Healthy Relationships Therapy : facilitated by Cindy Connelly MA, MFT. The goal of our Healthy Relationship group is to address issues of co-dependency, love and sex addiction, and unhealthy relationship education. Healthy relationships involve respect, trust, and consideration for the other person. In Ms. Connelly's Healthy Relationships Group Therapy, the Women of Safe Harbor can learn to know clearly who they are and what they want in personal relationships of all kinds, and guide their personal relationships by a powerful and wise inner spiritual self. Through successful therapy that is focused on healthy relationships, women can begin to understand and treat their associated anxiety, depression and trauma.

Experiential Therapy/Psychodrama Therapy : lead by Marissa Townley-Zwetow - MS, MFT: Psychodramatist. This group is varies each week and blends several therapies. Empirical studies show that experiential methods help clients achieve dramatic results in the areas of psychological symptom reduction. The focus of Experiential Therapy is on what the client is immediately experiencing and feeling while in therapy with the counselor while in group. The result of therapy is a phenomenon where women can see and feel how they react to certain aspects of therapy and is focused on the present, not the past.

Body Image : facilitated by Tami Brannon-Quan, Ph.d., MFT, CAS, Magellan Therapist, and co-author of Love Your Body: Change the Way You Feel About the Body You Have with Lisa Licavoli, R.D., C.C.N. Many of the women entering Safe Harbor come to us with body image issues. This group focuses on what healthy and accurate body image is and how to achieve it. Body image can be defined as a woman's personal concept of her physical appearance. This involves their perception and attitude towards their bodies; what women see or think of their body size, shape and overall appearance. Body Image Counseling involves our women diving deep into their feelings about their distorted perception off themselves and reflect upon how they feel about their attributes and what motivates the certain behaviors behind those feelings.

Nutrition Group : is lead by Lisa Licavoli R.D., C.C.N. co-author of Love Your Body: Change the Way You Feel About the Body You Have. Lisa educates our client's about healthy eating habits; planning, purchasing, and cooking healthy snacks and meals. Nutrition group provides both academic and practical nutritional education for our women and motivates them to make dietary changes to ensure a healthy lifestyle.

Relapse Prevention : is facilitated by our team of Certified Drug and Alcohol Counselors giving our client's the tools to enter back into society sober. Through books, videos, and printouts, clients learn more about the relapse process and signs and symptoms. Relapse Prevention assists women in dealing with the issues that occur in their everyday life situation and maintain their awareness of their potential relapse triggers. Safe Harbor strives to help our women re-enter society as productive women that feel confidant in their recovery and sense of self-worth.

Art Therapy : Art therapy allows the free flow of mental processes, which aids in recovery. Art therapy helps clients increase insight, cope with stress, work through traumatic experiences, and increase cognitive abilities. Safe Harbor believes that a woman's creative process can be used as a healing process and create life-enhancing clarity and insight. Our trained therapists provide our women with art material so that they may create a piece of work that reflects their feelings and sense of self tangibly. We believe that this process provides growth and change for women on a personal and reflective level.

Meditation : Safe Harbor's Certified Councelors and Case Managers guides our client's through meditation and teaches the tools necessary to meditate. Meditation can be a powerful tool when dealing with stress, past experiences, relapse, and self discovery. Meditation is a therapeutic technique for women in recovery allowing the individual to focus on their personal awareness while inducing tranquility to connect with their mind and their body. Meditation benefits women physically as well as spiritually by bringing about a relaxed and healthy state that alters the body.

Process Groups : are lead by our team of Certified Drug and Alcohol Counselors and therapists. During this group time women are allowed to process feelings, emotions, and experiences and receive feedback not only from the facilitator but from their peers as well. All of Safe Harbor's Process Groups are based on the idea that women intuitively possess the resources for their personal growth and healing. The goal of our process groups is to help women remove the barriers that block this growth and reach achievement in their recovery such as anxiety, depression, chemical addiction, and trauma. Group Sessions are held twice a day and allow women to deeply reflect on their feelings, judgments and share feedback with each other while gaining support from their fellow members. This type of therapy is believed to be one of the most successful forms of therapy when treating women with addictions.

