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Stage 3 - Into Action

Continued Treatment

During Stage 2, the patient will have begun to appreciate that recovery is within their grasp – trust in both themselves and others will be nurtured and an appropriate perspective of their own reality will have dawned.

The patient’s self-esteem strengthens as sound boundaries and an acceptable value system begins to emerge. The objective of Stage 3 is to build on these foundations.

Therapy continues along the same format as in Stage 2, but with increased emphasis on reality – that of the past and of the here and now and how these can be translated into a meaningful and socially acceptable future.

The principal at the core of this is the patient’s personal responsibility for his/her own recovery through self-acceptance.

Relapse prevention is emphasised and there are regular one-to-one sessions in which our specialist counsellor targets the individual patient’s early introjections, the ‘baggage’, carried into addiction.

Whilst it is not possible to take psychotherapy to its full term in the time allowed by the programme, the Perry Clayman Clinic Method initiates this process to enable identification of areas of personality dysfunction that require on-going attention by the patient.

This aspect of our work is interfaced with the Twelve Step Programme and patients are shown how these work in tandem.

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