Groups & Classes

• BASE

This education level group has been designed for first time/low risk offenders and other individuals seeking self-actualization. BASE aims to reach those that lack awareness and education in conflict resolution, anger management, healthy communication, emotion identification and regulation, attachment styles, relationship building skills, shame resilience, family of origin and understanding trauma and trauma responses.

• Cognitive Behavioral Change

Cognitive Behavioral Change is based on the National Model of CSC and addresses the cognitive thinking errors and faulty core beliefs that lead to high-risk behaviors and continued relapse in addiction.  Individuals are taught how to identify immediate thinking errors as they arise and alternative thinking patterns that can make them more successful in taking accountability and changing problematic behaviors.

• Connections

Connections group is a multifaceted approach, developed to address issues relating to shame, and to facilitate the development of shame resilience.  The curriculum is ideal for populations working with issues such as self-esteem, love and belonging, authenticity, the development of empathy, connection, and power, and the ability to cultivate a resilient spirit.

• Co Occurring

This is a group for individuals who deal with both substance abuse and mental health issues.  Once a person relapses into substance abuse issues, mental health symptoms increase and cause further breakdown.  This also can occur with mental health symptoms increasing first causing a person to use drugs or alcohol to try to control these symptoms, therefore making it worse.  This group teaches a member how to recognize symptoms of dual diagnosis and teaches strategies to avoid decompensation or relapse.

• DBT

This group is focused on teaching skills to combat dysfunctional patterns and help individual’s change behavioral, emotional thinking, and interpersonal patterns.  Individuals will learn how to become more mindful of their feelings, thoughts and behaviors, regulate their emotions and become more resilient.

• Emotion Coaching

This is group focuses on learning how to fully experience and express emotions in a healthy way. Group will focus on differing experiences for men and women and society’s expectations regarding emotional expression. Members will explore family of origin stories that play a role in how we express or do not express emotion. Members will learn how to establish healthy emotional boundaries for themselves. 

• Intimate Relationships

The purpose of the Intimate Relationships groups to help understand what intimacy means and how having strong intimate bonds allow for healthy growth and increased life satisfaction.  Topics covered range from communication to values, sexual and emotional needs, setting boundaries and commitment.  Group is open to males and females and couples as well.

• M-TREM & TREM

The Trauma Recovery and Empowerment Model (TREM) is a fully manualized, group-based intervention designed to facilitate trauma recovery amount men/women with histories of exposure to emotional, sexual and physical abuse.

• Parent Group

A comprehensive parenting class for parenting teenagers and ‘tweens.  Active Parenting of Teens is a program that addresses our complicated day and age.  With this parenting curriculum, parents will gain confidence and courage to meet the challenges of their children’s teen years.  Areas of focus are: teens & technology (the Internet, social networking sites, etc.), the latest in teen drug use prevention (including prescription drugs), teen bullying: how to spot it, how to handle it, special stepfamily considerations, how brain development affects teen behavior and decision-making, improved discipline and communication, updated teen sexuality issues.

• Relapse Prevention

The modality used for Relapse Prevention is: WRAP.  WRAP stands for Wellness-Recovery-Action-Plan.  WRAP is a popular system for monitoring and relieving uncomfortable feelings and behaviors, working on recovery, maintaining wellness and making your life the way you want it to be.  While WRAP was developed by, and for, people who experience mental health difficulties, it can be used to treat substance abuse, provide a guide in working toward life goals, improve relationships, help build communication skills and increase interpersonal skills with others.

• Seeking Safety

Developed specifically for PTSD and substance abuse, Seeking Safety focuses on first establishing safety through discontinuing substance use, letting go of dangerous relationships, and gaining control over dissociation, suicidal thoughts, and self-harm. The group covers 25 topics, which provide practical tools and techniques and safe coping skills. Each topic also works to help clients restore ideals that may have been lost, including respect, care, protection, and healing.

• Teen Processing

Teaching adolescents skills such as sobriety, emotional self-regulation, assertiveness, boundary setting and listening to feedback. Helping teens process anything from trauma to sobriety to everyday struggles. Assisting teens in being able to increase their problem solving skills, emotional intelligence and increasing their knowledge of the future ahead.