Treatments and Programs
Mental Health Programs
Day Program Summary
Art Therapy
The Art Therapy Program is suitable for anyone who struggles to put their thoughts and feelings into words, as well as individuals wanting a safe place to explore themselves through creative expression. Participants do not require any skills in drawing or painting. Art therapy is about self-expression, making meaning, exploration and finding healthy coping strategies.
Acceptance Commitment Therapy (ACT)
ACT is a well-established behavioural therapy which aims to support you to live a life consistent with the person you want to be and the things that matter most to you. ACT aims to get you in touch with your values to guide positive life changes. ACT also uses mindfulness to help you to live in accordance with your values by teaching you to handle painful thoughts and feelings more effectively so that they have less impact on your life.
Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT) for Depression
CBT primarily aims to reduce distress and promote positive behaviours through helping you change your unhelpful thinking patterns and beliefs. In addition to this, CBT utilises techniques such as relaxation, mindfulness, graded exposure to feared situations, building routine and structure, behavioural activation, stress management and sleep improvements.
Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT) for Anxiety
CBT primarily aims to reduce distress and promote positive behaviours through helping you change your unhelpful thinking patterns and beliefs. In addition to this, CBT utilises techniques such as relaxation, mindfulness, graded exposure to feared situations, building routine and structure, behavioural activation, stress management and sleep improvements.
Dialectical Behavioural Therapy (DBT)
DBT was developed as a treatment for people with self-harm and/or suicidal urges, but is also now used to assist clients to develop mindfulness, distress tolerance, emotion regulation and communication skills.
Distress Management Techniques (DMT)
The Distress Management Techniques Program covers three modules that aim to develop skills in the area of distress tolerance, emotion regulation and interpersonal effectiveness, but in a shorter, less intensive form of Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT).
Dual Diagnosis
The Dual Diagnosis Program is for people with co-occurring mental illness and drug and alcohol issue. It helps participants learn to cope with unpleasant emotions without using drugs or alcohol, build a routine that improves physical & mental wellbeing and develop skills to prevent relapse. Please note this is an abstinence based program.
Interpersonal Psychotherapy
IPT benefits those who are experiencing difficulties in their present relationships and who wish to develop their interpersonal functioning (ie. How they relate to, and interact with other important individuals in their lives). Exploration of conflicts with family or friends, significant life changes, and grief and loss is explored in order to develop social connection and support.
PTSD (First Responders)
The group is supportive and helpful for connecting people experiencing PTSD through shared understanding working as first responders. This includes military personnel, police officers, paramedics and firefighters. It is based on Interpersonal Therapy focusing on role transitions, grief, interpersonal conflict and sensitivities.
Healthy Mind Healthy Body
This program is for anyone looking to improve their physical health and mental health by making positive changes to their lifestyle through exercise and education.
Radically Open DBT
Radically Open DBT (RO-DBT) assists individuals to develop skills to increase psychological flexibility, improve social signalling and connectedness and improve ability to adapt to change. This is helpful for individuals with maladaptive overcontrolled coping that affects mood, anxiety and relationships. This can manifest as avoidance of uncertainty and conflict, low openness to novel or disconfirming feedback, hyperperfectionism, rigid rule governed behaviour, inhibited emotional expression, low emotional awareness and low social connectedness and intimacy in relationships.
Young at Heart
Our Young at Heart Program is a longer term rehabilitation program that helps its members to maintain or improve their sense or worth, wellbeing and social networks. The all group offers education on mental health, gentle exercise and activities that promote social interaction.
Trauma
The Trauma Skills program develops understanding of trauma, and supports the learning and practice of skills to regulate experiences of distress following trauma.