Monarch Recovery Center (MRC)
INTENSIVE OUTPATIENT PROGRAM | SACRAMENTO CA
Monarch Recovery Center’s Outpatient (OP) program is designed within a welcoming, safe, physical environment that is comfortable, professional, compassionate, sober and drug-free. Our approach begins with attention to the whole person, meeting them where they are at in their recovery journey. Group therapy sessions may include varying educational workshops, social/recreational activities, relapse prevention strategy groups and broader informational sessions to assist clients in obtaining and accessing social, health, vocational and other community services. All therapy sessions are led by compassionate, well-trained certified group facilitators.
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IOP PROGRAM
The Monarch Outpatient (OP) is ideal for those who are open to addiction treatment services delivered in a wide variety of supportive settings with addiction-credentialed staff and therapists providing professionally directed evaluation and recovery services. Services are provided in regularly scheduled sessions of nine contact hours a week.
Outpatient (OP)
2 days/week
3 hours/day
M, W: 6:00 pm-9:00 pm
Support includes:
- Counseling services involving group, family members, significant others and spouses
- Relapse prevention strategies
- Meditation and Mindfulness practices
- Education/Vocational counseling
- 12-Step and other Self-Help group progress
Preparing client for ongoing treatment of his or her substance dependence in a lower level of care including support within Sober Living Homes and outside recovery programs: AA, NA, Dharma Recovery
PROGRAM MISSION and PHILOSOPHY STATEMENT: OUTPATIENT (OP)
The primary purpose and philosophy of Monarch Recovery Center is to facilitate various approaches to practical, effective, and comprehensive treatment in which the whole individual struggling with alcohol or substance abuse is addressed. Several, if not all, aspects of a person’s life are affected when addiction takes over. Physical health, relationships, family, housing, employment, and finances are all negatively affected when alcohol or drugs strips one of their power and ability to abstain from drinking or using.
The mission of Monarch Recovery Center OP is to rehabilitate by identifying and addressing the issues causing addiction. Restore the individual’s sobriety and confidence, and empower them to understand their potential in a sober life while educating and guiding them towards various recovery tools, community support, and resources necessary for long-term sobriety.
OUTPATIENT Rehabilitation Center
Having an understanding and awareness of these immediate and often buried subconscious underlying issues assists in identifying the cause, placing the focus on healing the pain and embracing new coping skills in order to break the habit of displacing or replacing these feelings using alcohol or substances, which perpetually lead to repeated patterns of self-harm, declining ideas of self-worth and further despair.
As clients make the natural transition from treatment to a new way of living sober many confusing and challenging issues arise. Often these include communication skills, healthy coping strategies, skills in stress management, relapse prevention and management, personal accountability, and essential life skills all of which are necessary to maintain a lifestyle of sobriety and prevent a return to drug or alcohol abuse.
Group therapy also allows clients to learn through shared experiences and practice being vulnerable by opening up and sharing their own life experiences. Team-building exercises, 12-Step speaker presentations, and workshops also promote individual healing and encourage interpersonal skill-building that is important for sustained sobriety, such as resolving conflicts and establishing accountability in various types of relationships.
During OP, clients also learn the importance of having a peer recovery support community. Through regular participation in group sessions, meetings, and activities, individuals form lasting relationships and learn valuable lessons, like how addiction can affect behaviors and interactions in social situations.
WHY MONARCH RECOVERY CENTER?
A safe and supportive environment is extremely important for recovery, and similarly, a harmful environment can have a very negative impact on sobriety. For a person to thrive in recovery, they must have both practical and emotional support. Not surprisingly, the people we choose to surround ourselves with have a direct impact on our behavior and decision-making process, and research has proven, along with our own verifiable success in sober living homes, that people in addiction treatment who connect with other sober people in similar circumstances and conditions have better long-term recovery successes.
It is common that many successful clients supplement their recovery as a transitional step-down treatment into outpatient (OP) or intensive outpatient programs (IOP) while living in structured, supportive and sober living home environments. Group therapy and group support in varied living environments has shown cooperation and teamwork to be a useful social tool to help bolster confidence, create new friendships and encourages shared enjoyment of recovery activities. Monarch Clean and Supportive Living Homes (aka Monarch Sober Homes) offers a unique opportunity for a parallel track of program support and sober living recovery when its residents are participating in the OP or IOP and living in a Home, wrapping their active day support with their evening downtime support usually over an 8-to-10-week timeframe. The Monarch “cocoon” or the encompassing supportive services of both the sober living homes and after-care programs are also available to successful Monarch alumni interested in weekly, ‘check-ins’, extending its long-term after-care services to bolster continued community connection and fellowship opportunities.
A lifestyle of addiction is full of chaos and self-indulgence, but outpatient group therapy (also while in sober living) introduces a different way of living. By introducing structure and discipline, group therapy and group sober living fosters healthy lifestyle changes and provides an environment that is conducive to peer support, learning, growing, and changing. The structure also provides an outlet for clients to practice new skills, realize their strengths, and establish new habits while also encouraging self-reflection, the impact and motivation behind past choices, and considering future goals.
GUIDANCE, SUPPORT & ACCOUNTABILITY
Staff members at the outpatient facility or managers of Monarch Sober Living Homes are also available to provide guidance and support as newly sober individuals learn and practice these new behaviors and skills in “real life” at home, at work, and in social situations.
