SESSION PLAN CLIENT Z

Intro

How was your week?

How did you feel after our last session?

How did homework go?

Start of Session:

I’d like to review some previous questions that we didn’t get to last week, is that okay with you?

• Explore habits, hobbies, social network, goals for therapy

Potential Topic/Theme: Drinking

Support network

Detox

Signs we are going to drink or need to drink

What are some triggers that make us want to drink more?    

    We have to learn to identify these triggers, avoid them and manage them?

What are some Alternative ways to manage these signs or symtpoms

Cope with other problems and behaviours that may lead to drinking

Diversions

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Potential Topic/Theme:  Presenting problem: Snappy/Communication 

• When would you say you feel at your best?

• When do you feel at your worst?

• What does it look like? Where do you feel it?

• Frequency – times of the month, time of day, seasonal?
  
  

Potential Topic/Theme:  Stress Management

• Cool down before communication – how do we build in a cool down period?

• Self- care plan

  • Breathing, self soothing, shower, read a news article – finding activities that build us up instead of deplete our capacity.

• What are the things that stress you out the most?

  • Children, finances,
    
    

Potential Topic/Theme: Children

• Anger checks

• Specific quality time. Find an activity that just you and the child enjoy together. Plan a designated time for this.

• Use timers for play time/etc. You know theres an end, so your patience can be compromised

• Being present vs not present 

  • When they get us to be present, they wont always bug for that quality time

• In-the-moment calming exercises

  • Breath out longer than you breathe in

  • Ask yourself why your mad. Is it temporary?
    
    

Potential Topic/Theme: Finances

• Have you spoken to a financial planner? What are some of the things you’ve done thus far to help your finances?

• Plan a night to lay out your finances. All bills, including spending, cigarettes, alcohol. 

• Set aside money to help others and throw the functinos you like to

• Make a weekly and monthly budget

• Put all bills, expenses on the CALENDAR

• Both parties need to commit and hold one another accountable

• If you don’t reduce the stress you wont fix your day-to-day problems.
  
  

Potential Topic/Theme: Personal Goals

• If you woke up tomorrow and didn’t have this struggle, what would your life look like?

• What are some specific things you’d be looking to achieve by the end of therapy;
  
  

Potential Topic/Theme: Anger

• Anger thermometer. 

• Describe what’s happening at a 10 – give me an example of a time this happened.

• If someone on the street saw you at an 8, what would they say about you?

• What do you lose as you go up the scale?

Stages of exposure to alcohol When we’re readay?? 

Triggers – What do we do when we experience these triggers?

Present moment focus – brigning are mind off the triggers and to the present moment. 

Play the tape – what’s going to happen if I do take that drink?

What wil I lose if I do this right now?

What can I feel right now? Healthy, alive, fresh.

What can I do differently right now to avoid this thought and stop it?

Wrap up

Summarize, Payment, 

Potential Homework Options:

Drinking thermometer

Describe what’s happening at a 10 – give me an example of a time this happened.

If someone on the street saw you at an 8, what would they say about you?

What do you lose as you go up the scale?

Identify Triggers for drinking.