Anorexic and Bulimic Anonymous (ABA) : The causes and results of eating disorders such as anorexia and bulimia can be different for each person, but the overall condition is life-threatening and essential to address and understand. The consequences of these disorders are just as severe as chemical addictions as the physical affects can range from hair loss, problems in blood pressure and heart problems, and the mortality rate is extremely high in women of any age, and is the number one cause of death in young women in America. The solution for such serious psychological disorders is not as simple as telling a woman to start eating or stop throwing up. At Safe Harbor, we have a team of certified therapists and counselors that provide a safe environment for women to examine and heal from their eating disorders and provide additional counseling in nutrition and body image to help women fight for their lives.

Big Book Study : Through studying the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous our client's understand the principles of unconditional love, self-acceptance, unity, and service. According to The Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous, "the main problem of the alcoholic centers in his mind, not his body" (A.A., 23) and teaches women how to turn their will and their life over to the care of a spiritual being.

Tai Chi : is lead by Diana Wright. Anyone, regardless of age or physical ability, can practice Tai Chi. It doesn't take physical prowess, rather, tai chi emphasizes technique over strength. It is used to reduce stress, increase flexibility, improve strength, energy and stamina, and to increase the feelings of well-being. Tai Chi involves slow movement based on martial arts allowing energy to circulate through the body providing balance and serenity. This involves physical and mental exercise and is considered a form of moving mediation, promoting proper energy flow, emphasizing the connection between one's mind and body.

Yoga : is lead by Helena Sprake, a certified Yoga Instructor. Yoga is used to strengthen the mind and body connection. The practice of poses is only part of the yoga picture. Yoga meditation is also an important part of practice and can be used in many areas of recovery. Yoga is the balance between mind and body mentally and physically and provides women with a time of reflection and connection. The benefits of yoga practice are endless and include the reduction of stress, physical strength, mental awareness and clarity.

Hypnotherapy : is lead by Scott Sandland, a clinical and medical hypnotherapist. Hypnotherapy is thought to be best place to help women fall into thoughts and ideas, feeling and habits that prevent them from piece of mind and serenity, impacting their recovery from addiction. Women in addiction often suffer from thoughts of low self-esteem or obsessive thoughts including anxiety, depression, and trauma. Additionally, women in recovery from their addictions can suffer from a wide range of distressing feelings, including panic attacks, jealousy, anger, guilt, anxiety, and inadequacy. Whatever the obsession or feeling is, hypnotherapy can help a woman heal themselves specifically and successfully.

Sex and Love Addiction Therapy : Many women that struggle with addictions such as chemical dependency, alcoholism, eating disorders, gambling, over spending, over working, anxiety, depression and trauma also suffer from sex and love addiction. Sex and love addiction can also be a contributor to conditions such as depression, low self esteem, inferiority, helplessness, and loss of control which can lead to sexual anorexia or engaging in high risk sexual activities or emotional detachment towards sex and love. At Safe Harbor, we understand that this addiction rarely has to do with the act of sexual intimacy itself, but lye's much deeper. Women in and out of addiction often experience traumatic sexual encounters and struggle with the idea of healthy relationships. Safe Harbor's group therapy, lead by certified counselors and therapists strives to provide an environment where women can feel safe to address their problems and experiences surrounding sex and love addiction.

12 Step Meetings : Every woman at Safe Harbor is required to attend at least one meeting of Alcoholics Anonymous (AA), Narcotics Anonymous (NA), Over eaters Anonymous (OA), Sex and Love Addictions Anonymous (SLA) Anorexics and Bulimics Anonymous (ABA) or related 12-Step Meetings for Eating Disorders and Sex and Love Addictions. The philosophy behind these 12-Step meeting allows women to identify with their substance use and abuse and the roles that they play with the loved ones around them. These meetings provide a recovering individual with experiences and hope from like minded people that they can identify with, and a place where success, stories and hope can be shared in a trusted environment. 12 Step meetings allow a recovering woman a chance to identify with stories of what it was like, what happened, and what it is like now allowing for personal identification of their problems and an atmosphere that promotes change and what is needed to experience this change. 12 Step Meetings are based on the following steps from The Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous:

The 12 steps are:

1. We admitted we were powerless over alcohol - that our lives had become unmanageable.
2. Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.
3. Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God, as we understood Him.
4. Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
5. Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.
6. Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.
7. Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings.
8. Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all.
9. Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.
10. Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.
11. Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out.
12. Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to alcoholics, and to practice these principles in all our affairs.