Outpatient Day Programs
Based on best practice and proven techniques, our outpatient day programs are outcome-focused and support you with the mind health tools you need for your recovery.
Outpatient Day Programs are facilitated by our dedicated team of Psychologists and Therapists, delivering half day programs that run for twelve-weeks. You will require a referral from your treating GP or psychiatrist and can join the program immediately, without any wait times.
Call 4343 0324 and speak with our Day Program Coordinator for more information.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
A program specifically designed for participants experiencing depression, obsessive compulsive or post-traumatic stress. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy is used to embrace negative thoughts and feelings instead of trying to eliminate or avoid them.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps participants assess how their interpretation of a situation affects their mood and behaviour. The program will identify maladaptive or distortive views, and challenge these to reduce the intensity of emotions or behaviour in response to triggering circumstances and past experiences.
Addictive Disorders
This program is designed for people who experience dependent or hazardous use of alcohol, prescription medications, and a range of recreational (illicit) drugs.
Our program arms participants with understanding on the nature of their usage, and relevant social, psychological and neurobiological processes. It helps challenge unhelpful thoughts and counter widespread misinformation. It will identify comorbid mental health experiences associated with substance abuse, and provide practical strategies to minimise risk and triggers, including relapse prevention.
Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT)
Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT) helps participants to observe where they are stuck in their thoughts and behaviours and establish where and how they can create change using mind health tools, practice exercises and wellness techniques. The course will address anxious responses and ongoing mood experiences that impact their daily lives.
We also offer Cognitive Behaviour Therapy for Older Persons, a program specifically designed for older adults (aged 55 years and older). This program aims to promote health lifestyles in the older community by providing awareness of strategies to reduce risk factors associated with psychological distress and memory disorders as we age.
Dialectical Behavioural Therapy (DBT)
Our Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) program provides skills-based group therapy for people who struggle with chronic emotion dysregulation and unhelpful behavioural patterns.
The program teaches participants emotional regulation and interpersonal skills, as well as mindfulness and distress tolerance. It helps reduce any therapy interfering behaviour. Participants will acknowledge and challenge thought patterns to determine whether they serve their life goals and learn to replace destructive behaviours with positive thought and powerful actions.
Music and Movement Therapy
Music and Movement Therapy focusses on the benefits of creative expression within a group setting.
Music and Movement Therapy can lead to enhanced wellbeing, increased self-awareness and understanding, as well as discovering new perspectives and improving problem solving.
Sometimes words are not enough, and this therapy provides the opportunity to express oneself more fully through a range of different materials and activities.
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
This program is designed to help people understand and manage symptoms of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) to help them learn how to change the unhelpful thoughts and beliefs maintaining the experience.
The PTSD program reduces trauma-related emotions and symptoms such as guilt, affect control, social adjustment and physical health complaints. Demonstrating how thinking affects mood, and helps participants identify and challenge unhelpful thoughts. It teaches participants new thought patterns, and reduces re-experiencing, emotional numbing symptoms and behavioural avoidance caused by the PTSD.