Scotty's House is a non-profit Child Advocacy Center (CAC) serving seven counties in the Brazos Valley: Brazos, Burleson, Grimes, Leon, Madison, Robertson, and Washington. The Scotty's House team collaborates with Child Protective Services (CPS) and law enforcement officials on every case, and our compassionate and collaborative approach is key to providing victims of child abuse and/or neglect with safety, healing, and justice.
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Services Offered
Counseling Offered By Scotty's House Trauma Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT) TF-CBT is an evidence-based, structured therapy that focuses on helping children and adolescents recognize how their thoughts, feelings, and behaviors may have been shaped or altered by their traumatic experience. TF-CBT helps youth learn relaxation skills and establish positive coping skills while processing and re-shaping their thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. This enables them to positively transform their experience from 'victim' to survivor.'
Parent Support/Consultation Caregivers are a critical component in building a child's resiliency after trauma. Caring for a child who has experienced trauma brings its own challenges to the caregiving process, and caregivers may need supportive services as they navigate through this complex journey.
Equine Assisted Therapy (EAP) EAP is an evidenced-based, experiential therapy, working with one or more horses and one or more clients. The goal is to help them learn about themselves and others while addressing, discussing, and processing the clients' feelings, behaviors, and patterns. EAP strives to help the clients in social, emotional, cognitive, or behavioral ways. This therapy provides the client/group an emotionally safe environment to develop awareness, understanding, and tolerance for self and others. The EAP process is a collaborative effort between a licensed therapist and a horse professional working with the clients and horses to address treatment goals.
Group Therapy Group Therapy is an evidence-based therapy providing adolescents who have experienced trauma the opportunity to meet, share their stories, receive validation, support, encouragement, and education in a safe, therapeutic environment. Group therapy is also available for non-offending caregivers and non-offending family members. Groups are formed as needed and are time-limited in sessions.
Fees and Payment
Our services are provided at no cost to the clients.
Services Offered To: Adults Teens Children
Special Groups: Bilingual
Payment: Sliding Scale Medicare Medicaid
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