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Richmond Counselling and Therapy Centre (CTC), located within St John of God Richmond Hospital offers a range of outpatient day programs.
Our mental health day programs provide you with an option to attend the centre during the day to receive treatment for a variety of conditions and develop skills to support your recovery or improve your mental health.
The Counselling and Therapy Centre may be contacted by:
- Phone: 02 4570 6128
- Email: [email protected]
To find out more about any of our mental health day programs please complete the form below.
- ‘Open group’ means you can attend the program at any time.
- ‘Closed group’ means you need to attend the program from start to finish.
Mental health day programs
Outpatient support group (open group)
Provides psychosocial support and maintenance of treatment gains as clients transition from inpatient care and/or whilst awaiting the commencement of another program.
Half day per week for 12 weeks.
Addictions recovery (open group)
Provides support, education and skills to reduce risk of relapse of a substance dependence disorder and/or behavioural addictions such as gambling.
Half day per week for 12 weeks.
Anxiety PTSD (open group)
This group program aims to address the hyperarousal and avoidance symptoms associated with PTSD and/or a co-morbid anxiety disorder. This program is designed for individuals with employment-related PTSD.
One day per week for 10 weeks.
Online anxiety PTSD (open group)
This program aims to address the hyperarousal and avoidance symptoms associated with PTSD and/or a co-morbid anxiety disorder. This group is suitable for those who live regionally and can’t attend in person. It is designed for individuals with employment-related PTSD.
Half day per week for 10 weeks.
Recognising and preventing relapse (open group)
This program is designed to reduce the likelihood of relapse and readmissions to hospital for people with chronic mental health issues.
Half day per week for 30 weeks.
Anger for PTSD (closed group)
Specifically designed for people experiencing PTSD and problematic anger. It is a cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) approach to managing and building skills to cope with PTSD-related anger.
One day per week for 12 weeks.
Anxiety CBT (closed group)
Designed to assist those who experience a range of anxiety disorders including anxiety and depression. Learn strategies to reduce anxiety symptoms and impact of these symptoms on quality of life.
One day per week for 10 weeks.
CBT-I sleep and nightmare program (closed group)
Aims to improve sleep quality, time to get to sleep, number of sleep awakenings and duration of sleep.
If you are experiencing nightmares, there is an additional half-day component on weeks two to seven of the program, addressing nightmares by reducing distress and frequency of nightmares experienced.
Half day per week for eight weeks.
If completing the additional component, the program runs for a full day from weeks 2 to 7.
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Dialectical behaviour therapy DBT (closed group)
This program addresses emotional dysregulation with a focus on tolerating distress and reducing impulsive behaviours, improving relationships and psychosocial functioning. It aims to help you build a life worth living.
Held one day per week for 24 weeks, starting every 9 weeks.
Can be repeated, to be 12 months in total.
Clients must commit to seeing their own individual therapist in the community at least once per fortnight during the program.
Depression CBT (closed group)
This program is designed to help those with a mood disorder to develop skills to reduce depressive symptoms and enhance quality of life.
One day per week for 8 weeks.
Mindfulness in practice (closed group)
The program combines traditional cognitive behavioural therapy with mindfulness practice. It targets treatment resistant depression, and a range of associated problems such as stress, addictions, pain and anxiety.
Half day per week for 8 weeks.
Radically open dialectical behaviour therapy (RO-DBT) (open group)
RO-DBT focuses on over-controlled behaviours. Strategies target social connectedness and developing skills to activate neural pathways associated with social safety and desires for affiliation, non-verbal social signalling skills and establishment of trust, forgiveness of self and others, self-enquiry and openness, coupled with the breakdown of over-learned inhibitory barriers.
Half day per week for 30 weeks.
Schema therapy (closed group)
This program is designed to help with longstanding anxiety and depression. It explores core beliefs and associated automatic, behavioural coping responses, then broadens the range of coping responses to enhance quality of life.
One day per week for 16 weeks.
STAIR - Skills training in affective and interpersonal regulation (closed group)
This program aims to improve functioning and wellbeing and prepare you for more intensive treatments. It can provide benefits for PTSD, mood and anxiety disorders, substance use disorders, personality disorders and those struggling with emotion dysregulation, social isolation or interpersonal difficulties.
Occupational and non-occupational trauma intakes are available.
One day per week for 12 weeks.
How much do our mental health day programs cost?
Most of our programs are covered by private health insurance, we also accept WorkCover, Department of Veterans’ Affairs and self-funded clients.
Enquire about our mental health day programs
Please fill in the form below and a caregiver will be in contact with you.