Choices Counseling Center
About Choices Counseling Center
Choices Counseling Center, a leading therapy and treatment center located in central Florida, has provided superior service to its patients for over 25 years. Choices Counseling Center began with only a few clients who attended weekly therapy sessions. The number of att...endees for the Center’s Weekend and Five Day Intensives reach into the thousands, as people travel from all over the world to attend the distinguished treatment programs. In addition to 12-step programs, therapists across the United States are implementing Choices Counseling Center’s community-based plans in their own clinics. Such programs are said to be more successful than others are because they are tailored to individual clients and assist them with every step in the recovery process.
Both the weekend and five-day programs at Choices Counseling Center consist of group therapy and support group meetings. The community environments that these programs offer help patients feel a sense of connection to others, emotions that are beneficial when recovering from an addiction or other disorder. The Extended Care Program at Choices Counseling Center is based on the same principles, but this program enables patients to enjoy a larger sense of community environment by allowing them to live and work outside the facility. At the same time, patients receive structured living assistance and valuable tools for recovery from Choices Counseling Center for as long as they need them. Choices Counseling Center cites the treatment plan as being “a program of self-discovery” because it allows the patients to realize their potential to move past troubling situations to enjoy a more self-sustaining life.
Choices Counseling Center has helped thousands of people regain their lives after dealing with negative situations, and the Center will continue to apply innovative methods to its practice to ensure the recovery of all its patients. Maureen R. Traynor established Choices Counseling Center in 1985, and she led the facility until her passing in 2010. At present, as Director and President, her daughter Elizabeth Traynor, who trained with Maureen for the past 25 years, supervises the work of Choices Counseling Center, and she remains committed to carrying on her mother's legacy.
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Cult
It's been 15 years and I have night terrors still
Horrible "treatment" - Beth is a bully
Just don't go here. There are plenty of places where you can find real, useful help. If you or your loved one is in a life or death situation, this place and these people very well could steer them on the path to death. Yes, it really is that bad. Beth, the "leader" ...is a verbal bully and somehow thinks that demeaning people and abusing them helps. Insane. No compassion or sympathy or any attempt to work together, to treat the individual as a fellow human being. The psychodrama goes from silly to outright exploitation geared toward leading the vulnerable into a public breakdown. Will lead to misery and deeper humiliation -- won't lead to any healing whatsoever. No one should use these methods in the 21st century. They're outdated and disproven, LONG ago. Find someone that has actual credentials and will publish or show you a record of success and failure. Whatever you do, steer clear of this place and anyone that endorses it. Best case, you'll waste a lot of money and get nowhere. Worst case, your situation will get worse because of your experience with Choices. It's the same as your doctor prescribing you poison.
Unfortunate
This so called "recovery community" gives recovery a bad name. They take advantage of people at the lowest point of their lives. Tell them they need to volunteer their time and then conveniently tell them they can do it for a choices members PERSONAL LANDSCAPING BUSINESS. they should be ashamed of themselves.
The truth about Choices
They saved my life. Sometimes the truth is hard to hear and I don't want to hear it. They speak it anyways.
they steal your soul! (part 2)
Choices as a whole blatantly disregards HIPPA laws and constantly violates its clients rights to privacy. On top of that they also illegally hold and dispense clients prescriptions, and frequently give the wrong clients meds to another client. This is also common with c...lients money and personal belongings; whatever you arrive with you will be lucky if you ever see it again, including items such as, social security cards, drivers licenses, insurance cards, and most upsetting...you soul (which they don't inform you that you will have to hand over upon arrival to Beth's personal gatekeeper, Karen).
Cult!!
This place is a cult!! They have been reported to the state of Florida licensing center a couple times for inappropriate conduct. The group therapy is comprised of everyone from 60 year old convicted pedophiles to 16 year old girls, who have been the victims of sexual a...buse. They also have a large population of heroine and crack addicts, including one boy who continued to use for about a year while in their inpatient program. They also require everyone to eat meat, even if they are a healthy vegetarian. As well they require everyone to attend a daily 6AM Alcoholics Anonymous meeting. Another important factor about this program is that it is a community. People who came there 17 years ago are now out of the inpatient program, but are housing and taking care of the current inpatients. They make you believe you are helpless without them, and that you can never leave. If you do leave, no one there is allowed to contact you. Choices motto is "dare to be average".
