Susan Berlin

I am thrilled to announce a new collaborative effort with my colleague Don Sloane designed to provide continuing substance abuse treatment and outpatient care through a recovery support group aimed at professionals.

We have launched Reflections Outpatient Substance Abuse Treatment.  Reflections is offering an after/continuing care group for “Professionals in Recovery” that will meet Wednesdays, 7:30 to 9:00pm. 

Reflections targets a niche population, addressing a unique need in the recovery community.  It will be 12-step based, not “requiring” participation in 12-step meetings, but working from their principles and tapping into their profoundly successful ideology.  The program will also focus on relapse prevention, exploring relapse triggers and offering behavioral, cognitive and interventional guidance so that patients can increase their self-awareness and stay clean and sober one day at a time.

Reflections is appropriate as a stand-alone therapeutic option.  It is also appropriate for patients in individual therapy, and we look forward to collaborating with individual therapists to team around patient health.  Specifically, Reflections is designed for the following audiences:

• those completing inpatient treatment for substance abuse or addictive behaviors
• those completing an intensive outpatient program for substance abuse
• those who have stopped using chemicals or “acting out” in addictive ways but who would benefit from a weekly therapeutic support group.

Professionals Aftercare/Continuing Care Group

Susan Berlin LICSW, CASAC, ICADC & Don Sloane, MSOD, CPCC bring over 50 years of experience supporting people in recovery from substance abuse and behavioral addictions

Reflections Professionals Group

• Designed for professionals
• 12-step recovery based
• Relapse prevention focus

Reflections Treatment Model

• Initial assessment to assure client compatibility and therapeutic fit
• Complete abstinence from mind- and mood-altering substances
• Random drug screening
• Minimum three-month commitment
• Group meets on Wednesdays from 7:30-9:00 pm, beginning June 16th, 2010
• Members attend at least one 45 minute individual session the first month

Additional Reflections Services

• Integration to appropriate 12-step communities
• (AA, NA, CA, Al-Anon)
• Resource for 12-step tools/literature
• Resource for holistic health support (physical, mental and spiritual)
• Medication management through our affiliated psychiatrists
• Intake Assessment
• Group session, 90 minutes
• Individual session, 45 minutes
• Couple’s session, 50 minutes
• Family session, 50 minutes

Reflections helping addicts, their families and friends live healthier and happier lives

Contact me or call my Washington, DC office at 202-333-1787 for more information or to register.