Behavioral Health Services

INDIVIDUAL PSCHOTHERAPY

Individual Therapy is offered to address mental health, substance use, trauma, and other personal concerns in a confidential, one-on-one setting. Licensed clinicians use evidence-based approaches to help individuals build insight, develop coping strategies, and work through underlying issues that contribute to criminal behavior or substance use.

Evidence-based interventions offered during individual psychotherapy sessions often include:

• Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT): Helps individuals reframe negative thinking patterns.
• Motivational Interviewing (MI): Enhances a person’s motivation to change.
• Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT): Particularly effective for those with borderline personality disorder.
• Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR): A specialized treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), allowing individuals to process traumatic memories effectively.
• Medication-assisted treatment (MAT): Used for substance use disorders, particularly opioid addiction.

GROUP PROGRAMMING

Group Programming offers inmates opportunities to build coping skills, improve emotional regulation, and address criminogenic thinking patterns. Programs may include:

• Seeking Safety, a trauma-informed group that helps participants develop coping skills for trauma and substance use.
• Midday Mindfulness, which introduces stress-reduction techniques such as guided meditation and breathing exercises.
• Moral Recognition Therapy (MRT), a cognitive-behavioral program focused on increasing moral reasoning, accountability, and decision-making skills.
• UW-Extension Virtual Group Programming, which provides educational and life-skills classes through a virtual platform, covering topics such as financial literacy, parenting, and healthy relationships.

PEER SUPPORT SERVICE

Peer support professionals are individuals who have navigated the recovery process, who support others experiencing similar situations. Through shared understanding, respect, and mutual empowerment, peer support professionals support people in making the changes they feel necessary to support their own wellness. Peer support services can effectively extend the reach of treatment beyond the clinical setting into the everyday environment of those seeking a successful, sustained recovery process.

Peer support provides a personal level of knowledge by sharing similar life experiences. These common personal experiences can foster meaningful connections and a deeper sense of understanding and empathy between individuals who may otherwise feel misunderstood. Individual participating in program services may be eligible for a referral to peer support professionals as they prepare to reintegrate back to our community.

Link to Peer Support Services Partner:  Next Steps for Change - Peer Support and Recovery Coach Facilitation