Pauquette Center - Portage

Pauquette Center Portage partners with Columbia Count to offer comprehensive outpatient services for children to older adults 8AM-5PM Monday-Friday with Wednesday and Thursday evening sessions available by appointment. Minutes from the Wisconsin River, they are located off of Highway 51 nearby several grocery stores and restaurants. Pauquette Center offers psychological assessment and testing by a licensed psychologist along with forensic assessment and treatment for anger management, disrupted personality characteristics resulting in criminal behavior, competency to stand trial, and more. They offer dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) groups for 3 different age groups and a domestic violence and anger management group for adult men. They take clients enrolled in Comprehensive Community Services (CCS) in Columbia, Sauk, Jefferson, Richland, and Walworth counties. In addition, Pauquette Center has a clinician who is fluent in American Sign Language (ASL) and provides psychotherapy and addiction recovery services for hearing impaired individuals and their families.

Alcohol and Other Drugs (AODA) Counseling

This center offers individual AODA Counseling for those struggling with substance use. The focus of treatment is addiction, recovery, and relapse prevention. Clients will learn to recognize triggers and make lifestyle changes for recovery success. All of their AODA counselors are licensed to treat both AODA and mental health issues.

Parenting Support

Pauquette Center offers a parenting program with individual therapy, phone coaching, and group training options. They offer counseling for parents who find it difficult to parent related to their own mental health concerns and provide consultation on parenting techniques that would be helpful for the family culture. During sessions, clinicians will work with parents on consistency, teaching and maintaining health boundaries, love, and nurturing. Pauquette Center also offers psychotherapy for children including play therapy.

Domestic Violence and Anger Management

Group therapy designed for men with a history of domestic violence and/or significant anger issues. This group provides psychoeducation and addresses anger, violence, power and control, and healthy relationships. This group meets 1 hour a week for 24 weeks and meets the state standard for offender intervention. In addition, Pauquette Center offers services for men and women who have experienced domestic violence in their relationships.

Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)

Pauquette Center offers tailored DBT programming for adults, adolescents, and children. Before treatment, all individuals will complete an initial 1 hour long screening before a clinician is assigned. Then, individuals will complete a DBT-specific intake and participate in 3-5 sessions of pre-treatment to learn about DBT, the program, and expectations before fully committing to treatment. Their adult (18 and older) DBT program includes 1 hour long group sessions twice a week and 1 hour of individual therapy with a DBT clinician once a week. During treatment, individuals will have access to phone coaching with their therapist between sessions. Their adolescents (13-18 years old) program meets for group skills training for 2 hours once a week and adolescents also meet with a DBT provider 1-on-1 for 1 hour once a week. Both the adolescent and caregiver must be prepared to participate in all group sessions and family sessions are offered as needed. Adolescents will also have access to phone coaching between sessions. The children’s program requires greater commitment from caregivers than the child. Caregivers will learn a number of foundational skills about validation, acceptance, and behavior change. Most caregivers participate in the once weekly “parent training” group that meets for 1 hour per week in addition to working individually with a DBT-C therapist. After foundational skills are learned, the child will likely start to have their own weekly sessions while the caregiver sessions continue.