Group Therapy
Family of Origin group with Bernadine Fried
The focus of Family of Origin is on exploring Family of Origin issues and family dynamics, such as family rituals, rules, and myths, to gain a deeper understanding of how it affects one’s recovery.
Bernadine Fried – Founder, Clinical Director, ONE80CENTER
Clinical Director Bernadine Fried is a licensed Marriage Family Therapist and has been treating Addiction for over twenty years. Bernadine has advanced training in EMDR , is a certified Equine therapist, and has vast experience in working with PTSD and Addiction. Bernadine was one of the founders and was the Clinical Director of Wonderland Treatment Center.
Bernadine has lead staff training seminars at some of the top treatment Centers in the country including Crossroads Center in Antigua, Promises and Visions. Ms. Fried has contributed and been a consultant on many articles on Addiction including The Los Angeles Times, The London Times and New Yorker magazine. Bernadine implements the most intensive and cutting edge methods in treating chemical dependency, using an all-encompassing approach, communicating with a team of specialists on the clients’ behalf, and is committed to changing the lives of people suffering from addictions.
Spirituality with Dr Steve
Many in recovery are introduced to the concept of spirituality for the first time as they get sober, and many are at a loss about how to access and utilize spiritual principles. Through a combination of psycho-education, process, shared spiritual experiences (both positive and negative), and mutual encouragement, participants become able to find out what spirituality means to them. They then feel safe and able to put spiritual beliefs into action in their recovery and in their lives.
Stephen Dansiger, PsyD- Executive director at ONE80CENTER
He has provided training, education, leadership, coaching and therapy for a diverse population for many years. Holding a Doctorate in Clinical Psychology, he has created and run groups at several top treatment facilities, as well as serving as a Primary Therapist. In his private practice, he specializes in all substance and behavioral addictions, as well as working with PTSD, Complex PTSD, depression, anxiety and other disorders. He is a fully EMDRIA Certified EMDR therapist and uses it extensively in his private practice as well as with clients at ONE80CENTER. He has 20 years of experience as a Trainer, Educator, and Life Coach, working in every environment from pre-K through universities, corporations and government agencies. He has worked for almost 20 years with various populations on issues of Anger Management, Conflict Resolution, and Substance Abuse Prevention.
Psychodrama with Jeffrey Yates
Psychodrama is a therapeutic discipline which uses action methods, sociometry, role training, and group dynamics to facilitate constructive change in the lives of participants. By closely approximating life situations in a structured environment, the participant is able to recreate and enact scenes in a way which allows both insight and an opportunity to practice new life skills.
Psychodrama seeks to use a person’s creativity and spontaneity to reach his or her highest human potential. With its perspective on the social network in which an individual lives, it promotes mutual support and understanding.
Jeffrey Yates, LCSW, TEP, is a psychotherapist in private practice in Los Angeles and is the Director of the Psychodrama Institute of Los Angeles. He currently provides psychodrama services for Promises Treatment Centers. Jeffrey has been a trainer with the psychodrama section, DC-CMHS (formerly The National Institute of Mental Health), Washington DC (1989-95). He has worked as a clinician in both inpatient and outpatient mental health and addiction programs and has conducted workshops for Sierra Tucson, The Caron Foundation and the US Center for Substance Abuse Prevention. He has facilitated workshops in Human Service and Corporate settings throughout the US.
* Jeffrey Yate’s website
* website for PsychoDrama Institute of LA
Traditions with Jay Westbrook
In this group, we learn how to apply the principles of the Traditions. The Traditions offer guidelines to help resolve conflict in the areas of publicity, religion and finances. The principles found in the Traditions help an individual learn to work in a group and respect the all aspects that arise inside of any group structure.
Jay Westbrook- Jay Westbrook, award-winning clinician, author, & keynote speaker presents powerfully – as a Wounded Healer – on transformation, motivation, leadership, inspiration, communication, preventing compassion fatigue and burnout & turnover, and the constellation of clinical issues surrounding End-of-Life. Jay has 23 years sober and does tremendous work with alcoholics.
Brain Group with Steve Orenstein
This group is a process group, flavored with Steve Orenstein’s extensive knowledge of the neuro-cognitive functions in rehabilitation.
