What Is Harm Reduction?
Harm reduction is an evidence-based approach that helps people reduce the negative consequences of their substance use without requiring immediate abstinence. Our program focuses on increasing awareness, developing personalized goals, and implementing tools to reduce harm in day-to-day life.
Clients learn to track patterns, manage urges, improve emotional regulation, and make decisions that align with their values and health. If substance use is creating friction personally, professionally, or relationally, this program offers a structured space to understand and address it.
What to Expect
Our Harm Reduction Program includes:
- Weekly clinician-led group sessions focused on substance use and behavioral change
- Ongoing individual check-ins to refine goals and provide personalized support
- Education on the effects of substances, decision-making, and emotional regulation
- Development of an Ideal Use Plan—a working roadmap that reflects your goals and evolves as your needs change
- Practical skills for managing stress, impulsivity, and high-risk situations
More Than Behavior Change
Our work doesn’t stop at identifying patterns. We also treat the mental health conditions that often drive those patterns. Whether it’s anxiety, trauma, depression, or emotional dysregulation, we help clients understand how those underlying issues interact with substance use and address them directly in treatment.
As part of the program, clients complete an Ideal Use Plan—a personalized framework that helps define safer, more intentional boundaries around substance use. Rather than setting rigid or externally imposed rules, this plan is built in collaboration with a clinician and reflects the client’s own goals, limits, and early warning signs. It includes guidelines for when and where use feels riskier, how to moderate more safely, and what to do if certain patterns resurface. The plan is reviewed and revised over time as clients gain insight and confidence in managing their behaviors more effectively.
By building insight, coping strategies, and behavioral flexibility, we support change that’s sustainable.
Who This Program Is For
This program may be a fit if you:
- Want to reduce how often, how much, or how dangerously you’re using
- Feel stuck in a pattern that’s creating harm, but aren’t ready to quit entirely
- Have tried traditional recovery programs and felt they didn’t fit
- Are open to examining the role substances play in your life
We offer a space where you can be honest about your goals and supported in reaching them without being forced into immediate abstinence, one-size-fits-all approaches or someone else’s definition of success.
