Y.E.S. offers non 12 Step, evidence-based alcohol treatment in suburban Los Angeles, California. Y.E.S. uses research-proven anti-craving medications, together with Rational Living Therapy (a type of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy). Our treatment is designed to be consistent with the best practices derived from research, and is a comprehensive approach to recovery from alcoholism and alcohol dependency. In addition to abstinence treatment, we also provide aftercare, and counseling to moderate your drinking.
We Offer the Most Effective Solutions to Your Alcohol Problems!
- Alternative Non 12 Step Treatment Tailored To Your Needs And Your Schedule. We're available to you whether you need to see us several times a week for ninety days, or continuously for a week or more. You won't need to disrupt your entire life, or advertise your alcohol problems or your alcohol treatment, and you'll still get more direct professional services than most residential programs offer at a fraction of the cost. Due to the exclusive nature of our alcohol treatment program, we only accept 5 new clients a month into our program.
- With Our Non 12 Step Alcohol Outpatient Treatment Program Your Privacy Is Guaranteed. We do not accept insurance because it poses a serious risk to confidentiality. Additionally, we report to no one except at your specific request. We don't think that you should ever have to worry about your willingness to fix your alcohol related problems coming back to haunt you. Not this week, next month, next year, or in twenty years. No 12 Step or AA based program can promise that.
- Non 12 Step Outpatient Alcohol Treatment - No Institutional Stay Is Required. We'll insure both minimal disruption of your life and strict confidentiality - something no residential program can offer. Your problems are your business and they will stay that way. Your schedule will be accommodated and your wishes respected.
- Non 12 Step Alcohol Rehab Designed To Meet The Differing Needs Of Men And Women. Frequently men need to slow down and reflect on their lives, alcohol use, work, and their personal relationships. Women on the other hand, have frequently reflected on things far beyond any benefit - so-called "contemplation hell" - and instead need to begin doing things. These differences require individually based approaches. The standard 12 Step (AA) one-size-fits-all model not only works poorly for men, it is even less effective, and more depressing, for women.
- Our Focus Is On Alcohol Only, Not Other Addictive Substances. We address what we're good at with the smart, motivated, otherwise successful clients we can most effectively help. We usually find that alcohol abuse is a symptom and an intrusion, not a "disease." We'll help you identify and correct the underlying problems unique to you, and get you back to leading your life without stigma, or demeaning labels. We won't lump you in with people whose problems are far different than yours, and whose situations bare no resemblance to yours.
- We Provide Effective Alternatives To Family Members Frustrated By AlAnon And Other Generally Ineffectual Sources Of Relief. Clients whose family members have disappeared into alcohol or alcohol focused recovery, can find empowering ways to reclaim their own lives. Don't be held hostage by children, spouses, siblings or other relatives and friends who insist on making their problem, or their "recovery," your responsibility.
- Anti-Craving Medications, Naltrexone and Campral, To Ease Or Eliminate Your Urges And To Help Stop Or Moderate Your Alcohol Use. We will work with your physician to obtain anti-craving medication support, or, upon request, we will refer you to a physician in this area, whom we work with.
- Expert Counseling To Ensure Your Success. We use Rational Living Therapy, an extension of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, as an alternative to 12 Step and AA based models, to help you adopt new behaviors and perspectives that help guarantee permanent change, not the endless cycle of "relapse" and "recovery" and the alcohol focus that 12 Step based programs demand.
Start reclaiming your power now! Call us today at 888-541-6350
The main thing that separates us from most alcohol rehab and alcohol treatment programs is the fact that we don't have a "program." What we do have is a lot of experience and research into what works for different people who are attempting to overcome their alcohol problems, alcohol abuse, alcohol dependence, or alcoholism. What we offer you, our client, is the certainty that the solution to your specific alcohol problem and set of circumstances will be, like yourself, unique - it will truly be your empowering solution, not ours, or AA's, or Moderation Management's, or someone else's canned prescription. We don't dictate, we help you find Your Empowering Solution to your alcohol problems.
Our logo is Y.E.S., which is good, since we spend a lot of time and effort on getting people to "just say yes." Unlike traditional alcohol rehab and alcohol treatment programs, we don't focus on the past and your history of alcohol problems and abuse. Here at Y.E.S. we focus on your present and future and to getting your life back. Say Y.E.S. to regaining your health, independence, friends, family, joy and laughter.
We don't believe in "just say no." That's about as un-helpful a piece of advice as has ever been coined - a phrase so counterproductive that its use has actually been linked to increased alcohol use. Additionally, saying "no" takes zero time, energy, attention, and effort. All it really does is create a behavioral vacuum that inevitably sucks you right back into the same old familiar behaviors.
In reality, if you want to end your alcohol problems and related behaviors, you will have to start saying "yes" - yes to new behaviors that will ultimately result in a life that is more satisfactory than your old one. Changes that don't result in a better life will simply lead to relapse, discouragement, and despair and the revolving door to yet another alcohol rehab program.
Eliminating your alcohol problems can be hard work. But it's exciting work. Alcohol problems are usually symptomatic of other problems rather than the cause of the problem. We will help you figure out why you are drinking too much and then help you fix those problems. We will help you find permanent solutions to your alcohol problems so that you will never need alcohol treatment again!