Steven Orenstein is the co-founder of the Brain Enhancement Institute, Playa Del Rey, CA. specializing in neuro-cognitive rehabilitation.
*Wellness day bio for Steve Orenstein
*Website for Brain Enhancement Insititute
The Four Agreements Group
The Four Agreements have been passed down for thousands of years in the ancient Toltec culture and were published in 1997 in bestselling book by Don Miguel Ruiz. They ask us to be Impeccable with our word, to take nothing personally, never to make assumptions, and to always do our best. The intention of the agreements is to help us appreciate people more fully, to live more presently and to move away from unnecessary fears and concerns. They challenge us to alter our dysfunctional patterns of communication and teach us to speak more clearly. These simple guidelines are connected in many ways to the fundamentals of the 12 steps and have helped many to establish and maintain healthy relationships.
SLA group with Marnie Breeker
Marnie Breecker earned her masters degree in Clinical Psychology from Antioch University in Los Angeles. Marnie began her career as a trainee at Del Amo Hospital working with children, adolescents and adults in the treatment of acute mental illness, dual diagnosis, trauma, eating disorders and chemical dependency. In addition to her work at SRI, Marnie continues to work part-time at Del Amo as a program therapist in the national treatment center, working with both survivors of childhood sexual abuse and adults struggling with sex and love addiction. Marnie has led hundreds of psychotherapy groups focusing on such topics as setting and maintaining boundaries, cognitive behavioral therapy, anger management, coping skills, mood disorders, family of origin and relapse prevention. Her groups are both psycho-educational and interactive, encouraging all members to play an active role in their own recovery. Marnie is a member of Society for the Advancement of Sexual Health (SASH) and has a private practice in West Los Angeles.
Marnie has worked at The Institute for Sexual Health, since March 2008 as a treatment specialist, facilitating a weekly spouse/partner support group, psycho-educational program and sex addiction group. Marnie has facilitated psychotherapy groups and lectures focusing on such topics as setting and maintaining boundaries, disclosure, healthy sexuality, relapse prevention, anger management, coping skills, family of origin and trauma. Her groups are both psycho-educational and interactive, encouraging all members to play an active role in their own recovery.
* website for the Society for the Advancement of Sexual Health
* website for Marnie Breeker
* website for The Institute for Sexual Health
Music Group – Tony Fried
The group is used to enhance social or interpersonal, affective, cognitive, and behavioral functioning. Our music therapist Tony Fried uses music to actively link a client to their psycho-emotional state. In certain settings, the consistent use of music therapy interventions has resulted in a shorter length of stay (treatment period) and more efficient response to the client’s overall intervention plan.
Relapse Prevention with Suzanne Wallach
This group deals with identifying triggers and patterns that lead to relapse. It is based on the Gorski Principles (Terence T. Gorski is an internationally recognized expert on substance abuse, mental health, violence, & crime. He is best known for his contributions to relapse prevention), and is both psycho educational and process oriented.
* website for Trence Gorski
Anger Management Group with Marty Brenner
This group focuses on handling anger in a healthy, healing way and to develop strategies to channel anger into motivating and productive behavior.
ABOUT MARTY BRENNER
Marty has been providing guidance and counseling for the last 20 years to a wide and diverse range of people. Individuals challenged with various addictions including but not limited to – substance abuse, alcohol, and anger. Marty is a certified chemical dependency counselor and anger management facilitator.
Affectionately known as “Marty”, he has positively influenced and helped reshape the lives of many people in recovery, ranging from ex-cons to his high profile clients in the Beverly Hills, Malibu and Los Angeles areas. Marty is an excellent resource with indepth knowledge of current trends in the substance abuse and mental health treatment fields, as well as individual options for successful recovery.
Creative Discovery Group led by Katherine Roberts
Creative Discovery is an expressive therapy that includes mindfulness, painting, sculpting, drawing, visual journaling and processing. This group engages the healing power of the arts that is inherent in each of us. The emphasis is on the creative process rather than on technique or expertise. It is an opportunity to express one’s self authentically and spontaneously in a safe environment. Creative Discovery helps recovering individuals express emotions, explore unresolved trauma and attachment issues that goes beyond words.
