Treatment Services

Prior to a patient’s admission into our program, one of our psychologists completes an extensive and comprehensive biopsychosocial assessment. Using standardized tools and measures, clinicians gain a thorough understanding of your struggles and strengths to determine how best to move forward with treatment. PCI’s clinicians are then able to develop a treatment plan unique to you, organizing your weekly schedule and creating benchmarks to best support your recovery.

Our staff has clinicians trained in a variety of brief and depth oriented psychotherapeutic techniques. Most clients will at times require some brief interventions and coping oriented therapy, whereas all clients deserve the attunement and healing dynamics provided by more depth-oriented and intensive psychotherapy. Family of origin issues, trauma, relationship issues, attachment problems, depression, anxiety, and a variety of other clinical complaints our patients present will require both a short-term and a depth-oriented approach to achieve optimal relief required for the creation of a lifestyle of wellness.

Part of any comprehensive and helpful treatment experience is group therapy. Through the challenge of learning how to be vulnerable in a group of people also engaged in the same growth process we can learn even more about our relational qualities, which will add synergy to and enhance the other components of your treatment experience. Group psychotherapy at PCI spans topics and modalities like relapse prevention, trauma resolution, DBT, mindfulness, gender specific issues, and many more.

Here at PCI we help all clients and their families understand their particular history of misattunements that may have contributed to, but not caused, the client’s addiction and mental health issues. Neurobiological, family dynamics and social issues all contribute to our addiction and mental health disorders. We help families understand the complex mixture of issues resulting in their loved one’s suffering.

Family Education

Families need, and deserve, to better understand the complex challenges their loved-one is facing. Moreover, educating the family on how to attune, how to set boundaries, and how to relate mindfully results in improved outcomes. We at PCI provide regular family therapy sessions in order to educate and help the family function in a more cohesive and attuned manner. Also, the staff at PCI host a recurring family support and education night on Tuesdays at 7pm at our Westlake Village location. Feel free to contact us to sign up for our family support and education nights.

We offer couples therapy to help our clients learn to manage relationships better. Couples therapy can help people at the IOP level of care, and on an outpatient basis. Couples psychotherapy at PCI spans topics like the following:

• Affairs
• Conflict management
• Divorce pre-counseling
• Pre-marriage counseling
• Trust building or re-building
• Intimacy building and communication improvement

The medical approach incorporates various therapeutic modalities including medication management, behavioral tools, approaches to physical activity, sleep, nutrition, and stress management based on the specific needs for the patients we serve. Furthermore, our medical model extends far beyond the traditional expectation of detoxification to also provide medication and non-medication approaches for managing withdrawal, cravings, relapse prevention, and other strategies to maximize the chance of patients successfully completing their individualized treatment goals. Our approach focuses both on addressing underlying root causes and practical, attainable goals to guide patients through their recovery.

We are proud to deliver a holistic and integrative model to managing addiction – one that blends an evidence-based medical perspective to ensure high quality care coupled with an individualized and compassionate approach. We also take pride in applying a highly personalized approach to patient care with the highest regard for confidentiality, trust, and individual empowerment. This medical approach is closely integrated together with other mental health professionals at PCI to ensure all members of the treatment team are in perfect alignment to provide a seamless, patient-centered experience.

Our goal is to help you return to a fully functioning lifestyle, and part of that process is slowly re-integrating “regular” life activities, like work. We have created a flexible, but also well-structured, IOP model that includes career counseling to get you back on track. Many of the young adults we serve struggle with job interviews, creating resumes, and similar job search activities. We also offer specialized Career Counseling services on an outpatient basis for people feeling “stuck” in their jobs or careers.