A team of highly skilled doctoral – and masters–level specialists in psychiatry, psychology, and neuropsychology are available to provide a wide range of services carefully designed and planned to meet the unique needs of each of our clients.

Mind Therapy Clinic Programs For Teens and Young Adults

Full range of services specially designed for teens and young adults are available at Mind Therapy Clinic:

 

• Psychiatric evaluation - special focus on dual-diagnosis (psychiatric issues and addiction)
• Psychiatric medication management
• rEEG® biomarker scanning (When should you consider this?)
• Pharmacological treatment of addiction
• Suboxone® and Vivitrol® treatment for opiate addiction
• Weekly addiction group therapy
• Individual psychotherapy and family therapy
• Family system intervention, assessment and referral services
• Mindfulness-based group therapy
• Multi-family group therapy
• Cognitive behavioral treatment
• DBT skills group
• Care Planning and Management
• Neuropsychological evaluation
• Neurofeedback treatment
• rTMS - Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation

Integrated Services Program – Change to Outpatient Program for Teens and Young Adults and link to the new Outpatient Program.

You know your teen is doing drugs. What should you do? This is a difficult question because some experimentation with drugs is common in our culture. If your teen is regularly doing drugs and alcohol, they may need help, particularly if their behavior is affected.

The addiction to drugs is growing in leaps and bounds and has become a dangerous part of the teenage world. Teenagers are trying to find their own escape from individual issues related to family as well as relational issues. The effects of drugs on the brain are also dangerous especially to a young mind. The brain will crave to have more drugs into the system to satisfy the feeling of being high. This is when dependency on the drugs sets in.

Because drug and alcohol abuse may be a symptom of underlying psychiatric problems that should be addressed, it is imperative to seek help if you suspect addiction. Further, continued alcohol and drug use will affect your teen's behavior, attitudes and even choice of friends. Here are some signs to look for, if you think that your teen may be using:

Mood Swings

Most teenagers go through normal mood swings. But look for extreme changes -- one minute happy and giddy followed by withdrawal, depression, or fits of anger or rage.

New Friends?

If your teen is using, chances are he will begin hanging out with others with similar interests. Has your child suddenly turned away from his old friends? Is he hanging out with an older (driving age) group or with those that you suspect are using drugs?

Bad Performance in School

Has your teen's attitude toward school suddenly changed? Have his grades gone from pretty good to very bad? Has he been skipping classes or school altogether?

Physical Health

Have you noticed a change in appetite? Does your teen suddenly have digestive problems. Has he been treated for medical conditions that might be attributed to substance abuse, like gastritis or ulcers? Have his sleeping patterns changed?

Evidence

Have you notice any alcoholic beverages missing? How about the medicine cabinet? Anything missing there? Have you found unexplained empty containers around the house or grounds? Any paraphernalia? Has he suddenly started smoking cigarettes openly?

Attitude

Has your teen developed a negative attitude against anti-drug or anti-alcohol programs, materials or literature? Has he been in trouble with the law for any reason? Has he developed a bad attitude toward any authority figures in his life? Have you found that your child has generally become dishonest about things?

Little Things

Have you noticed a change in hairstyle or "fashion" choices? Is he suddenly using breath mints constantly? Has he lost interest in tidiness in his room or does he pay less attention to personal hygiene?

Overt Signals

Has anyone ever told you your teen is drinking or using drugs? Do you know that he has "experimented." Has he suddenly developed the need for additional money, for vague or unexplained reasons? Have you ever seen him stagger? Or have you noticed any slurred speech? Changes in the pupils of his eyes, or redness or bloodshot eyes?

It is especially important to know that some teens using drugs and alcohol may be suffering from psychiatric disorder and addiction problem.

Mind Therapy Clinic specializes in dealing with dual-diagnosis in teens, where teens' primary psychiatric problem is addressed along with associated addiction problems. We also offer an integrated and innovative set of outpatient services for teens and young adults experiencing:

• Substance abuse/addiction
• Attentional, mood or anxiety problems
• Separation/individuation difficulties
• Eating disorders
• Family crises
• Complex medication issues

Our comprehensive program includes a suite of behavioral services:

• Psychiatric evaluation
• Weekly individual psychotherapy, family therapy and attendance in multi-family support group
• Weekly addiction medication support
• Medication management
• Weekly group psychotherapies including Mindfulness-based, Dialectical Behavioral and Life Transitions group therapies
• Care planning and lifestyle coaching services as well as psycho-educational and skill-building events
• Multi-specialty treatments

We also have the Outpatient Program for Teens constituting an intensive package of integrated services. Teenagers and young adults in the program will receive counseling and family therapy. Frequently, our Integrated Services Program is also an effective bridge after discharge from an intensive outpatient or partial day program and before fully independent participation in work, school and family. For teens and young adults coming to Mind Therapy Clinic with existing treatment relationships or from more intensive treatment settings, we complement their treatment through collaboration.

Find out how Mind Therapy Clinic can help

Today's generation of young adults faces unprecedented challenges in separating from family and developing their own identity. Complicating matters is the uncertain and unpredictable economic climate into which young adults are attempting to launch themselves. Parents, despite their best intentions, are unable to drive this process once it becomes stuck--though they labor on through frustration and setbacks, unable to recognize they may lack the necessary developmental nutrients to help stuck young adults manage the process. "Lack of motivation," "resistance," and "entitlement" are commonly applied labels which seek to explain a very complicated and trying state of affairs that will need to be addressed on multiple levels in order to obtain solutions or relief.

At MindTherapy Clinic we work with young and adults and their families for whom this transitional period has been made more difficult when the young adult has experienced any of the following:

• Anxiety
• Depression
• Eating Disorders
• Behavioral problems
• Parent/child conflict
• Grief /loss
• Sexual identity issues
• Substance abuse issues
• Anger management
• Attention, concentration, and skill building
• Developmental issues specific to young adult development (emerging sexuality, identity, relationship building).

At the family system level, we start with an examination of the strengths of the members and the emotional resources available to the system itself. We then explore the beliefs, expectations, and narratives that hold members in interactive patterns that often reinforce the "stuckness." At the same time, we shift responsibility for the stuck young adult's lifestyle and choices back onto him or her while simultaneously challenging the parents and other involved family members to examine and shift their roles, responses, and behaviors.

Common considerations include the way in which :

• Some adolescents or young adults may rebel, often deviating dramatically from any expectations they perceive others may have of them, or becoming anxious, depressed or acquiescent.
• Others may approach this passage with perfectionist tendencies that lead to excessive worry about their academic careers or futures, and bypass opportunities for developing friendships, hobbies and other interests.
• The family system becomes focused and organized around the stuck young adult's difficulties, at times to the exclusion of other key systems tasks including the developmental needs of other children or at great cost to the partnership between the parents

MindTherapy Clinic can help. Clients develop a plan chosen from our suite of services that best meet the needs/challenges facing stuck young adults and their families:

• Individual psychotherapy (supportive and dynamic)
• Psychiatric evaluation and medication management
• Family therapy and communication skills
• Referenced or Quantitative EEG to guide prescribing decisions (link to rEEG page)
• Neurofeedback
• Case management services
• Group program:
  Transitions
  Mindfulness-Based Psychotherapy
  Real Life
  Multi-Family
  DBT Skills
  Outpatient Program for Stuck Young Adults