Recovery is a journey — continuing care helps you keep moving forward.

Continuing Care Program

A Recovery Support Program Focused On Long-Term Stability And Independent Recovery

The Continuing Care Program is a structured step-down recovery support program designed to help individuals maintain progress, strengthen recovery skills, and continue building stability after completing a more intensive recovery program.
This program focuses on reinforcing healthy coping strategies, increasing independence, and reducing relapse risk over time through gradually decreasing levels of support and accountability.
Grounded in the SMART Recovery model and integrating Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) and Motivational Interviewing (MI), the Continuing Care Program helps clients continue applying practical recovery tools in real-world situations while strengthening confidence in independent recovery.
The goal of this program is not simply maintaining sobriety — it is helping individuals continue building structure, accountability, emotional regulation, and long-term behavioural stability while transitioning into a more independent recovery lifestyle.
Whether someone is completing a structured recovery program, rebuilding confidence after relapse, or wanting ongoing support while navigating everyday life, the Continuing Care Program provides continued guidance, accountability, and practical relapse prevention support.

  • Throughout the program, clients continue strengthening core recovery and maintenance skills including:

    • Maintaining long-term behavioural change

    • Applying recovery skills in real-world situations

    • Strengthening relapse prevention and risk management strategies

    • Reinforcing emotional regulation and coping skills

    • Managing triggers, cravings, and high-risk situations independently

    • Building accountability, consistency, and structure

    • Maintaining healthy routines and lifestyle balance

    • Strengthening confidence in independent recovery

    • Improving self-awareness and cognitive maintenance

    • Developing long-term recovery planning and support systems

    The program combines ongoing support, practical exercises, reflection work, behavioural tracking, and guided discussions to help clients continue applying recovery skills confidently outside of intensive treatment settings.

  • The Continuing Care Program is built around consistency, accountability, practical application, and gradual independence.

    This is not a program focused on perfection or rigid expectations. Clients are encouraged to continue building confidence while applying recovery tools in their daily lives with decreasing levels of clinical support over time.

    The focus is on helping individuals move from structured recovery support toward long-term independence while still maintaining accountability, guidance, and relapse prevention planning throughout the transition.

    Each client’s recovery journey is different, which is why the program is designed to provide personalized support while encouraging independence, resilience, and sustainable long-term recovery skills.

    The program follows a gradual step-down approach that includes weekly, bi-weekly, and monthly sessions to support long-term stability and recovery maintenance.

  • This program may be a good fit for individuals who:

    • Have completed a structured recovery program

    • Want ongoing support while transitioning into independent recovery

    • Need continued accountability and relapse prevention support

    • Want to strengthen confidence in applying recovery skills independently

    • Are working on maintaining structure, routines, and consistency

    • Benefit from gradual reduction in clinical support

    • Want practical support managing stress, triggers, and setbacks

    • Are rebuilding stability after relapse or difficult life transitions

    • Are looking for a supportive and non-judgmental recovery environment

    • The Continuing Care Program includes:
      Phase One: Weekly Support (Stabilization)

      • 1 session per week for 5 weeks

    • Phase Two: Bi-Weekly Support (Transition)

      • 1 session every 2 weeks for 3 sessions

    • Phase Three: Monthly Support (Maintenance)

      • 1 session per month for 2 months

    This gradual reduction in session frequency is designed to support increasing independence while maintaining structure, accountability, and ongoing recovery support.

  • Clients who complete the program receive a certificate of completion that can be shared with healthcare providers, social workers, probation services, employers, or other support professionals if requested.

Recovery Is An Investment In Yourself

Recovery does not end when a program is completed — long-term healing is built through continued growth, consistency, accountability, and support.

The Continuing Care Program was designed to help individuals maintain progress, strengthen recovery skills, and continue building confidence while transitioning into more independent recovery. Ongoing support can make a significant difference in helping individuals navigate stress, setbacks, triggers, and life changes while continuing to move forward.

Investing in continuing care is an investment in your stability, your future, your emotional well-being, and your ability to maintain the progress you have worked hard to achieve.

Program Investment

$625 CAD when paid up front, or $75 prior to each of the 10 sessions ($750 in total).

Includes:

  • 10 structured continuing care sessions

  • Weekly, bi-weekly, and monthly step-down support

  • Ongoing relapse prevention and recovery maintenance planning

  • Practical coping and emotional regulation strategies

  • Accountability and behavioural support

  • Long-term recovery and lifestyle planning

  • Personalized guidance and support throughout the transition to independent recovery

  • Certificate of completion upon finishing the program

A message from Atlantic Recovery,

At Atlantic Recovery, we understand that recovery does not end when a program is completed. Long-term recovery is built through consistency, accountability, structure, and continued support while learning how to navigate life more independently.

The Continuing Care Program was created to help individuals strengthen their recovery foundation, maintain progress, and continue building confidence as they transition toward independent recovery.

Recovery is not about doing everything perfectly — it is about continuing to show up, apply the skills you have learned, and keep moving forward one step at a time.