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GROUP SERVICES
 
Psychotherapeutic and psycho-educational group sessions.
 
Symptom Management  – assisting clients work together to understand, minimize and manage the symptoms of mental health problems.
 
Life Skills – developing functional and appropriate skills of daily living for people with severe and persistent mental illness, e.g., time management, meal preparation, money management.
 
Self Concept and Expression – building and communicating a strong sense of self worth.
 
Support Groups – group support for people experiencing emotional distress.
Check with your counselor or prescriber for referral.
  • Anxiety Skills - Includes information on "the Anxiety Prone Personality".  This is an energetic and fun group.
  • Boundaries - Learn how to say no to others, yes to yourself and vice versa.  Learning about your boundaries is fun and so important to creating space for yourself and your dreams.
  • Cognitive Distortions - Looking at your stinkin' thinkin'.  A 4-week group 4-week group that will help you identify and change dysfunctions in your thinking.
  • DBT - Dialectical Behavior Therapy is the therapy of choice for people to change self-destructive behaviors by learning emotion regulation, distress tolerance and more.  The DBT program takes up to one year to complete.  You must complete a three week orientation and commitment process before participating.
  • Depression Recovery - This group covers the many views of depression; its causes, what helps, behaviors that tighten its cycle and techniques to help change entrenched habits of depression.
  • Grief and Loss - Transitions - Losses of various kinds are covered including the losses connected to finding out you have a mental illness.  Moving through life's changes can get easier.
  • PTSD Group - A group for skill building around the triggers and other challenges of Post Traumatic Stress.
  • Mindfulness and Addiction Recovery - A new group that will approach addiction recovery through use of mindfulness and learning to tolerate distress without using.
  • Voice Hearers - A group for people with schizophrenia and schizoaffective disorders that help members learn to more effectively tolerate and live with their extraordinary experiences.  Group support and educational material, dialog and more.
  • Women's Self Esteem - Skills and practices to help alleviate low self esteem, learn better self-care, build creativity and share experiences as women.
 

 

 

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Whatcom Counseling & Psychiatric Clinic
3645 E. McLeod Rd.
Bellingham, WA  98226
(360) 676-2220
 
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