Through the Center, The Council offers adult intensive outpatient treatment services (Healing Choices) and aftercare and recovery support and intensive outpatient treatment and alternative peer group support for teens (The High Road), as well as family and corporate intervention services. We also provide links to activities for the recovery community.

Healing Choices (Download Brochure) is a 16-week intensive outpatient program for adults, designed to support individuals and families in achieving an enhanced quality of life, free from mood-altering chemicals. 

This program is offered to individuals who suffer from dysfunctional behaviors such as: problem drinking, prescription and other drug abuse, over spending, compulsive eating, excessive dependence on other people or the kind of compulsive caretaking learned while growing up in an alcoholic or otherwise distracted family. Family involvement is a critical aspect of the program, offering support and education to family members. As a result, alternative communication styles and a new sense of individual accountability can be established to support the whole family in recovery.

Who Can Benefit:

• Individuals who depend on mood altering chemicals or other behaviors such as work, over-spending, excessive dependency on other people, or compulsive caretaking to change their feelings in order to be more comfortable within themselves.
• Individuals who are in a relationship with a person as described above and is thus caught in the position of believing that it is up to him or her to control or change the other.
• Parents of an individual who uses substances or other behaviors to manage feelings. These parents often absorb the negative consequences created by the troubled individual.
• Individuals who were raised in a household where one or both parents used mood altering chemicals or other compulsive behaviors and therefore learned maladaptive coping strategies that affect here/now, current adult relationships.
• Individuals experiencing distress in personal relationships as a result of poor choices.
• Individuals who are interested in enhancing their existing, ongoing therapy through the exploration of their family of origin patterns..

Assessment, evaluation and counseling, along with education and intensive group interaction, are provided.

For more information about services and associated fee's or to join the Healing Choices program , please contact 713-914-0556 or CRF@council-houston.org.

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