About This Service

Individual, family, and group therapy are designed to reduce maladaptive behaviors and maximize behavioral self-control or restore normalized psychological functioning, reality orientation, remotivation, and emotional adjustment. These services enable improved functioning and more appropriate interpersonal and social relationships.

These services are provided by mental health professionals utilizing evidenced-based practices including:

• Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on challenging and changing cognitive distortions and behaviors, improving emotional regulation, and developing personal coping strategies that target solving current problems.
   
• Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) is a modified form of cognitive behavioral therapy with its main goals being to teach individuals how to live in the moment, develop healthy ways to cope with stress, regulate emotions, and improve relationships with others.
   
• Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is an interactive psychotherapy technique used to relieve psychological stress. EMDR facilitates the accessing and processing of traumatic memories and other adverse life experiences to bring these to an adaptive resolution. After successful treatment with EMDR therapy, affective distress is relieved, negative beliefs are reformulated, and physiological arousal is reduced.
   
• Family Psychoeducation (FPE) is an evidence-based practice, which provides services for individuals with schizophrenia disorders and bipolar disorders. FPE group is a treatment modality for families designed to help individuals attain participation in the community. The intervention focuses on educating families and natural supports about mental illness, developing coping skills, solving problems and creating social supports. Group treatment is structured to help individuals develop the skills needed to understand and overcome the symptoms of mental illness.
   
• Illness Management and Recovery (IMR) is an evidence-based practice which provides concentrated services for adults 18 years and older with SMI and/or co-occurring SUD. Services are delivered through a group format in weekly sessions. The goal is to help individuals learn about mental illness, strategies for treatment, decrease symptoms, and reduce relapses and hospitalizations as they progress forward toward goal achievement and recovery.
   
• Motivational Interviewing (MI) is a collaborative, goal-oriented style of communication with particular attention to the language of change. It is designed to strengthen personal motivation for and commitment to a specific goal by eliciting and exploring an individual’s own reasons for change.
   
• Trauma Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT) is for children and adolescents impacted by trauma. It is a components-based treatment model that incorporates trauma-sensitive interventions with cognitive behavioral, family, and humanistic principles and techniques.