Outpatient Treatment

This is a group that will explore self-esteem and self-confidence, self-acceptance, self-satisfaction and learning who you are as a person after getting clean and sober. The class will help individuals find the person they may have lost while using substances and learn how to navigate their new life of sobriety and to forgive themselves and move forward to meeting their own personal goals.

This group targets the physiological responses of anger and provides strategies to manage responses to increase successful outcomes.

A group focused on understanding what co-dependent behavior is and how to manage difficult relationships.

This is an open process group to talk anything that you are encountering as you move through the recovery process; stress, anger, relationships issues, mental health or anything else that are you dealing with and want to talk about.

This group targets improvement of communication skills to include roadblocks, styles, and repairing relationships.

This group helps you to think about how you react to conflict and learn skills to strengthen impulse control when faced with conflict. You will learn: conflict resolution and communication skills, healthy types of communication, stages of relationships and how these relate to conflict, what your own conflict style is and how to use it more effectively and how to relate conflict styles of your family of origin to your current issues and behaviors.

Group is intended for those stabilized in recovery to gain supports and insight into recovery process.

Group focus is to help individuals understand various aspects of addiction including stages and strategies of early recovery efforts.

This group focuses on the specific concerns, challenges and needs of people who are working in recovery that identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender.

Group focus is on learning or relearning the skills associated with managing and living a better quality of life. Group topics include things like: Time Management, Benefits of Volunteering, Stress Management and Resiliency Inventories, Goal Setting, Career Search, Resume Building, Interviewing, Financial literacy, and more!

In this group you will explore your substance use and develop coping skills to be able to better handle your substance use. This group provides education on different substances along with identifying triggers, high risk situations, planning for sobriety, and relapse prevention. The group will also cover negative emotions and learning how to better cope with them.

This group focuses on learning the impact that substance abuse or addiction has on the family, particularly parent-children relationships. The participants will identify coping skills and strategies that will help them to overcome the negative effects of addiction in familial relationships as well as help them reconnect with their families, particularly children. The group participants will also focus on learning copings skills that would aid them in dealing with common daily stressors that are the result of raising children and dealing with family issues.

All male clients are invited to this group to focus specifically on men's issues and how they relate to recovery.

Not your ordinary relapse prevention group. This group focuses on using mindfulness strategies and ways to quiet the triggers and cravings.

The group reviews policies, procedures and expectations at United Community Services, Inc. One-time attendance is expected.

An introductory group that invites participants to explore whether or not the 12-steps could be helpful in their recovery.

Group focus is for those who have historically struggled with addiction and legal involvement. Group highlights how to change thinking processes to encourage effectiveness.

Four week group, specifically designed for those who have had a period of recovery and are struggling with relapse issues. This program is by referral only. Available only at the Des Moines location on Wednesday evenings.

This group is designed to help cope with both early recovery and develop insight into strategies to prevent relapses from occurring. This is the second-part of Early Recovery Skills.

Five week addiction education curriculum shared in a process-style group. Patients must have a referral to attend this group. This group is offered only in our Des Moines location on Monday evening.

Group focuses on early recovery activities to help increase the number of pleasurable-activities one may have lost during their addiction.

This is a Spanish-speaking group facilitated by a bi-lingual counselor focusing on early recovery and relapse prevention skills.

Talking about change is designed for those who might be contemplating a change in their use patterns but might not yet be ready to engage in more intensive treatment. Talking About Change helps identify what safe use might look like, how addiction progresses, and helps clientele look at value systems and change plans which makes the most sense in their lives. This is a closed group and it starts every 8 weeks.

This process group explores how cultures and backgrounds impact recovery.

A skills-based group focusing on the improvement of symptoms related to substance use disorders and the impact of any situation that has caused great distress and disruption to life. Elaboration of personal trauma will not be discussed at length within the group. "In the moment" skills and improvement in functioning will be addressed.

All female clients are invited to participate in a discussion about recovery and women-specific issues and strategies pertinent in developing support and healthy lifestyles