30-Day Intensive Program

6 Day/Week Schedule

In order to provide as much information as we can in a 30-day period, we've committed to providing workshops, lectures, and activities 6 days per week for those enrolled in our Intensive Program

12 Counselling Sessions

You'll meet with your counsellor 3 times each week to work through your program and get everything you can out of us during your stay

Aftercare

After your 30 days with us, you are encouraged to participate in our aftercare program offered in Montreal at our office in the Queen Elizabeth Health Complex. There are options for remote aftercare support as well. 

The Program For Busy Professionals

Not everyone can afford to leave work or their daily life obligations for a prolonged period of time. However, this does not mean resources aren’t available to help you with your substance use. With this in mind, Dunham House has created an intensive 30-day inpatient treatment program.

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Payment

Low-Rate Financing For Your Treatment

We accept all forms of payment, from cash, to cheque, to credit card. We've also partnered up with iFinance Medicard to enable us to offer a financing solution for those who need it.


Medicard offers a simple a simple way to afford your stay at Dunham House. The ideal alternative to writing a cheque. Medicard's patient financing programs ensure that you don't have to delay your treatment due to cost concerns by offering a variety of financing terms with convenient monthly payments.

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Therapeutic Activities

Dunham House offers complementary therapeutic activities in order to help individuals heal and learn about themselves in ways talk therapies may not. Each activity is designed to help individuals practice skills such as communication, creativity and leadership. They are also meant to introduce residents to new activities or hobbies which they can incorporate in their daily life as they interact with others in a social setting. All our activities are spread out throughout the week in order to have a balance. Residents are also encouraged to continue the projects they start during their personal time.


Each therapeutic activity is facilitated by a professional in that activity to ensure that residents get the best quality care and understand the benefits of these therapies on their own mental health.



Foundational Building Blocks

Dunham House’s clinical care programs are built around 4 foundational building blocks:

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) is widely recognized for its efficiency in treating a variety of issues including: depression, anxiety, substance abuse, and co-dependent relationships. CBT teaches individuals how to effectively manage their thoughts, feelings, and behaviours. The thought management component of CBT teaches individuals how to identify and manage their own thoughts that can cause destructive behaviour like self-medication as a means to manage to solve their personal problems and emotional upheaval they are experiencing.

Relapse Prevention

Relapse Prevention Therapy (RPT) as described by its title, uses Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT) techniques like “talk therapy”, videos, TED Talks, open discussions and handbooks to discuss and explore ways to identity high-risk situations. Triggers and recognition of these life challenges are a fundamental part of RPT, and it is used very effectively with individuals who experience challenges with obsessive-compulsive behaviour, depression and substance abuse.

Motivational Interviewing

As a resource-based model, Motivational Interviewing (MI) relies on three key concepts: collaboration, recognition, and respect for the individual’s self and personal autonomy. MI relies on a therapeutic relationship between the resident and the counsellor using a non-confrontational approach of realistic and direct communication and discussion. This special and unique therapeutic relationship gives priority to the ideas and life experiences of the resident while respecting their capacity to determine what is best for them as they problem solve.


An important component of MI is for residents to learn and to understand their own inner strengths and competencies which they will then use to have better control over their lives.

Therapeutic Community

Dunham House is committed to cultivating a therapeutic community for its’ group-based program. Our residents live with each other in double rooms, eat together and share in all residential activities including household chores.  Our residential community fosters respect of one’s individuality and of one’s differences in a collaborative and support environment of group therapy, group activities as well as self-work.  Our supportive community is guided by our exceptional clinical care team and dedicated residential staff that encourage and demonstrate respect, cooperation and community living.

Workshop & Lecture Topics

Recognizing The Addiction Process

Goals:

The goal of this workshop is for residents to become familiar with the addiction process and how it fuels their substance abuse.


