Life After Residential Rehab: Why Continuing Care is Key to Lasting Addiction Recovery
Introduction
Completing a residential addiction treatment programme is a major milestone, but it isn’t the end of the recovery journey. In fact, the weeks and months following residential care are often the most critical. For many, returning to everyday life without ongoing support can lead to isolation, stress, and ultimately relapse.
That’s where continuing care, or aftercare, becomes essential. We call it the "Continuum of Care". This group therapy service bridges that gap—providing meaningful, ongoing support for individuals navigating recovery outside of residential settings.
Why Continuing Care Matters
Addiction recovery doesn’t happen in a vacuum. The challenges of maintaining sobriety or managing harm reduction within work, family, social pressures, and emotional triggers—can be overwhelming. Continuing care provides a structured and supportive environment to process those challenges and continue building on the progress made during residential treatment. Studies consistently show that individuals who engage in ongoing support after residential rehab are significantly more likely to maintain long-term recovery.
From Structure to Support
Most residential programmes provide a highly structured, 24/7 environment. When that ends, the sudden lack of structure can feel destabilising. The Continuum of Care service at MyMove Counselling addresses this by offering weekly evening group sessions that maintain routine, accountability, and connection. It provides a space for clients to discuss their struggles, celebrate progress, and remain grounded in their recovery goals.
Mental Health and Peer Support Combined
What makes our Continuum of Care program unique is its dual focus: ongoing mental health support and peer-based group therapy. The Continuum of Care ensures that clients have an accessible, long-term support option that aligns with the same core values: real connection, emotional resilience, and recovery that fits into real life.
Who Is It For?
The Continuum of Care group therapy service is designed for individuals who have completed a residential programme or MyMove's Gate Recovery Program and want to stay actively involved in their recovery. It’s ideal for those looking to maintain progress, build community, and manage the real-world complexities of addiction recovery with ongoing guidance.
A Long-Term Commitment to Yourself
Recovery doesn’t stop after 12 weeks or at the exit door of a treatment centre. That’s why the Continuum of Care is offered as a one-year commitment. It is a long-term pathway to lasting change. With consistent support, professional guidance, and a compassionate peer group, participants build the tools and confidence to lead fulfilling lives, free from the cycle of addiction.
Ready to Continue the Journey?
If you or a loved one has recently completed residential addiction treatment and is looking for the next step, MyMove Counselling is here to help. Our Continuum of Care programme offers a supportive way to stay connected to recovery, mental health, and personal growth.
To learn more or enrol in the programme, call us on 1800 832 032.
Dr. James Kinane was a guest recently on the ICHAS Podcast. During the interview, he talked about:
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MyMove Counselling?
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The main areas that MyMove Counselling focuses on?
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A day in the life at MyMove Counselling?
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Practice Placement at MyMove Counselling?
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How Practice Placement with MyMove can benefit students in their application of theory to practice *
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The support for students on Practice Placement?
Interview with Dr. James Kinane of MyMove Counselling
DREAM WORKSHOP-12 CPD PTS
MyMove Counselling hosts workshops in dreamwork for practicing counsellors, psychotherapists, students and anyone who wants to learn about dream therapy and apply these skills and techniques into their clinical practice.
A unique opportunity for accessing and understanding the meaning of dreams in your life. This is a 2-day workshop 7-8th July (Fri/Sat) from 9.30am to 4.00pm.
This is an opportunity to explore how to work with your dreams.
This workshop will offer a number of techniques in relation to dreams for yourself or those you work with offered in the context of Judeo-Christian experience exploring the narrative and literature that has shaped the collective unconscious of civilizations in the western world for the last 3000 years.
The workshop will explore the psychology of dreams, issues such as REM, sleep cycles and dealing the psychic connection, the unconscious.
For those who practice in counselling, psychotherapy, or spiritual direction some considerations will be given as to how to work in those fields. This will involve how to manage the structuring of dreams and the scientific and spiritual understanding of symbols.
This is an interactive workshop over 2 days for beginners and for those who have some familiarity with dreamwork and for those who have an advanced understanding of journaling as well as using dreams within spiritual direction.
Dr. James Kinane is an educational psychologist who has worked with dreams and dreamwork in the USA and in the UK as well as Ireland for a number of years. He conducts workshops, seminars and supervision in relation to this work. His MA thesis develops the relationship between dreamwork and supervision enabling counsellors and therapists to work in this area with their clients. James is a senior lecturer in ICHAS, lecturing in the field of addiction-recovery and supervision.
