Occupational Therapy

When an addiction sets in, people start reducing time spent on healthy productive activities of daily living and start spending more time drinking alcohol or taking drugs. Progressively, this leads to a total loss of capacity to engage in their daily lives with other people without the help of the substance of addiction.

Occupational therapy focuses on the restoration of skills and abilities in order to help clients to accomplish important tasks and find satisfaction in everyday activities without the need for alcohol or drugs.

Our occupational therapists evaluate the client’s ability to function, helping them to set short and long term goals with the aim of improving their quality of life and sustenance of recovery. We guide our clients to find out and overcome the issues getting in their way of enjoyment of life.

During Occupational therapy sessions, clients address coping strategies for recovery, rebuild roles and responsibilities in their families, explore their occupations/careers and develop life skills using daily activities of living.

The process is highly individualised and is modeled around helping the client to see how their behavior and thoughts revolve around alcohol or drugs and how this results in their loss of identity as they lose important roles in their lives. The clients are then guided through the process of rebuilding those roles both as members of a family and in their occupations through activities that the client enjoys doing and that bring a sense of well-being without the need for alcohol or drugs