Tueller Counseling offers several different groups to best help their clients.
- Juvenile Moral Reconation Therapy
- Juvenile Relapse Prevention
- Juvenile SMART
- Juvenile Anger Management (Ages 12-17)
- Juvenile Female TREM Love & Life
- Juvenile Thinking for a Change
- Adult Relapse Prevention
- Adult Moral Reconation Therapy
- Domestic Violence
- Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT)
- Spanish Domestic Violence Group
- Adult Wellness Recovery Action Plan (WRAP)
- Advanced Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
Group therapy can help in addressing a range of problems, including anxiety, depression, and low self-esteem. It has been demonstrated to be at least as effective as individual therapy and the two are particularly powerful when used in conjunction.
In each session, you will meet with 4-15 individuals and, facilitated by a therapist, openly discuss concerns and difficulties within a safe setting. With the benefit of feedback, you will identify previously unacknowledged or unconscious patterns and behaviors and draw on the insights and experiences of others as you develop strategies for change.
Even if you are adept in social situations, the process of group therapy can assist you in becoming a more skilled communicator, as well as provide the impetus to break through personal barriers.
The results of group therapy can be immensely rewarding, bringing not just deeper self-awareness and greater self-acceptance, but a profoundly valuable understanding of how we interact in the world.
Group Summaries
Juvenile DBT Group
This group is for ages 14-17. Group members will gain a basic understanding of Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) and learn a variety of skills and techniques in the following areas: core mindfulness, distress tolerance, emotion regulation, and interpersonal effectiveness.
Thinking For A Change Group
This group is for ages 14-17. The TFAC group is an integrated cognitive behavioral change program focused on addressing the cognitive, social, and emotional needs of members through skill-building and role-play.
Relapse Prevention Group
This group is for ages 14-17 and uses a Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) approach focusing on identifying possible triggers and other situations that could affect substance abuse recovery, while also teaching new, healthy responses to them through group exercise.
*Requires the purchase of the Staying Quit workbook, which serves as a guide throughout the group process. It can be purchased at our front office.
Juvenile Female Trauma Group
This group is for female juveniles who have experienced any form of trauma (ex. divorce, sexual, physical, accidents, etc). They must be age 13-17 in order to attend due to the mature content discussed. This group is offered twice a year with each cycle being 24 weeks long. There are three parts of the group; the first is female empowerment, the second is trauma experience, and the third is skills-building that helps with learning how to heal from the trauma. The group will become closed for new participants on the 8th week as this week will begin the trauma work. It is recommended for group members to disclose their trauma but it's not a requirement as group members can still learn how to heal without telling their own stories.
Adult TREM (Trauma Recovery & Empowerment) Group
This group is for adult females who have experienced any form of trauma (ex., divorce, sexual, physical, accidents, etc.). This group is offered twice a year, with each cycle being 24 weeks long. There are three parts of the group; the first is female empowerment, the second is trauma experience, and the third is skills-building to help clients heal from the trauma. The group will become closed for new participants on the 8th week as this week will begin the trauma work. It is recommended that group members disclose their trauma, but it's not a requirement as group members can still learn how to heal without telling their own stories
Women’s Non-Violence/Anger Management Group
This is a structured 52-week female-only (18+) group designed to increase your ability to manage and effectively communicate anger without hurting yourself or others. Anger is not something we should repress, but rather an important emotion that needs a healthy outlet. This is a court-mandated group for domestic violence offenders, but is also open to the public.
Positive Discipline
Positive discipline is based on experiential methods that help parents get into the world of children to discover what really works and what doesn’t. It helps them understand what children are really thinking, feeling, and deciding, based on the parents parenting methods. In the classes, parents practice new skills through role-playing and experience encouraging feedback as they learn how to change old habits. The parenting classes invite active participation rather than passive learning.
Positive discipline does not focus on control, using punishment, or rewards which results are often temporary. Positive discipline is a non-punitive parenting method that teaches internal control. It uses parenting skills that promote and model life skills such as empathy, problem-solving, respect for others, self-confidence, and self-motivation. A few of the parenting skills include; mutual respect, mutual problem solving, asking rather than telling, encouragement, family meetings, and positive time-outs.
Slicks and Skills
Who it's for: Adults struggling with Substance abuse/dependence
This is an open group that lasts about 16 weeks. Group members will identify, challenge, and change negative patterns of thinking and behaving contributing to dysfunction and addiction in their lives. These negative patterns of thoughts and behaviors are called Slicks and we teach them how to replace them with Skills to achieve more effective functioning and sobriety.
*Book: For Me Or Against Me
Adult Matrix
The Matrix Model is a structured, multi-component behavioral treatment model that consists of evidence-based practices, including relapse prevention, family therapy, group therapy, psycho-education, and self-help, delivered in a sequential and clinically coordinated manner. It's a proven effective, evidence-based protocol that has been used in treatment. The Matrix Model is a comprehensive, multi-format program that covers six key clinical areas. It's an integrated therapeutic model incorporating: Cognitive behavioral, motivational enhancement, couples and family therapy, individual supportive/expressive psychotherapy and psychoeducation, twelve-step facilitation, and group therapy and social support.
*Book: For Me Or Against Me
Adult DBT (Dialectical Behavioral Theory) Group
DBT group helps group members to develop skills across four areas. The first area is mindfulness where group members can develop stronger insight into their experiences to more fully experience life, improve quality of life experiences, and decrease emotional pain experienced in life. Mindfulness skills include skills to help a person become more observant and aware of their lives both internally and externally, skills to help with the description of their internal and external experiences and skills to help with full participation in life activities.
Next are emotional regulation skills. These skills help group members to develop the ability to decrease emotional volatility, decrease vulnerability to uncomfortable emotions, and increase the ability to identify the behaviors and activities that activate positive emotional experiences.
Next, group members develop interpersonal skills. These skills help group members navigate interpersonal situations, improve relationship quality, repair damaged relationships, learn how to set and maintain boundaries, and improve conflict resolution skills.
Finally, group members learn distress tolerance skills. These skills improve the ability to tolerate difficulty in life which improves the ability to reach goals. Distress tolerance skills also help to find meaning through difficult times and help group members to connect to higher purpose and meaning in their lives.
*Required book: DBT Workbook
LINKS Group
This group teaches couples how to rebalance the natural fluctuations in closeness in their relationship and how to deepen intimacy. It is based around the Relationship Attachment Model (RAM), which is a picture of a relationship and the five dynamic bonds that make up a relationship. The Couple LINKS program applies the RAM to couples' relationships by emphasizing and normalizing that the balance of the RAM connections will naturally fluctuate. The key is that couples need to regularly balance their imbalances by strengthening and setting goals with each of the five dynamics of the RAM in weekly "huddles."
Domestic Violence Group - Men's
This is a structured 52-week program that focuses on men (18+) who have been court-mandated (volunteer clients are welcome) due to a domestic violence crime, child abuse crime, or other violent crimes. This group is designed to explore the motivation factors for battering, identify controlling behaviors, anger management, and thinking errors. An emphasis is placed on group members taking accountability for their actions and openly examining their belief systems while building empathy for their victims.
Domestic Violence Group - Women's
This is a structured 52-week program that focuses on women (18+) who have been court-mandated (volunteer clients are welcome) due to a domestic violence crime, child abuse crime, or other violent crimes. This group is designed to explore the motivation factors for battering, identify controlling behaviors, anger management and thinking errors. An emphasis is placed on group members taking accountability for their actions and openly examining their belief systems while building empathy for their victims.
