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Santé staff members have found different ways to celebrate our 25th Anniversary. Here are several staff members touting our 25 year legacy - one that we all are proud and honored to commemorate.

When COVID-19 began, the world had no choice but to adapt. Both mental health care providers and people seeking mental health had to make the switch to teletherapy regardless of whether they had prior telehealth platform experience or not. Many believe that teletherapy is here to stay. Delivering care remotely allows mental health providers to reach more people, especially those who are geographically isolated and those who lack access to childcare or transportation¹. 

Most importantly, it’s been proven to be just as effective as face-to-face psychotherapy with even higher retention rates¹. In addition to patients that were already seeking therapy before COVID hit, an increased number of people began to seek out counseling to help deal with the stress of isolation, family and relationship issues, and heightened anxiety and depression disorders. All these patients now have an appetite for receiving care remotely, and that fact is likely to fundamentally change the environment in which people receive therapy. 

Although there are countless plus sides to telehealth, there are inevitably some caveats. First, teletherapy creates a physical separation between the therapist and client, which limits non-verbal communication – and part of the therapeutic presence is utilizing body language to connect and build trust. Another problem is that telehealth makes mental health care less accessible for people that don’t have reliable access to technology or older adults who aren’t familiar with the technology. These barriers tend to impact communities that already have a difficult time getting access to mental help such as low-income households, people in rural areas, and BIPOC². There are concerns and potential risks that come with online services (such as data breaches) and ways in which those specific risks are being managed (data encryption, firewalls, and anti-virus and anti-malware software). Through informed consent, psychologists inform patients about potential them. Due to these barriers, concerns, and potential risks, we can’t expect teletherapy to become the sole means of people receiving help, but we can count on it to continue growing as access to technology gets more widespread and people become more comfortable with it. Ahles shared, “I generally prefer face to face, but in some ways, I think people over Zoom and virtual, they have more emotional space,” Ahles said. “It’s a little bit easier for them to open up about things because family wasn’t in the same room.” 

Santé Center for Healing saw the opportunity to help connect individuals all over the nation with therapists in their area. Santé created a website called Find a Telehealth Therapist. It allows individuals to quickly locate a telehealth provider within their region, state, or city. The interactive platform provides information on licensed professional counselors, social workers, marriage and family therapists, chemical dependency counselors, and psychologists through their telehealth services, so anyone can find the help they need.

To view the Find a Telehealth Therapist website, click here.

In addition to residential and intensive outpatient therapy, Santé also works with clients to improve their quality of life in a less-acute level of care. Santé’s outpatient therapy clinicians and medical providers are dedicated to helping individuals identify, adapt and effectively deal with life’s challenges – addiction, anger, trauma, life transitions, depression and grief.

We love the relationship we have with our Alumni. It is an honor and joy to celebrate in their successes and to stand by them in hardships. Here is some of what they have recently shared.

7 years at Santé Center for Healing

The 8^th Step is about forgiving ourselves and others. It is not meant to punish us, it is meant to set us free from guilt, anxiety and build safe and satisfying personal relationships with self and others.

Very deep, sometimes quite forgotten, damaging emotional conflicts persist below the level of consciousness. — Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, pp. 79-80

Only through positive action can I remove the remains of guilt and shame brought on by alcohol. Throughout my misadventures when I drank, my friends would say, "Why are you doing this? You're only hurting yourself." Little did I know how true were those words. Although I harmed others, some of my behavior caused grave wounds to my soul. Step Eight provides me with a way of forgiving myself. I alleviate much of the hidden damage when I make my list of those I have hurt. In making amends, I free myself of burdens, thus contributing to my healing. - “Getting Well” from the book Daily Reflections

Next Course Offered: November 3-5, 2021*

Maintaining Proper Boundaries, is a 3-day Continuing Medical Education training course providing self-assessment, knowledge, awareness, skills, applicable tools and prevention strategies to healthcare professionals with difficulty maintaining proper boundaries with patients, colleagues and/or staff.

This course is recommended to any licensed healthcare professionals in safety sensitive positions who experience difficulty establishing and maintaining proper boundaries. Hospitals, health systems, professional peer health programs may refer health care practitioners:

Participants will need to either provide proof of vaccination or take a rapid COVID-19 test and email the results to Santé the day prior to the course starting. Masks will be required at all times and all participants will be intentionally spaced further apart.

Alumni Online All Inclusive Recovery Meeting at 8 PM CST

Trauma Education Association Monthly CE - 1 CE Hour

11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. CST via Zoom

presented by Landon Dickeson, MS, LPC and Elizabeth Schutz, MA, LPC-Associate, Supervised by Casey Christian MA, LPC-S

Click here to register

Alumni Online All Inclusive Recovery Meeting at 8 PM CST

Alumni Online All Inclusive Recovery Meeting at 8 PM CST

Alumni Online All Inclusive Recovery Meeting at 8 PM CST

Alumni Online All Inclusive Recovery Meeting at 8 PM CST

Alumni Online All Inclusive Recovery Meeting at 8 PM CST

Legacy Event and 25th Anniversary Celebration - 5 CE Hours

Additional details and registration coming soon

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You are mission-inspired and results-driven. You chose your profession and calling for all the right reasons. Your work helps people in their most hidden and painful problems every day.

The importance of your work is underscored by how incredibly hard it is. Any given day might bring massive challenges with your clients or patients. Who else is in it for all the right reasons? Who can you trust to work alongside you, providing evidence-based and trauma-resolution care? Who provides the best opportunity for long-term recovery?

Google provides 350,000,000 results when searching “addiction treatment.” This is an overwhelming number of options that you can ascertain for quality, but can your clients or patients?

They look to you to:

They look to you. And you look to Santé Center for Healing for expertise, integrity and long-term recovery…for all the right reasons.

Santé Center for Healing: Continuum of Care... https://www.santecenter.com/continuum-of-care-flipbook/ 

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