When clients arrive at treatment they are still going through withdrawal, fearful about what is to come and wondering how they got to the place where they currently find themselves.  All of these factors typically lead incoming clients to want to fight or flee.

In this stage clients accept that they are in need of treatment and that they can work on addressing the challenges that they have been struggling with.

Around the 30 day mark clients are feeling healthy, understand the need for sobriety and recovery and have started to alleviate their mental health symptoms.  They often find themselves at this point ready to go home.

The wall is the point where clients now gain insight and understanding into what has happened in their life and begin to face the darkness of their past.  This is usually when the trauma and attachment work is gaining momentum and clients have to face the fear of walking through their painful feelings. 

The feelings and memories that they so often used substances to numb out or forget.  During this time clients often find themselves having more depression, anxiety and anger.

In this stage of treatment clients have passed the point where the most painful of memories and feelings have been processed and they can see the light at the end and begin to have hope that they can live a life free from all of the demons they have been fighting in their heart and mind for so long.

In this stage clients are often learning to adjust to life of sobriety and recovery from addiction, trauma and mental health.  They begin reconstructing a life in recovery while  pursuing purpose, connection and meaning