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CMC Berkshires (Center for Motivation and Change)New Marlborough, Massachusetts, United States (4 Reviews)
New Marlborough, Massachusetts, United States
CMC Berkshires (Center for Motivation and Change)
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Doctorate Level One-On-One Therapy
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About CMC Berkshires (Center for Motivation and Change)
Through compassion, collaboration, and the best science has to offer, the Center for Motivation and Change (CMC) helps people with addiction and co-occurring mental health conditions make lasting, life-enhancing changes. They use evidence-based approaches to address substance use, compulsive behaviors, and other mental health issues, including trauma. Their 12-person clinical team comprising a board-certified psychiatrist, psychologists, master’s-level clinicians, and social workers, which enables CMC:Berkshires to provide truly individualized care for clients and their families.
Engage in Motivational Therapies
CMC:Berkshire’s approach helps clients identify their own compelling reasons for change and map out a path they can endorse, not just endure. Rather than focusing solely on stopping unwanted behaviors, their team motivates clients to accomplish their goals and develop a fulfilling life. Clients receive 3+ weekly 1:1 sessions with their primary clinician, 3 daily group sessions, and at least 2 weekly sessions with their family therapist. These therapies include cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), dialectical behavioral therapy (DBT), trauma-focused therapies, and more. CMC:Berkshires offers non-12-Step care and incorporates 12-Step principles only as desired.
Make Sense of Traumatic Experiences
CMC:Berkshires’ clinicians are trained in gold-standard protocols for treating trauma and PTSD, working with clients to select the most effective treatment for them. They offer Prolonged Exposure therapy (PE & COPE), Skills Training in Affective and Interpersonal Regulation (STAIR), Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT), Somatic Experiencing (SE), Written Exposure Therapy (WET), and Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR).
Practice New Skills in a Peaceful Setting
CMC:Berkshires is a 15-resident community in a stunning manor house less than 3 hours from New York City and Boston. Each client enjoys a private, spacious bedroom with an en suite bathroom. In addition to comfortable living, dining, and therapy areas, the spectacular patio offers 50-mile views. On their 200-acre property, a pond provides fishing and kayaking opportunities, and additional features include a driving range, sledding hill, and outdoor yoga deck. Flexible technology policies and office spaces allow clients to use devices outside therapy hours.
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Make Strides as a Family
At CMC:Berkshires, clients have a dedicated family therapist who will begin work with them early on to identify the family and peer relationships that need to be addressed to maintain long-term change. Using Community Reinforcement and Family Training (CRAFT), Invitation to Change (ITC), and various other therapies, the family therapist helps clients constructively engage the people close to them while in treatment so that their loved ones can learn how to play a motivating and supportive role in their life moving forward.
Enjoy Therapeutic Wellness Activities
CMC:Berkshires integrates expert clinical support with exercise, nutrition, stress management, and nature to help clients balance emotional and physical well-being. Their wellness team communicates daily with the clinical team and is considered an essential part of the CMC:Berkshires experience. Clients can participate in yoga, personal and group fitness, massage and acupuncture, and steam room facilities for therapeutic value. The wellness team is trained to help clients improve their health through better relationships with their bodies.
Reinforce Skills with Robust Aftercare
CMC:Berkshires wants clients to carry everything they learn back with them and be able to put it to use. Their client care coordinator collaborates with existing treatment providers and helps clients add further support to achieve their goals. For 4 weeks after discharge, clients have weekly follow-up calls with their primary therapist to reinforce the skills learned and changes made and to get refreshers if needed. They also offer twice-monthly virtual alumni groups.
Trust in Highly Competent Clinicians
CMC:Berkshires’ team is a group of doctoral- and master’s-level clinicians who have been authoring books and articles, developing groundbreaking treatments, and conducting research studies for over 20 years. Every clinician is extensively trained in CMC’s core modalities and receives weekly supervision by senior clinicians. They participate in ongoing training for specializations, as well as regular cultural competency training.
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Center Overview
Estimated Center Costs
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Older Adults
Addiction and mental health treatment caters to adults 55+ and the age-specific challenges that can come with recovery, wellness, and overall happiness.
Executives
Executive treatment programs typically directly support the needs of people who manage businesses and may provide flexible schedules and office space to allow work during treatment.
Men and Women
Men and women attend treatment for addiction in a co-ed setting, going to therapy groups together to share experiences, struggles, and successes.
Midlife Adults
For adults ages 40+, treatment shifts to focus on the unique challenges, blocks, and risk factors of their age group, and unites peers in a similar community.
Professionals
Busy, high-ranking professionals get the personalized treatment they need with greater accommodations for work, privacy, and outside communication.
Treatment Focus
This center treats primary substance use disorders and co-occurring mental health conditions. Your treatment plan addresses each condition at once with personalized, compassionate care for comprehensive healing.
Treatment
Specializations
Alcohol
Using alcohol as a coping mechanism, or drinking excessively throughout the week, signals an alcohol use disorder.
Co-Occurring Disorders
A person with multiple mental health diagnoses, such as addiction and depression, has co-occurring disorders also called dual diagnosis.
Depression
Symptoms of depression may include fatigue, a sense of numbness, and loss of interest in activities. This condition can range from mild to severe.