Objectives:

In this workshop series participants are introduced to:

• The addictive personality

• The process and stages of addiction, stages of change

• Identification of different behaviours which contribute to repetitive choices and dissatisfying results

Participants learn how to recognize the resistance to change associated with addictive thinking. They are also presented with evidence of their particular and self-defeating logic.




Interpersonal Communication

Goals:

The goal of the workshop is to introduce residents  how interpersonal skills are important for understanding their relationships with others, as well as the importance of communications skills.


Objectives:

In these workshop series participants are introduced to:

• Enhancing, creating or maintaining close relationships (spouse, family and close friends)

• Styles of Communication

• Encouraging disclosure

• Establishing and maintaining trust 

• Active listening

• Understanding messages

• Appropriate responses


Cognitive Disorders

Goals:

The goal of these workshops are to introduce residents to the nature of deceptive thoughts, which result in maladaptive decisions.


Objectives:

In this workshop series participants are introduced to:

• Questioning habitual thought processes

• Identifying unhelpful thinking patterns

• The challenges of changing habitual thought processes


Physical & Mental Health

Goals:

The goal of this workshop series is to introduce residents to evidence of how a healthy body translates into a healthier mind, and to become familiar with the effects of substance abuse to their mental health.


Objectives:

In this workshop series participants are introduced to:

• Hygiene

• Nutrition

• Hydration

• Sleep

• Exercise

• Rest and relaxation 

• How substance abuse affects mental health


Relapse Prevention

Goals:

The goal of this workshop is for residents to identify and apply strategies that will help them prevent a relapse.


Objectives:

In this workshop series participants are introduced to:

• What is addictive thinking

• Denial, rationalization and projection

• Guilt and shame

• Hypersensitivity

• The importance of support groups (e.g.: AA, NA, CA, GA, social workers, psychologists, family)

• Demonstrates a better understanding of the signs of relapse

• Creates a plan of relapse prevention


Stress & Anxiety Management

Goals:

The goal of this workshop is for residents to learn the importance of managing their stress & anxiety levels.


Objectives:

In this worksshop series participants are introduced to:

• Recognizing stress

• Stress & Anxiety management

• Healthy and unhealthy stress

• Recognizes how stress and anxiety effects substance abuse

• Demonstrates the use and application of stress & anxiety reduction strategies

Emotional Regulation & Distress Tolerance

Goals:

The goal of this workshop is to help residents develop a new found emotional intelligence and to develop the skills required to manage distress. 


Objectives:

In this workshop series participants are introduced to:

• Wise mind (Emotion mind vs. Reasonable Mind)

• Understanding and naming emotions

• Reducing vulnerability to “Emotion Mind” 

• Changing emotional responses (check the facts, problem-solve, opposite action)

• Crisis survival skills (the STOP skill, finding a distraction, self-soothing, improving the moment)

• Reality acceptance skills (radical acceptance)

• Create new coping strategies for distressing situations (plan ahead)

Life Skills Development

Goals:

The goal of this workshop series is to introduce residents to a variety of life skills.


Objectives:

In this workshop series participants are introduced to:

• Creating a CV and Resume

• Basic meal preparation

• Employment and school opportunities 

• Finding adequate housing

• Development of S.M.A.R.T. Goals.


Individual Counselling

Individual Counselling Sessions are held two times per week in our 30 -Day Intensive Program, and once weekly in our 6-Month Core Program. Residents meet one-on-one with their assigned counsellor to review their progress and discuss roadblocks and challenges should they occur. Counsellors are there to oversee the integrity of our therapeutic program, offer individual counselling and can be seen on an as-needed basis should a crisis occur.

Meet Our Clinical Team

Group Therapy

Our weekly group therapy allows individuals to be part of a supportive environment to process emotions or life experiences. Group therapy has been shown to be a powerful way to initiate change and gain support from those who struggle with similar issues. Our group therapy is led by a member of our clinical team and varies between psycho-educational or support based. Some of the themes explored in group focuses on life skills, discussing mental or emotional barriers to recovery and communication skills.

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