Behavioral health services

Effective Parenting of Children with Disruptive Behaviors: An 7-week group that provides strategies to help parents better manage their children's behavior. This adult group meets at the same time as the Social Skills groups for children 8-12 years of age.

Embracing Motherhood: An ongoing group for pregnant and postpartum mothers. Group focuses on support from other mothers, process-oriented activities, and psychoeducation to address transition to motherhood. Children ages 0-4 are welcome to attend with mother if needed.

Goals/Life Skills: This group assists clients with setting the focus on their day/week. Clients identify a specific, measurable and realistic goal which they can work on and achieve. The emphasis is placed on fostering a sense of achievement and empowerment as well as the development of interpersonal skills within a structured group setting.

Maintaining Momentum: An ongoing adult aftercare process group focusing on integrating progress made in treatment and practicing interpersonal skills in the here and now.

Making Choices: This group is structured to help members explore the ability to utilize community resources, to increase motivation to rekindle past interests and create new novel experiences, to help develop and refine social skills needed to establish and maintain social interpersonal relationships.

Mindfulness Group: Members will learn about mindfulness and practice various meditations to engage more fully in the present moment. The group will explore topics such as self-compassion, letting go, gratitude, and our relationship with our thoughts/feelings. All levels of experience are welcome.

Positive Interactions: The group is designed to offer opportunities to improve communication while increasing comfort in sharing personal issues. Emphasis is placed on the development and maintenance of trust and cohesiveness among the group members. This group uses music as an intervention.

Returning to Wellness: This group provides members the ability to develop alternative coping skills for dealing with stress, to expose patients to a variety of techniques for relaxation and to increase one’s ability to self-monitor the effectiveness of these techniques. This group utilizes art therapy and meditation to assist in increasing insight, judgment and to validate personal experiences.

Social Support: This group provides continuous support for those who tend to isolate themselves due to symptoms such as altered thought, depression and anxiety. This group assists in generating a supportive network through sharing of personal experiences, hopes and strengths with the goal of transforming treatment plan problems into positive change in their personal recovery.

Spanish Speaking Latina Support Group (Grupo de Apoyo para la Mujer Latina): A support group for women who suffer from depression or anxiety, are isolated, or struggling with acculturation issues.

Therapeutic Conversations: This group focuses on the link between mental health and body awareness. Members will work on improving body image and self-esteem through awareness exercises. Members will engage in psycho-dramatic techniques, meditation and movement exercises in a nonjudgmental group setting.

Wellness and Natural Support: An ongoing group that provides clients with the opportunity to discuss life stressors, build adaptive coping techniques, and develop routines to foster well-being.

Jump Start - Social Skills Group: For children 8-12 years old. Children participate in tandem with their parents who are enrolled in the Effective Parenting for Children with ADHD group described above.

Teen Coping Skills: An adolescent DBT-based skills group for teens ages 13 to 17 who struggle with anxiety, depression, anger, self-esteem and/or who can benefit from learning and practicing more coping/communication/relationship skills.

This 6- to 8-week abstinence-based program stresses understanding substance use from a biopsychosocial perspective. Individuals explore factors that have maintained their addiction and work to resolve new and long-standing obstacles to recovery. Topics include: relapse risks, problem solving, assertiveness, relaxation, stress management and family dynamics.

Aftercare: Emphasis is on improving relationships, increasing meaningful connections, strengthening recovery strategies and developing strategic community resources.

Individual Counseling: Therapy is another therapeutic medium where individuals can work towards a greater understanding of their substance use, and build a solid foundation for recovery.

SMART Recovery: A cognitive behavioral approach for achieving sobriety, tools for building and maintaining motivation, coping with urges, and establishing a healthy lifestyle in recovery.