Outpatient Therapy Groups at Alexian Brothers Center for Mental Health

Individual and family therapies are available to help you work through your emotional challenges or substance abuse problems on an individualized basis. Outpatient therapy at Alexian Brothers Center for Mental Health also offers a variety of structured therapeutic groups that address mental illness, substance abuse, socialization, and many other issues important to your recovery.

Dialectic Behavioral Therapy (DBT)

This group has been designed primarily for adults struggling with borderline personality disorder, depression, suicidal thoughts, and impulsive behaviors. Participation in this group will teach new coping strategies and reinforce positive coping skills while helping group members to identify unhealthy behaviors.

Overcoming Anxiety

The ten week group uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to help clients learn to identify and change the thinking patterns that create and reinforce their fears and to change the way they react to anxiety-provoking situations. The evening group is held on Tuesdays from 6:30-8:30pm.  The afternoon group meets on Thursdays from 10:00am-12:00pm.  

Anger Management

Learn effective coping behaviors to stop escalation and work through anger in healthy ways. Understand anger dynamics, apply new skills, lower your anger by managing stress, change negative self-talk and convert anger into forgiveness. (A ten hour certificate will be given at the completion of this program for court or employer requirements.)

Young Adults (Ages 18-30)

This group is for individuals coping with issues that typically occur during this transition phase of life. Topics include coping with symptoms, dealing with independence, jobs/school and processing problem.

Coping With Chronic Pain

Learn tools to decrease the suffering associated with chronic pain from arthritis, back pain, fibromyalgia, headaches, and other chronic pain syndromes.  This is an ongoing group in which you will meet other adult sufferers, and with professional support and education, learn skills to decrease the impact that pain has on your life.