Together, these professionals — along with the client and their family — develop a customized approach to the client’s therapy. While it includes “traditional” counseling, it also includes an integration of these services into the client’s life. Depending on the nature of the client and their issues, the coaches may help them with homework, writing a resume, cleaning their room, organizing their days or even partaking in an activity such as hiking or bowling or tennis. Family therapy is conducted every week, usually alternating sessions between the family alone and then the next session with the client.

This customized approach is designed to help a client develop the skills necessary to live successfully in their environment, or achieve functional independence as we refer to it.

Our Secret Ingredient: The Relationship — Everyone on our team is a relationship specialist.  Our goal is to build  comfortable, trusting connections with our clients through all of the weekly contact points. Establishing this relationship of trust with our team members gives our clients the confidence to build better contacts with the people who touch their daily lives within the system/community where they live. Making our clients active participants in their course of therapy builds further comfort and trust on the part of the individual.

Program Continuity

Part of the reason that our Connections program has proven effective is that it is based on a model of frequency and duration. We take the majority of the program out of the therapist’s office and place it into the community, where the client ultimately has to achieve functional independence. Like anything, it takes time. But we’ve found that by addressing an individual’s underlying condition while teaching them how to live within the context of their environment, the process inevitably takes hold and results in an individual  capable of living a functional life within their specific environment.