Our Approach
Our Approach
At Westchester Foundation, our overall approach recognizes and works with the continuous interplay between Mind, Body, and Spirit in human experience. You will not be solely defined by the condition and circumstances that brought you to treatment, even if those aspects dominate your life.
If we—meaning the staff and you, in collaboration—only focus on one aspect of your person, life, or condition, your recovery may fall short. In shaping your recovery, we will identify, understand, and address the influences of your current life and personal history.
Recognizing that each individual is unique, Westchester Foundation will address the Mind, Body, and Spirit aspects through alternative practices, enabling guests to find the approaches that best match their needs. Complementary therapies and integrative healing will also allow our guests to discover healthy activities they can incorporate into their aftercare program.
At Westchester Foundation, we will not put you through a pre-set program. Instead, we will approach you as the unique individual you are.
While our approach will never be formulaic or standardized, we will draw on tried and tested therapies when we believe they will work for you. We will always work collaboratively with you, remaining prepared to adjust our approach as we progress.
We will begin by getting to know you well and building trust so that we can work effectively together. This will be the essence of a creative therapeutic relationship.
We will listen carefully to what you want to achieve. Working closely with you individually, we will construct the clearest possible picture of how dependency and/or mental and emotional health issues are affecting you and those close to you. We will draw on our experience and expertise to help you map out and establish a recovery journey that is entirely your own, yet one that we agree has the best chance of lasting beyond treatment.
We will assist you in putting in place the support needed to sustain your recovery beyond Westchester Foundation.
At Westchester Foundation, based on thorough assessments, the inpatient recovery response will be specific to each individual’s particular condition, such as eating disorders, bipolar disorder, generalized anxiety, phobias, depression, schizophrenia, psychosis, obsessive-compulsive disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder, or any of those listed in the formal diagnostic manuals, including various personality disorders.
We will also recognize that some individuals may present with burnout and exhaustion brought on by the excessive demands of their lifestyle or work.
In many cases, individuals will arrive at the inpatient treatment center already taking some form of prescribed medication. We will review the prescription, adjust it as necessary, and then carefully monitor its effect throughout treatment. Every proposed step will be discussed with the patient and explained thoroughly.
These aspects of personalized treatment will ensure that our approach is tailored to each individual’s specific needs, providing the best chance for successful recovery and sustained well-being beyond the inpatient program.
At Westchester Foundation, recovery will be yours, and it will be waiting to happen. We will not give it to you or make it happen to you or for you. Instead, it is something that, with the right circumstances and approach, will happen within you and come to be owned and managed by you. Therefore, we will focus on what we can do: create the right conditions to enable you to connect with and embrace recovery.
We will see our role as providing you with a safe, contained, and professionally conscientious space where, through a personalized approach, we will work together to:
– Understand you as an individual in the context of your current life.
– Understand what has brought you to seek help now.
– Assess your personal goals.
– Recognize potential obstacles to making meaningful changes and achieving your goals.
– Help you discover how to move with purpose beyond those obstacles, optimizing your resources for recovery.
– Support you by drawing on all our knowledge, experience, and resources while remaining open to the possibility of new approaches.
– Assist you in establishing and practicing personal recovery behaviors, mindsets, and attitudes that will contribute to your long-term well-being.
Apart from appropriately prescribed recovery modalities, Westchester Foundation will be an alcohol and drug-free environment.
Our private recovery home will offer an abstinence-based approach to achieving sustainable recovery, though it will not be rigidly dogmatic. The judicious use of medications will be determined purely by clinical necessity. You will not be withdrawn from medications for which there is a current or ongoing clinical need. The clinical protocols for managing withdrawal will adhere to international standards that have been tried and tested over decades.
Abstaining from addictive substances or behaviors will serve as the starting point of treatment. However, it will not be viewed as an end in itself. Simply refraining from something is not very appealing; rather, it is about not doing something to allow and enable something positive to happen: recovery and all the benefits that come with it.
There is a very practical aspect to abstinence. Without the distorting interference of the substance or behavior, you will be more clearly revealed, including to yourself. This will enable a more accurate assessment of whether various mental and physical symptoms evident at admission were purely associated with active addiction or might exist in any case. Some symptoms may disappear, while others will come into clearer relief. In this way, a truer picture of the individual will emerge following withdrawal.
