By deepening your understanding of addiction and recovery, you’ll not only strengthen your skills but also foster hope, resilience, and lasting change in the lives of those you serve. Take the next step in your professional growth and become a vital part of the solution—enroll today and increase your capacity to fully engage clients who are struggling with addiction. Make a difference that truly matters.
One of the most critical skills to have as an addictions counsellor is the ability to engage clients so that they want to enter into recovery and communicate clearly to them what they'll need to do in order to recover. All the biological, psychological and pharmacological knowledge in the world is useless unless they can firmly commit themselves to the path to recovery which begins with a clear understanding of what needs to be done. The most crucial time in engaging with addicted clients is the first meeting. Indeed, unless this goes well and clients can relate to the counsellor and their knowledge of addiction, the client will, more than likely, never return. So it is imperative that the counsellor connect strongly with their clients right from the onset. Clients with addiction issues are among the most reluctant to engage and are often looking for a reason to dismiss the benefits of counselling.
Consequently the rate of success of addiction counselling and treatment is very low. It is true that one of the reasons for this is that addiction is such a difficult challenge to overcome. However, one of the reasons for the lack of success is that most programs don't have an easily understandable model to explain what addiction is, how it affects a person and why recovery is so much more than just simply quitting a substance or a process. Also, most people who enter counseling for addiction believe they'll be cured if they just quit using. Current treatment programs do not do enough to dispel this myth about recovery. In fact the word "treatment" implies that the program can cure addiction which is never the case with addiction.
Our Program
Our approach includes a very simple, yet powerful model your clients can easily relate to that explains the true nature of addiction and what real recovery is. Armed with an in-depth understanding of addiction and an easy way to explain it to your clients, you will be much better equipped to help them overcome one of the most challenging and devastating issues anyone can face. While other training programs primarily focus on things like neurobiology and pharmacology, our program focuses on developing your skills to engage your clients and your capacity to help them understand what they need to do to recover from addiction. If you are looking for training that will help you get more clients and keep them engaged in their healing process, this program is perfect for you.
Based firmly in CBT principles our training program, which is approved for Continuing Education Credits (CECs), clarifies why addiction (indeed any behavior) is always controlled by thoughts and feelings. Consequently, when somebody simply quits the behavior of using and does nothing to undo how their thoughts and feelings control their behavior, it is often just a question of time before they relapse. In other words, it is crucial to dismantle the cognitive and emotional structures that have kept their addiction going. Without this crucial step, a person can never truly overcome an addiction. Our addiction training program for counselors will take you through everything you need to know to be effective at helping clients through their addiction issues using a model that is simple and easy for clients to relate to.
Course Information
- The entire course takes approximately 20 hours to complete
- There are 12 modules and each one comes with a booklet and one or more videos
- Perfect for those who want to gain a better capacity to help clients with addiction issues.