Summary of the Tamarack Program

Intake and Assessment:  This is the first step in discovering and accepting what is wrong. You share  the details of your active addiction and attempts at recovery with the Intake Counsellor when you apply for admission.

Individual Counseling:  Provides you with a special confidential relationship where you will gain self awareness, support, help with planning your recovery and in finding and keeping the motivation and commitment to change.

Morning Structured Group Therapy:  Here you will be able to discover the many sides of rehabilitation and recovery. 41 different topics cover life skills areas, employability, mental health, emotional health, spirituality, relapse prevention, relationships, family of origin, attachment, family recovery, and many more.

Afternoon Group therapy:  The focus is on the here and now complexities of your life issues, the self defeating thinking and the addictions you have acquired to try and cope with them and what you will need to change. Discussions and sharing are in depth, stimulating the self discovery, self honesty and commitment you will need to rebuild your life and to be abstinent from the drugs, alcohol or addictive behaviors and processes that were killing you and any hopes for a normal life, relationships, family and happiness.

Therapeutic Community Living:  House rules and curfews are in place to provide the safe boundaries needed to create healthy peer support and cooperation 24 hours per day, 7 days a week.  Living in Tamarack will help you understand that the world does not revolve around you and that others need your flexibility and understanding in order to build trust and support.

Aftercare:  For those who complete the 60 day program, Tamarack provides a weekly support group  meeting for as long as former clients want to attend. Aftercare provides peer support, trust, learning and friendship.

Follow up: After completing the program, Tamarack provides 4 free individual counseling sessions to support you and help you deal with the things that come up in recovery. Counselling can continue after that at your option.

12 Step Recovery Fellowships:  Tamarack clients attend AA, CA, NA, and GA in order to experience and learn the many indispensable principles of abstinence based recovery these fellowships foster. Originally pioneered by the Alcoholics Anonymous fellowship, 12 step recovery methods have proven to combine some of the best ideas that are used in many modern psychotherapeutic practices such as the Behavioral and Cognitive Behavioral Therapies, Psychodynamic Therapies as well as age old Spiritual development methods of healing and recovery. Trying to recover on your own is a very unsafe way to go and has proven time and again that it does not provide all of the many ingredients needed for Change. Sticking with the people and methods that work is the best way to do it.

Program Exercises, Readings, and Workbooks:  These activities are all part of the cognitive and emotional self discovery that are part of the group work and individual counselling you will experience in tamarack.

Referral:  Tamarack will refer you to external support services, systems and individuals as needed while you are in treatment and after you complete the program and are in the Followup or Aftercare components of recovery.

Reunions:  Twice a year at Christmas and in the summer, Tamarack hosts a celebratory barbecue or supper for our past and present clients to reunite and have some fun and fellowship. It is important to mark your progress and renew your commitment to today and tomorrow.

Pre Treatment Program:   We can start people in half day morning sessions 3 times a week which includes one to one counselling and help in completing a plan for the afternoon and following day and the next weekend. This pre treatment program is specifically for those who do not yet have the 28 days clean and sober time to enter the full residential program. These clients participate in the regular morning group with the full time residential clients.

Family Program:  We currently work with family members affected by addiction and we are developing a dedicated Family program component in which family members or spouse attend a number of special educational sessions facilitated by our Family Coordinator. The Objective is to help these people develop emotional self management skills, the better to deal with the difficulties of relating to an addict.

All Inclusive Costs: Pre-Treatment - $800.00       60 Day residential program - $4,500.00