Treatment Programs
Westminster House offers specialized treatment programs for youth girls, women, and all female-identifying individuals struggling with addiction. Our programs cater to both adults and youth, providing a safe and supportive environment for healing and recovery. Let us help you or your loved one on the path to a healthier, happier life.
Adult Treatment
The Adult Primary Program at Westminster House is 90 days long. Clients address core issues of addiction and follow an action plan for improved health outcomes and sustainable recovery.​​​
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Our holistic approach to recovery serves to heal body, mind and spirit. This approach emphasizes that successful addiction recovery requires treatment of the whole person, taking into account several factors rather than just the hallmark symptoms of addiction.
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Many clients enter our facility with:​
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Mental health challenges
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Poor physical health
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Weakened immune systems
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Trauma
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Our approach to care is built on an understanding that trauma:
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Is prevalent in many of our clients
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Has common impacts our staff learn to recognize
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Practicing trauma-informed care means understanding that protective behaviors make sense when trauma is in the background. Our team is trained on the different kinds of trauma and how to recognize the signs of traumatic impact and how the survival stances of fight, flight, or freeze may show up in the people we serve, support, or work with.
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To address these issues, Westminster House incorporates a weekly schedule of client wellness programming. This collection of health and wellness therapies:
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Facilitate the movement of energy
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Aid pain management
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Form healthy habits and routine
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Teach tools for coping, mindfulness, and managing stress
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Explore various activities that facilitate self-exploration and enjoyment
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Improve physical fitness
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Our weekly wellness schedule offers:
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Acupuncture
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Yoga
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Yoga/Fitness Class
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Art therapy
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Music therapy
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DBT
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Culture Group
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Individualized, goal-oriented treatment includes one-to-one support with Case Workers and holistic group counselling covering a variety of topics such as:
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12 step philosophy
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Self-esteem
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Relapse prevention
Clients also engage in introspective writing exercises and educational sessions on self-awareness and problem-solving.
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In addition, clients participate in:
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Daily chores
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Food service activities
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Community events
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Recreational activities
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Team sports
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These activities enhance social skills, create a sense of belonging, and promote a substance-free lifestyle.
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Support Programs
Our support programs are designed to help residents build on their recovery capital, strengthen supports, and prepare for successful reintegration into daily life upon completing our 90 day program. We offer a range of programs for both adults and youth, providing the necessary tools to build a solid foundation for their future.
Dialectical Behaviour Therapy
What is DBT?
Dialectical Behavioural Therapy (DBT) is an empirical established treatment modality for individuals with multiple and severe psychosocial disorders. Many individuals with psychosocial disorders are concurrent with substance use disorder. DBT incorporates skills and tools that are designed to promote abstinence and to reduce the length and frequency of relapse (Linehan, 2008). The main goal of DBT is to assist individuals with acceptance and change through learning skills and tools that focus on mindfulness, interpersonal effectiveness, emotion regulation, and distress tolerance.​
DBT skills are part of all our psychoeducational groups and utilized by case managers to support the needs of individual clients on a daily basis, because it helps to build the skills and tools on how to deal with life.
Purpose of DBT?
The purpose of DBT is to help and strengthen clients’ capabilities regarding mindfulness, interpersonal effectiveness, emotion regulation, and distress tolerance:
A) Mindfulness: The practice of being fully aware and present in the moment.
B) Interpersonal Effectiveness: The practice of communicating your needs and wants while maintaining self-respect and relationships with others.
C) Emotion Regulation: The practice of managing emotional experiences.
D) Distress Tolerance: The practice of tolerating and managing emotional pain during difficult situations.
How Often?
DBT skills are part of all our psychoeducational groups and utilized by case managers to support the needs of individual clients. However, there is an enchased program component available that is 4 modules and 8 sessions in length (weekly or bi-weekly).
Not all clients having the opportunity to participate in DBT skills training as it is a limited group. Individuals who are stabilized and can fully manage the core elements of our program will be invited by their case manager should it be determined that DBT skills would benefit their stay at WHS.
The target population for DBT is emerging adults and adults who experience or struggle with a personality disorder, depression, anxiety, chaotic relationships, emotional storms, and anger management difficulties.
Get in Touch
Reach out with any questions you may have, and a member of our staff will be happy to assist you within 48 business hours. If it is an emergency, please call our 24 hour help line at: 1-866-524-5633.
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Westminster House Society respectfully acknowledges that the land we stand upon is the traditional unceded territory of the QayQayt and Sto:lo First Nations, and we recognize all Coast Salish and Sto:lo peoples on whose traditional and unceded territories we learn, play, work, and recover.