What is residential aftercare support?
Leaving residential treatment for addiction or mental health care is a milestone, but it’s not the finish line.
Aftercare therapy supports you as you return home, reconnect with responsibilities, and adjust to life without the daily structure of inpatient care.
Even after powerful progress, post-treatment life can feel fragile: triggers emerge, routines slip, relationships shift, and the world keeps moving. Aftercare therapy helps you hold onto what you’ve learned, integrate it into daily life, and keep going, one steady step at a time.
Because healing doesn’t end at discharge … it evolves.
COMMON REASONS FOR RESIDENTIAL AFTERCARE SUPPORT
WHAT DOES HELP LOOK LIKE?
The Pathways Approach to Aftercare
At Pathways Family Therapy, we specialize in helping clients bridge the gap between treatment and life. Our aftercare therapy offers continued support, structure, and insight during one of the most vulnerable (and important) stages of recovery.
We meet you where you are — not with pressure, but with presence.
Our approach to aftercare therapy may include:
- Relapse prevention planning and accountability check-ins
- Support with reintegration into work, family, or school life
- Emotional processing of the inpatient experience
- Relationship and communication repair therapy
- Mindfulness, CBT, or DBT tools to stay grounded under stress
- Flexible, ongoing care that evolves with your needs
- Daily/Weekly support in our office or in your living space
Life after treatment can be beautiful — and complicated. We’re here to help you keep going, with strength, honesty, and support that sticks.
Do you want to talk to someone about residential aftercare support in San Diego?
Call Us, and We Will Help You Get Started.
It only takes 2 minutes to get started on a lifetime of change!
*Pathways is a private-pay, non-insurance-based practice.

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5755 Oberlin Dr, Suite 108
San Diego CA 92121
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Chula Vista, CA 91910