The Arts and Minds program targets memory enhancement for individuals struggling with memory loss.  This weekly program utilizes creative arts as tools for strengthening and maintaining cognitive functioning, optimizing abilities and reducing stress.  Involvement in music and arts offers opportunities to focus on creative experiences that stimulate greater parts of the brain, increasing the likelihood of success.  Participants can expect to sing, share memories, drum, write songs, read, compose poems, exercise, improvise, move, tell stories, draw, learn to relax and engage in other memory enhancement experiences. Fun, creative and social fitness for the brain.  This program is being offered through OlyCAP’s Encore! Center. At present, there is a gap in supportive services available for people recently diagnosed with EML. This engaging, educational service model allows adults to be productive, involved members of the community and participate in programming that enhances independence.  An early diagnosis of dementia is preferred but not required to participate.  Space is limited. Every Thursday from 10am to 2pm. Light lunch. Reasonable fee scale.

Provides therapeutic services, such as counseling for individuals, couples, and families and various forms of therapy to help cope with emotional distress. Individual Counseling: Treats depression, post-partum depression, anxiety, post-traumatic stress disorder, bipolar, disorder, obsessive compulsive disorder, schizophrenia and psychosis, substance related and addiction, insomnia, behavioral disturbance, adjustment disorder, sexuality challenges, eating disorders, grief and loss, coping with life's stressors, coping with change, coping with chronic illness, stress management, work, and career issues. Couples and Family Therapy: Issues typically worked on with couples and families are pre-marital counseling, grief and loss, parenting support, negotiating life changes, processing family trauma, conflict resolution, improving communication, building inter-familial support and cohesiveness, building bonds and attachments, increasing awareness into family dynamics, pre and post-adoption home studies, pre and post adoption support. Theoretical Orientation: Some of the theories and practices used with patients are cognitive behavioral therapy, cognitive processing therapy, eye movement desensitization and reprocessing, trauma focused cognitive behavioral therapy, narrative therapy, family behavioral therapy, behavioral marital therapy, behavioral activation, lifestyle modification, emotion-focused therapy, cognitive adaptation training, acceptance and commitment therapy, dialectical behavioral therapy, exposure therapy/ systematic desensitization, mindfulness based stress reduction, relaxation and grounding, motivational interviewing, interpersonal psychotherapy transactional analysis, reality therapy, individual and family psychoeducation, reminiscence and life review for grief and depression, crisis intervention, rational-emotive behavioral therapy, gestalt, gottman method, safe care, play therapy, art therapy, theraplay, family systems therapy, conscious discipline, social learning and social skills training.

An eight week skills-based support group for teens who want to gain skills in the areas of emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal communication. The group uses a combination of art therapy and dialectical behavioral therapy (DBT) to help teens gain emotional control and find creative, healthy ways of coping with life's challenges.

Provides therapeutic services, such as counseling for individuals, couples, and families and various forms of therapy to help cope with emotional distress. Individual Counseling: Treats depression, post-partum depression, anxiety, post-traumatic stress disorder, bipolar, disorder, obsessive compulsive disorder, schizophrenia and psychosis, substance related and addiction, insomnia, behavioral disturbance, adjustment disorder, sexuality challenges, eating disorders, grief and loss, coping with life's stressors, coping with change, coping with chronic illness, stress management, work, and career issues. Couples and Family Therapy: Issues typically worked on with couples and families are pre-marital counseling, grief and loss, parenting support, negotiating life changes, processing family trauma, conflict resolution, improving communication, building inter-familial support and cohesiveness, building bonds and attachments, increasing awareness into family dynamics, pre and post-adoption home studies, pre and post adoption support. Theoretical Orientation: Some of the theories and practices used with patients are cognitive behavioral therapy, cognitive processing therapy, eye movement desensitization and reprocessing, trauma focused cognitive behavioral therapy, narrative therapy, family behavioral therapy, behavioral marital therapy, behavioral activation, lifestyle modification, emotion-focused therapy, cognitive adaptation training, acceptance and commitment therapy, dialectical behavioral therapy, exposure therapy/ systematic desensitization, mindfulness based stress reduction, relaxation and grounding, motivational interviewing, interpersonal psychotherapy transactional analysis, reality therapy, individual and family psychoeducation, reminiscence and life review for grief and depression, crisis intervention, rational-emotive behavioral therapy, gestalt, gottman method, safe care, play therapy, art therapy, theraplay, family systems therapy, conscious discipline, social learning and social skills training.