OUR PHILOSOPHY
The Staff of First Step Counseling believes drug addiction and drug abuse is an incurable but treatable disease of the mind, the body and the spirit. We believe addiction and abuse treatment must address all aspects of a recovering person's life. We believe treatment is the first step in a lifelong process of sobriety and recovery. During the recovery journey, relapse may occur; but if it does, we treat relapse as an opportunity to enhance and deepen an ongoing program of recovery. We believe addiction affects all members of an addicted person's family and, consequently, family involvement in treatment and recovery is essential to the healing process. We believe recovery cannot be sustained in isolation but requires the ongoing support, encouragement and respect of others both in and out of the recovery community.