking on your own. Prominence Treatment Center helps with depression in many different ways.

Depression doesn’t always mean that you are just sad. It is also a feeling of detachment from the world. All emotions including love, affection and anger are gone. In some cases you may feel fear, that you will be this way forever. This is the lie! Your depression can be caused by your alcohol and drug problem. The Depression may want to tell you to give up and that nothing will help. That is a lie! The depression is telling you that but it is not the truth! Call Prominence Treatment center today for more information.

Prominence Best Non 12 Step Addiction Treatment Center | Evidenced Based CBT Addiction Rehab

2011-03-25T06:47:00.000-07:00

Prominence Best Non 12 Step Addiction Treatment Center | Evidenced Based CBT Addiction Rehab: "Identifying the ineffective outdated modes of thought that result in drug or alcohol abuse, and then replacing these thought processes with new and positive ideas to consider promotes a desire to cease addiction."

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2011-03-24T07:15:00.000-07:00

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2011-03-18T15:14:00.000-07:00

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Meditation, hypnotherapy, art therapy and therapeutic massage help our patients

2011-03-11T10:09:00.000-08:00

Meditation, hypnotherapy, art therapy and therapeutic massage help our patients get back in touch with their body. Drug addiction, pain medication addiction and alcohol abuse disassociates one from their body, and leaves the mind in chaos.

Bringing the body into balance is crucial to finding lasting recovery. Additionally, learning how to have fun in sobriety contributes to a life time of happiness without the aid of drugs or alcohol. Many of our patients had never participated in life activities without some level of intoxication in their system.

Located in the beautiful, serene location of Southern California. Private, luxurious non 12 step rehab facility.

Yoga Wellness at Prominence Treatment Center

2011-02-17T09:02:00.000-08:00

Jenny Klossner, MA, RYT-500, IYASC has been practicing Hatha Yoga since 1999. The practice transformed her life physically, mentally, and emotionally which is what motivated her to share this special gift of yoga with others. She received both the 200 and the 300 hour training from Yoga works. She is registered with the Yoga Alliance at the 500 level.

Prominence Treatment Center offers a 30 to 90 day residential addiction treatment program, that is non 12 step in nature. To augment our result oriented rehabilitation program, focused physical fitness and body awareness provides the final component in our non 12 step based behavioral therapy program.

The fitness aspect of our treatment program includes but is not limited to: yoga, gym workouts, swimming, biking, hiking, walking, therapeutic outings at museums, restaurants and shopping. For those who can not commit to an inpatient stay with us, we offer an outpatient program too. Please call one of our counselors today for more information.

Prominence Best Non 12 Step Addiction Treatment Center | Evidenced Based CBT Addiction Rehab

2011-02-15T10:24:00.000-08:00

Prominence Best Non 12 Step Addiction Treatment Center | Evidenced Based CBT Addiction Rehab: "Life coaching helps our clients learn how to make choices that create an effective, balanced and fulfilling life. Unseen chains that can interfer with healthy self esteem is drug and alcohol addiction. Some of our clients express initial feelings of deep sadness, hopelessness, and fear when they come to us."

The Law of Sobriety | Teleseminar

2011-02-12T15:18:00.000-08:00

The Law of Sobriety | Teleseminar: "Join Sherry Gaba, Psychotherapist and Life and Recovery Coaching and Author of 'The Law of Sobriety: Attracting Positive Energy for a Powerful Recovery'"

Hypnotherapy at Prominence Treatment Center

2011-02-08T13:01:00.000-08:00

Hypnotherapy at Prominence Treatment Center: "Prominence Treatment Centers Holistic based treatment has not only been successfully used to treat Drug and Alcohol addiction but also mental health and emotional disorders as well.

Prominence Treatment Center provides individualized Holistic treatment with the concept of holism: a state of harmony with body, mind, emotions and spirit that emphasizes the whole person. Prominence Treatment Centers Holistic approach provides our clients therapeutic massage, meditation, hypnotherapy, art therapy, diet, nutrition and physical fitness."

Prominence Treatment Center offers a 30 to 90 day residential inpatient addiction treatment program, that is non 12 step in nature. What that means is that our program is more therapeutic and medical in nature. We offer medical staff assisted detox, and have individual therapy that focuses on getting to the root cause and issues of our patient's underlining problems. Using cognitive behavioral therapy, optimism enhancement introspection, and more - Prominence Treatment Center outlines an individualized plan of recovery, for each of our patients.

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2011-01-27T08:26:00.000-08:00

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Prominence Best Non 12 Step Addiction Treatment Center | Evidenced Based CBT Addiction Rehab

2011-01-26T10:00:00.000-08:00

Prominence Best Non 12 Step Addiction Treatment Center | Evidenced Based CBT Addiction Rehab: "We form strong, loving, and supportive one-to-one relationships with our patients on a very personal level. This allows us to gain the necessary trust that is so crucial to discovering and healing the underlying issues contributing to dependence on drugs, prescription medication, and alcohol today.

