Boat Therapy: Experience Healing on the Water 

At Transformations by the Gulf, we offer boat therapy as one of the ways to help aide in the recovery process. This symbolic experiential therapy allows our patients to break free from the more traditional hospital or housing addiction treatment sessions to experience healing by having fun under the sun.

Who doesn’t love experiencing the sunshine, fresh air, and soothing, rhythmic sounds of the ocean? Connecting with nature by spending time on the water offers a host of healing benefits, including reducing stress, promoting mindfulness, and encouraging deeper, and more meaningful social connections.

Boating therapy combines therapeutic sessions and hands-on, sensory activities on the water, including:

• Hoisting sails
• Trimming ropes
• Tying knots
• Scrubbing decks

These immersive, hands-on activities help patients relieve stress and overcome challenges. Our boat therapy patients are free to partake in as many or as few activities as they like. The goal of this experiential therapy is to help patients improve mindfulness, learn more about themselves, share thoughts and feelings, overcome fears, and learn new coping strategies they can carry into their everyday lives.

Research has shown that boating offers many physiological and psychological health benefits. Some specific advantages of boating therapy include:

• Partaking in therapeutic activities that promote a sense of curiosity, playfulness, and creativity.
• Becoming more in tune with one’s thoughts, feelings, and emotions.
• Feeling less guarded around, and making deeper connections with, therapists and peers.
• Learning new coping mechanisms and strategies that can ease stress and anxiety symptoms.

Everyone’s healing journey or road to recovery from addiction is a unique experience. At Transformations by the Gulf, we tailor our holistic addiction treatment programs to meet your one-of-a-kind needs. Our addiction treatment programs incorporate evidence-based practices that help you overcome the everyday challenges of addiction recovery. With our boating therapy program, you can break free from classroom-based therapeutic treatments and partake in meditative, sensory experiences that relieve stress, promote a sense of well-being, and teach you new things about yourself.

If you’re searching for rehabs with boating therapy or want to learn more about experiencing healing through our boating therapy program in St. Petersburg, Florida, contact us online or call today to learn more.