Three services, each shaped to the person, not the diagnosis.

For anyone whose relationship with a substance or behaviour has begun to cost them something they mind losing, sleep, clarity, integrity, the trust of someone close. This includes alcohol and other drugs, and it includes behavioural addictions such as gambling, compulsive screen use, gaming, shopping, or any repeated behaviour that has slipped beyond deliberate choice.

The work is abstinence-based where abstinence is the right boundary, and it is choice-based where the goal is to restore deliberate relationship to a behaviour that cannot simply be eliminated. In every case, we build a life in which the old pattern is no longer running the show.

The program is a defined arc: twenty modules delivered across four weeks of intensive one-to-one work, with structured follow-through at thirty, sixty, and ninety days. The arc applies equally to substance and behavioural patterns, giving the work a beginning, a middle, and a way of continuing after the intensive phase ends.

Recovery Dharma is a peer led recovery community that applies the practical wisdom of Buddhist philosophy to addiction recovery. It is important to understand that Recovery Dharma is not a religion, does not require belief in God or any supernatural power, and does not ask participants to become Buddhists. People of every faith tradition, as well as those with no religious beliefs at all, are welcome.

Rather than focusing on addiction as a moral failing or a disease alone, Recovery Dharma views addiction as one expression of a broader human experience of suffering. From this perspective, all people experience craving, attachment, avoidance, and dissatisfaction to varying degrees. Addiction is seen as an intensified form of these universal patterns rather than something that makes a person fundamentally different from everyone else.

At the heart of Recovery Dharma is the belief that lasting recovery begins with understanding the mind. Instead of asking why someone lacks willpower, it encourages a deeper exploration of how habits develop, why cravings arise, what emotional needs addictive behaviours are attempting to meet, and how greater awareness can interrupt these automatic cycles.

The program draws heavily from core principles of Buddhist philosophy, particularly the Four Noble Truths and the Noble Eightfold Path. These are presented not as religious doctrines, but as practical psychological frameworks for understanding suffering and cultivating healthier ways of thinking, feeling, and behaving.

Recovery Dharma places particular emphasis on:

• Mindfulness and developing moment to moment awareness.
• Meditation as a tool for strengthening attention and emotional regulation.
• Understanding craving and attachment rather than fighting or suppressing them.
• Radical acceptance of present moment experience without resignation or self defeat.
• Self compassion in place of shame and self criticism.
• Personal responsibility without moral condemnation.
• Community support through regular peer meetings and shared experience.
• Ongoing personal growth rather than simply maintaining abstinence.

Meetings are typically structured around meditation, readings from Recovery Dharma literature, personal reflection, and open discussion. Participants are encouraged to investigate their own experience rather than accept ideas on faith. The emphasis is on curiosity, honesty, and direct experience.

At SEVA Recovery, our work is grounded in behavioural science and evidence based psychotherapy. We also recognize that recovery is about far more than stopping an unwanted behaviour. It involves understanding the patterns of mind that give rise to suffering and developing practical skills to respond differently.

For many people, Recovery Dharma provides an excellent complement to professional therapy. Its emphasis on mindfulness, self awareness, emotional regulation, compassion, and community support aligns closely with many contemporary psychological approaches, including cognitive behavioural therapies, dialectical behaviour therapy, mindfulness based interventions, and motivational interviewing.

Recovery Dharma also offers something that formal therapy alone cannot always provide: a welcoming community of people committed to living with greater awareness, honesty, and compassion. The opportunity to regularly practice these principles alongside others can strengthen recovery and reduce the isolation that so often accompanies addiction.

We encourage exploration of Recovery Dharma because it offers a thoughtful, practical, and psychologically sophisticated framework for understanding suffering and supporting lasting behavioural change. Like any recovery pathway, it is not the right fit for everyone, but many people find that it deepens the work they are already doing in therapy and provides lifelong tools for living with greater clarity, resilience, and freedom.

This service is built for people struggling with the exhausting cycles of OCD, generalized anxiety, intrusive thought, rumination, perfectionism, and the kind of relentless self-pressure that keeps a person stuck in a loop.

Many of the people who find their way here are high-functioning, articulate, outwardly fine, and privately exhausted. The mind is loud. The days are long. The strategies that used to work have stopped working.

You will work one-to-one with a peer support behavioural therapist who is fully engaged in your recovery. The relationship is at the centre of the work, trust and rapport are what make honest conversation about intrusive thought, compulsion, and shame actually possible.

Together you will explore the underlying causes of the anxiety, and the mind that produces it, so that the freedom you build is durable, not a coping strategy that runs out.

We draw, as the person in front of us requires, from a range of established evidence-based approaches:

• Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)

  Working directly with the thoughts that produce distress, testing, reframing, and reducing their grip.

• Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP)

  The gold-standard behavioural treatment for OCD, gradual, negotiated, and always in the client's control.

• Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)

  Making room for difficult thought and feeling, and moving toward what actually matters, even while the mind is loud.

• Metacognitive Therapy

  Working on the relationship with thought, not the thought itself.

• Mindfulness-based approaches (MBSR / MBCT)

  Trained attention as an evidence-based skill for reducing rumination and reactivity.

• Motivational Interviewing and Trauma-informed practice

  For meeting people where they are, never where a manual says they should be.

Some people find the traditional therapy room airless. The chair, the clock, the eye contact, the felt weight of being examined. Walking sidesteps that geometry. Two people move in the same direction, breath finds a rhythm, and the conversation follows.

There is a growing body of research to support this, walking regulates the nervous system, opens speech, and makes room for material that a formal setting can flatten. In our experience, the truer reason is simpler: people talk differently when they are moving.

For people who think best in motion. For those whose privacy matters, physicians, executives, first responders, public figures, for whom being seen entering a clinic is itself a barrier. For anyone for whom sitting in an office feels like the wrong shape for what they need to say.

A quiet meeting point, unhurried pace, a route chosen for its ordinariness. Sessions are the same length and hold the same rigour as work done in a room. What changes is the posture of the conversation.