Holistic psychotherapy is a therapeutic approach that heals a person by fixing the relationship between the mind, body, and spirit. Holistic treatment addresses all dysfunctional aspects of a person’s life in tandem. In medical practice, holistic means addressing the whole person, and includes their physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual health, while factoring in external factors.
Addiction treatment programs that utilize holistic treatment methods recognize that a person must be healed entirely, throughout all aspects of their being, in order to successfully maintain their recovery.
Substance abuse forces its way into every part of a person’s life, and so logically, the addiction must be detox from not just the body, but the mind and spirit as well.
Holistic addiction therapy approaches a patient as a complex being in need of healing rather than attempting to separate the addiction and cut it out. Holistic teachings highlight the fact that one issue within a person’s life can lead to concerns in other areas. For example, anxiety can lead to substance abuse which can lead to malnutrition. In order to ensure a successful recovery, treatment must address not only the addiction but the resulting malnutrition and the catalyst of the addiction, anxiety.
Addictions Medicine specialists have been treating their patients in a holistic fashion for decades, unlike other doctors. For example, cardiologists write a few prescriptions for their patients recovering from a heart attack and do not properly address their patients in a holistic fashion such as suggesting, tracking, and enforcing:
Royal Life Centers has been including holistic therapy as a part of our recovery-recipe right from the beginning. Instead of trying to explain how our proprietary version of holistic therapy works, let’s show you how it works.
At Royal Life Centers, we are dedicated to providing quality care, unmatched standards, and only the best practices. Reach out to us today, our team of addiction specialists make themselves available to take your call 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Because We Care.