About Balanced Life Behavioral Health
Your mind matters. Your mental health is important at every stage of life, from a young child to through adulthood. How we think has an effect on how we feel and act. When we don’t feel 100% we are unable to handle stress as well, make healthy choices, and it effects our everyday interactions with others.
Balanced Life we care about your mental health. Each person’s needs are different and at Balanced life we have providers who work with you to create and individualized treatment plan and follow up closely providing expert care along the way.
Life is all about balance and that is true for medications also. Medications may be the needed at times but are not the only treatment. We work together with the patient to find the right balance of medications along with therapy and other behavioral health and lifestyle changes to treat:
Anxiety
Depression
Social phobias
PTSD
OCD
Bipolar disorder
Schizophrenia
Schizoaffective disorder
Loss of a loved one
Major life changes
Substance abuse treatment
Addiction to substances is a chronic disease that begins with voluntarily taking drugs but the persons ability to choose gets more difficult over time. Substance abuse is indicated by a compulsive, uncontrollable, seeking behaviors despite harmful consequences from the substance use.
Addiction to Alcohol, Opiates, and other drugs can be challenging to stop and it requires a team effort. Together with each client we develop a personalized treatment plan working with all of the client’s providers to find the best strategy to helping the client overcome their dependence on substances.
Not all addictions have specific medication. Many times substances are used to self medicate the symptoms of mental health problems. Stabilizing any behavioral health issues such as depression and anxiety can help. At Balanced life we do offer specific medication treatment for Opiate and Alcohol addiction.
Using the whole patient approach Balanced Life provides a personalized treatment approach for each client. In order to treat the whole patient, we work with patients struggling with addiction to find a healthy balance of mental, physical, and emotional wellbeing.
Opiate addition treatment: Suboxone
Suboxone (buprenorphine) is a treatment that helps opiate users come off stronger opiates. It provides a safe way for the client to be stabilized their cravings, reduces high risk behaviors, prevents relapses and allows the patient to stay focused and engage in treatment.
Suboxone significantly can reduce or eliminate withdrawal symptoms. This is important in a successful recovery. Balanced Life Behavioral Health focuses on the person as a whole and along with medication assisted treatment like suboxone, we put together a comprehensive treatment plan that include treatment to discover and addres the root cause of the addictive behavior, addressing behavioral health issues, therapy to learn positive coping skills, and how to navigate triggers for drug abuse.Alcohol addiction treatment:
Naltrexone & Vivitrol
Naltrexone and Vivitrol Are treatments can can help opiate users Stay off opiates and can help people struggling with alcohol addiction curb their craving. It provides a safe way for the client to be stabilized their cravings, reduces high risk behaviors, prevents relapses and allows the patient to stay focused and engage in treatment.
Naltrexone and Vivitrol for people struggling with alcoholism can significantly reduce the or eliminate the craving for alcohol. It works in the brain by blocking certain receptiors that urges people to use alcohol. Taking a medication like naltrexone helps maintain abstinese from these substances. Together with other supportive treatments can help start and maintain sobriety
Naltrexone and Vivitrol for people struggling with sobriety from opiate dependence helps by blocking opiate receptors which blocks the effect of opiates. Blocking the effect decreases urge to use allows the client to focus on their treatment. Balanced Life Behavioral Health focuses on the person as a whole and along with medication assisted treatment like Vivitrol, we put together a comprehensive treatment plan that include treatment to discover and address the root cause of the addictive behavior, addressing behavioral health issues, therapy to learn positive coping skills, and how to navigate triggers for drug abuse.
Therapy
Therapy is important when using the whole patient approach. Medications along with psychotherapy have been shown to significantly help people with emotional, behavioral, and substance abuse problems.
There are many different therapy approaches. Different behavioral health disorders respond better to different therapy modalities. Personalized treatment is important also, different people respond to treatments differently and if one treatment does not help another might. People who don’t respond well to medications can greatly benefit from therapy.
Balanced Life provides a personalized treatment approach for each client. In order to treat the whole patient, we work with patients struggling with behavioral health and addiction problems to find a healthy balance of mental, physical, and emotional wellbeing through medications, therapy, and other behavioral health modifications.