Social Care Services is a comprehensive program developed to achieve self-sufficiency and wellness. SCS achieves these goals through supportive services provided to assist clients with obtaining educational services, employment, financial and medical benefits, medical, social, and other services. SCS provides a suite of services, medication management, mental health counseling, psychiatric medication management, and targeted case management as well. We provide these services to ensure our community is receiving the high-quality and complete supportive services they need.
I'm proficient in treating Depression, Anxiety, Bipolar, Schizophrenia, PTSD, relationships, self-esteem, couple/family conflict, Trauma, Eating Disorders, Stress Management and Coping Skills.
I'm a Licensed Mental Health Counselor with several years of experience. I've volunteered with several community agencies in the past in the areas of domestic violence, trauma, and family dynamic including improving familial relationships and communication. I have experiencing working with children, adolescents, adults and families in regards to mental health issues, trauma, domestic violence, substance abuse, parenting, marital/family conflict, stress management, school issues, communication, self-esteem in a healthy way using a cognitive behavioral approach.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) was designed to help individuals manage emotions, improve relationships, and enhance coping skills. DBT offers proven techniques for reducing anxiety, depression, and self-destructive behaviors. In this group, we will learn and practice DBT Skills: mindfulness, emotional regulation, and interpersonal effectiveness, and distress tolerance. DBT equips you with the tools you need to lead a more fulfilling and balanced life. Join us today!
Hi! I’m Marisa. I focus on being authentic and creating a therapeutic relationship that makes you feel safe to share and work through your troubles. I bring creativity and psycho-education to my therapy sessions. I want to ensure that you leave each session with a greater sense of insight and motivation to get you one step closer to solving your problems.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) was designed to help individuals manage emotions, improve relationships, and enhance coping skills. DBT offers proven techniques for reducing anxiety, depression, and self-destructive behaviors. In this group, we will learn and practice DBT Skills: mindfulness, emotional regulation, and interpersonal effectiveness, and distress tolerance. DBT equips you with the tools you need to lead a more fulfilling and balanced life. Join us today!
Hi! I’m Marisa. I focus on being authentic and creating a therapeutic relationship that makes you feel safe to share and work through your troubles. I bring creativity and psycho-education to my therapy sessions. I want to ensure that you leave each session with a greater sense of insight and motivation to get you one step closer to solving your problems.
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Bipolar Disorder Support Groups
What is the most successful approach to treating bipolar disorder?
Living with bipolar disorder can be challenging, and a number of therapies have been found effective in providing support to patients as they gain the skills to understand and manage the disorder. Family-focused therapy is often helpful for children and teens (the majority of cases develop before age 19); it aims to minimize mood cycling by improving family communication and reducing conflict. It also helps young people navigate the developmental challenges the disorder can create. Cognitive and behavioral therapy (CBT) and variants such as Dialectical behavior therapy (DBT)help patients manage the thoughts and feelings that influence bipolar mood swings as well as develop specific behavioral strategies to counteract them.
What happens in therapy for bipolar disorder?
Because the patterns of mood switching and its triggers differ for each person and can change over time, mood tracking or monitoring becomes a basic way patients learn about the nature of their condition. One of the most common features of therapy is finding a workable method of mood monitoring, in which patients track their daily activities and rate their moods, then use the findings to adjust routines accordingly. Patients learn ways of handling the many stresses that arise in life so that they do not trigger mood swings.
What kinds of problems does therapy help with?
Like many other mental health disorders, BPD is heavily influenced by stress; therapy provides skills for coping with stressors of all kinds. Therapy is extremely important for helping individuals identify the situations that may trigger mood switching, so that mood swings can be prevented. Therapy may especially target recognition of the early stages of mood change so that they can be managed. In addition, therapy helps patients deal with the significant amount of turbulence the disorder can create in relationships and in work life.
What is the goal of therapy for bipolar disorder?
Therapy helps patients set up their lives to maintain stability so that their mood isn’t constantly threatened by daily events. Perhaps the first task of therapy is to educate people about the nature of the disorder. At the same time, a primary goal of therapy is to enhance adherence to drug treatment. Extended periods of mood stability can prompt patients to discontinue medication, triggering relapse, while the early phases of manic episodes can feel so energizing that patients stop medication, ushering in full-blown mania and the altered self-perception that can lead to destructive behaviors. Another major goal of therapy is to understand one’s mood patterns so as to minimize both the frequency and intensity of mood cycling.