Therapies & Approaches
Every treatment plan at Longview is built from the therapies below, matched to your situation during evaluation. Here's what each one does in plain language, so the plan you get isn't a black box.
Evidence-based addiction treatment, not a buffet
Rehab websites tend to list types of therapy for addiction like restaurant options, the longer the list the better. Good treatment is the opposite: the approaches below appear in major clinical guidelines because they work, and a licensed clinician assembles the few that fit your case, your substances, and your mental health picture, then adjusts as the picture changes.
- Clinician-matched: your plan is built from your assessment, then adjusted week by week, not ordered off a menu.
- Delivered at residential intensity, alongside detox and psychiatric care on one campus.
- Three formats doing different jobs: individual, group, and family work, used together in most plans.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
Cognitive behavioral therapy for addiction works on a simple premise: the craving isn't random. CBT at Longview teaches you to catch the thought that fires before the urge, and to interrupt it.
Learn moreDialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
DBT for addiction is for the moments CBT logic can't reach, when the emotion is a wave and the craving is riding it. Longview teaches dialectical behavior therapy skills inside residential treatment in Kingston.
Learn moreMedication-Assisted Treatment (MAT)
Medication-assisted treatment in Massachusetts is the standard of care for opioid addiction, and it helps with alcohol too. Longview uses FDA-approved medications alongside therapy in Kingston, without the stigma.
Learn moreTrauma-Informed Care & EMDR
Trauma therapy for addiction deals with the story underneath the using, at a pace your nervous system can handle. Longview will provide staged trauma work and EMDR inside residential treatment in Kingston.
Learn moreHolistic Therapies
Holistic addiction treatment means treating the whole person, the body and routines addiction wrecked, alongside evidence-based clinical care. At Longview in Kingston, the two run together, in that order of priority.
Learn moreHow the pieces fit a real week
The density is the point: weekly outpatient therapy gives you fifty minutes on and a week off. A residential week runs on a different clock.
Daily
Groups run seven days a week, led by licensed clinicians. The spine of the day, and the antidote to the isolation that addiction runs on.
Weekly and as needed
A full session with your primary clinician at least weekly, plus daily clinical check-ins through detox and more sessions when your plan calls for them.
Woven through
Family sessions in person or virtual as your plan calls for them, with yoga, art and music therapy, and mindfulness filling the spaces between.
The three formats, and what each one is for
Most treatment plans use all three, because each reaches what the others can't.
Individual therapy
One clinician who owns your case across the whole stay. Your private specifics get worked here, and the same clinician steers the rest of your plan.
Group therapy
Daily, and led by licensed clinicians rather than a circle of chairs. Groups break the isolation that addiction runs on.
Family therapy
Treats the people the addiction also happened to, and negotiates the homecoming while everyone has a referee.
We will accept most insurance plans
We expect to work with most major insurers so you can focus on getting better, not on paperwork. Verify your benefits today. It only takes a minute and it's completely confidential.
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