Group Therapy

Group therapy is an opportunity to bring individuals with shared experiences together in a supportive environment. The therapist(s) works to provide a safe place for each group member to work towards increasing one’s ability to cope with personal and life stressors. Group therapy is unique because it allows for its members to observe and learn from their peer’s experiences.

GROUP DETAILED DESCRIPTIONS

GROUPS

DESCRIPTIONS

PROCESS GROUP

Process groups are a form of group therapy. They power of process groups lies in the unique opportunity to receive multiple perspectives, support, encouragement and feedback from other individuals in safe and confidential environment.

COGNITIVE BEHAVIORAL
THERAPY (CBT)

CBT focuses on challenging and changing unhelpful cognitive distortions and behaviors, improving emotional regulation, and the development of personal coping strategies that target solving current problem.

DBT-MINDFULNESS

DBT is a skills-based approach and includes four sets of skills including Distress Tolerance, Emotional Regulation, Interpersonal Effectiveness. The fourth skill is mindfulness and will be taught in a separate group during the IOP program.

MULTI-FAMILY

Being involved with a teen's treatment can often feel like an extremely isolating experience for parents. The multi-family group provides a nice counterpart to help provide families with perspective and encouragement within their experience as well as an understanding, sympathetic community with which to interact, learn from and process their experiences.

MINDFULNESS BASED
COGNITIVE THERPY
(MBCT)

Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT) combines cognitive behavioral techniques with mindfulness strategies in order to help individuals better understand and manage their thoughts and emotions in order to achieve relief from feelings of distress. MBCT helps participants learn how to recognize their sense of being and see themselves as separate from their thoughts and moods.

STRENGTHS SKILL
BUILDING

Strengths Skill Building provides psycho-education on emotions while also learning how to cope and manage emotions by developing and identifying strengths. Patients will explore how to overcome, manage and tolerate negative emotions.