About Jacob’s Ladder – Aurora
Jacob’s Ladder is a long term residential recovery center for young men located in Aurora, West Virginia. They offer a holistic approach that incorporates traditional addiction treatment with wilderness adventure therapy, the arts, meditation, and yoga.
Jacob’s Ladder is a six month residential treatment commitment with progressive stages of increasing autonomy. Each person’s treatment program is individually customized and begins with an assessment. Individual therapy, family therapy, group therapy, and farm chores are a part of daily life at Jacob’s Ladder.
Upon arrival, a biopsychosocial assessment that includes chemical, psychological, nutritional, and medical wellbeing is conducted. Once complete, a personalized addiction treatment plan is created. Daily life includes chores on the farm, along with participation in therapy and meetings.
Group meetings include topics such as learning healthy boundaries, assertive communication, sexuality, shame, guilt, grief and loss, and spirituality. Mindfulness and yoga are introduced as healthy coping strategies that can be utilized upon graduation.
Regular 12 Step meetings are held during the residential stay. The 12 Step program is an industry standard recovery model based on Alcoholics Anonymous. Beginning steps involve admitting powerlessness over the addiction and creating a plan for recovery based in a Higher Power. Middle steps include self examination and making amends to those who’ve been hurt by the addiction. The final steps are to live a life of continued recovery while helping others do the same. Sister groups to AA include Narcotics Anonymous (NA), Cocaine Anonymous (CA), Dual Recovery Anonymous (DRA), Sex and Love Addicts Anonymous (SLAA) Gamblers Anonymous (GA), and more.
Group therapy is the process of undergoing therapy within a group setting where interaction between participants provides additional benefit and healing. At Jacob’s Ladder, group therapy topics are based on the review of each participant’s case. The findings help create helpful topics for each session.
Jacob’s Ladder provides a family therapy program to help educate families on addiction and to help heal unhealthy family dynamics.