Upper Bay Counseling & Support Services, Inc.
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Intake & Assessment
Counseling: Individual, Family & Group
Medication Evaluation & Management
SHARE Community Support Services
SunRise: Residential Rehabilitation Program
Supported Employment Program

Adult Services

Intake & Assessment

  • a series of routine questions, including current concerns, family history, diagnostic impression, and treatment goals
  • licensed, experienced professionals complete assessments which are then reviewed by our multidisciplinary team to determine an appropriate course of action
  • court-ordered evaluations are also available

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Counseling

Counseling assists individuals with understanding their problems, setting specific goals that help to resolve those problems, and to work towards those goals.

Individual counseling

  • the client works in confidence with just one other person, the therapist
  • an exclusive, one-to-one relationship, the therapist tailors treatment to meet the client’s specific needs.

Family counseling

  • therapist helps family members learn how to work together on family issues
  • perhaps just one family member is the client and other family members participate in order to learn how to help this individual

Group counseling

  • clients who share similar problems work together to discover possible solutions and to encourage each other to change
  • therapist facilitates the group by suggesting topics and by encouraging participation

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Medication Management

  • medication evaluation and management is provided through a Licensed Psychiatrist
  • at any time during treatment, the client may be referred to one of our staff psychiatrists to determine if a medication evaluation would be beneficial
  • all clients receiving medication through Upper Bay Counseling will be assigned to a therapist or case manager
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SHARE-Adult Psychiatric Rehabilitation Program

SHARE community support services provides assistance to adults with chronic mental illness. The goal is to increase their ability to cope with their mental health symptoms and stressors while remaining in a community setting. Emphasis is placed on individualized treatment, and strengthening each person's ability to engage and integrate successfully into the community.

SHARE community support services is an Adult Psychiatric Rehabilitation Program. This program offers both on- and off-site supportive services to adults diagnosed with serious and persistent mental illness. On-site services include a day program that operates five days a week.

SHARE stands for Self Help Awareness Reaching Everyone.

Services include:

  • group and individual support
  • mental health education and counseling
  • medication education
  • development of coping skills
  • building and improving social skills
  • opportunities for socialization
  • group work and group therapy for individuals with co-occurring mental health and substance use disorders
  • assistance with budgeting and money management
  • increasing nutrition and physical health awareness
  • leisure and recreational activities
  • supportive home visits
  • assistance with activities of daily living
  • linkage to needed resources and entitlements (housing, food, income, etc.)
  • individualized treatment plan
  • on-call system for client psychiatric emergencies, twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week
  • transportation to and from the day program is available

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SunRise Residential Rehabilitation Program

  • provides housing with up to 24-hour supervision to adults with severe and persistent mental illness
  • promotes independence through life skills training
  • provides counseling and medication management
  • provides coordination of medical care by nursing professionals
  • provides case management
  • offers community based activities
  • emphasizing the use of community resources
  • transportation is available

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Support Employment Program (SEP)

  • assists individuals with mental illness to become gainfully employed
  • provides vocational training
  • helps with job development, application and resume training, and interviewing skills
  • offers on- and off-site job coaching
  • assists clients with job preparedness skills

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