Intensive, Integrative Treatment Format
We offer the opportunity for patients to dive more deeply into treatment. Oftentimes, weekly individual therapy doesn’t feel like enough to reduce our clients’ emotional pain and difficulties with work or relationships. The Petoskey Center provides patients with the opportunity to experience intensive treatment without the need for inpatient or residential psychiatric hospitalization.
Petoskey Center’s intensive outpatient program (IOP) gives clients a safe place to:
- Explore the reasons behind their psychological struggles
- Learn and practice new skills for coping, managing, and preventing emotional crises,
- Identify a path forward for their goals within the realms of education, career, family, lifestyle, etc.
- Practice implementing real change both in and outside of the therapy setting
- Utilize the interactions of group members to create more effective and satisfying relationships
- Understand their emotional worlds in the context of their careers and important relationships
Group Descriptions
Mentalizing
This group teaches patients about the concept of mentalization and how to utilize a mentalizing stance to improve emotion regulation, self-understanding, and effectiveness in relationships. In particular, the group focuses on helping patients …
Interpersonal Process I and II
This less-structured group, which meets twice weekly, provides patients with the opportunity to speak about their internal thoughts, feelings, and experiences with their peers in a way that they are not likely to do in their day-to-day life …
Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills (DBT) I: Distress Tolerance & Mindfulness
Using the Distress Tolerance curricula from Dialectical Behavior Therapy and relapse prevention frameworks, this group helps patients design plans for coping both in the short and long terms. This group helps patients link emotional triggers with …
Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills (DBT) II: Emotion Regulation
Through the use of Dialectical Behavior Therapy-informed curricula, this group teaches patients how to recognize, understand, and regulate their emotions. Part of this patients are also invited to become more familiar with their emotions as a way of …
Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills (DBT) III: Chain Analysis
This group invites patients to dissect difficult, discreet moments from the previous week to begin to identify their patterns of coping and the difficulties they are having integrating skills into their lives. Patients identify a moment where they …
Family Dynamics
In this group, patients are encouraged to explore and understand themselves in relation to their family of origin. The structure of this group provides the opportunity to examine relationships with parents, siblings and significant family members …
Legacy, Identity, and the Stories We Tell Ourselves
Using writing, time lines, memories and photographs, patients are encouraged to rediscover parts of themselves that may have been forgotten, misunderstood, or pushed aside. We examine how temperament, learning style, family, friends, community, …
Topics in Treatment
This group shifts between psychoeducation, discussion, and more active, experiential activities to provide patients with an opportunity to generate topics of interest based upon their current treatment needs. Topics patients have chosen in the past …