Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT) at Hawaii Island Recovery

Rational emotive behavior therapy, or REBT, is a form of therapy used to help you or your loved one challenge irrational thoughts and thought patterns. This form of psychotherapy involves working with a trained professional to identify held thoughts and beliefs, explore their irrational nature, and challenge them through rationality and changing perspectives. 

REBT can be an effective approach to overcoming a myriad of needs, from challenging drug and alcohol use and addictive behavior to navigating stress, mental health needs, grief, trauma, and much more. It is also an approach that can be blended with various other exercises and strategies to create a holistic approach to addressing your needs, goals, and healing. 

REBT at Hawaii Island Recovery also takes a humanistic approach, where our professionals take a sympathetic and understanding approach to exploring difficult thoughts, experiences, and beliefs, no matter how irrational. Use of REBT can help you identify these irrational beliefs in yourself and begin to empower you to make the necessary changes to facilitate personal healing from addiction, mental health disorders, or other personal challenges. 

Stress, mental health needs, addiction, and more are all difficult to process. They can also cause you to harbor self-destructive beliefs. Compromised self-esteem or feeling as if negative feelings are somehow “deserved” are common experiences. These challenges can also compromise your motivation to pursue healing in the first place. REBT can help address these thoughts and begin to overcome their self-sabotaging effects for a more rational approach to healing and even forgiveness. 

Overcoming substance use disorder (SUD) is a complicated journey, and nobody will have the same needs, experiences, and goals in recovery and sobriety. However, REBT can always be personalized to your needs, depending on your unique thoughts and how they affect your behaviors in daily life. Identifying irrational thoughts, how they may inform irrational behaviors or routines, and how these beliefs may continue to impact mental health and reactions to difficult or stressful situations are all part of navigating addiction recovery. 

Being able to challenge irrational thoughts can also be essential in overcoming prevalent urges and cravings common throughout any stage of addiction recovery, especially while also navigating anxiety, depression, stress, and much more that are common in recovery. REBT can also help address common triggers, empowering you to approach them rationally without engaging in addictive substances and effectively preventing relapse.

Effective REBT follows a few key principles. These are:

Understanding sources of stress, how those sources of stress impact thoughts and behaviors, and how those irrational behaviors then dictate daily life is the basis of making fundamental changes and approaching situations differently and more rationally through REBT. 

REBT can effectively address many different challenges and can be personalized to address your unique healing journey. One-on-one psychotherapy sessions with our trained professionals at Hawaii Island Recovery can help you use REBT to:

REBT, combined with effective mindfulness practices and new perspectives, can help you fundamentally change the way you view yourself and how you react to difficult stresses and challenges in recovery to create a greater understanding of your healing journey. 

We use REBT to empower you to be the catalyst of your change in recovery. It can be a core part of understanding the difference between similar but fundamentally different feelings, thoughts, and behaviors and replacing negative and irrational beliefs with positive ones. Effective use of REBT can help you determine various emotions, including:

REBT can be personalized for your unique treatment needs. It can also be effectively blended with other therapies and incorporated into a larger treatment plan for a holistic approach to change. REBT at Hawaii Island Recovery can help target:

REBT has many benefits for those pursuing any kind of change, from addiction to mental health disorders or overcoming a combination of challenges in dual diagnosis treatment. These benefits include:

Hawaii Island Recovery takes a holistic approach to care to help you overcome addiction, mental health, and more in recovery. Our on-site addictionologist and compassionate team, many of whom have lived through the addiction recovery process themselves, are all available to help you by meeting you where you are in your journey. 

We also blend REBT practices with other strategies for a holistic approach to treatment. Experiential care and adventure therapy, individual and group therapy, and natural and oceanic healing opportunities are all available, backed by the natural beauty and healing energies of the big island of Hawaii. Luxury amenities are also available. Mindfulness practices, yoga, meditation, massage therapy, acupuncture, an on-site gym with a focus on physical and mental health, and even our on-site chef, Chef Cheryl, can all help promote holistic healing with us. 

We can also personalize your treatment plan by incorporating family therapy programs to educate family members, facilitate communication, and explore forgiveness and healing at home. 

We understand that healing doesn’t end at our doors. Our professionals are prepared to continue personalizing your healing journey as you graduate into outpatient treatment. From continued aftercare and outpatient treatment to being a resource to explore your next stage of healing and recovery, Hawaii Island Recovery is always just one call away, whether you are taking your first step toward healing or continuing to overcome the challenges and stress of life as an alumnus. 

REBT is just one option to help you challenge and overcome self-destructive beliefs in your recovery journey. Learn how we at Hawaii Island Recovery can help at (866) 390-5070.