How we Treat
Seeking Safety
Seeking Safety is a treatment modality focused on helping clients feel safe in their everyday lives, including in their relationships, thoughts, emotions, and choices.
This treatment method is available at Smoky Mountain Lodge and Great Lakes.
Seeking Safety at Pasadena Villa
At Pasadena Villa, our therapists use seeking safety therapy to guide clients through four key areas of focus:
Cognitive
Understanding and reframing the situation.
Behavioral
Making healthier, more intentional choices.
Interpersonal
Improving communication and relationship skills.
Case management
Collaborating with therapists for personalized support.
What is Seeking Safety?
Seeking Safety is an evidence-based therapy designed to enhance coping skills and promote stabilization — especially for individuals facing co-occurring trauma and substance use disorders. This approach empowers clients with practical tools to make healthier choices and regain control of their lives.
Healing through Seeking Safety
Seeking Safety therapy helps clients break out of cycles of codependent and damaging behaviors often brought on by co-occurring post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and substance abuse.
How Does Seeking Safety Work?
The main component of seeking safety is helping clients feel safe in their everyday lives, including their relationships, thoughts, emotions, and behavioral choices. Addiction and trauma can often lead to a sense of self–loss. Seeking safety enables clients to re-identify with their values and goals and helps them work toward reinstating them.
Pasadena Villa
Our Levels of Care
Pasadena Villa offers a comprehensive continuum of care — from residential treatment to partial hospitalization (PHP) and intensive outpatient (IOP) programs — ensuring individuals and families find the right level of support at every stage of treatment.
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