NATIVE-LED RECOVERY
Hope & Healing provide a holistic approach to treatment to better the chances of lasting recovery. We blend traditional native teachings and cultural practices with evidence-based approaches. Clients benefit from the 12 steps to Wellbriety, cleansing rituals, traditional prayers, talking circles, and smudging, among other ceremonial practices.
Our goal is to provide necessary support and therapeutic guidance to Native Americans who struggle with alcohol and drug addictions. The program includes culturally specific activities and traditional counseling that will promote healing, improve health outcomes, and assist in long-term recovery.
Special consideration will be given to integrating trauma-based care and support services for the psychological and emotional harm done by the historical events accumulated across generations of Native Americans. Historical and childhood trauma can have devastating negative results and increase the risk for alcohol and substance abuse. H&H recognizes this risk and provides spiritual counseling sessions and activities that include traditions, customs and ceremonies practiced for millennia by Native communities.
Native and Indigenous people the world over have become disconnected from their cultural identity by the forces of intergenerational trauma. This cultural identity, such as language, ceremonies, customs, traditions, kinship, and other belief systems offers wisdom, community, and connection. Our healing approach relies on facilitating a return to cultural identity through Native staff members that walk shoulder to shoulder with our clients through shared experience, professional training, and earned wisdom. The heart of our mission is helping each other find healing, find family, and ultimately join the fight against the sicknesses that harm our communities.
By paying equal respect to the Western clinical approach and traditional Native practices, our clients learn to stand tall and move beyond their struggles. We realize that the various approaches—from traditional counseling and pharmacology to medicine wheel and talking circle—all have incredible power to heal. We apply these practices with equal weight and depth, learning how to balance them in order to give our clients the fullest opportunity for sobriety.
HOLISTIC TRADITIONAL SERVICES
Traditional-Cultural Program
- 12 steps to Wellbriety
- Cleansing rituals dedicated to transitioning through different stages of recovery
- Traditional prayers
- Talking Circle
- Smudging (Burning Sage, Cedar, or other specified herbs deemed sacred for their properties
- Weekly sweat lodge and drumming for residents and alumni
- White Bison Medicine Wheel 12 Step for Men and Women
- Red Road to Wellbriety Book Studies
- 4 Steps of The Healing Process Ceremonies
- Talking Circle Ceremonies
- Individual Sessions
- Therapeutic Native Art incorporating traditional teachings and activities
- Native Based Parenting classes
- Spiritual Counseling
- Sweat Lodge for Men and Women
- Cleansing ceremonies dedicated to transitioning through various stages of recovery
- Traditional prayers
- Smudging (Burning Sage, Cedar or other specified herbs deemed sacred for their properties)
