JULY 2022 | ISSUE 5
WHAT'S THE LATEST

Dr. Mark Schwartz Talks About TRAUMA and where treatment is going in 2022. Read More >>
HPM is Devoted to Sharing Therapeutic Resources and Education — Serving One Another as Industry Network Partners

Current Trends... "What We're Seeing Right Now" with HPM's Jessica Barbee

Depression and anxiety continue to be big reasons to seek treatment alongside a tremendous increase in mental health issues. The amount of uncertainty, gun violence, changing laws, financial strife, rising interest rates and a war that continues in Ukraine has led to feelings of helplessness, fear, and a loss of meaning. People are struggling and reaching out.

"I can't get out of bed," "I can't eat and don't care," "I can't communicate with my wife," 'I find work too stressful," and "I'm just so sad..." are just some of the kinds of calls we get on a daily basis. While these are troubling symptoms, they are not the problem.

The real issues lie deeper in. Complex trauma, early attachment disturbance, incoherent sense of self, toxic loneliness and debilitating shame, and over-time injuries to the self-system's development are where we focus our attention in both group and individual therapies.

We're finding complex trauma work is a priority, and it's become more readily accepted and sought. We credit this upswing in the current lexicon and a plethora of educational dialogue now commonplace, bringing the idea of "working out our trauma" to the fore. Early trauma and its impacts are now more widely understood and treatment models are evolving quickly to accommodate. Trauma recovery takes time, so much so it's driving up readmissions and our waiting list.

COUPLES THERAPY has been a bigger deal this year too, with one partner suffering addiction or mental health issues and the other partner coming in for their own therapy in addition to them both doing couples' therapy.

CLIENT EDUCATION is a must. We've made it a priority to ensure that our clients learn about their condition and become active partners and leaders in their own healing and recovery.

Education is foundational. It's a vital part of developing a client's capacity for self-awareness and self-compassion and is taught in group here at HPM, reinforcing the individualized therapy sessions each of our clients receive with the goal being sustainable growth and success.

To collaborate, ask questions, share what's up in your neighborhood or have a client that needs transitional-living out-patient care, give us a call:

JESSICA BARBEE, Director of Admissions, Business Development - 831 747 1727
How Early Childhood Experiences Set Us Up for All the interactions We'll Experience Later On
"Excellent and effective treatment experience! The groups were awesome and probing, followed up by individual therapy that complimented the group work. I had no idea how important the trauma work was to my sobriety and emotional well-being. I was totally in the dark. Dr. Schwartz and Lori Galperin have put together a solid program that covers areas most programs don’t address."

— Philip S. | Los Angeles, CA
VIDEO: Dr. Schwartz and the fundamental challenges of Intimacy Disorders
VIDEO: Dr. Gabor Maté explains addiction's origins
OUR NEXT FREE LIVECAST WEBINAR
"TREATING ADDICTION THROUGH THE LENS OF DISORGANIZED ATTACHMENT"

DATE: FRIDAY JULY 15
TIME: 9:00 – 11:00 a.m.
COST: FREE
SPEAKER: DR. MARK SCHWARTZ
CEs: 2.0
with the completion of an online evaluation form. This workshop provides 2.0 CEs. Application made to CEPA for specified hours of Continuing Education Credit for MFTs, LPCCs, LEPs, and LCSWs as is required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences.

WEBINAR ABSTRACT
Recent data suggests that many individuals presenting with a variety of addictive behaviors have in common a history of Disorganized Attachment. In this workshop, we will dissect Disorganized Attachment and the resultant lack of integration of a coherent sense of self and unintegrated internal working models, which leave the individual vulnerable to dissociation and affect dysregulation managed by addictive behavior

Interventions are targeted to: (1) developing coherent, cohesive, and collaborative narratives; (2) facilitating the grieving process; (3) recognizing the idealization of (“loyalty” to) caretakers; (4) facilitating metacognition (the ability to reflect accurately on the behavior of the self and others); and, (5) understanding the pressure to achieve (if present).

Internal polarizations related to taking care of others to get one’s needs met while simultaneously feeling victimized by and rageful at those who hurt them will be discussed.

Interventions targeting the capacity to form secure intimate relationships without the terror related to past injuries will be a primary focus of the workshop.
A LITTLE BIT ABOUT HARMONY PLACE MONTEREY

As a transitional-living, one-of-a-kind outpatient alternative to residential care, we're structured as an intensive six-hours-a-day Partial Hospitalization Program with a step down to a three-hours-a-day Outpatient Program where our clients acquire the skills and understanding in order to live better. We are ideally poised as the place a client goes after completing residential treatment, where the ongoing therapy is needed and the support is critical.

Working closely with existing residential treatment centers, our ongoing goal is to partner with facilities on behalf of our clients in order to ensure the transition from residential to outpatient care is smooth, supportive, and an extension of the work already begun while in residential treatment. Because we are able to provide longer-term treatment programs that are authorized by insurance companies, we have the greatest opportunity to work closely with clients over time, ensuring their treatment is tailored specifically to them and that their ability to lead fulfilling lives is attained prior to treatment completion.

Helping to ease the suffering of men and women of all ages is no small task, but by working together — collaborating and supporting, our industry has the best chance of doing just that.

To share what's up in your community or have a client that needs transitional-living out-patient care, give me a call: JESSICA BARBEE, Director of Admissions, Business Development - 831 747 1727
A HUGE Thank You Again to our Referring Partners!
We are proud to be able to serve the community when our community needs us most. The overwhelming demand for treatment services for mental health and chemical dependency is at an all time high.

At Harmony Place Monterey, we are here to support our local therapists, psychiatrists and psychologists with this extraordinary demand. Our referring partners are entrusting their patients to us for group and daily evaluation. In turn, we are able to mobilize stabilization and a much needed community connection and refer back out into the community in a successful transition. Thank you to our referring partners. We are all in this together!
HPM is a partial hospitalization, intensive outpatient treatment center specializing in addiction, trauma, eating disorders, psychiatric disorders and bipolar — with the option of supervised transitional living.
831 747 1727