Catherine Roberts is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist. She graduated from the University of Arizona, and received her Master’s degree in Psychology with an emphasis in Art Therapy and Marriage and Family Therapy from Phillips Graduate Institute.
Catherine works in private practice as well as at the Institute for Sexual Health treating love and sex addiction. She has been trained by Pia Mellody in Post-Induction Therapy in the areas of love addiction and childhood trauma. She is currently studying and training with Dr. Patrick Carnes to become a CSAT (Certified Sex Addiction Therapist) under the supervision of Dr. Nancy Sobel and Dr. Kenneth Adams.
* Website for the Institute for Sexual Health
Life Skills Group with Alex Shohet
The Life Skills group helps individuals in the first few years of recovery find more meaning and passion when choosing a career, at the start of a chosen career or during a change of career. We’ll help you identify your unique gifts. You’ll get an opportunity to take the Myers Briggs Personality Test and then learn how your “Type” impacts your choice and interest in a career.
ABOUT ALEX SHOHET
Alex is a co-founder of the ONE80 Center and a serial entrepreneur. Alex Shohet started and sold three technology companies and in 2005 founded Wonderland Treatment Center in Los Angeles. Since 2004, Alex has used social entrepreneurship to reduce the damage addiction does to our society. In 2009, Alex partnered with UCLA’s Anderson School of Business on a career mentorship project for the recovery community. Alex Shohet has experimented with micro lending programs to increase jobs and opportunities in the recovery community.
Family Group Description
One80 Center offers families an individualized and multi-dimensional program that is specifically designed to address the needs of those with loved ones in the beginning stages of recovery. One important aspect of this family program is a psycho-education and multi- family process group every Saturday that is facilitated by our family therapist. This group focuses on developing an understanding of the complexities of addiction as a family disease and the impact addiction has on the addict and the family. In order for true recovery to occur the entire family of the addict or alcoholic must also work towards changing their own patterns, which often includes patterns of enabling and co-dependency. In our family group families will learn tools to implement to help themselves and their families grow towards health and happiness. During the psycho-educational group, and individual family sessions, families and clients will also learn healthy forms of communication. The goal of the family program is for clients and their families to learn tools to serve as the foundation for each family to begin using appropriate coping and relapse prevention skills so that successful healthy family dynamics can be restored.
Christine Schrader, M.A., LMFT
Christine is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist who received her Masters Degree in Clinical Psychology from Antioch University. She is a family therapist at One80 Center and the facilitator of our family program. She has extensive experience in residential dual diagnosis treatment where she has worked as a primary therapist, family therapist and group facilitator. As the Director of Family Services for UCLA directed Summit Centers Malibu she facilitated a 3-day family program along with creating program structure and curriculum with an emphasis on evidence based practices. Christine is a Clinical Supervisor for MFT interns and has completed additional training in Brief Strategic Family Therapy, Behavioral Couples Therapy, Motivational nhancement therapy/ Cognitive Behavior Therapy and the Matrix Treatment Model.She is well practiced in various treatment modalities and her work focuses on relational issues that are impacted by substance abuse. She currently maintains a Private Practice working with Adults, Adolescents, Couples and Families in Encino.
12 Steps seen through New Thought /Metaphysics Group
This group is designed to explore and deepen the clients understanding of the 12 Steps through practical metaphysics, New Thought /Ancient Wisdom teachings. This is a highly interactive group where we will discover the universal principles in each step. It is my intention for clients to have a visceral experience of their powerful and transformational qualities. Through this process, clients will learn practical tools for ongoing personal growth. As is the purpose of the 12 Steps, this Group is dedicated to meeting each client where they are in consciousness and providing inspiration for them to have a personal spiritual experience.
His personal experience and passion for recovery began in 1985 where later on his spiritual quest and commitment for learning earned him a degree from The University of Transformational Studies and Leadership in Los Angeles. Joe served as the Spiritual Advisor at Alternatives Recover Center in 2006 and is a Licensed Spiritual Practitioner at the Agape International Spiritual Center in Los Angeles under the direction of Dr. Michael Benard Beckwith. He is currently a student of Abraham-Hicks and A Course in Miracles. Joe likes to see life as this powerful, fluid dance between our humanity and our divinity.
