WILDERNESS ADDICTIONS TREATMENT

FOR YOUNG ADULT MEN & WOMEN

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
We can help you take it

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TREATMENT EXCELLENCE SUSTAINABLE RECOVERY
FOUR CIRCLES RECOVERY CENTER is an unmatched Recovery Adventure driven by evidence. We are a wilderness-
based substance abuse and co-occurring disorders treatment program that serves emerging adults, ages 18-30.

Located in the renowned Blue Ridge Mountains near Asheville, North Carolina, we offer an innovative approach to
substance abuse treatment that integrates adventure-based wilderness experiences with professional clinical care and
therapeutic programming. In order to help individuals truly improve their wellbeing, we believe treatment must address
all aspects of a persons life, not just focusing on the physical body and on getting clean. Substance abuse and other
problematic behaviors impact, and are impacted by, our thinking and emotions. As such, our treatment philosophy links
four realms of health. These four realms, or four circles, are Physical, Mental, Emotional, and Spiritual.

1 PHYSICAL
Becoming linked to the physical world
Being in the present moment
Learning to take life as it is in the here and now
Recognizing the issues that you need to work on
Showing willingness to do whatever it takes to
become clean and sober
Acknowledging how substance use or other
problematic behavior has impacted you physically,
and how your physical situation has affected your
substance use
2 MENTAL
Learning to observe your thinking
Practicing and demonstrating logical skills
Gathering information about yourself
Looking for alternative behaviors and strategies to
accomplish your goals
Acknowledging how substance use or other problematic
behavior has impacted your thinking, and how your
thinking has affected your substance use

3 EMOTIONAL
Practicing and demonstrating taking care of yourself
emotionally
Clarifying a crisis intervention plan
Addressing emotionally challenging or traumatic
experiences
Acknowledging how substance use or other problematic
behavior has impacted your emotions
Recovering from traumatic experiences
Working toward building emotional health
Learning how emotional management shortcomings
may have led to substance use
Within our programming, these four circles of wellbeing are addressed in a profoundly well-designed approach.
Through the implementation of truly holistic treatment, Four Circles literally walks the walk over mountains
and through the forest!
4 SPIRITUAL
Weaving it all together by setting personal goals and
strategies for success
Increasing leadership practice
Completing a vision quest experience
Practicing and demonstrating your relationship with a
power greater than yourself
Our treatment model engages clients by immersing them in
the natural world. The reality of the wilderness necessitates
that our clients develop humility, self-reliance, tenacity,
accountability, preparedness, and the ability to plan ahead.
The added element of offering an outlet for physical fitness
only serves to enhance healing on an entirely different level.
Clients experience the therapeutic power of nature under the
direct supervision of highly trained wilderness and recovery
guides. The program also encompasses weekly individual
therapy, medication consultation, meditation, martial arts,
yoga therapy, and other miscellaneous adventure-based
therapeutic excursions.
Many parents of adult children with substance use disorders
are also troubled with failure to launch concerns. Four
Circles is adept at addressing inhibitions, defeatism, and
depression that can occur when a person falls behind
their peers. Coming-of-age is addressed within our rite of
passage programming. We coach daily life skills, attainable
goal achievement, self-discipline, impulse control, and
excitement for skill-based activities. And, importantly, we
also create a long-term plan for helping clients get back on
track with the collaboration of their families.
The young men and women who engage in our programming
typically take part in multiple trips in the back-country
before returning to base for a week where they connect with
the local recovery community through 12-Step meetings
and service projects. This element of treatment allows our
clients to be able to reap the incomparable benefits of a
therapeutic wilderness experience without losing touch
with the modern world.

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 MENS PROGRAM
Our mens program provides young men with the
opportunity to challenge themselves in expressing
their emotions. Male clients learn to ask for help
and rely on one another instead of attempting to
endure every struggle alone. Our compassionate
staff members assist all clients in addressing
underlying emotional or traumatic concerns
that may have led to their destructive behaviors.
Young men begin to build self-confidence through
experiential learning and self-exploration, thus
creating a strong foundation for their transition into
adulthood, furthermore, our clients work through
Post-Acute Withdrawal Syndrome with the support of
their peers and clinical team.

FOUR CIRCLES RECOVERY CENTER offers gender-specific

programs to give clients an emotionally safe environment
to focus on their issues openly and honestly.

Within the gender-specific programs offered, clients are provided

with opportunities to engage in the following:
WOMENS PROGRAM
Our womens program provides an added
emphasis on self-esteem, body image, healthy Therapeutic Adventure Programming Rock Climbing
relationships, and the development of positive Rite of Passage Solo Experience Yoga Therapy
social behaviors. All-female support groups
provide a compassionate, non-confrontational, Primitive Survival Skills Martial Arts
and non-judgmental environment for women
Canoe Expeditions Fly Fishing
to share their stories, fears, struggles, and life
lessons with other women who can sympathize High & Low Ropes Challenge Courses Backpacking
and relate. This serves as an ideal environment
for young women to challenge their beliefs and Whitewater Rafting Service Work
behaviors in order to grow into the women they
want to be.

