Many people with high anxiety levels find that having a drink at night to “calm them down” does exactly that…it calms them down and decreases their anxiety.  The problem is this is a very short-term effect and typically gets worse because 1 drink per night turns into 2 turns into 3 and goes from abuse [...]

Read some interesting statistics today on eating disorders.  It is estimated that 8 million Americans have an eating disorder – seven million women and one million men One in 200 American women suffers from anorexia Two to three in 100 American women suffers from bulimia Nearly half of all Americans personally know someone with an [...]

We’re excited to bring on Dr. Otis to do our EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing).  He’s starting next Monday and we know he’s going to fit in nicely with our program and it’s philosophy.  Very often clients come in with serious PTSD and need this service…we proud to offer it to those clients and [...]

The Turning Point Centers Intensive Outpatient program is potentially about to take a nice change.  We’re thinking about having the Family Therapy group on Thursdays.  That way the group won’t get split up and it won’t take away any time from the IOP clients.  The philosophy of the family therapy is very similar to that [...]

One of our therapists, Markus, has come up with a great idea to do more intense Marriage and Family Therapy workshops!  The interpersonal communication between the different families and Markus combined with our cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) approach will certainly make the workshops productive.  This would be an intense weekend of therapy for families wanting [...]

The Sober Transitions program is being announced tonight at the Family Therapy Group!  Can’t wait for the feedback from those clients and their families!  We’ve got our LSAC hired for the position and ready to go…all we need now are some clients to support for their first year in recovery.

Finally, after all these years, we’re moving forward with a “monitoring” program.  By the end of June we’re going to have our sober transitions program.  It’s going to be a great way to transition out of our intensive outpatient program into the “real world.”  With our core beliefs and the communication and counseling with the [...]