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right fit COLLABORATIVE offers over a decade of clinical expertise and treatment industry knowledge to licensed professionals, families and individuals AT NO COST, to assess, evaluate and construct the right fit individualized treatment plan through communication, collaboration, and care.

The Venn Diagram depicted here helps us understand the impact of interaction of mental health, addiction, and trauma within the framework of family system influence.   We all know that addiction presents as “all or nothing” thinking and behavior, similar to the co-occurring mental health traits of bipolar disorder:  mania and depression.   Until a client is sober and free of substances in their system, it is difficult to know whether addictive use of substances or behaviors contribute to the mania and depression or vice-versa – the addictive use is an attempt to self-medicate the mental health issues and mitigate the dysregulation and pain.

Family of Origin circumstances also play a role.  Children who grow up with addiction, abuse, parents with mental health or chronic medical issues, divorce, abandonment and, as Pia Melody said, “anything less than nurturing,” experience long term impact from the survival strategies they develop to cope with their surroundings and environment.  Sensitive children experience more intense reactions to what happened in the family or what they perceive happened.  Perception and Experience leave their marks on the psyche of the child and imprint brain and body whether it was real or perceived.  This happens in the best of families.  Unintended abuse or neglect have the same impact as intentional abuse.

Treatment that addresses addiction only, misses the opportunity to heal the root cause of the using behavior and, in fact, only provides a band aid to the wound.  Discerning causes and drivers of symptomatic behavior offers healing at a core level – healing from the in-side out.  These are the treatment providers that we recommend and refer to.

Our treatment providers understand and treat each of the components of the venn diagram and all of them and all of them that show up comprehensively.

A Venn Diagram Model for Conceptualizing Co-Occurring Recovery

Julio I. Rojas PhD., ©The Board of Regents of the University of Oklahoma 2011

Our Consultants

Sherry Young, PhD, CSAT

Sherry Young, PhD, CSAT

Julie Hurley, AAS, RS

Julie Hurley, AAS, RS

Charli Taylor, MA

Charli Taylor, MA

Our Results