Thursday, February 9, 2012

Prescott House Alumni Event in Tennessee-Join Us!


Wed, February 29, 5:30pm – 5:30pm

Where: Loveless Cafe, 8400 Highway 100, Nashville, TN 37221 (map)

Prescott House invites all Nashville area alumni to be its guests for a fun night of fellowship, food, and music! Join Dayton Turberville and Michael McGill at the Loveless Cafe.

Since 1988 Prescott House has served the recovery community as an extension of primary treatment that offers individuals the time and intensive environment to change and heal. We have found through experience, and nationally recognized research shows, that long term recovery is dependent on long term treatment in a nurturing and intensive therapeutic environment.

The primary component of the program is the group therapy experience. Clients participate in at least 12 structured therapy groups each week as well as working individually with a primary therapist. Another piece of our program is volunteer service work in the local community until a client is therapeutically ready to get a part time job or take classes at one of our three local colleges. Also, clients are given written assignments that will facilitate an experience in process groups, including personal inventories of past behavior. The clients work together as a therapeutic community to confront unhealthy behavior while providing each other with the primary support group they will need in early recovery.

At Prescott House clients are given a safe environment that will facilitate the process of confronting their self-destructive behaviors while nurturing their personal and emotional growth in recovery. Our program is based primarily on process oriented experiential group therapy. Much of the work done here centers around cognitive behavioral restructuring. The intensive and highly structured environment allows staff the opportunity to look at the whole person and treat the causes of self-destructive behavior and not simply the symptoms.

Prescott House is a unique community that models and educates clients on healthy and supportive interpersonal skills that must be used to foster a new lifestyle in recovery. Clearly the old life style was not working, and changing everything is a frightening and extensive process that we believe takes several months to begin.

Physical health, personal responsibility, spiritual development, nutrition consultations, interpersonal relationship skills and boundary development are also part of the program. A special emphasis is placed on nutritional health. An assessment will be done to help determine if each client has any potential eating wellness issues. Peripheral programs that are available in appropriate cases include neuropsychological testing and Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing (EMDR) therapy done with experienced local professionals.

The town of Prescott Arizona is a mile high scenic mountain getaway that has become a Mecca for recovery in this country. This community has provided a safe haven for our clients and an amazing resource of experience, strength and hope that is invaluable to our program. This town has a way of slowing life down enough to appreciate it fully, and experience ourselves on a different level.


Saturday, January 21, 2012

Eating Disorders Effect Men Too...

Prescott House Eating Disorder and Nutrition Program

Eating disorders are not typically associated with men in our society, but we have encountered several men in our program over the years struggling with body image issues, binge eating issues, and excessive exercising issues. In more severe cases, we have encountered men with anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, and other forms of eating disorders as well as men who use steroids. We have found that addressing issues with food and body image, along with balanced nutrition, can be crucial to a healthy recovery.

Individual Sessions: Individual sessions are scheduled weekly with all clients in the Eating Disorder/Disordered Eating Group. These sessions involve individual process of the client’s past week with food, CBT work, individual assignments, and goal setting for the following week. Clients who are not in the Eating Disorder/Disordered Eating Group schedule individual sessions as seen needed by staff or when desired by the client after their initial consultation.

Thursday, December 8, 2011

Happy Holidays from the Professional Treatment Team at Prescott House!

Prescott House Group-Men's Rehab

Thank you Prescott House for helping me on my path to a spiritual life. When I look back on the way I was living before sobriety, I really don't understand why. Why I did the things I did, why I didn't do the things I didn't do? But I am forever grateful for this life. I guess it’s worth mentioning, I have been sober ever since my first meeting of Alcoholics Anonymous at age 20. I am now 26 and will be getting 7 years on July 15 if I keep doing my part and keep letting God do its part.

Tuesday, November 8, 2011

Prescott House has been helping Men in Recovery Since 1988!

Since 1988 Prescott House has served the recovery community as an extension of primary treatment that offers individuals the time and intensive environment to change and heal. We have found through experience, and nationally recognized research shows, that long term recovery is dependent on long term treatment in a nurturing and intensive therapeutic environment.

Friday, October 14, 2011

Prescott House Philosophy


Prescott House is a residential extended care treatment facility for men. Our primary function is to provide intensive treatment for recovery from addictions and other life problems. Prescott House provides the client with professional therapy and education, enhancing the client’s personal growth and involvement in a supportive 12-step community. The therapeutic model is community based, extremely eclectic and based on focused experiential group therapy as well as individual work with a primary therapist.

At Prescott House, we believe in recovery of the spirit, mind and body. Prescott House asks the client to use recovery tools and the supportive community to nurture growth and recovery. Boundary development and improved interpersonal skills are key elements in our program. They allow us to confront old behavior and provide a model for new ways to live.

The Foundation of our philosophy is based on the principles of Alcoholics Anonymous and other 12-step programs.

We are located in the mountains of northern Arizona. Prescott is a small mountain town of 30,000 residents and a great recovery community that hosts nearly 200 12-step meetings a week. Since 1988 we have served the recovery community with an intensive therapeutic program that has helped hundreds of men live life differently. Many of those men still live in Prescott today and are a great example to our current clients, providing guidance and mentor-ship.

Completion of our program has always been based on the willingness of each client to grow to a level of acceptance that allows him to take suggestion and change his behavior with the help of a supportive network of peers and professionals that have his best interest at heart.