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A life worth living can be achieved and recovery from trauma possible. Here at Awake and Aware, LLC, it is our mission and our honor to lead you through your journey of healing. Our individualized, integrative, and immersive program supports you in your process of recovery from addictive patterns, trauma symptomology and chronic suffering in a supportive and caring environment. Our program operates foundationally from a holistic model of treating mind, body and spirit and recognizes that successful integration of all facets of humanness are necessary for whole healing.
We are the only intensive outpatient trauma treatment program in New Mexico that provides an integrative model of intensive outpatient trauma care and is capable of providing comprehensive and adherent DBT within the treatment program. Upon completion, all individuals that need to step down into comprehensive Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) will be discharged seamlessly into our intensive DBT Program.
There are numerous ways that past trauma can show up in your life including anxiety, depression, thoughts of suicide, self-injury and PTSD symptoms. These symptoms often include sleeplessness, hypervigilance, irritability, reliving of past experiences as well as intrusive memories, thoughts and sensations. Behaviors that may be present in your day to day life could include
Note: If you feel suicidal, don’t take chances. Call suicide prevention at 1-800-273-8255. Later, our intensive treatment offers long-term solutions.
Maybe you can’t engage with people or you’re afraid you’re going crazy. It seems like there’s no way out, that this condition is a dead-end.
Unique Outpatient Format
Our program is built firmly on a Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) foundation and is provided in a DBT-adherent setting by DBT trained clinicians. Clients who attend our program in addition to groups which are focused on teaching and practicing the DBT skills. Often, trauma symptoms are too severe to be effectively addressed in standard therapy and leaving home and family for residential treatment is not possible. At Healing in the Desert, We create individualized treatment plans that not only address your on site treatment, but that will help you plan for off time during the weekend as we work to understand what is getting the way of the changes you need to make to follow your path to recovery.
Through Healing in the Desert, Awake and Aware LLC provides enhanced services and care in a DBT intensive format while providing the safety net of continuous care at discharge via step-down into the agency’s established and highly acclaimed comprehensive DBT program.
Why DBT as a Foundation?
DBT is known to benefit multi-disordered, complex individuals who present with a myriad of problems based often in intense emotion dysregulation. These include: chronic suicidality, self-harm behaviors, borderline personality disorder and other personality disorders, a history of trauma/PTSD, substance abuse - in addition to eating disorders. DBT is especially helpful for people who struggle with more than one problem or who have tried other more-conventional therapies and are still struggling.
Beginning the Process
Each individual completes a mental health assessment interview at intake as well as a physiological assessment by our Doctor of Oriental Medicine. Individuals needing medication assessment and/or medication management will be assessed by an Medical Doctor. Through, interview, collateral information, and self-assessment tools, an individualized treatment plan is created that treats the physical body, emotional body and spiritual body. Treatment is organized around therapeutic modalities that reflect the most current evidence base, supporting safe and cohesive therapeutic choices. These include Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)/DBT, Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) therapy, Somatic Experiencing, Trauma informed Yoga and art therapy as well as other experiential and intuitive based work. Primary traumas can be expected to reduce in their intensity and individuals will experience a more grounded level of functioning at discharge.
We currently offer 30-day treatment options for Healing in the Desert. The length of your treatment program will be determined following an initial assessment. All treatment is conducted onsite as an outpatient on the Awake and Aware campus in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Treatment occurs 4 days a week, 3 hours per day.
Participants can expect an increased understanding of the effects and impact of trauma, an increase in personal insight and overall daily functioning, and a decrease in emotional outbursts or “checking out.” We’ll explore your chronic issues deeply, addressing problematic behavior and emotional patterns. The program increases understanding of addictive patterns and creates a process for unraveling troubling dynamics in relationships and within the family. Provides tools to improve overall daily functioning addressing the whole body.
Healing in the Desert is completely covered by some New Mexico Centennial plans! It is also partially covered by in-network commercial insurance plans Call 505-492-9149 for more information on insurance coverage and cost for self-pay.
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Awake & Aware,
10555 Montgomery Blvd. NE Bldg 2, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87111
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Response to Covid-19
After much long and mindful deliberation, we at Awake and Aware, LLC are taking measures to ensure the safety of our clients, our staff and all those we serve and come in contact with. In accordance with current measures being taken in New Mexico, we are closing our office until further notice, but we are continuing to take new clients through tele-health and have immediate openings. Please call 505-503-7946 to get scheduled. While the office is closed, we will continue to see and support our current clients via phone or through tele-health sessions. We will continue to monitor the situation closely and make determinations as new information becomes available. Our office phones are still open for any questions during normal business hours or if you are a current client please call your therapist directly.