Adult Groups Offered
Adult Outpatient Groups
Adult Outpatient Groups
- Substance Use/Abuse outpatient groups: this counseling group concentrates on our drug and alcohol choices and the impact and solutions stemming from those choices. Group meets for 90 minutes every week and meets the criterion for DUI and DCBS substance abuse classes (offered at various times); please see our calendar for more information.
- Parenting class pyscho-education group: this education group is designed to give parents the skills they need to engage in effective parenting with their children at all stages of development. This group meets for an hour and a half each week and meets DCBS requirement for parenting classes.
- Life skills psycho-education group: This education group will focus on the skills that are important for pragmatically navigating our world as adults. Classes will last an hour and a half each week; more details to follow.
- DBT- Dialectical Behavioral Therapy Skills Training: This group meets once a week for three hours and is 24 weeks long. Skills of mindfulness (living life fully aware and participating in the present moment non-judgmentally), distress tolerance (crisis survival skills and acceptance skill that help us face life when life is not how we would have it), emotional regulation skills (recognizing emotions and their connection to our physiology, behavior, thoughts, and other emotions and changing emotions in the short and long term), and lastly skills on interpersonal effectiveness (how to act in way that help reach objectives, maintain relationships and self-respect, and how to say no when necessary.
Adult Intensive Outpatient Group (IOP): Substance Use
Our adult intensive outpatient group is a substance use/abuse counseling group focused on recovery from alcohol and drug addiction. This group's treatment includes education, process, and psychotherapy. Clinical approaches include motivational interviewing, relapse prevention (including Gorski’s model of relapse, recovery, and prevention), and parts of the Matrix Model. Our treatment is a comprehensive, evidenced-based program developed to improve the lives of individuals and families affected by alcohol and other drug use and to promote a greater understanding of substance use disorders through therapy, education and training. Our IOP meets Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday evenings 5:00 pm - 8:00 pm.
Adolescent & Children Groups Offered
Adolescent and Multi-Family DBT group
Research shows that adolescents learn and implement the skills of DBT best when done as a family unit. We strive to provide the best services for our clientele and as such we have a mulit-family and adolescent group that meets on Saturday and learns the same skills as the adult DBT group plus one additional skill set called "the middle path" focusing on validation, understanding dialects and seeing things from another persons perspective. While these skills are learned best as a family unit we understand that sometimes the family is not able to attend and we wan to give every opportunity for our adolescents to learn these skills so we do offer a skills group for adolescents only, also on Saturday.
Children's Social Skills group
This group is so much more than teaching the skills necessary for social interactions and to reduce social anxiety now and later. It includes components of physical activities to demonstrate on an age appropriate level the connection between our bodies and our emotion and mental health and well as activities design to tap into children's creative side building mastery and self-esteem.