Adult Outpatient Psychiatric Clinic

This group focuses on increasing perspective and insight around the development and application of coping skills in day to day life. Behaviors are discussed in the context of proactive, active and reactive coping skills as members share their challenges with symptom management, navigating relationships and other stressors. The basics of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectic Behavior Therapy, Stages of Change, Relapse Prevention and safety are introduced as indicated to build insight and add to members personal tool boxes.

Este grupo de habilidades de afrontamiento es para clientes de habla hispana. El grupo se centrará en el manejo de las emociones y los factores estresantes, desarrollará la resiliencia, ayudará con el bienestar diario y utilizará estrategias cognitivo-conductuales para enseñar técnicas de afrontamiento eficaces.

This is a group for persons who are experiencing depression and/or anxiety. The group process will be stressed with emphasis on interpersonal interactions between group members. Topics for discussion will be determined by group members and there may some psychoeducation provided upon request.

This process group is focused on relationships and communication styles and how they are affecting our interpersonal needs. Are they helping us achieve our interpersonal goals or, on the contrary, hinder this process? This group will touch on Assertiveness Training, DBT based Interpersonal Effectiveness Training, an understanding of healthy boundaries and some role playing. While the emphasis will be on “here and now” issues, the group will also examine attachment styles from childhood and how those styles effect our current sense of self.

This group is geared towards helping those who are processing a significant loss. The group offers members an opportunity to share thoughts and feelings with others in a safe and supportive space. All grief is valid but the way in which people mourn can be different. Talking about the experience of loss is often helpful for many people and sharing this process with others can provide support and grounding during a difficult time and aid in healing over time.

Illness Management and Recovery Group is a monthly group to support people with serious mental illness such as schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder and bipolar disorder. The goals of the group are to: instill hope that change is possible, develop a collaborative relationship with a treatment team, help people to establish personally meaningful goals to strive towards and to provide information about mental illness and treatment options. Goals for the group will also include the development of skills for reducing relapses, the management of stress and coping with symptoms, providing information about where to obtain needed resources, and helping group members to develop or enhance their natural supports for managing their illness and pursing goals.

The LAI group is for individuals who are prescribed a long acting injectable with the goal of enhancing recovery. Psychoeducation and the development of coping and social skills for psychosis are a core component of the group. Individuals will receive their LAI while at the clinic by our RN team and participants are able to utilize hospital lab services for efficiency in care. Medication management services are provided as part of the group process.

This is a 12 week group for new moms/birth parents (0 – 18 months postpartum) experiencing symptoms of perinatal depression, anxiety and other related emotional distress. If you are struggling to function at home or work, if it is difficult to care for yourself or your baby, or you are struggling to connect and bond with your baby, then this group can help. Babies are welcome and members can attend in-person as well as on Zoom.

This group provides a sanctuary for women to express, explore and empower themselves within a safe, supportive and compassionate environment. The group will focus on issues of self-esteem and self-image, self-worth and confidence, relationships and communication, family and intimate relationships and assertiveness and boundary setting. A sense of community and belonging from participation in the group can enhance mental and emotional well-being.