Community West

At Community West, we believe high-quality personalized care and a strong sense of community can elevate a young person’s self-esteem and renew their desire for life. We offer specialized mental health treatment services for adolescents and young adults with a primary focus on mental health challenges such as crisis, trauma, loss, and developmental difficulties. Community West clients receive at least one individual psychotherapy session each day they are in treatment provided by licensed clinicians with years of post-graduate experience. Our emphasis on individual attention is balanced by community involvement through dynamic group experiences, family therapy, and experiential activities. TREATMENT SPECIALTIES- Anxiety - Depression - Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)- Trauma - Self-Harm - Post Traumatic Stress (PTSD)- Dissociation - Family Conflict - Bipolar Disorder - Failure to Launch - Emotional Dysregulation - Borderline Personality - Dual-Diagnosis (Secondary Substance Abuse and Disordered Eating) SPECIALIZED PROGRAMS- Our Foundations Program provides a comprehensive set of interventions tailored to the specific needs of our adolescent clients (ages 13-17) including psychodynamic psychotherapy, group therapy, family therapy, and experiential activities- Our OCD/Anxiety Program for adolescents (ages 13-17) utilizes Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and exposure and response prevention therapy (ERP) to treat OCD, phobias, panic disorder, and school refusal. Clients receive a range of other supporting interventions including group therapy, family therapy, and experiential activities- Our Trauma Program for adolescents (ages 13-17) is designed to address acute trauma (e.g, medical trauma, sexual assault, or violence) and developmental trauma. The program combines body-based practices, such as, sensorimotor psychotherapy, somatic experiencing, and EMDR with our foundational treatment services including psychodynamic psychotherapy, group therapy, family therapy, and experiential activities. INTEGRATIVE WELLNESS Our Integrative Wellness Services are designed to bridge therapeutic body-based practices with our mental health services. By integrating the two, clients gain a better understanding of how their emotions and thoughts impact their bodies and receive tools to help them feel more comfortable in their skin. Integrative Wellness Services can be combined with any of our specialized programs and include acupuncture, nutritional counseling, and therapeutic massage. THERAPEUTIC APPROACH Our treatment approach is integrative and emphasizes the overall well-being of our clients by employing interventions that target both short-term symptom relief and underlying dynamic issues, which together support our goal of long-term development, health and recovery. PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTING A comprehensive assessment is a powerful tool to help individuals understand themselves, their learning styles, psychological functioning, and to identify their strengths and weaknesses. Our goal is to help each individual to understand how he or she can be most successful. We specialize in evaluating diagnoses related to learning based disorders and disabilities, attention-based disorders (ADHD), social/emotional functioning, and executive functioning. We work with children, adolescents, and adults offering comprehensive neuropsychological evaluations, psychological and educational testing, as well as consultation services for educators, learning specialists, and psychologists.