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HCA offers a variety of intensive outpatient experiences that encourage a deeper level of awareness.

Workshops & Retreats

When outpatient therapy is not enough, introducing a higher level of treatment can often be the next alternative. In some cases inpatient treatment is required due to the level of acting out or trauma experience. However, sometimes a higher level of out patient care is very effective as a step up from individual outpatient counseling or a step down from an inpatient setting. HCA offers a variety of outpatient treatment alternatives to supplement, or complement, treatment goals.

How it works.

We begin each day with a time of meditation and reflection that hopefully will be incorporated into a daily routine upon return into your current life. The workshops are held in a sacred, healing space – our horse farm in Dallas, GA. Deer Ridge is easily accessible to the metropolitan Atlanta area but a world apart. Surrounded by 26,000 acres of woods, streams and wildlife the opportunity for quite time is built into each day’s schedule.

Treatment is designed to increase accountability and encourage a deeper look at your coping strategies. One week intensive retreats for sex addicts, partners of sex addicts, those wanting more fulfilling relationships and parents struggling with challenging children are scheduled throughout the year. Our groups are intentionally small – typically 4 to 6 participants/couples to allow us time to focus on your family of origin work. Sharing your story with others is the beginning of intimacy or feeling fully known.

Perhaps you are angry or ambivalent about your relationship with the Divine or are fearful of letting go and trusting yourself and other significant people in your life. Faith is important and we will take time to explore your current beliefs and ways in which your beliefs can support you in your healing.

Each participant will have half a day to focus on your family history and outline ways that lessons learned in the family may be causing problems in your current personal or professional life. Information that arises from the family history is then taken to the arena where co-therapists, our horses, will help process whatever painful memories surface. We have found that the horses are wonderful at guiding clients intuitively to a higher level of resolution.

Also included in your work will be daily individual sessions to address your issues more specifically. Each participant, or couple, will be assigned a primary counselor who will do an assessment prior to beginning treatment and serve as your guide throughout. One on one sessions provide an opportunity to explore and anchor new ways of looking at whatever life crisis is blocking forward motion. Lectures regarding sexual addiction and co-addiction, disclosure, relationship issues, parenting children through various developmental stages, and most importantly, spiritual development are just a few of the topics covered during your stay.