Positive Outcomes Through Intensive Aftercare and Grata’s Clinical Case Management-

Grata Houses Aftercare Planning entails coaching, goal-setting, task and behavioral-centered modalities, relapse prevention planning, solution-focused therapies, Motivational Interviewing™ (MI), and clinical guidance on maintaining sobriety from experienced therapists, case managers, and social workers. Grata House clinical social workers empower clients to outline their recovery plan over the next year. Including the facilitation of community-based supports, weekly addiction psychotherapy, (ASAM Certified) addiction specialist medical doctors appointments/zoom consultations before discharge. Lock-in follow-up appointments with the client’s care team back home. Grata House provides weekly Zoom or Face-to-face follow-ups with our alums for a month after treatment and stepped down to one time per month for the first year of sobriety (depending on levels of need).

In family therapy at Grata House, a compassionate primary therapist will explore with the family how substance use is embedded in a cycle of interaction within the family. For example, many partners, spouses, children, adult children, and parents are in a fugitive/detective dynamic. The more the family member struggles with addiction, the more that family member may act like a fugitive (hiding, lying), the more a parent, child, or spouse acts like a detective (snooping, chasing) – and visa versa. In addition, family therapists can provide additional education about substance use for the whole family and support family members in reducing their unhelpful behaviors and increasing their effective behaviors.

Family therapists help identify new skills and coach family members in practicing these new skills.