ADDICTION INTENSIVE OUTPATIENT DAY PROGRAM

Live your life free from shame.

EVERYTHING YOU NEED FOR HEALING THAT LASTS

ADDICTION GROUP THERAPY. • INTIMACY DISORDER GROUP • TRAUMA-INFORMED YOGA

  • Psychiatrist Services

  • Individual Therapy

  • Couples Therapy

  • Family Therapy

  • Family Education

  • Registered Dietician

  • Toxicology Screening

In a culture of respect and support, we offer recovery for women facing the compulsion to engage in the use of substances or behaviors, despite the negative impact on their health, family, and careers. 

For women motivated to change, the therapeutic value of having a psychiatrist and a team of therapists working directly with you and your family offers assurance in the choice to get help. 

Understanding the relationship between trauma, intimacy disorders, and addiction further allows us to teach women the daily disciplines of recovery that will restore dignity and self-respect, thus leading to greater freedom and inner peace.

for women facing

 

Substance Abuse

The moral fortitude and willpower of a woman serve as no defense against the disease of addiction. Substance Addiction is a preoccupation with acquiring mood-altering substances, compulsive use despite adverse consequences, and patterns of continued use or relapse despite consequences. For women, alcohol, prescription stimulants such as Adderall, opiate pain medications, and the benzodiazepines Xanax and Klonopin are abused to cope with stressors or manage mental health and medical conditions. When abuse progresses to addiction, recovery rests not on the futile attempts to control use but on a decision to begin a new life based on abstinence and self-compassion.

 

Eating Disorders

For women who look to numbers and images of others for their sense of beauty and worth, the internal dialogues on imperfection and failure are resounding. Women with eating disorders engage in patterns of disturbed eating or weight control behaviors that severely disrupt daily functioning. Disturbed eating behaviors may include restricting food intake, adhering to strict dietary rules, extreme preoccupations with food, and ritualistic mealtime behaviors. Disturbed weight control behavior can consist of excessive exercise, self-induced vomiting, and misuse of laxatives and diuretics. Eating disorders include Anorexia Nervosa, Bulimia Nervosa, and Atypical Eating Disorders, including Disordered Eating.

Sex Addiction

For women, beneath the shame that shrouds sex addiction is a preoccupation and pattern of excessive sex-related acts that take priority in daily life, an inability to limit time dedicated to sex-related acts, attempts to hide the extent of involvement in sex-related acts from friends or loved ones, and continuations of sex-related actions after exposure or serious medical or relational consequences. The rituals of seeking and securing means to engaging in sex-related acts become the organizing factor for each day. The neurochemistry of promiscuity, pornography, fantasy sex, trading sex, or pain exchange only worsens the wounds of loneliness that can only be healed by authentic connection.

 

Intimacy Disorders

The loving nature of women thrives on authentic connection with others and the security of true love with a partner. Women who struggle with Intimacy disorders have difficulty developing, maintaining, and expressing appropriate levels of emotional, intellectual, spiritual, and sexual intimacy in relationships due to deeply rooted insecurities driven by fear of vulnerability, rejection, and abandonment. For women, the trauma of childhood attachment injuries can lead to a lifelong search for intimacy and value in the brokenness of Codependency, Love Addiction, and Sex Addiction. Learning to speak, behave, and self-protect in open and honest ways is the mark of healthy vulnerability and provider of intimacy in a relationship.

 

“Shephearst Meadows has helped me become the real me. I was stubborn and defiant in the beginning, but they never gave up on me. I have gained so much knowledge about myself and about addiction that will help me live a happier and healthier life. My recovery means the world to me, and I wouldn’t have it if it wasn’t for Shephearst Meadows. I will forever be grateful for all they’ve done for me.”

women supporting women

  • Mary Kathryn Evans

    Licensed Professional Counselor | EMDR Trained | Registered Yoga Teacher

  • Tammy Coker

    Licensed Professional Counselor | Clinical Therapist

  • Courtney Layson

    Licensed Professional Counselor | Certified Sex Addiction Therapist | Certified Multiple Addiction Therapist

  • Gayle Wimberly

    Licensed Professional Counselor | Clinical Therapist

Meet The Team
 

Live your life free from shame.