Sobriety alone is not recovery. A life lived in line with what someone actually values is recovery. RECO Intensive's values-assessment process makes that distinction explicit — and builds the back half of treatment around it.
What values assessment looks like at RECO Intensive
Around week two or three, your primary therapist conducts a values-assessment session — a structured conversation that surfaces what actually matters most to you. Not what your family wants. Not what your doctor wants. What YOU would build a life around if substance use weren't in the picture. The process is gentle, sometimes surprising, and almost always clarifying.
The output isn't a vague list — it's a small set of named values (e.g., creative work, fatherhood, physical strength, contribution, faith, learning) that we then anchor the rest of your treatment goals against.
What the assessment covers
- Values clarification exercises drawn from ACT (Acceptance and Commitment Therapy)
- Life-domains review: family, work, health, relationships, creative life, spiritual life, community, leisure
- Identification of moments when you've felt most alive — and what was present
- Identification of moments of regret — and what was missing
- Named values, ranked roughly by current felt importance
- Translation of values into concrete treatment-plan goals and post-treatment commitments
Who this serves best
Clients in their 30s and 40s asking "what am I actually doing with my life." Clients in early recovery whose addiction took over before they had clarity on values. Parents reorienting around their kids. Professionals reconsidering career trajectory. Anyone for whom "just stay sober" is too small a goal to organize a life around.
How values assessment integrates with the rest of your plan
The named values become the through-line of the second half of treatment. Aftercare planning anchors to them. Family therapy uses them as common ground. Group therapy contributions get sharper when each client knows what they're working toward. The plan stops being abstract.
Why the RECO approach is different
Many programs treat values as a soft topic — nice to talk about, not central. We treat values clarification as one of the most clinically important interventions in the second half of treatment — because clients who leave knowing what they are FOR are dramatically less likely to relapse than clients who only know what they are running from.