Mental Health and Addictions
Substance use disorder occurs when a person’s use of alcohol or another drug leads to health challenges at work, school, or home. Over 5 million Kenyans have alcohol and substance use disorders. Many who develop substance use disorders have depression, stress, chaotic lifestyles and low self-esteem.
You are not alone!
At Wezesha, we dispel the stigma of substance use disorder with empathy, knowledge and understanding. We hold your hand from the moment you walk into our centers, and walk with you all the way to recovery, ensuring to support your long term recovery through relapse prevention and community based support programs.
Therapy Interventions
- Therapy Interventions include inpatient residential, medication assisted, as well as outpatient intensive support.
- Inpatient and outpatient sessions are utilized to achieve successful recovery and relapse prevention.
- We incorporate the principles of the 12 step program in your recovery journey.
Our team works with you to identify triggers and develop coping mechanisms. This involves steering thought processes away from negative interpretations and retraining and resetting the brain towards positivity and sobriety. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is a technique utilized that aims to teach people that it is possible to have control over your thoughts, feelings and behaviors. At Wezesha Centers, we use CBT to help you challenge and overcome automatic beliefs, and use practical strategies to successfully change or modify your behaviour.
Family counselling is pertinent to recovery as everyone in the family has the ability to provide helpful insight. Family is crucial not only to your recovery but your aftercare support plan; hence the need to incorporate family in your recovery journey. At Wezesha, we offer education to the family on how they can best support your recovery and strategies for relapse prevention.
Group therapy lets you know you are not alone. Group therapy enhances your social functioning through purposeful group experiences and helps you cope more effectively with personal, social or community problems.
Our program helps you develop an aftercare plan to help you maintain sobriety and avoid relapse. Addiction recovery is a long term process that continues long after treatment is over. An aftercare plan allows you to anticipate future challenges to your recovery and come up with solutions in advance.
A strong support system is critical to recovery. As a matter of fact, we all need support in our lives. Support lets us know we matter. A strong and healthy support system is our safety net when times get tough. Support systems come in the form of peer groups, family, friends, recovery support groups, community and church, all of which create a healthy foundation for recovery and relapse prevention. As an organization, we strive to help you identify and connect with these very important support systems to support your recovery and maintain sobriety.