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The Life Process Model© - Found Only at St. Gregory Drug & Alcohol Treatment Centers

Has your search for the right alternative to 12-step drug rehab or alcohol treatment been confusing? Call Now!

The Life Process Model© is a nationally accredited, 8-week residential drug treatment program that offers an alternative to 12-step drug rehab and alcoholism treatment programs. Unlike traditional alcohol and drug addiction recovery programs, you now have a choice for permanent recovery from drug or and alcohol abuse without a lifetime of AA/NA meetings and relapse!

What's different about the Life Process Model©?

The Life Process Model© integrates state-of-the-art behavioral modification, cognitive learning, life skills exercises and health wellness to facilitate change. The Life Process Model© has utilized the latest techniques based on the most current scientific research. Each day at St Gregory Retreat Center allocates class, events and activities to delivering this life changing experience. The Life Process Model integrates these 4 essential components:

Is the Life Process Model right for you?

The Life Process Model© shows you how to touch base with your values and inventory your resources and assets - the positive things you come with. This is accomplished through behavior modification training, life-skills exercises, Cognitive Behavior Training (CBT) and health wellness education - all of which are exclusive to St Gregory Retreat Center. Comments about the Life Process Program©, one of the four elements of the Life Process Model:

"This refreshing approach to practical self-change is a valuable alternative for those who are seeking something besides the twelve-step approach and the disease model of addiction. I recommend it highly." G. Alan Marlatt, Ph.D.
Professor and Director
Addictive Behaviors Research Center
University of Washington
"Readers will find Dr. Peele's tools resonate with their inner sense of themselves, and his words offer encouragement and optimism unavailable in other approaches." Mitchell Earleywine, Ph.D.
Professor of Psychology, SUNY at Albany
and author of "Understanding Marijuana"
"A revolutionary approach to the treatment of addictions. This book should be of enormous help to people struggling with them." Aaron T. Beck, M.D.
Professor of Psychiatry
University of Pennsylvania
Founder of Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy
"The availability of Stanton Peele's Life Process Program©, now featured at the St. Gregory Retreat Center, is a major improvement for the entire US addiction treatment industry. Since 1975 Dr. Peele has been a pioneer in our thinking about addiction and recovery..." Tom Horvath, Ph.D.
American Board of Professional Psychology
President, SMART Recovery

Read our Frequently Asked Questions or speak with one of our caring staff members who can answer your questions about our alternative residential drug treatment centers and addiction recovery programs to help you decide on the next steps. The St. Gregory Retreat Center is unlike conventional drug and alcohol treatment centers or alcoholism treatment programs that require attendance at Alcoholics Anonymous Meetings (AA Meetings), and Narcotics Anonymous Meetings™ (NA Meetings™). Instead, the Life Process Model© provides an alternative for recovery which is a permanent solution to substance abuse.

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