An individualized treatment program is developed with input from the patient, referring professionals and the River Oaks treatment team. Through multidisciplinary team interaction (psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers and nursing personnel), the goal of providing numerous perspectives is achieved.

Individual Therapy

Individual therapy provides the opportunity for information reprocessing, identifying and challenging distorted thinking, developing a positive set of core beliefs, ego strengthening, stress management, regressive-reconstructive healing, anger management, trauma resolution and behavioral reconditioning. Individual treatment occurs three to five times weekly addressing cognition, affect and behavior through support and confrontation. EMDR trained therapists are available.

Group Therapy

Group therapy provides opportunities to create a positive self image, develop social skills, provide education, challenge distorted thinking, provide support for behavioral reconditioning and processing trauma.

Trauma Resolution Group

meets four times weekly to provide a medium to explore the impact of trauma, identify losses, address grief resolution, challenge cognitive errors, address victim to victimizer concepts, and develop post trauma positive schemas.

Compulsive Behaviors Group

meets four times weekly to process the patient's acting out timeline, identify and challenge distortions and potential grooming behaviors, focus on powerlessness and unmanageability, and explore healthy alternative behaviors.

Relapse Prevention Group

meets six times weekly to develop a plan that includes identifying triggers, high-risk situations, lapses, apparently irrelevant decisions, adaptive coping responses (non-addictive), balanced living, plans for aftercare, boundaries and positive accomplishments.

Behavioral Reconditioning Group

meets twice weekly to focus on identifying and understanding the cycle of acting out behavior. Specific treatment techniques are prescribed for individualized treatment which could include covert sensitization, ammonia aversion, satiation techniques and possible laboratory work.

Sexual Healing Group

meets twice weekly to address relationship interfering behaviors, the fear of intimacy cycle and ingredients for intimacy with healthy sexuality.

Dialectical Behavioral Therapy Group

meets twice weekly to enhance interpersonal skills and to address life, therapy and relationship-interfering behaviors.

Spiritual Integration Group

meets weekly to address issues of spirituality. This group identifies spiritual interfering beliefs and behaviors with a focus on healthy challenges and choices.

Specialty Groups

are available to address substance abuse and eating disorders.

Didactic Expressive Modules

focus on such issues as pacing and containment, ego states, balanced living, interpersonal effectiveness, mindfulness, inner child healing, healthy versus dysfunctional families and grief resolution.

Expressive Therapy

is an essential component of patient care. Activities are structured specifically to address the special needs of the compulsive behavior and trauma patients involving art, movement, music, psychodrama, and recreational therapies. Expressive therapy is part of daily treatment.