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About Connections
Located in Orange County, California, Connections Mental Health is a residential treatment center treating primary mental health conditions. It treats a maximum of 6 clients at a time to create individualized care. With compassion at the core of its approach, the qualified, compassionate team provides a comprehensive evaluation before treatment to customize clients’ care plans to meet diverse needs.
Connections Mental Health can help those with depression, anxiety, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), bipolar disorder, borderline personality disorder (BPD), obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD), schizophrenia, attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), and suicidal and homicidal ideation. Connections Mental Health additionally has a 24/7 supervised eating disorder program backed by a team of psychiatrists, psychologists, dietitians, and medical doctors. They offer a unique program for clients with premenstrual dysphoric disorder (PMDD).
Connections Mental Health uses 1:1, group, and family therapy to help clients recover. They offer evidence-based therapies such as cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), dialectical behavioral therapy (DBT), eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR), and motivational interviewing. Family-based therapy (FBT) restores healthy habits and creates open communication within the family. Connections Mental Health offers medication management based on the client’s clinical assessment. They incorporate the Seeking Safety program—which creates a safe space to develop coping skills, emotion regulation, and resilience through therapies that focus on healing current feelings and behaviors, not past ones.
Connections Mental Health utilizes holistic tools as part of the recovery process, such as yoga, mindfulness and meditation, and art therapy to complement the recovery process. These therapies can help clients develop coping strategies, reduce stress, and improve overall well-being. Connection Mental Health’s Orange County residential home has a backyard with comfortable seating and a firepit for relaxing and rejuvenation.
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Insurance Accepted
Provider's Policy:Yes, your treatment for mental health can be covered by an insurance provider. We work with most PPC insurance through employers. Call our helpful team now at (844) 413-0009 to find out what your coverage will be.
Connections Mental Health provides various evidence-based therapies to support a long-lasting mental health recovery. They offer cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), dialectical behavioral therapy (DBT), eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR), and motivational interviewing. These therapies help clients process the underlying factors contributing to their condition(s) and explore new coping strategies.
Connections Mental Health can treat a wide range of primary mental health conditions, including depression, anxiety, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), bipolar disorder, borderline personality disorder (BPD), obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD), schizophrenia, and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Connections Mental Health additionally has specialized programs for suicidal or homicidal ideation and premenstrual dysphoric disorder (PMDD).
Connections Mental Health offers a specialized eating disorder program that treats anorexia, bulimia, and binge eating disorder. In addition to evidence-based therapies like cognitive behavioral therapy, clients and their loved ones participate in family-based therapy to restore healthy eating habits and facilitate open communication within the family. Clients work with a dietician to develop healthier eating habits.
Connections Mental health integrates Seeking Safety into their therapies by focusing on current issues and behaviors rather than probing past traumatic events. Seeking Safety is a contemporary, research-backed treatment approach designed to simultaneously address post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and substance use disorder. This treatment develops coping skills, emotion regulation, and resilience-building techniques.
Executives
Executive treatment programs typically directly support the needs of people who manage businesses and may provide flexible schedules and office space to allow work during treatment.
Young Adults
Emerging adults ages 18-25 receive treatment catered to the unique challenges of early adulthood, like college, risky behaviors, and vocational struggles.
LGBTQ+
Addiction and mental illnesses in the LGBTQ+ community must be treated with an affirming, safe, and relevant approach, which many centers provide.
Men and Women
Men and women attend treatment for addiction in a co-ed setting, going to therapy groups together to share experiences, struggles, and successes.
Midlife Adults
For adults ages 40+, treatment shifts to focus on the unique challenges, blocks, and risk factors of their age group, and unites peers in a similar community.
Professionals
Busy, high-ranking professionals get the personalized treatment they need with greater accommodations for work, privacy, and outside communication.
Veterans
Patients who completed active military duty receive specialized treatment focused on trauma, grief, loss, and finding a new work-life balance.
Schizophrenia
Schizophrenia is a serious mental health condition that causes hallucinations, delusions, and disordered thinking.
Anxiety
Anxiety is a common mental health condition that can include excessive worry, panic attacks, physical tension, and increased blood pressure.
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Bipolar
This mental health condition is characterized by extreme mood swings between depression, mania, and remission.
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Depression
Symptoms of depression may include fatigue, a sense of numbness, and loss of interest in activities. This condition can range from mild to severe.
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Eating Disorders
An eating disorder is a long-term pattern of unhealthy behavior relating to food. Most people with eating disorders have a distorted self-image.
