Our Clinical Foundation
Choosing the right treatment center is one of the most important decisions you can make on your way to better mental health. It’s crucial to make the correct choice so your treatment is effective and your recovery long-lasting.
Mental mental health care facilities focus solely on symptom relief, overlooking each person’s unique motivations for receiving care, their interests, and important lifestyle factors that support long-term recovery. But without a personalized approach, symptoms may persist, and relapses can occur. Ultimately, it can lead to taking steps back, rather than forwards.
At Mission Connection, our model is grounded in the clinical foundation of going beyond symptom relief to achieving the life you’ve always wanted. When you start your healing and recovery journey with Mission Connection, you can rest assured that you’ll be part of a community that genuinely wants to make a difference.
Below, we’ll explore our unique, result-oriented clinical approach, training partnership with the renowned Beck Institute, treatment methods, and the many ways our approach can benefit you.
What Is Our Clinical Foundation?
Our clinical foundation forms the basis of everything we do – from your very first appointment to how we structure our treatment planning and support your ongoing wellness. The approach is based on combining the best of evidence-based practices with genuine compassion and personalized care.
Our clinical foundation is scientific and thoughtful, structured yet flexible. While going through the program, in addition to your treatment, you’ll learn more about who you are, what drives you, and your vision for your future. You’ll be guided to find long-term motivation and develop the skills needed to create a life you can look forward to.
At the heart of this foundation is our commitment to a therapeutic approach called Recovery-Oriented Cognitive Behavioral Therapy or CT-R for short — an innovative and scientific form of treatment that helps us deliver the highly beneficial and long-lasting outcomes our clients have come to experience.
What Is CT-R?
Recovery-Oriented Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CT-R) isn’t just another buzzword in the field of psychotherapy or talk therapy. CTR is a transformative framework developed by the experts at the Beck Institute to expand upon a traditional approach called Cognitive Behavioral Therapy or CBT.
CBT has often been used as the first-line treatment for many mental health disorders where talk therapy is seen to be beneficial. For a large number of clients, the way they think in terms of negative beliefs or thought patterns can contribute to feelings of sadness, hopelessness, or anxiety. CBT helps to retrain your thinking so you start to feel more in control of how you react to situations that can otherwise derail you.
CBT has the backing of both healthcare professionals and scientists in that it has shown positive results for a wide range of mental health conditions.
How Is CT-R Different From CBT?
While CBT is effective, CT-R goes one big step further by emphasizing recovery management. In other words — when we use CT-R, we’re not just looking at symptom relief. We help get a deeper understanding of yourself, create life goals that you want to achieve, and develop a healthy sense of self-esteem in the process. You’ll also be learning how to manage your well-being better and maintain your recovery for longer.
Benefits of the CT-R Approach
At Mission Connection, we’ve adopted the CT-R approach to deliver powerful and life-changing benefits to our clients.
We Focus on Your Strengths
Focusing exclusively on negative symptoms and other existing problems can often place you in victim mode, where you feel you have no control over what happens to you. This can result in a downward spiral of negative emotions that can be hard to get out of.
Instead, we work with you to identify your existing strengths and resources, which you may not see when things feel hard to manage. We help you leverage those strengths and resources to find meaning and value in you, who you are, and what you can do about problems.
Collaborative Goal-Setting
As part of your CT-R treatment, we will also work together to identify meaningful, personally relevant goals such as managing your emotions more effectively, finding a purpose, improving your relationships, or doing better at work.
Development of Adaptive Beliefs
Sometimes, it can be your beliefs that are adding to your feelings of depression, anxiety, or helplessness. Through CT-R, we help you modify unhelpful beliefs that may be getting in the way of long-term recovery. You will learn to create new beliefs that are genuinely helpful for you to move forward in your healing journey.
Practical Skills-Building
When you get back to the real world, you’ll need skills to effectively cope with and take charge of challenges that can arise in situations and relationships. With the help of CT-R, you will learn how to manage emotions, solve problems, improve relationships, and perform activities that help you grow as an individual.
Recovery isn’t just about feeling better—it’s about living better. CT-R is a comprehensive and effective approach that helps manage symptoms and promote long-term wellness. With CT-R, you’ll be able to achieve sustainable benefits.
Our Partnership With the Beck Institute
To ensure we’re constantly maintaining high-quality standards in our approach, we’ve partnered with the Beck Institute, the recognized global leader in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy training and research. The institute was founded by Dr. Aaron T. Beck, who developed the groundbreaking CBT approach, and it is currently the pioneering organization for CT-R.
Our partnership ensures that our clinical team receives specialized and advanced training in the most current and beneficial applications of CT-R. When you work with our therapists, you’re gaining from treatment protocols developed by the world’s leading experts in cognitive therapy.
