Healthcare Professionals

Caron offers a 16 bed dedicated, free standing unit for our healthcare professionals program which allows for personalized clinical care to address the individual needs of each healthcare professional and their family in a safe and stigma-free environment.

Integral components of our Healthcare Professionals Program include:

• An innovative phase system that provides a clinically driven variable length of stay
• Direct communication. While in treatment, you’ll have regular, one-on-one meetings with the program’s Executive Director, Medical Director, and Addiction Medical Specialist.
• Specialized group therapy sessions, including:
  • Professional groups to discuss and address licensure and work issues as well as integration back into one’s practice
  • Our Caduceus Group to deal with the professional persona, ease of access to drugs, and the effect of addiction on one’s medical practice and patient care
  • Identification and removal of barriers to sustained sobriety specific to healthcare professionals
  • Experiential workshops and groups to address trauma, personality styles, and family of origin patterns
• On-site programming for patients with chronic pain including acupuncture, medical massage therapy, weekly chronic pain group, and physical therapy
• Programming specific to the challenge medical professionals experience in seeking or accepting direction from others
• Extensive expertise in areas such as process addictions, co-occurring psychiatric disorders and LGBTQ populations
• Relationships with other organizations. Our program excels at working with referents and state advocacy programs, upon request and when appropriate

As clinically indicated, patients may also participate in the HCP Intensive Experiential Program facilitated by Breakthrough at Caron staff. This two-day program is designed to build connections within the community of recovering healthcare professionals and help patients better understand and more effectively navigate the tumultuous emotional world of early recovery. Patients examine their relationship patterns and explore questions such as “How well do I know myself?” and “Who am I outside of my career?” Potential challenges to sobriety are also identified – all while practicing emotional vulnerability in a safe setting.