therapy

Places for People provides a range of individual, group, and family therapies to meet the unique needs of each person living with mental illness. Staff receive extensive training to deliver therapeutic interventions backed by by scientific research, demonstrating they are effective methods of promoting recovery for people with specialized problems, including trauma, co-occurring substance abuse, and major mental illnesses.

Our therapy practices that have been identified as evidence-based practices include:

• Illness Management and Recovery (IMR): An intervention designed to help people with severe mental illness identify personal recovery goals and to learn how to manage their illness more effectively in pursuit of those goals. (Learn more about IMR.)
• Community Reinforcement Approach (CRA): A comprehensive substance-abuse treatment which utilizes social, recreational, familial, and vocational reinforcers to assist consumers in the recovery process.
• Motivational Interviewing (MI): A goal-directed, client-centered counseling method which helps clients to explore and resolve unclear or uncertain attitudes relating to mental health, substance abuse, and recovery.
• Integrated Dual Disorders Treatment (IDDT): A philosophy of providing both mental health and substance abuse treatment concurrently and throughout all services and programs.
• Trauma Recovery and Empowerment Model (TREM): An intervention program designed for survivors of trauma to address issues of physical, sexual, and/or emotional abuse.
• Seeking Safety: A treatment model for clients with a history of trauma and substance abuse, focusing on coping skills and with a special emphasis on promoting safe behavior and thought processes.