Our professional clinical staff possesses decades of addiction treatment experience which continues to provide our patients with successful long term sober recovery outcomes. Many 12 step drug alcohol rehab centers will offer their clients minimum one to one therapy, and utilize outside AA meetings that are free to the public as the rehab center's modality of addiction treatment."

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2011-01-26T07:47:00.000-08:00

Alcoholism and the family | Addiction Treatment for alcoholism

2011-01-24T13:22:00.000-08:00

Alcoholism and the family | Addiction Treatment for alcoholism: "Alcoholism is one of the leading causes of a dysfunctional family. As of 2001, there were an estimated 26.8 million children of alcoholics (COAs) in the United States, with as many as 11 million of them under than age of 18. Children of addicts have an increased suicide rate and on average have total health care costs 32 percent greater than children of nonalcoholic families.
Adults from alcoholic families experience higher levels of state and trait anxiety and lower levels of differentiation of self than adults raised in non-alcoholic families. Additionally adult children of alcoholics have lower self-esteem, excessive feelings of responsibility, difficulties reaching out, higher incidence of depression, and increased likelihood of becoming alcoholics."

How to stop drinking without the 12 steps of AA

2011-01-24T13:12:00.000-08:00

Non 12 Step Recovery Rehab Treatment Programs can be effective for many who are struggling with alcohol and drug addiction. Prominence Treatment Center California offers a non 12 step addiction treatment program designed for the individual who does not respond or believe in a 12 step model of recovery for addiction.

Our rehab program uses cutting edge cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), optimism & happiness introspection, nutrition, fitness and more to address the underlying behavioral issues that are contributing to ones endless struggle with substance abuse. Holistic recovery.

Prominence Treatment Center offers a 30 to 90 day residential addiction treatment program, that is non 12 step in nature. To augment our result oriented rehabilitation program, focused physical fitness and body awareness provides the final component in our non 12 step based behavioral therapy program.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Addiction Treatment

2011-01-13T12:48:00.000-08:00

Cognitive behavioral therapy is but one of the many therapeutic techniques employed by Prominence Treatment Center in creating the “perfect blend” of non 12 step addiction treatment.

What Are the Components of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy?
In its use to treat alcohol and drug-dependent individuals, cognitive behavior therapy has two main components: functional analysis and skills training.

Functional Analysis: Working together, the therapist and the patient try to identify the thoughts, feelings and circumstances of the patient before and after they drank or used drugs. This helps the patient determine the risks that are likely to lead to a relapse.

Functional analysis can also give the person insight into why they drink or use drugs in the first place and identify situations in which the person has coping difficulties.

Skills Training: Clients entering Prominence Treatment program, sometimes use alcohol or drugs as their main means of coping with their problems and feelings. The goal of cognitive behavior therapy is to get the person to learn or relearn better coping skills.

The therapist tries to help the individual unlearn old habits and learn to develop healthier skills and habits. The main goal of cognitive behavior therapy is to educate the alcohol or drug-dependent person to change the way they think about their substance abuse and to learn new ways to cope with the situations and circumstances that led to their drinking or drugging episodes in the past.

What is Cognitive Behavioral Therapy?
Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) describes a number of therapies that all have a similar approach to solving problems - these can range from drug and alcohol abuse, anxiety, relationship problems, sleeping problems or depression just to name a few. CBT works by changing people's attitudes and their behavior. The therapies focus on the thoughts, images, beliefs and attitudes that we hold (our cognitive processes) and how this relates to the way we behave, as a way of dealing with emotional problems.

An important advantage of CBT is that it tends to be short. During this time, you will be working with your therapist together to understand what your problems are and to develop a new strategy for tackling them. Download here to continue reading. Prominence Non 12 Step Rehab

Non 12 Step - Behavioral Health Treatment for Addiction

2010-12-07T12:17:00.000-08:00

Our professional clinical staff possesses decades of addiction treatment experience which continues to provide our patients with successful long term sober recovery outcomes. Many 12 step drug alcohol rehab centers will offer their clients minimum one to one therapy, and utilize outside AA meetings that are free to the public as the rehab center's modality of addiction treatment.

Many people initially feel uncomfortable in this foreign setting and although we do not discourage people from attending AA, NA, CA and Ala-non meetings, we just think it best to undergo professional addiction treatment first, in a safe therapeutic and serene setting

Why alcoholism is not a disease.

2010-11-14T09:58:00.001-08:00

Med J Aust. 1992 Feb 3;156(3):212-5.

Why alcoholism is not a disease.
Heather N.

National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre, University of New South Wales, Kensington.

