Outpatient Clinic Services

Are you interested in PTSD or suicide-focused treatment through our Outpatient Behavioral Health clinic?

Nearly everyone suffers temporary difficulties following a traumatic event or long periods of repetitive stress. However, if your symptoms last for months or years, or if they interfere with your daily life and ability to hold a job, enjoy relationships or simply make it through a day, you can benefit tremendously from the treatments offered with STRIVE.

Our STRIVE team provides effective treatment for suicidal thoughts, suicidal behaviors, and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) through the Outpatient Behavioral Health. We offer a range of treatment programs featuring leading therapies, specifically designed for outpatient settings. Treatment with our expert clinicians takes on average 12 sessions. If you are ready to make a change, call or email us so we can contact you about enrollment.

What treatments do we offer?

• Brief Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Suicide Prevention- BCBTis a skills-focused approach with a strong empirical evidence base for reducing subsequent suicide attempts. BCBT follows a multi-phased approach to provide patients with immediate symptom relief and reductions in suicide risk. Trained providers work to establish a strong collaborative relationship with a suicidal patient, assess risk, and develop a Crisis Response Plan. BCBT focuses initially on building emotion regulation and crisis management skills followed by dismantling the patient's suicidal belief system. BCBT is typically administered over 12 sessions with some flexibility to add or remove a session depending on the patient’s progression through treatment.
• Cognitive Processing Therapy- CPT is a specific type of cognitive behavioral therapy that has been effective in reducing symptoms of PTSD that have developed after experiencing a variety of traumatic events including child abuse, combat, sexual assault, and natural disasters. CPT is generally delivered over 12 sessions and helps patients learn how to challenge and modify unhelpful beliefs related to the trauma. In so doing, the patient creates a new understanding and conceptualization of the traumatic event so that it reduces its ongoing negative effects on current life. This treatment is strongly recommended for the treatment of PTSD.

• Prolonged Exposure- PE is a manualized cognitive behavioral therapy consisting of imaginal exposure (repeated recounting of the most disturbing traumatic memory) followed by processing thoughts and feelings related to the imaginal experience; in-vivo exposure (approaching trauma-related situations); psychoeducation about PTSD; and controlled breathing training. Between sessions, participants listen to audio recordings of the imaginal recounting daily and complete in-vivo exercises. Typically, PE is delivered weekly for 10-12, 90-minutes sessions. For this study, participants will complete daily 90-minute sessions for 10 consecutive weekdays during a 2-week period. Cognitive behavioral treatments tend to be the most highly efficacious treatments for PTSD.

• Written Exposure Therapy- WET is a manualized exposure-based psychotherapy for PTSD that is recommended by the VA/DoD Clinical Practice Guideline. WET can help individuals with PTSD find new ways to think about a traumatic experience and what it means to them. In a series of five brief sessions, the therapist guides a person to recall the traumatic experience and write in detail about the thoughts and emotions they had at the time of the event. WET does not involve homework and all work is completed during session.
• Concurrent Treatment of PTSD and Substance Use Disorders Using Prolonged Exposure (COPE)- COPE integrates Prolonged Exposure (PE) therapy for PTSD with relapse prevention for substance use disorder (SUD). Studies of COPE with Veteran and non-Veteran samples have shown COPE to outperform treatment as usual and relapse prevention for PTSD symptom reduction.

Take the first step by connecting with with our STRIVE team today.

Appointments: 614-366-2567