Personalised Trauma Informed Treatment

OUR APPROACH

The backbone of our program

Personalised Trauma-informed care is essentially the backbone of our program because trauma, addiction and adaptive behaviours are so often intertwined. If the emotions underlying painful events in your life are not addressed and worked through in a therapeutic setting, you will be more likely to return to dysfunctional behaviours or substance use as a coping mechanism.

OUR APPROACH

What part does Trauma play?

Personalised Trauma-informed care is essentially the backbone of our program because trauma, addiction and adaptive behaviours are so often intertwined. If the emotions underlying painful events in your life are not addressed and worked through in a therapeutic setting, you will be more likely to return to dysfunctional behaviours or substance use as a coping mechanism.

Trauma can be experienced via a single event, a series of events, or sometimes very subtle experiences over a long period of time. The effects or memories of distressing events such as childhood abuse, emotional betrayal, natural disasters or accidents can all cause a person to suffer from emotional shock and resulting trauma, the full impact of which can take months or years to fully come to light.

It is quite common in our culture for people to use substances to regulate unmanageable feelings. Once substances are removed, those difficult feelings or traumas can rise to the surface.

As a result, simply detoxing from a substance such as alcohol or opiates is rarely effective, as the underlying issues have not yet been addressed. This is why a trauma-informed approach to treatment and ongoing care is critical for successful long term recovery.

Once you come to a clearer awareness and understanding of why you may be behaving in a self-destructive manner, you can begin to heal the layers with an integrated approach. You may also arrive at self-compassion – a moment when guilt falls away to be replaced with understanding and self-awareness.

Testimonials

What our guests say

I have attended other programs and felt overlooked due to the needs of the more complex clients that were in the program. At The Bay I was the focus of the team and gained a greater understanding of my situation… to make the changes required to live the life I wanted.

Having a psychology background I was very particular about what I was looking for, I didn’t want group therapy because I was at a point where I knew I needed individual therapy… it has been five months since I left The Bay, it has changed my life.

I have been in treatment before but couldn’t seem to achieve the changes I wanted. The compassion shown to me by the incredible team at The Bay has taught me to set boundaries with others, allowed me to re-align my expectations of myself and others and live the life I have been craving.

The compassion shown to me by the incredible team at the bay has taught me to set boundaries with others, allowed me to re-align my expectations of myself and others and finally live the life I have been craving for many years.

My wife found The Bay after doing a lot of research looking at programs all over the world. Treatment centres here in the US are very different! My life has changed in so many ways and I continue to stay clean and sober, thank you for all you have done.