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Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
PTSD is a long-term mental health issue caused by a disturbing event or events. Symptoms include anxiety, dissociation, flashbacks, and intrusive thoughts.
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Suicidality
With suicidality, a person fantasizes about suicide, or makes a plan to carry it out. This is a serious mental health symptom.
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Trauma
Some traumatic events are so disturbing that they cause long-term mental health problems. Those ongoing issues can also be referred to as "trauma."
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Evidence-Based
A combination of scientifically rooted therapies and treatments make up evidence-based care, defined by their measured and proven results.
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Individual Treatment
Individual care meets the needs of each patient, using personalized treatment to provide them the most relevant care and greatest chance of success.
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1-on-1 Counseling
Patient and therapist meet 1-on-1 to work through difficult emotions and behavioral challenges in a personal, private setting.
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Meditation & Mindfulness
A practiced state of mind that brings patients to the present. It allows them to become fully aware of themselves, their feelings, and the present moment.
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Play Therapy
This approach is commonly used with children. It incorporates elements of play and self-expression, like boardgames, finger painting, dolls, and blocks.
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Trauma-Specific Therapy
This form of talk therapy addresses any childhood trauma at the root of a patient's current diagnosis.
Mindfulness Therapy
This ancient practice can be mental, emotional, and even spiritual. In meditation, you focus your attention on the present moment without judgement.
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Eye Movement Therapy (EMDR)
Lateral, guided eye movements help reduce the emotional reactions of retelling and reprocessing trauma, allowing intense feelings to dissipate.
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Medication-Assisted Treatment
Combined with behavioral therapy, prescribed medications can enhance treatment by relieving withdrawal symptoms and focus patients on their recovery.
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Motivational Interviewing and Enhancement Therapy (MET)
This approach is based on idea that motivation to change comes from within. Providers use a conversational framework that may help you commit to recovery.
Seeking Safety
Not looking to the past, patients improve their present circumstances. They work toward safety without detailing traumatic events.
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Pornography Addiction
A person with a porn addiction is emotionally dependent on pornography to the point that it interferes with their daily life and relationships.
Schizophrenia
Schizophrenia is a serious mental health condition that causes hallucinations, delusions, and disordered thinking.
Grief and Loss
Grief is a natural reaction to loss, but severe grief can interfere with your ability to function. You can get treatment for this condition.
Personality Disorders
Personality disorders destabilize the way a person thinks, feels, and behaves. If untreated, they can undermine relationships and lead to severe distress.
ADHD, ADD
ADHD is a common mental health condition caused by dopamine imbalance. Common symptoms include inattention, hyperactivitiy, and impulsivity.
Anger
Although anger itself isn't a disorder, it can get out of hand. If this feeling interferes with your relationships and daily functioning, treatment can help.
Anxiety
Anxiety is a common mental health condition that can include excessive worry, panic attacks, physical tension, and increased blood pressure.
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Bipolar
This mental health condition is characterized by extreme mood swings between depression, mania, and remission.
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Codependency
Codependency is a pattern of emotional dependence and controlling behavior. It's most common among people with addicted loved ones.
Depression
Symptoms of depression may include fatigue, a sense of numbness, and loss of interest in activities. This condition can range from mild to severe.
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Eating Disorders
An eating disorder is a long-term pattern of unhealthy behavior relating to food. Most people with eating disorders have a distorted self-image.
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Internet Addiction
Internet addiction is common among children teens. This compulsive disorder can damage relationships, school performance, sleep habits, and physical health.
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
OCD is characterized by intrusive and distressing thoughts that drive repetitive behaviors. This pattern disrupts daily life and relationships.
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
PTSD is a long-term mental health issue caused by a disturbing event or events. Symptoms include anxiety, dissociation, flashbacks, and intrusive thoughts.
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Self-Harm
The act of intentionally harming oneself, also called self-injury, is associated with mental health issues like depression.
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Sex Addiction
Compulsively seeking out sex can easily become a problem. This addiction is detrimental to relationships, physical health, and self-esteem.
Suicidality
With suicidality, a person fantasizes about suicide, or makes a plan to carry it out. This is a serious mental health symptom.
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Trauma
Some traumatic events are so disturbing that they cause long-term mental health problems. Those ongoing issues can also be referred to as "trauma."
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Co-Occurring Disorders
A person with multiple mental health diagnoses, such as addiction and depression, has co-occurring disorders also called dual diagnosis.
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