Supportive Expressive Therapy (Set)

Supportive-Expressive Therapy is an evidence-based treatment for a variety of mental health problems including substance use disorders. At Wholeview, we provide a specific manualized form of SET group based on the Harvard Cocaine Recovery Project. In this approach, a substance use disorder is viewed as an outgrowth of difficulties in four areas; (1) self-esteem; (2) managing feelings; (3) managing relationships; and (4) self-care.

SET uses two primary types of techniques:

• supportive techniques to help you promote self-esteem; build knowledge and skills; reduce anxiety and other distressing feelings; encourage self-awareness; and build and maintain group cohesion
• expressive techniques to help you explore and change repetitive relationship patterns that have a negative effect on your life, understand and modify coping patterns that have been counterproductive, and deepen your experience and expression of feelings.