Distress Tolerance Group (Download flyer in pdf format)  

Traditional approaches to the treatment of mental health problems have focused on changing the distressing events and circumstances facing the client. Our Distress Tolerance Group offers techniques for developing distress tolerance skills, mindfulness skills and acceptance skills. Distress tolerance skills constitute a natural development from mindfulness skills useful in dealing with crisis.  Acceptance skills include radical acceptance, turning the mind toward acceptance, and willingness versus willfulness. Four sets of crisis survival strategies are taught: distracting, self-soothing, improving the moment, and thinking of pros and cons. These skills are taught to the client over the course of 8 weeks in either an individual or group-therapy setting.

For more information, please contact Dr. Pamela Elfembaum

"Going Well" (Download brochure in pdf format)

"Going Well" is a CBT program designed for the treatment of Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS). IBS is a functional bowel disorder consisting of abdominal pain and discomfort, as well as altered bowel habits.  Cognitive Behavior Therapy has been shown to be an effective treatment for IBS. By the end of 10 to 16 sessions, individuals typically report a significant reduction in symptom distress and avoidance behavior associated with IBS.

For more information, please contact Dr. Jayson Mystkowski

Social Anxiety Group

This is an on-going, weekly, CBT group designed to help clients who have difficulty confronting a variety of social situations, including public speaking, meeting new people, basic conversations, and assertiveness, due to a strong fear of negative evaluation associated with such contexts.

For more information, please contact Dr. Jayson Mystkowski 

"Soundly Sleeping"  (Download brochure in pdf format)

Soundly Sleeping is an interactive treatment program for Insomnia. This program helps clients learn the skills based on CBT interventions to help with the quantity and quality of their sleep. Recent reports in the literature have shown that CBT interventions are more successful than most psycho-pharmacological interventions in providing long-lasting relief from insomnia. The Soundly Sleeping program does not utilize any sleep medication during treatment but can also work in collaboration with other treatment plans as well.

For more information, please contact Dr. Joel Becker