Services
At Sahara Wellness Center, we offer a variety of levels of care to better serve each patient’s individual needs. Our skilled provider utilize multiple modalities and theories including Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavioral Therapy, Motivational Interviewing and more. Therapy days include a group process, psychoeducational lecture, and adjunctive therapies.
Group Therapy
Our mental health wellness and substance use disorder programs are intended to improve overall wellness by stabilizing symptoms and medications, developing coping strategies, increasing interpersonal communication skills, facilitating transitions to lower levels of care, and promote lasting health and wellness.
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Our IOP program is designed for individuals needing more support than standard outpatient services. IOP is an intensive program requiring a commitment of 3 hours per day, 3 days per week. Treatment modalities include CBT trauma focused processing and education group therapy, individual therapy, and daily adjunctive therapies.
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PHP programs are designed for individuals recently discharging or at risk of hospitalization. PHP is a highly intensive program and requires a commitment of 5 hours per day, 5 days a week. Treatment modalities include CBT trauma focused processing and education group therapy, individual therapy, and daily adjunctive therapies. PHP is conducted under medical direction with weekly medication monitoring and management.
Adjunctive Therapy
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Art Therapy is a mental health modality that improves the wellness of individuals through active art-making, creative process, applied psychological theory, and human experience within a psychotherapeutic relationship.
Art therapy, facilitated by a professional art therapist, effectively supports personal and relational treatment goals. Art therapy is used to improve cognitive and sensorimotor functions, foster self-esteem and self-awareness, cultivated emotional resilience, promote insight, enhance social skills, and reduce and resolve conflicts and distress.
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Music Therapy is the clinical and evidence-based use of music interventions to accomplish individualized goals with a therapeutic relationship by a credentialed professional. Music therapy interventions can address a variety of healthcare educational goals.
Promote Wellness
Manage Stress
Alleviate Pain
Express Feelings
Enhance Memory
Improve Communication
Promote Physical Rehabilitation.
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Movement therapy refers to a broad range of mindful movement-based practices used to treat the mind, body, and spirit concurrently. Movement-based therapies innately promote health and wellness by encouraging proactive participation in one’s own health, creating community support and accountability, and building a foundation for successful, permanent, positive change. They deliver patient-centered, integrative care that accounts for the physical, psychological, social, and spiritual aspects of health and illness.
Sahara Wellness Center offers Yoga and Tai Chi which have diverse, evidence-based benefits, including reduction in pain, stress, and debility, and improvements in range of motion, strength, balance, coordination, cardiovascular health, physical fitness, mood, and cognition.
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Meditation therapy is a method of relaxation and consciousness expansion by focusing on a mantra, keyword, or sound while eliminating outside stimuli from one’s awareness. The purpose of drawing attention away from the outside world and abandoning habitual patterns of perceiving and thinking is to facilitate personal change. The focused attention, self-forgetfulness, and heightened awareness of body states open the mind to decreased preoccupation with one's own suffering, a move toward self-understanding, and resulting in changes in attitudes and behavior.
Psychiatry
Our mental health medication management services are available to individuals in all of our programs and continue after graduation to ensure long term positive health outcomes.
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Our MAT services are intended to provide outpatient detox, induction to a MAT medication, and ongoing medication maintenance and monitoring. MAT services are continued after graduation from a program to ensure lasting recovery and taper to abstinence if and when appropriate.
