Our Programs and Services

Individual Counseling

Individual treatment is a face-to-face service which is performed to assist individuals who are experiencing significant functional impairment due to a mental, emotional, behavioral condition and/or substance abuse including alcohol disorders. Individual counseling aids in increasing the skills and coping mechanisms necessary to perform activities of daily living, family and function in the community. The individual counseling will aid in the person's self esteem, development and other cognitive abilities, with room to grow to their fullest potential. Family and other support resources are encouraged to be a part of treatment.

Family Services

Family counseling is to provide motivative, innovative interventions and supportive services directed at developing, strengthening, and promoting healthy family relationships. The goal of this service is to enhance the relationship, foundation of the family unit and the successful accomplishment of goals. Other support resources are encouraged as part of treatment.

Group Therapy

The goal of the group therapy services is to provide a therapeutic environment that is conducive to treatment and may address a variety of needs to include, but not limited to, conduct, abuse, stressors, family, grief, interpersonal relationships, mental health issues, drug/alcohol substance abuse, intimate partner violence, and other related issues that have been shown to be successfully treated within a group dynamic.

Proactive Prevention and Education

We provide innovative interventions for self improvement leading to pathways to responsible living from early adolescence to adulthood. We us the cognitive behavioral approach in this particular program. This program is a challenging journey of renovation leading to positive pro-social outcomes not only for the individual but for their family and community as well. This program has a minimum of twelve treatment elements that are done in four segments. This program can be done in either an individual or group setting. Each element has a detailed objective for the treatment session. Those objectives are outlined with key ideas presented in worksheets and homework given to the persons to aid in prevention and achieve personal goals. Family and other support resources are encouraged as part of this treatment.

Anger Management

The anger management group focuses on recognition and understanding of feelings of emotions, masking emotions, building on positive coping, problem-solving, and decision-making skills. Participants learn to manage anger effectively and understand the importance of self-control. The objective of this program is to accomplish positive productive behavioral techniques to decrease impulsive and agressive behavior, learn how to identify sources and triggers of irriation, frustration, and anger, and introduce effective and innovative ways to handle situations that cause anger. Family and other support resources are encouraged as part of treatment.

Parenting

The parenting program stems from our belief that parents make a profound impact on the next generation and are essential in providing a foundation to pro-social behaviors. The objective of this program is to develop, strengthen, and promote healthy parenting skills. This program addresses the basic concepts of understanding behavior, time management, developing self esteem, listening skills, increasing confidence and developing a sense of responsibility both for you and your child, and addressing the issues of consequences for unacceptable behaviors. This program will challenge the whole family in reaching its full potential.

Relationship Enhancement

The relationship enhancement program assists in improving, enhancing, and promoting healthy relationships between couples and other types of relationships. The program develops healthy communication skills, understanding of emotions and needs of self and others, commitment, and accountability. This program is useful for couples, as well as families that are dealing with changing family dynamics in a blended family or diminishing the effects of divorce. Family and other support systems are encouraged in treatment.

Interactive Play Therapy

Many children go through difficult times such as divorcing parents, trouble making friends, or adjusting to other changes at school or home. Some children need more help than others to get through these periods of need. Play therapy to children is what counseling is to adults. It is not the same thing as playing. It allows and uses the child's natural tendancy to "play out" their reactions to real-life situations. This allows counselors to communicate on child's level through the child's natural medium of expression. Children may not have the vocabulary or the knowledge to express what is bothering them. The toys are carefully chosen to bring about creative and emotional expression from the child. The ultimate goal is to help teh child feel accepted and understood and gain a sense of control or understanding of their difficult situation. Family and other support resources are encouraged in treatment.

Sexual Abuse/ Inappropriate Sexual Behaviors

The objectives and topics in this program include establishing appropriate sexual behavior rules, defining personal space and boundaries, understanding maltreatment, self-disclosure, sex education, identifying good and bad touching, a prevention plan, impulse control techniques and event sequencing, and gender identity. Family and other support resources are encouraged in treatment.

Trauma Preparedness

Trauma can devastate the lives of individuals and communities. We offer services that assist in trauma resiliency and post-traumatic stress. Our focus is to give support to the person in what they are feeling, understand the behaviors that are resulting, and recognize the development of triggers or symptoms related to the traumatic event. The program will incorporate goals of intervention for resolution to those responses in four stages: coping and stabilization, stress management, grief and trauma resolution, and loss accomodation. This will the individual in gaining some closure, prevention, and resiliency skills that will allow for growth and strength. Family and other support resources are encouraged in treatment.