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Women's Program

When substance use or mental health issues are taking away what you value the most, we can provide care centered on your needs as a woman.

Women wear many hats, from mother and mentor to professional and volunteer, aunt, daughter, friend, and more. The vital roles you play in your family, your profession, your community, and other places may make it hard to get help when you need it. For many women, an elevated level of shame and secrecy about substance use stands in the way of needed care.

With Caron’s support, you can let that shame and secrecy go. Clinical excellence and uncompromising patient-centric care mark every component of Caron’s core programming, which includes the Women’s Program. Our focus incorporates overall mental behavioral health, including treatment of co-occurring disorders.

With more than 60 years of history treating substance use disorder and process addictions, Caron emphasizes Recovery for Life, providing you and every patient we treat with lifetime support. We view substance use disorder as a chronic treatable brain disease that requires a long-term management plan. That’s why all of our programs are fully integrated with the 12-step approach.

Caron has developed treatment components to address women’s specific emotional and spiritual needs. You and a multidisciplinary treatment team will work together to determine the most effective therapies and the time needed to accomplish the goals for your treatment.

Regain the life you love with the support of Caron’s expertise and experience.
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Insurance Options for Affordable, Effective Treatment

As an in-network partner with several nationally known insurance companies as well as regional insurance providers, Caron is making life-saving addiction treatment available to more women who need it and starting them on the road to Recovery for Life. These agreements cover the initial four weeks of treatment, (subject to one’s deductible, co-insurance and/or copays) so that women, regardless of where they live in the United States, have access to the care they need.

For more than 60 years Caron has provided innovative, specialized, and effective addiction treatment and behavioral healthcare. Caron’s patient-centric programming focuses on overall behavioral health, addressing co-occurring disorders with the substance use disorder, and utilizes evidence-based medical interventions combined with family education and support to help patients and families begin the process of recovery.

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Featured Staff
Erin Goodhart
Sr. Clinical Director of Women's Services
Jacquelyn Guthridge
Clinical Supervisor of Women’s Services

Multidisciplinary Team of Addiction and Mental Health Specialists

Caron’s team of dedicated professionals focused on the treatment of women includes:

  • Licensed psychologists and psychiatrists with experience in treating issues specific to women, such as recognizing they are not responsible for fixing others’ problems, reducing shame and guilt, and building positive relationships
  • Highly credentialed behavioral health therapists
  • Nurse practitioners
  • Family therapists
  • Registered dietitians who are available for consultation for needs that require dietary support, such as diabetes, allergies, etc.
  • Health and wellness experts
  • Spiritual leaders
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Gender-Specific Treatment

Connection is a core need for women. Your treatment takes place in a women-only unit that allows you to let your guard down and be vulnerable. Female-only groups provide the privacy and sharing that enables you to process issues specific to your life, from the guilt and shame that can accompany being a woman with a substance use disorder and the stress and anxiety of being the family caretaker to trauma and body image issues.

Specialty groups provide a safe space to build relationships and trust and a supportive circle where you can take risks and do the therapeutic work that leads to recovery. Several of the specialty programs address co-occurring disorders and the substances used with them. For example, women who are dealing with body image issues may use stimulants. Women who have experienced trauma may rely on opiates to numb their pain.

For women who have experienced trauma, Caron provides trauma programming designed specifically for their needs. Caron uses evidence-based treatment modalities, including cognitive processing therapy (CPT), cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), and dialectical behavioral therapy (DBT) as well as specialty groups dedicated to learning how to manage symptoms of anxiety and depression.

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Foundational Treatment Elements

Your treatment plan will include:

  • Thorough assessments: A range of assessments for substance use disorder and mental health, psychological testing, and a complete medical history provide information about your needs, including if there are any co-occurring disorders or other issues.

  • Detoxification services: If needed, detox is available under the supervision of an experienced and caring medical team in our state-of-the art medical building.

  • Core counseling: Using evidence-based techniques, these counselor-led groups address the key issues you face and how to implement healthy lifestyle changes.

  • Specialty groups: These groups provide a safe and supportive circle to address trauma, anxiety, body image, parenting, chronic pain, relapse, and grief and loss, among others. Specialized groups devoted to women address co-occurring disorders and the substances used with them. Women who have experienced trauma may rely on opiates to numb their pain, for example.

  • Holistic therapies: Good nutrition, attention to spiritual needs, and fitness activities that renew and refresh body and soul are all a part of Caron’s treatment plans. For example, women with body image issues attend specialty groups that include nutrition counseling among other therapies. Because Caron’s staff includes registered dietitians, nutritional counseling is available for you if you have any questions or concerns. Our staff will also work with you to help you create plans for keeping up with these therapies long term.

  • Continuing care planning: The treatment team collaborates to develop a continuing care plan for you that includes tools and recommendations for recovery when you return home. Caron Pennsylvania provides support and guidance to patients for a full year after the patient is discharged through free services like our alumni support activities and the Caron Recovery Network. Specialized programs, including My First Year of Recovery and Breakthrough workshops, are also available. Caron offers outpatient programs at our recovery centers in Pennsylvania, Washington, DC, Atlanta, New York, and New England.

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Family Programming

At Caron, we believe it is critical for the family to be part of their loved one’s treatment process. That’s why we include family members in our multi-day family program. It is designed to provide family members with the information they need to better understand substance use disorder, mental health disorders, and how best to support their loved one in their recovery. The multi-day family program enables the whole family to recover and move forward in ways that lead to optimal emotional health for everyone.

As part of family engagement, we provide a children’s program that offers education and counseling geared to their needs and concerns. Two programs offer age-specific information for children ages 7 to 11 and 12 to 15. Our staff is experienced at talking to children in language they understand, and we offer their adult caregivers tips for how to do that as well. Our goal is to ensure that the kids understand what Mom is doing in treatment and why she needs to be away from them. Family members will also learn the best ways to ensure that Mom’s return to the home goes smoothly.

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Phase II Treatment for Women

If the issues that underlie substance use disorder are not thoroughly dealt with, they can block the path to long-term recovery. Women face an additional obstacle due to their physiology, which, according to research, makes them more susceptible to craving and relapse.

Caron created Phase II to provide extended treatment beyond your initial primary treatment stay. In Phase II, you are able to explore deeper issues and learn additional coping skills to address underlying issues and develop a continuing care plan that can support you in getting past cravings and effectively managing triggers.

Depending on your needs, these programming components will be part of your Phase II treatment:

  • Extended family work, including application of concepts learned in primary treatment, such as setting and keeping boundaries, communication, and roles in recovery

  • 12-Step work, including a temporary sponsor along with increased off-campus meeting attendance

  • Spiritual practices, including morning and evening meditation and/or prayer, reading, journaling, study, and spiritual direction

  • Therapeutic passes home to identify high-risk situations and relapse risk

  • Specialized therapies that require more time to be effective, such as trauma therapy and integrative neurofeedback:

    • Trauma treatment requires establishing safety and trust first, which can take weeks, before moving onto specialized therapies to process the trauma.
    • Integrative neurofeedback reinforces healthy brain function by teaching patients how to regulate their own brain activity. Because everyone learns at different rates, it can also take time to be effective.

Caron’s Breakthrough program is also available to you in Phase II. The five-day retreat-style workshop is designed to address patterns and issues, including self-esteem, that often get in the way of being able to meet interpersonal and relationship goals. Grounded in attachment theory, Breakthrough focuses on helping participants find balance in loving relationships to establish mature and healthy connections.

The treatment team will put together a continuing care plan to ensure that you have the support and tools needed to sustain recovery when you return home.

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