At Westchester Foundation, our overall approach recognizes and works with the continuous interplay between Mind, Body, and Spirit in human experience. You will not be solely defined by the condition and circumstances that brought you to treatment, even if those aspects dominate your life.
If we—meaning the staff and you, in collaboration—only focus on one aspect of your person, life, or condition, your recovery may fall short. In shaping your recovery, we will identify, understand, and address the influences of your current life and personal history.
Recognizing that each individual is unique, Westchester Foundation will address the Mind, Body, and Spirit aspects through alternative practices, enabling guests to find the approaches that best match their needs. Complementary therapies and integrative healing will also allow our guests to discover healthy activities they can incorporate into their aftercare program.
At Westchester Foundation, we will not put you through a pre-set program. Instead, we will approach you as the unique individual you are.
While our approach will never be formulaic or standardized, we will draw on tried and tested therapies when we believe they will work for you. We will always work collaboratively with you, remaining prepared to adjust our approach as we progress.
We will begin by getting to know you well and building trust so that we can work effectively together. This will be the essence of a creative therapeutic relationship.
We will listen carefully to what you want to achieve. Working closely with you individually, we will construct the clearest possible picture of how dependency and/or mental and emotional health issues are affecting you and those close to you. We will draw on our experience and expertise to help you map out and establish a recovery journey that is entirely your own, yet one that we agree has the best chance of lasting beyond treatment.
We will assist you in putting in place the support needed to sustain your recovery beyond Westchester Foundation.
At Westchester Foundation, based on thorough assessments, the inpatient recovery response will be specific to each individual’s particular condition, such as eating disorders, bipolar disorder, generalized anxiety, phobias, depression, schizophrenia, psychosis, obsessive-compulsive disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder, or any of those listed in the formal diagnostic manuals, including various personality disorders.
We will also recognize that some individuals may present with burnout and exhaustion brought on by the excessive demands of their lifestyle or work.
In many cases, individuals will arrive at the inpatient treatment center already taking some form of prescribed medication. We will review the prescription, adjust it as necessary, and then carefully monitor its effect throughout treatment. Every proposed step will be discussed with the patient and explained thoroughly.
These aspects of personalized treatment will ensure that our approach is tailored to each individual’s specific needs, providing the best chance for successful recovery and sustained well-being beyond the inpatient program.
At Westchester Foundation, recovery will be yours, and it will be waiting to happen. We will not give it to you or make it happen to you or for you. Instead, it is something that, with the right circumstances and approach, will happen within you and come to be owned and managed by you. Therefore, we will focus on what we can do: create the right conditions to enable you to connect with and embrace recovery.
We will see our role as providing you with a safe, contained, and professionally conscientious space where, through a personalized approach, we will work together to:
– Understand you as an individual in the context of your current life.
– Understand what has brought you to seek help now.
– Assess your personal goals.
– Recognize potential obstacles to making meaningful changes and achieving your goals.
– Help you discover how to move with purpose beyond those obstacles, optimizing your resources for recovery.
– Support you by drawing on all our knowledge, experience, and resources while remaining open to the possibility of new approaches.
– Assist you in establishing and practicing personal recovery behaviors, mindsets, and attitudes that will contribute to your long-term well-being.
Apart from appropriately prescribed recovery modalities, Westchester Foundation will be an alcohol and drug-free environment.
Our private recovery home will offer an abstinence-based approach to achieving sustainable recovery, though it will not be rigidly dogmatic. The judicious use of medications will be determined purely by clinical necessity. You will not be withdrawn from medications for which there is a current or ongoing clinical need. The clinical protocols for managing withdrawal will adhere to international standards that have been tried and tested over decades.
Abstaining from addictive substances or behaviors will serve as the starting point of treatment. However, it will not be viewed as an end in itself. Simply refraining from something is not very appealing; rather, it is about not doing something to allow and enable something positive to happen: recovery and all the benefits that come with it.
There is a very practical aspect to abstinence. Without the distorting interference of the substance or behavior, you will be more clearly revealed, including to yourself. This will enable a more accurate assessment of whether various mental and physical symptoms evident at admission were purely associated with active addiction or might exist in any case. Some symptoms may disappear, while others will come into clearer relief. In this way, a truer picture of the individual will emerge following withdrawal.