Geriatrics
Addiction and Recovery
Addictions are treatable. Therapy is necessary to work on deeper issues, as addiction is often the “medication” used to “numb” the trauma.
Drug and Alcohol Evaluations
These evaluations are also called a Chemical Health Assessment. A drug and alcohol evaluation is usually the first step in assessing treatment needs when drugs and/or alcohol are involved. These assessments are often requested if someone is facing legal charges, or experiencing consequences or changes in performance at work or school due to drinking or using drugs.
Co-Occurring Evaluations
These evaluations are a key part of the alcohol and drug evaluations. They are used to evaluate the presence of a mental health disorder. This could be critical in the treatment as the addiction may be active due to the mental health disorder. If these conditions are not addressed and treated, it is much more likely the person could relapse. Some of the mental illnesses may include depression, post-traumatic stress disorder, anxiety, obsessive compulsive disorder, bipolar, etc.
Addiction treatment
We have a menu of options working towards developing a cohesive outpatient treatment plan. Individualized treatment focuses on helping the client develop coping mechanisms and tools to maintain abstinence. Coping strategies and treatment used are often Dialectical Behavior Therapy, a 12-step program, trauma work, cognitive behavioral therapy and mindfulness. All our therapists are trained in Motivational Interviewing and Dialectical Behavior Therapy. We also have hypnotherapy and neurofeedback therapy to enhance treatment options and success.
- Hypnotherapy treatment
Treatment may also include a hypnotherapy modality which allows the client to work deeply on past issues of trauma and unresolved childhood pain. Trauma is most often underlying, and the addiction is the outcome of inappropriate coping skills. Hypnotherapy allows the client opportunity to heal the trauma, thus eliminating the need to “self-medicate” with substance.
- Hypnotherapy for smoking cessation is offered individually or in a group setting. Hypnotherapy is widely promoted as a method for aiding smoking cessation.
- Hypnotherapy for weight loss and healthy living is offered individually or in a group setting.
Brief Solution Focused
Brief Solution Focused therapy is a goal-directed collaborative approach that focuses on a person’s present and future circumstances and goals, offering paths to achieve those goals.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
CBT focuses on the thoughts a person thinks and how it affects how he/she feels. Therapy aims to help the client become aware of the thought distortions, beliefs, assumptions and behaviors that are causing the distress. Focus is on the interrelationship between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors, and correcting the thought distortions and behaviors. Through this process of learning and becoming aware, clients acquire coping strategies and insight with more awareness and introspection, allowing them to manage symptoms and enjoy a more productive, less stressful life.
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- Hypnotherapy treatment
Treatment may also include a hypnotherapy modality which allows the client to work deeply on past issues of trauma and unresolved childhood pain. Trauma is most often underlying, and the addiction is the outcome of inappropriate coping skills. Hypnotherapy allows the client opportunity to heal the trauma, thus eliminating the need to “self-medicate” with substance. - Hypnotherapy for smoking cessation is offered individually or in a group setting. Hypnotherapy is widely promoted as a method for aiding smoking cessation.
- Hypnotherapy for weight loss and healthy living is offered individually or in a group setting.
Critical Incident Stress Management (CISM)
CISM is an organized approach to the management of stress responses for first responders involved in a critical incident. The goal is to help the people involved in the crisis talk about their feelings and reactions to the incident. This intervention is also utilized to prevent disorders that may develop as a result of traumatic stress, such as post-traumatic stress disorder. It is a tool that can be helpful in identifying personnel that may need to be referred for further services, to facilitate verbalization of experiences, to normalize reactions to stressful events and improve peer support and cohesion.
Crisis Response
Crisis response is the process where the therapist helps guide and process the response to a crisis, validating feelings, identifying self-care practices and processing the impact of the crisis.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
DBT is a comprehensive cognitive behavioral treatment that emphasizes the psychosocial aspects of treatment. This treatment focuses on problem solving and acceptance-based strategies within a framework of dialectical methods. DBT works within four modalities of skill development – distress tolerance, mindfulness, emotional regulation and interpersonal effectiveness.
DBT is applicable and effective for people living with a range of mental health issues such as depression, anxiety, addictions, bi-polar and post-traumatic stress disorder. Practicing mindfulness alone helps people enhance the quality of their life. It helps to improve well-being, attention to the present moment, and increase positive emotional experiences while decreasing negative emotions and distress.
Domestic Violence
Domestic violence and emotional abuse are behaviors used by one person in the relationship to control the other. This violence can take many forms and can happen all the time or once in a while. It takes more than counseling to address family violence, but counseling is an essential part of the healing process for any family experiencing abuse. Therapy is necessary for all members of a family experiencing violence: the abuser, the victim(s) and the children.
Emotion-Focused
Emotion-focused therapy encourages each partner to examine how communication styles or attachment experiences present themselves in interactions. The focus is to seek a secure tight bond between the partners, repositioning each partner’s stance during interactions and creating new and beneficial interaction in the partnership.
Emotion-Focused
Emotion-focused therapy encourages each partner to examine how communication styles or attachment experiences present themselves in interactions. The focus is to seek a secure tight bond between the partners, repositioning each partner’s stance during interactions and creating new and beneficial interaction in the partnership.