Proven Treatment Methods
Substance Abuse Treatment & Mental Health Services
Good Heart Recovery is a full-service detox, residential and outpatient substance abuse treatment center located in beautiful Santa Barbara, California.
Our Clinical and Medical Treatment Interventions
Our CEO has surveyed research from 2012 through present day which combines evolutionary science, psychological science, and neuroscience, along with the collaboration of spiritual teachers, that has shown that compassion has significant positive effects on mental health, genetic expression, emotional regulation, and the improvement of interpersonal and social relationships. Our innate physiological health is affected when engaging in compassionate experiences including the ability to activate the calm part of our nervous system and lower heart rate, which in turn give us more of an ability to use the front part of our brain, the one that helps us make decisions.
The way we work with compassion is simple and can be expressed through one of our main Compassion-Based Interventions we use at Good Heart, similar to the Stanford Compassion Cultivation Training Program, each day:
- We acknowledge that there is and will be suffering, within ourselves and for others,
- We engage in emotional relationship and understanding of that suffering,
- We set an intention to seek to relieve the suffering, and
- We develop responses and increase the motivation to heal and grow together.
Compassionate Treatment Interventions Used at Good Heart:
Compassion-Focused Therapy
Cognitively-Based Compassion Training
Cultivating Emotional Balance
Mindful Self-Compassion
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We base our clinical treatment program not on pressing a certain type of belief onto our clients, but instead we use scientific evidence and a cause and effect type of wisdom to allow ourselves to work with Mindfulness in the most effective way possible for our clients. Mindfulness scientifically enhances cognitive awareness, and increased cognitive awareness allows us to monitor our automatic thought processes and emotional patterns. Cravings, triggers, stress, anger, mania, depression, and traumatic symptoms have all been shown to decrease through the use of mindfulness-based treatment methods. The integration of healthy coping skills, a decrease in judgment, and an increase in the overall acceptance of one’s past, present, and future are all significant outcomes of Good Heart Recovery utilized treatment methods.
Mindfulness-Based Interventions Used at Good Heart:
Mindfulness-Based Relapse Prevention
Mindfulness-Oriented Recovery Enhancement
Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction
Various Types of Meditation Instruction
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Evidence-Based Treatment Interventions Used at Good Heart:
Motivational Interviewing
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Dialectical Behavioral Therapy
Problem Solving Therapy
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Person-Centered Medical Techniques Used at Good Heart:
Unconditional Positive Regard
Empathetic and Genuine Understanding
Active Listening
Non-Directive and Open-Ended Questioning
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