Individual, Family, Group Counseling

Community Counseling Center offers effective, high quality family, individual and group therapies to help children, adults and senior citizens from all incomes and backgrounds struggling with:

• Depression and anxiety
• Acute and chronic mental illness
• Relationship, couple and family problems
• Parenting and child rearing challenges
• Behavioral and emotional problems in children
• Abusive or destructive relationships
• Sexual and/or physical abuse
• Unplanned pregnancies
• Economic or financial stresses
• HIV/AIDS
• Family crises, including separation, divorce and death
• Aging parents with mental illnesses
• Loss and declining health that come with aging
• Post-traumatic stress disorder and recovery from catastrophic events

In addition, Community Counseling Center provides statewide outpatient mental health services to Deaf, hard of hearing, deaf-blind and late deafened adults and children.

Case Management Services

In addition to counseling programs, Community Counseling Center has a number of programs designed to help families and children thrive in school, at home, at work and in the community.

Through its case management programs, Community Counseling Center helps parents locate necessary services and supports within the community for their children. Case managers work with families of children diagnosed with mental illness, behavioral issues and other specialized needs, including developmental disabilities and mental retardation, to develop a plan tailored to the individual needs of the child. Case managers help parents:

• Locate and coordinate resources and funding
• Advocate for needed services on behalf of their children
• Ensure that appropriate services are in place and that the children’s needs continue to be met

Community Counseling Center’s Refugee and Immigrant Counseling and Case Management program works with children who may be identified with having emotional and/or behavioral difficulties due to transitions, trauma history or other adjustments and are not receiving culturally relevant services. Case management staff are multilingual and can provide case management services in Somali, Swahili, Sudanese Arabic, Acholi, French, Lingala, Kinyarwanda, Kirundi, Spanish and Kingazidja (Comoros Islands). Community Counseling Center will provide interpreters to work with families who may speak other languages.

Elder Services

Aging adults often find themselves alone, struggling with declining health, financial difficulties, depression and loss. Community Counseling Center offers programs for individuals over 50 with mental health needs, including:

• An innovative day program designed to provide individualized treatment within a nurturing and supportive community environment
• Art therapy and other expressive therapies
• Home-based assessment and counseling
• Geriatric case management services to assist older adults with identifying and coordinating resources and supports

Community Programs

Community Counseling Center's programs reach beyond its walls and into the community. Community-based programs include:

• Classes to help parents better understand and anticipate the normal patterns and stresses of individual, family and parent/child relationships
• Educational programs about issues that affect the emotional health of individuals and families in the community
• Maine SpeakOut Project, a speakers’ bureau that helps foster understanding and dialogue around issues of sexual diversity.
• Proud Rainbow Youth of Southern Maine (PRYSM), a safe and positive space for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, questioning and allied (LGBTQA) young people that offers social support, leadership development and community education
• Case Management for LGBTQ Youth, the only program of its kind in Maine, assists lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning (LGBTQ) young people with mental health concerns in accessing community services and programs.
• Trauma Intervention Program (TIP), a group of specially trained citizen volunteers who provide emotional and practical support to victims of traumatic events and their families in the first few hours following a tragedy. View the TIP brochure (pdf, 258k).
• Educational annual public lecture, featuring renowned speakers on issues of emotional health, free and open to the community

Employee Assistance Program (EAP)

Community Counseling Center has been offering skilled, professional employee assistance services to regional businesses, organziations, municipalities and their members for over 15 years. For more information, please view our EAP page.

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