The partnership with the Beck Institute doesn’t just indicate our expertise. It reflects Mission Connection’s commitment to bringing you the very best in mental health care, backed by years of research and clinical experience.
When you choose Mission Connection, you can be assured of the highest standards of patient care.
How Our Clinical Foundation Drives Positive Outcomes
Our CT-R-based clinical foundation isn’t limited to individual therapy sessions – it’s a part of everything we do and how we engage and interact with our clients. This approach ensures your healing experience is consistently effective from start to finish.
Keeping in mind our wholehearted dedication to patient care, we offer flexible and easily accessible mental health care services designed to fit your lifestyle. You can opt for in-person sessions, virtual telehealth appointments, or group therapy. Whichever option you choose, our CT-R approach ensures consistently high-quality, evidence-based care.
Just some of our comprehensive mental health services include:
- Trauma Treatment: Our trauma-informed experts use specialized trauma therapies within the framework of CT-R to help you process traumatic experiences from a space of safety and control. You’ll also learn adaptive techniques to manage emotions effectively.
- Depression Treatment: Aside from symptom management, our CT-R approach to treating depression focuses on modifying depressive beliefs and thought patterns, increasing engagement in activities that hold value and meaning, and building mood management skills.
- Bipolar Disorder Management: We apply CT-R principles to complement medication when indicated to help stabilize mood fluctuations, identify early warning signs for incoming episodes, and create healthier routines for overall well-being.
- Anxiety Treatment: Our anxiety treatment is based on a solid foundation of CT-R. We help you learn powerful techniques to manage your anxiety, restructure beliefs that may be adding to your distress, and gradually face triggers head-on from a position of strength.
CT-R principles guide our approach throughout your journey, whether it’s your first assessment or the end of your treatment plan. We don’t just focus on what’s wrong—we help you identify strengths, clarify values, and work toward meaningful goals.
By using CT-R principles to guide and inform our work in this manner, we are able to address your needs in a holistic way so you can go on to have more meaningful and satisfying life experiences.
What Our Approach Means For You
At Mission Connection, we are focused on moving past just dealing with your mental health condition to living a wholesome existence. Our CTR-based approach, therefore, offers several powerful benefits to you.
1. Personalized Treatment That Respects Your Uniqueness
No two individuals are alike. What works for one person may not work for another. We consider your specific needs, goals, and strengths before developing a treatment plan uniquely poised to work for you.
But we don’t stop there. We factor in your personal needs that can evolve through sessions to ensure the pace and focus of the sessions are just what you’re looking for.
2. Management Skills for a Lifetime
These skills can help to maintain long-term recovery and reduce the possibility of a relapse. The last thing you need is to develop a dependence on your therapist that you’re unable to function without them. Real growth comes from being able to take charge of your life independently.
In addition to the treatment protocol, we will also help you learn practical skills that you can use long after your treatment ends, such as how to manage your moods and deal with problems from a solution-oriented perspective. These skills can help to maintain long-term recovery and reduce the possibility of a relapse.
3. Science-Backed Treatments That Actually Work
Our CT-R approach is grounded in a scientific treatment model that has been proven to work. Our methods have been rigorously tested and consistently shown to produce outcomes. Through our partnership with the Beck Institute, we also ensure that our clinicians are updated on the most current and effective techniques to benefit our clients.
4. A Focus on You, Not Just What You're Going Through
While reducing or eliminating symptoms is critical, our approach goes above and beyond. Sustainable recovery involves helping you build a life that gives you meaning and purpose aligned with your identity and what’s important to you. We work with you one-on-one to develop the life you aspire to by identifying your goals and working to achieve them.
5. Empowerment and Agency in Your Recovery
Our C-TR approach encourages you to actively co-create in your recovery. We involve you in all aspects of your treatment planning and healing journey so you can feel in control and empowered to create lasting change.
Get Support At Mission Connection Today
Taking the first step toward recovery can feel overwhelming, but at Mission Connection, you don’t have to face that journey alone. Our team of compassionate and highly trained professionals will ensure you’re supported and cared for every step of the way.
We offer flexible scheduling options for both in-person visits and telehealth (online) appointments so you can fit sessions seamlessly into your schedule. Whatever your mental health challenge, we can ensure you’ll be provided practical, evidence-based care tailored to your unique needs.
At Mission Connection, we’re more than just another treatment center — we’re a full-fledged community devoted to helping you not just recover but lead a purposeful life filled with hope and meaning.
Ready to begin your journey with Mission Connection? Contact us today at 866-338-4958 to schedule your personalized consultation or get started here. The journey to better mental health starts with reaching out for help. From then on, we’ll be with you every step of the way.