Drug Addiction
Drug addiction is the excessive and repetitive use of substances, despite harmful consequences to a person's life, health, and relationships.
Executives
Executive treatment programs typically directly support the needs of people who manage businesses and may provide flexible schedules and office space to allow work during treatment.
Prescription Drugs
It's possible to abuse any drug, even prescribed ones. If you crave a medication, or regularly take it more than directed, you may have an addiction.
Trauma
Some traumatic events are so disturbing that they cause long-term mental health problems. Those ongoing issues can also be referred to as "trauma."
Treatment Services
Outpatient
During outpatient rehab, patients attend a structured treatment program while continuing to live at home.
Residential
In a residential rehab program, patients live onsite, with access to daily treatment and 24-hour care. An average stay is 30-90 days.
Approaches
Evidence-Based
A combination of scientifically rooted therapies and treatments make up evidence-based care, defined by their measured and proven results.
Family Involvement
Providers involve family in the treatment of their loved one through family therapy, visits, or both–because addiction is a family disease.
Individual Treatment
Individual care meets the needs of each patient, using personalized treatment to provide them the most relevant care and greatest chance of success.
Therapies
1-on-1 Counseling
Patient and therapist meet 1-on-1 to work through difficult emotions and behavioral challenges in a personal, private setting.
Trauma-Specific Therapy
This form of talk therapy addresses any childhood trauma at the root of a patient's current diagnosis.
Mindfulness Therapy
This ancient practice can be mental, emotional, and even spiritual. In meditation, you focus your attention on the present moment without judgement.
Couples Counseling
Partners work to improve their communication patterns, using advice from their therapist to better their relationship and make healthy changes.
Eye Movement Therapy (EMDR)
Lateral, guided eye movements help reduce the emotional reactions of retelling and reprocessing trauma, allowing intense feelings to dissipate.
Family Therapy
Family therapy addresses group dynamics within a family system, with a focus on improving communication and interrupting unhealthy relationship patterns.
Life Skills
Teaching life skills like cooking, cleaning, clear communication, and even basic math provides a strong foundation for continued recovery.
Conditions We Treat
Personality Disorders
Personality disorders destabilize the way a person thinks, feels, and behaves. If untreated, they can undermine relationships and lead to severe distress.
Anger
Although anger itself isn't a disorder, it can get out of hand. If this feeling interferes with your relationships and daily functioning, treatment can help.
Anxiety
Anxiety is a common mental health condition that can include excessive worry, panic attacks, physical tension, and increased blood pressure.
Codependency
Codependency is a pattern of emotional dependence and controlling behavior. It's most common among people with addicted loved ones.
Depression
Symptoms of depression may include fatigue, a sense of numbness, and loss of interest in activities. This condition can range from mild to severe.
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
OCD is characterized by intrusive and distressing thoughts that drive repetitive behaviors. This pattern disrupts daily life and relationships.
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
PTSD is a long-term mental health issue caused by a disturbing event or events. Symptoms include anxiety, dissociation, flashbacks, and intrusive thoughts.
Stress
Stress is a natural reaction to challenges, and it can even help you adapt. However, chronic stress can cause physical and mental health issues.
Trauma
Some traumatic events are so disturbing that they cause long-term mental health problems. Those ongoing issues can also be referred to as "trauma."
Substances We Treat
Alcohol
Using alcohol as a coping mechanism, or drinking excessively throughout the week, signals an alcohol use disorder.
Benzodiazepines
Benzodiazepines are prescribed to treat anxiety and sleep issues. They are highly habit forming, and their abuse can cause mood changes and poor judgement.
Co-Occurring Disorders
A person with multiple mental health diagnoses, such as addiction and depression, has co-occurring disorders also called dual diagnosis.
Cocaine
Cocaine is a stimulant with euphoric effects. Agitation, muscle ticks, psychosis, and heart issues are common symptoms of cocaine abuse.
Drug Addiction
Drug addiction is the excessive and repetitive use of substances, despite harmful consequences to a person's life, health, and relationships.
Ecstasy
Ecstasy is a stimulant that causes intense euphoria and heightened awareness. Abuse of this drug can trigger depression, insomnia, and memory problems.
Heroin
Heroin is a highly addictive and illegal opioid. It can cause insomnia, collapsed veins, heart issues, and additional mental health issues.
Psychedelics
Hallucinogenic drugs—like LSD—cause euphoria and increased sensory experiences. When abused, they can lead to depression and psychosis.
Methamphetamine
Methamphetamine, or meth, increases energy, agitation, and paranoia. Long-term use can result in severe physical and mental health issues.
Aftercare
Experience
Personal Amenities
Amenities
Special Considerations
Flexible technology policies
Centers with flexible technology policies allow professionals to stay in touch with work and give patients a greater sense of connection and normalcy.
Healthy Meals are provided
Great food meets great treatment, with providers serving healthy meals to restore nutrition, wellbeing, and health.
Activities
Yoga
Yoga is both a physical and spiritual practice. It includes a flow of movement, breathing techniques, and meditation.
Off-Site Activities
Professional Staff
Jeffrey Foote
Co-founder and Executive Director
PhD
Carrie Wilkens
Co-founder and Clinical Director
PhD
Ed Bevan
Senior Clinician
PsyD
Elisabeth Fonseca
Senior Clinician
PhD
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