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 Customized to meet the needs of young adults who are suffering from
substance use disorders and co-occurring mental and behavioral
health concerns, the 5th Circle Extended Care Program implements a
variety of therapeutic techniques and treatment modalities in addition
to experiential therapies. Those who take part in the 5th Circle Extended
Care Program can benefit from the following:

Individual therapy within an intensive Development of financial

outpatient program (IOP) setting
Group therapy within an intensive
outpatient program (IOP) setting
Development of recovery skills
Independent living skills
Development of relapse prevention skills
management skills
Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) meetings
Narcotics Anonymous (NA) meetings
Refuge Recovery meetings
Volunteer and service opportunities
Random and scheduled drug testing

THE FIFTH CIRCLE EXTENDED CARE PROGRAM

In order to remain steadfast in our mission to provide the most well-rounded, comprehensive care available,
Four Circles Recovery Center is pleased to offer an Extended Care Program: 5th Circle. This program is
offered to young adults between the ages of 18 and 30 who have completed programming in our wilderness-
based treatment program or another 30 day residential program.
The 5th Circle Extended Care Program has been uniquely designed to foster the recovery process for young
adults as they transition from primary levels of care to eventual sober living. The 5th Circle Extended Care
Program blends the transformational power of experiential treatment with traditional clinical services to
establish a supportive environment in which clients can practice independent life-skill management and other
recovery skills after they complete the primary treatment program offered at Four Circles Recovery Center.
By taking part in the 5th Circle Extended Care Program, clients do not have to feel rushed to find a follow-on placement
once their time in the primary treatment program has come to an end. This is beneficial in that it allows our staff to
identify the growth and individual needs of all clients as they are adjusting to recovery, and enables us to put together a
true recovery game plan that gives men and women the highest potential for ongoing success.
Once their time in the 5th Circle Extended Care Program has come to an end, clients can benefit by receiving alumni support
services with case management supervision for one year following treatment completion. This allows clients to reintegrate
into their daily lives while still obtaining the support they need to stay true to their recovery and maintain sobriety.

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FOUR CIRCLES RECOVERY CENTER offers a specialized 28-day RELAPSE PREVENTION
PROGRAM for young men and women who have relapsed after completing any residential substance
abuse program within the past 12 months. This 28-day program is based on research-backed approaches
including the Gorski-Cenaps model, which has been proven to be highly effective in helping individuals
break the relapse cycle. Our therapists have received extensive training in the Gorski-Cenaps therapeutic
model, and are using it to help clients identify and manage high-risk situations that lead to relapse in the
critical first months of recovery.
TRANSITION PLANNING
Four Circles is dedicated to comprehensive discharge planning in order to increase program efficacy and give
clients the tools needed to successfully sustain recovery. All clients receive a full range of discharge services,
including a relapse prevention plan. Career, vocational, and psychological testing are also available to assist in
aftercare planning and transitions.
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Four Circles was our saving grace.
Our sons have learned to live again.
We are forever grateful for the
awesome, amazing staff.
- Tammy, Parent of former clients

FAMILY INVOLVEMENT IN RECOVERY RITE OF PASSAGE / SOLO
At Four Circles, we believe that including family members and significant others in the recovery process is Solo vision quests are a profoundly impactful component
essential to the success of our clients. Our therapists work to improve communication between clients and of the Four Circles Recovery Experience. During a vision
their families, while also guiding family members in learning how they can appropriately support the recovery quest, the client practices mindfulness with little to no
efforts of their loved one. A healthy family can provide a strong foundation upon which clients can build distraction for several days by immersing him or herself in
sustained recovery. Once a month, our clinical team hosts a multi-day Experiential Family Workshop that is a wilderness setting. Vision quest participants are set on a
designed to help participants process the impact of addiction on the family system. path of discovery of their innermost self; the self that may be
lost or skewed by lifes circumstances, including addiction.
Many of us have spent time alone, yet that time is often
Family members will have the opportunity to be a part of their loved tainted by distractions like television, Facebook, or
smartphones. The vision quest experience challenges a
ones journey to recovery by participating in the following activities person to sit with themselves, putting coping skills to use
and experiences: with virtually no external reprieve. The solo vision quest
experience is a personal challenge that teaches an individual
Experiential Family Workshop Family Workbook many valuable lessons that he or she might not otherwise
learn. Furthermore, Rite of Passage work is helping reaffirm
Weekly Telephone Family Support Group Family Phone Calls by Therapist the clients belief in self, and that they are worth the effort
Weekly Updates & Family Systems Work Reading List for Families that their recovery work is going to require.
Socrates believed that the easiest person to lie to is oneself.
While exploring his or her personal internal wilderness,
our clients frequently choose to take up an internal dialog
between their parts. You may have observed your young
adult child waging an internal war. Vision quest week is the
battle ground for that war where they can finally vanquish
their own worst enemy the part of them that leads them
repeatedly into trouble.
Prior to the actual solitude, there are intentional and
profoundly powerfully designed group therapy sessions that
prepare the individual for marking a transition or severance.
This may be the ideal time to tackle painful issues in a
clients history.
Four Circles emphasizes safety and, while the individual on
solo is alone, he or she is perpetually observed throughout
his or her period of solitude.

A Four Circles vision quest is a once-in-a-lifetime

Parent Alumni Support & Community Open Invite to All Future Family
opportunity. In customer satisfaction surveys, the solo vision
Networking Workshops
quest is reliably named as the most memorable component
of the Four Circles experience.

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