We Now Accept Cigna Insurance

D'Amore now accepts Cigna Insurance for Behavioral Health Services

D’Amore Healthcare now accepts Cigna Insurance for Mental Health Treatment D’Amore Healthcare is proud to announce that we now accept Cigna Insurance.  Our comprehensive mental health program offers psychiatric residential treatment for a multitude of mental health disorders, including schizophrenia, major depressive disorder, bipolar disorder, generalized anxiety disorder, trauma, PTSD, and a variety of compulsions and […]

What Is The Difference Between CBT And DBT?

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In addiction treatment and mental health treatment, Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) are frequently utilized to assist in the recovery of suffering clients. Both are some of the most common and best-known treatment approaches used in the treatment of a wide variety of mental health and behavioral health disorders. Cognitive Behavioral […]

Six Months of Continuing Support

People seeking mental health treatment find themselves facing challenges many will never fully understand.  No one dreams about one day having a mental illness and the crises (spiritual, emotional, financial, social, moral) situated with these daunting illnesses. In fact, many fail to realize that it’s a mental illness or unresolved trauma that often leads to […]

Maintaining Sobriety While Away at College

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Sobriety in Dorm or Greek Life Managing your daily school schedule, study time, work, exercise, friends, the picky RA, money and some sleep can be a doozy! The popular narrative is that college is filled with a lot of partying and little studying. If you are a recovering addict that is heading back to school, […]

Healing the Herd Through Equine Therapy

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How Equine Therapy Increases Self-Compassion and Self-Awareness Self-compassion and self-awareness are improved through equine therapy because both horses and humans are based in the herd instinct (tribe, band, family, etc). Without the herd, isolation is fatal. The fundamental well being of each individual in the herd is vital to the wellbeing of the herd as […]

We want to get it off our chest — You deserve to be cancer free AND drug free!

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OCT Breast Cancer Awareness and Addiction: When One Disease Leads to Another Finding out you or someone you love has cancer is frightening. The emotional rollercoaster of understanding your diagnosis, treatment options and chances of survival is a challenging journey. All oncological treatments including breast cancer treatment are often unpleasant and painful, from radiation, chemotherapy […]

Empathic Equine Therapy at D’Amore Healthcare

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How Horses Demonstrate Empathy Empathy is defined as the ability to understand and share the feelings of another. Horses are sensitive, feeling-oriented prey animals. Because of this, their survival depends on their ability to sense any incongruence in their environment. As herd animals, horses can sense and assimilate to the feelings of other horses and […]

REST. Sleep Better at Night

R.E.S.T.: How to Sleep Better at Night Do you have trouble falling asleep and remaining asleep? Find yourself waking up repeatedly throughout the night? Do you constantly toss and turn? And, do you feel fully rested when you wake up in the morning? If you are a recovering addict, this may be more common for […]

Maintaining Your Sobriety at Social Events

Sobriety at Social Events As the weather warms up, social calendars tend to include events with ice cold this, mojito that, pineapple-infused zombie something. Throw in a couple ice cubes of awkward, frozen or, irritated and it’s a real hoot. Or, not. Memorial Day, 4thof July, Labor Day, weddings, backyard BBQs, graduations, all create reasons for […]

Two Dead Bodies — Taking A Different Path

On my first day of treatment, I watched them roll two purplish bodies out of the room across from me. EMS were there and the police too. Residents circled the scene, taking it all in. But, most of us used and drank again. I was 21 and not convinced I had a problem I couldn’t […]