treatment modalities

Through psychodynamic therapy, patients are guided toward self-awareness through an understanding of how unconscious processes are influenced by experiences and how they, in turn, affect present behaviors.

Every patient at Camden Center receives neuropsychological testing by a specialized clinical psychologist. The results from this testing inform the patient and their treatment team of cognitive strengths and challenges, and help identify the most effective treatment approach.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is a skills-based cognitive therapy that’s effective for treating a wide variety of mental health disorders. CBT examines the relationship between behaviors, emotions, and thoughts. 

Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) is an intensive skills-based cognitive therapy that is used to treat a range of presenting issues, including personality and mood disorders. DBT emphasizes mindfulness in teaching patients skills for distress tolerance, emotional regulation, and interpersonal effectiveness. 

Camden Center’s trained EMDR therapists help patients reprocess traumatic experiences, reintegrate the experience into their sense of self, and begin to resolve the emotional responses and belief systems that were dominated by trauma.

Camden Center’s Somatic Experiencing therapists lead patients through a verbal exploration and education of their perceived body sensations and self-protective strategies that are products of trauma. 

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps patients recognize the relationship between avoidance and prolonged suffering, and educating and empowering them to use healthy adaptive coping strategies. 

Seeking Safety is an evidence-based therapy that can effectively treat co-occurring trauma and substance abuse. The therapy emphasizes self-attunement, resources, and connections to reduce shame and build skills that reduce the risk of relapse and retraumatization.

Camden Center’s therapists help facilitate constructive conversations between family members to promote mutual understanding and support, and establish healthy systems of communication and interaction, in order to preserve the psychological well-being of all parties.

Camden Center’s specialized addiction therapists support patients in their recovery by helping them understand their addiction within the context of their lives. This includes psychoeducation around co-occurring psychological disorders like depression and anxiety, and how they can manifest in substance use. 

At Camden Center, each patient receives a reintegration assessment early in their treatment program to help them identify realistic short-term goals, whether it’s finding housing and living independently, obtaining volunteer work or employment, or creating structure outside of treatment. 

Behavioral activation helps patients learn to replace negative behaviors with positive alternatives by increasing motivation, task completion, and a sense of accomplishment.

Camden Center’s therapists work with patients to educate them on their sex and love addiction, its relationship to childhood trauma, and its emotional and behavioral manifestation, and teach them skills to establish healthy boundaries and relationships and avoid unhealthy attachments.

Recovery Skills is a skills-based curriculum created for patients with substance and/or process addiction. The curriculum was created to help patients reduce their risk of relapse and increase stability in their recovery. 

Camden Center’s therapists support patients in exploring feelings of sadness, anger, and overwhelm, and attaining a state of acceptance, gratitude, and engagement in daily activities and long-term goals following the experience of loss.

Executive coaching helps patients plan their transition back into the workforce, overcome gaps in performance, manage stress, and understand the trickle down effect of their choices and impact of interpersonal dynamics in their life.

Through medication management, Camden Center psychiatrists coordinate all aspects of a patient’s medication, including obtaining medication lists from other providers/treatment facilities and prescribing, filling, administering, and delivering medications.

Integrative health is Camden Center’s holistic approach to remedying and preserving the mental and physical well-being of patients. Through a combination of acupuncture, aromatherapy, and meditation, Camden Center’s integrative health specialists help patients find relaxation, refreshment, and relief from both emotional distress and physical discomfort.

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Camden Center’s licensed dietitians work with patients to identify and resolve nutritional issues, eating disorders, and disordered relationships with food.

In addition to integrative health, Camden Center provides therapeutic body work as an additional facet of the team’s approach to holistic well-being. Licensed massage therapists collaborate with patients to identify and target physical strain that contributes to psychological dysregulation being held within the body.

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Neurofeedback involves measuring an individual’s brain waves and producing feedback to the brain in response. Positive feedback reinforces desirable brain activity while negative feedback counteracts undesirable activity. It is commonly used for depression, anxiety, trauma, and sleep disorders.

Camden Center’s experienced Tai Chi and Qigong instructors lead patients through the principles and meditative techniques of both practices to achieve a unified mind-body tranquility.

Yoga is a low-impact therapeutic practice that involves holding stretches while engaging in mindfulness such as meditation, breathing, and imagery. Yoga guides patients toward a relaxation of the mind and body, and promotes their physical and psychological well-being.

Music therapy uses various interventions to increase insight into the healing benefits of music. Creating music, listening to music, connecting to lyrical content, and self-expression through music are all ways that patients can learn to explore, understand, and recognize their moods and increase self-awareness. Through music therapy, Camden Center clinicians can help patients learn to better express their emotions, manage stress, improve communication, enhance memory, and improve their overall wellness.