If you are looking for YOUR solution to your alcohol problems, call and come in and talk with us. We'll help you find it without preconceived notions about what it has to look like, what "steps" are necessary, or how long it takes. We're in the field of helping people reclaim their lives - not in the business of endless alcohol treatment and alcohol rehab. 888-541-6350
Alternative alcohol treatment methods have always recognized that 12 Step models work for some individuals but not for most, and usually not for very long. The problem is that there are no easy "fixes." Designing effective 12 Step alternative treatments for individuals turns out to be a complicated business that must take into account many variables in ways that don't easily lend themselves to any particular model. As a result, most programs offer little beyond "don't drink, go to AA meetings, work your program, repeat" - forever.
It's frequently overlooked that people have been quitting drinking for as long as alcohol has existed. Some individuals quit when their doctor, minister, or other trusted advisor suggests it's time; or when spouses threaten to leave; a few when they collect their first DUI with all of the attendant costs and embarrassment; and still more just because they decide to. They quit drinking with or without cushy residential pampering, programs, or meetings. These are the people who have been our clients - those who have chosen to replace alcohol abuse, dependence, or addiction with other activities, interests, and behaviors, not with alcohol related substitutes like AA meetings, groups, and programs that merely reinforce an alcohol focused life. They have chosen to make real changes without inpatient vacations, escape, or massive expenditures, but with the courage to build new lives centered on real change.
But where, you ask, did all of the 12 Step emphasis come from? Historically, most current treatment methods grew out of the experiences of two intractable alcoholics, Bill W. and Dr. Bob. They discovered a way that worked when nothing else had for them, thus giving birth to AA and the 12 Steps. Treatment providers, lacking anything that worked for similar individuals, and recognizing that AA wasn't going to commercially market itself, began marketing the program to individuals, many of whose personal characteristics are far different from Bill and Bob, two white, male, middle class, middle-aged, professional drunks.
The marketing persisted despite very low success rates. That would be surprising except that it's also understandable. Those who succeeded - the new True Believers - have always been very vocal about the virtues of the 12 Steps, and those who weren't, over 95% by AA's own count, have been understandably quiet about their failures. As the treatment industry developed, staffed by succeeding generations of the faithful, alternatives have been lost, ridiculed, forgotten, or ignored, and sometimes suppressed. But a few counselors and small programs have managed to address the needs of those who wish to recover, and who wish to remove, or moderate, alcohol's grip on their lives.
While recognizing that the AA, NA or 12 Step model works for some, non-12 Step programs and alternative counselors provide the more sophisticated services most individuals need and deserve. Despite the usual advertising to the contrary, alcoholism is not an equal opportunity disease. Its prevalence varies drastically depending on age, ethnicity, geography, income, education, religion, and many other factors. Alcohol treatment which fails to take these factors into account is far less likely to be successful than methods which do. As a result, 12 Step success tends to correlate to how closely the client matches the original Bill W./Dr. Bob profile, while alternative methods become more effective as clients' characteristics vary from that demographic. Additionally, those wishing to change their relationship with alcohol find it helpful to replace it with other activities and interests, not to reinforce it with routine attention. Ex-smokers, for example, would never sit around drinking and talking about smoking and expect that to be helpful in maintaining a nicotine free life.
Alcohol treatment programs which fail to address differences in how individuals process information will also suffer. In the 1960's and 1970's Dr. Jane Loevinger, at Washington University in St. Louis, developed a model of how people do, or do not, develop psychologically as they grow up. Working with Dr. Loevinger's model in Minnesota and Alaska in the 1990's, Dr. Edward Wilson referenced this series of developmental levels to 12 Step success, along with identification of those clients for whom traditional treatment was apt to be ineffective as well as those for whom it is counter-productive.
As noted, the development of comprehensive and effective treatment plans for individuals is challenging and multi-faceted. Paradoxically, including developmental levels as another variable actually makes things simpler - though hardly easy. It allows clinicians to rapidly determine the client's suitability for 12 Step programs; calculate the initial effective proportions of the cognitive behavioral therapeutic mix for what is now recognized as the most effective counseling method for working with alcohol induced dependencies, abuse, and addiction; indicates the proper "half-stage" of distance to maintain so that the client are neither patronized nor mystified; and the likeliest methods of avoiding relapse.
Developmental considerations do not, of course, offer miracles any more than medications such as the anti-craving Naltrexone or the aversive Antabuse. Effective treatment, regardless of model, requires conscientious therapists who are neither wedded to any particular model nor hampered by their own history. Additionally, with time and trust, clients developing new lives necessitate continuous adjustment of the treatment plan. As counselors we should be responding to clients changing circumstances and needs, not merely recommending more of the same old failed directives.
Traditional or alternative, treatment of alcohol abuse, dependence, and addiction all require careful, multi-pronged, and conscientious approaches if clients are to be freed to fully live their lives. Good therapeutic services are not static and neither are people and to suggest as much, as in never ending "recovery," is to do a disservice to conscientious clinicians and clients alike.
If it's time to stop drinking, to quit being hammered by alcohol and the consequences of its use, give us a call and see what route out of the fog is most apt to work for you. 888-541-6350
