Our treatment experts developed The APN Way to describe our continuum of care and treatment philosophy. We distilled our beliefs into five essential elements and eight pathways along the journey to ensure clients progress across our continuum with continuity and fidelity. At APN, we work with each client to develop a custom treatment plan based on the 8 pathways outlined below.

1. Set Goals & Examine Identity Bonds
All relationships (including your therapeutic relationships here at APN) begin with developing safety. We will outline your journey with a thorough orientation at the beginning of treatment to help you establish safety and lay a solid foundation for success. We will communicate the full results of your professional assessment honestly and transparently and start an open dialogue to identify your markers for success and develop specific, measurable goals for wellness. Together, we will anchor your personalized path with protective factors, therapeutic tools, and bespoke assignments to help you dig into what forms your identity and relational bonds and prepare you for the journey ahead.

2. Build Momentum Through Change Principles
As you begin to examine and put experiences into perspective, we will lean into principles of change to build momentum and motivation. Change is an essential component of treatment, and we will focus on a few specific elements, including:
- Understanding your dimensions of wellness to reframe and embrace any health conditions and their biology
- Developing whole-body awareness and responding with care
- Gaining insight and education on your unique needs and barriers with psychoeducation and tools to set you up for success
- Working to change your internal dialogue and reflect on behavior patterns to increase confidence and prepare for progress
- Strengthening your support system through interaction with the APN community and your family of choice
- Developing recovery behaviors and non-addictive coping strategies to propel you into a culture of change
3. Reset Relationships & Pursue Healthy Support
As you build upon your early accomplishments and momentum, you will start to challenge yourself by further investigating the maladaptive behaviors you have developed and experienced in relationships throughout your life.
You will learn to set healthy boundaries and evaluate destructive relationships and roles that could undermine and derail your progress. We will work with you to identify and build a functional support system of loved ones, chosen family, and professional support so you feel confident confronting dysfunction and growing toward healthier relationships. Though it can be difficult to set boundaries and redefine relationships, we will be with you along the way to help you navigate what comes up.
4. Practice the Pillars of Wellness for Balance and Purpose
By this pathway, you will be ready to fully embrace our model of whole-person healing. You will refine your new value system and root yourself in a balance that includes emotional, spiritual, physical, social, financial, occupational, intellectual, and environmental wellness pillars.
Together, we will map past and potential threats to your mental well-being and recovery by reinforcing your boundaries with yourself and others. You will practice behavioral modification efforts and grow increasingly confident in your ability to change. All this work will lead to a new sense of purpose, balance, and meaning in your life.
5. Resolve Trauma and Its Lingering Impacts
Trauma affects people differently, and we will work with you to create a bespoke path toward resolution, focused on the initial events and their lingering impacts. Our trained trauma experts will help you map trauma’s effects on your internal systems, then reprocess your experiences with new information and professional support. Our trauma-informed curriculum will guide you through a highly individualized process to identify your internal roles, understand how you have stored traumatic experiences in your body, rewrite your trauma scripts, recognize stuck points, and generate empowerment.
You can trust us to support you with various resources and move at a pace that is challenging but comfortable for you. We want to assist you in a controlled revisiting, revising, resolving, and restoring of your empowered state, disentangling you from the hold of your past.
6. Increase Your Capacity for Vulnerability & Intimacy
All the previous pathways will lead you to a new point where you are ready to release your past and embrace hope. From here, you will develop new life priorities and create healthy bonds, unburdened by fear, dysfunction, or trauma. Your efforts have helped you rediscover your authentic self – now, you are ready to stand strong in the face of triggers and potentials for relapse with a greater capacity for vulnerability and connection. During this step, we will work together to further explore how fear has compromised your capacity for relational intimacy in the past, and what healthy intimacy can look like moving forward. You will develop a healthy model for intimacy that considers your emotional, physical, crisis, aesthetic, intellectual, recreational, spiritual, and sexual needs.
7. Reintroduce Yourself & Your New Role
Your renewed identity balances your sense of self, relational connections, and self-control. With a growth mindset, you can continue to optimize your life and your identity to shape the best version of yourself. This improved confidence and grounded sense of self is essential for long-term recovery – you will feel inspired to examine what you want to do for work, fun, and fulfillment as you set new professional, personal, and relationship goals. With your newly crafted identity, you can shed any facades and begin to show people who you really are and what they can expect from you going forward.
8. Revisit Your Journey as You Begin the Next
The final pathway before your next phase of growth and maintenance invites you to review what you have accomplished. You have strengthened your support system, solidified your values, and embarked on a new chapter grounded in significant strides toward long-term healing. You have laid a solid foundation, and you now understand that recovery is less about finding a “cure,” and more about learning how to truly care for yourself.
During this last phase, we will review any regrets, resentments, and gratitudes you feel for the journey behind you as you prepare for what lies ahead. This pathway provides closure and reinvigorates your confidence in the next phases of your life – empowering you to heal yourself, your relationships, and the world around you.
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