Coping with Chronic Medical Illness (Online)
With Stephanie McDonough
This 6 session group is designed specifically for people living with a chronic medical illness. Each session incorporates evidence-based techniques from both Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT). Group members can expect to learn and practice a variety of coping skills designed to help improve quality of life, stress and mood management.
Biweekly, 75 minute group sessions
Sessions will be held online (must be located in North Carolina)
$80 for intake session, $390 for 6 session package
18+ (Adults)
If interested in this program, please reach out to be updated with the next available dates.
Social Groups
with Jess Mandell
Social Groups for children and adolescents focus on creating social opportunities (e.g., meeting others with similar and different strengths and interests, forming friendships), engaging in incidental learning during group activities, building and practicing coping skills, and having fun together! Groups are neuroaffirming and appropriate for neurodivergent youth as well as children/adolescents experiencing anxiety, social difficulties, and social differences.
Groups meet in-person every 2 to 4 weeks in the late afternoon or early evening
$75 per session
If interested in learning more or joining a group, please reach out to BASE.
The Body Project for High School Girls
With Stephanie Hosford
The Body Project is a body acceptance program for high school girls that is backed by two decades of research and shown to effectively reduce body dissatisfaction and have a positive impact on eating disorder prevention. This program will give girls the tools to confront unrealistic beauty ideals and engage them in the development of a healthy body image. The program has repeatedly shown to effectively reduce body dissatisfaction, negative mood, unhealthy dieting, and disordered eating. This program is not intended for girls who have already been diagnosed with an eating disorder.
$200 for 4 session package
If interested in this program, please reach out to be updated with the next available dates.
Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) Skills for Teens and Parents
WITH KRISTIN DALEY, Chrissy Raines, Katharine Rogers, and Ryan Page
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) is a therapy that was developed to help people develop skills for managing intense emotions. At its core, DBT teaches emotional intelligence, and focuses on four key areas of emotional skills: mindfulness, emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness. This group also present parents with the key emotional skills required for parenting teens whose emotions can be intense or who are navigating specific emotional challenges.
$2400 for 16 session package
Wednesdays 6:00pm - 7:15pm
Adolescents 14-18
Simultaneous teen and parent groups
Intensive Sleep Treatment: CBT for Insomnia (Online)
WITH KRISTIN DALEY
Sleep bootcamp for adults! This series provides an in depth method to repair and restore your sleep. The series is limited to 8 participants, and covers up-to-date information on sleep, hosted by a nationally-recognized behavioral sleep expert.
Session 1: We will cover the essentials of sleep, and deepen understanding of what creates insomnia. We will discuss unique differences in people with insomnia, and start to establish treatment intervention.
Session 2: We will go in depth into circadian rhythm and some of the ways that our internal clock system can interfere with our sleep.
Session 3: We will cover the effects of stress on our sleep system, and develop specific intervention to help our bodies and minds tolerate sleep.
Session 4: We will discuss sleep medications, how they work, why they are used, and how we develop strategies to eliminate medications for sleep. Clients will be able to review some of their past medication usage, and determine the risks and benefits of sleep medicines.
Session 5: We will discuss some of the more complex challenges with thoughts related to sleep, and the way that wakefulness can persist during the night. We will develop specific intervention strategies for the various causes of nocturnal awakenings or problems falling asleep.
Session 6: The information from the prior 5 sessions will be synthesized into the essential elements required for sustaining healthy sleep for the long term. Clients who are working off of medications can verify their taper strategies. We will discuss how to prevent relapse into insomnia.
$360 for 6 session package
Sessions will be held online