Abstract
OBJECTIVE: To expound the argument that alcoholism (or "problem drinking") is not best regarded as a disease.

SUMMARY: Excessive drinking can cause physical disease and involve physical dependence without therefore being a disease itself. The "disease concept" of alcoholism is not needed to justify medical intervention or a caring approach to those who are dependent on alcohol. There is a specific and a general version of the disease concept of alcoholism. The specific disease concept, associated mainly with the Fellowship of Alcoholics Anonymous, is contradicted by empirical evidence and unhelpful for preventive and treatment responses to problem drinking, especially for the effort to detect and modify problem drinking at an early stage. The more general disease concept shares these disadvantages and is also ineffective in engendering sympathetic attitudes towards problem drinkers among the general public. It is more useful to view problem drinking as the result of the interaction between the individual's personality and the social context in which he or she has learned how to drink.

CONCLUSION: For an effective and compassionate societal response to problem drinking, the disease model of alcoholism should be replaced by a social learning perspective.

PMID: 1545723 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

Alcoholism

2010-11-02T13:52:00.000-07:00

The current mainstream scientific and medical view is that alcoholism is a disease, although some debate on this topic still occurs.

In 2004, the World Health Organization published a detailed report on alcohol and other psychoactive substances entitled "Neuroscience of psychoactive substance use and dependence". It stated that this was the "first attempt by WHO to provide a comprehensive overview of the biological factors related to substance use and dependence by summarizing the vast amount of knowledge gained in the last 20-30 years. The report highlights the current state of knowledge of the mechanisms of action of different types of psychoactive substances, and explains how the use of these substances can lead to the development of dependence syndrome."

The report states that "dependence has not previously been recognized as a disorder of the brain, in the same way that psychiatric and mental illnesses were not previously viewed as being a result of a disorder of the brain. However, with recent advances in neuroscience, it is clear that dependence is as much a disorder of the brain as any other neurological or psychiatric illness."

The American Society of Addiction Medicine and the American Medical Association both maintain extensive policy regarding alcoholism. The American Psychiatric Association recognizes the existence of "alcoholism" as the equivalent of alcohol dependence. The American Hospital Association, the American Public Health Association, the National Association of Social Workers, and the American College of Physicians classify "alcoholism" as a disease.

The debate continues, but the real question is not whether alcoholism is a disease or not, but if alcohol is interfering with your life, how do you incorporate life style changes and ideas that support a substance free life? We believe we can help you with that

Non 12 Step Does Not Mean Without a Spiritual Component

2010-10-12T09:45:00.000-07:00

Many believe that spirituality is a religious activity. Although we are a non 12 step treatment program, we do believe that man's spirit is part of the trilogy in recovery, but not the only piece of the recovery process.

Unseen chains that bind the spirit, are drug and alcohol addiction. Some of our clients express initial feelings of deep sadness, hopelessness, and fear when they come to us.

By first freeing the chains of addiction to substances, the opportunity to explore the spirit then becomes available, but not before. Spirit is a vital realization for our patients and is introduced gently as physical and mental healing takes place.

We encourage our patients to contemplate higher ideals and thought concepts that have been therapeutic for those who are struggling to find peace and recovery in their life. We believe it to be a critical factor in achieving new ways of dealing with life on life's terms. These higher contemplative styles of thinking and awareness are not possible until drugs and alcohol have been removed from the body and brain chemistry.

Most of our clients are surprised and reassured to learn that one of the most "spiritual" things they can do each day, is to practice kindness. Being kind to everyone they encounter is one of the most "spiritual" things they can ever do. It is that simple, and that difficult.

Spirituality is not a black or white issue, and at Prominence Treatment Center we believe that understanding this concept is core to spiritual evolution and recovery. This is the beginning of understanding spirit and results in a feeling of freedom-or enlarged awareness.

Welcome to No Steps to Recovery and Sobriety

2010-09-05T09:52:00.000-07:00

http://www.prominencetreatment.com/

Prominence Treatment Center is a non 12 step based substance abuse and chemical dependency addiction treatment center. We offer a recovery program which is not based on the 12 steps of Alcoholics Anonymous. However, we do have a great deal of respect and honor for the program of Alcoholics Anonymous. We recognize that many have been helped by the 12 step program and principles.

Prior to attending Prominence Treatment Center, many of our clients have attended drug rehabs and addiction treatment centers based on the 12 step recovery model. Unfortunately however, and for whatever reason, they had not been able to stay sober and enjoy and lasting sobriety.

Prominence Treatment Center's non 12 step addiction treatment recovery program is clinically therapeutic and holistic in nature. Our professional treatment team is credentialed and trained in chemical dependency, and our focus is to identify and address the underlying issues and/or trauma in each individual patient's life, that is now precipitating their addiction