Our mission is to prepare people recovering from mental illness to improve their quality of life. We strive to attain and maintain excellence in all of our work. We provide flexible and personalized care, engage in collaboration, and use innovative approaches to meet our clients' needs.

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Services Offered

Counseling - Many clients struggle with issues that can be explored with a trained therapist. Often, these issues deal with trauma, conflicts in relationships, and other troubling concerns. Appointments with a therapist are usually scheduled one time per week and, because our therapists come to the CSA specifically for these appointments, the client must keep all scheduled appointments in order to continue with our therapy services.

Day Program - McClendon Center is certified as a Day Services program through the DC Department of Behavioral Health. The Day Program identified different learning levels for clients, who are grouped according to their cognitive ability and degree of motivation. These learning levels, or tracks, include substance abuse recovery groups as well as early recovery groups for those individuals who are beginning to consider the process of recovery. The Day Program offers a morning session and an afternoon session.

Program tracks:

Expressive Arts Therapy - Our expressive therapy activities facilitate self-awareness and connections between clients. Through dance, drama, yoga, music, drawing, and painting, clients find a greater ease in expressing themselves through these non-verbal activities. Often, clients who initially tend to be unresponsive to group discussions soon find that they are able to identify their concerns and interact with other group members through expressive therapies.

Substance Abuse Recovery - According to the National Alliance on Mental Illness, half of those who are diagnosed with some type of psychiatric illness have additional diagnoses of drug or alcohol addiction. At McClendon Center, a special emphasis is placed on serving people with co-occurring disorders of substance abuse through our Rebuilding and Recovery Program.

Rebuilding and Recovery - Our Recovery program focuses on clients who have a dual diagnosis and are in one of the five stages of recovery: pre-contemplation, contemplation, preparation, action, and maintenance. Groups are conducted daily that focus on such areas as Recovery, Making Healthy Choices, Self Esteem, Mental Health Awareness, Breaking the Cycle, and Double Trouble, to name a few.

Trauma Recovery - The Trauma Recovery program helps clients to rebuild their lives after trauma. Clients can expect to participate in groups that include psychotherapy and expressive arts therapies. Some of the topics that are addressed include: maintaining safety, coping skills for PTSD, self-care, avoiding re-traumatization, grounding skills, emotional regulation, anger management, grief work, re-building trust, and relationships, as well as the link between trauma and substance use disorders.

Expressive Arts Therapy - Our expressive therapy activities facilitate self-awareness and connections between clients. Through dance, drama, yoga, music, drawing, and painting, clients find a greater ease in expressing themselves through these non-verbal activities. Often, clients who initially tend to be unresponsive to group discussions soon find that they are able to identify their concerns and interact with other group members through expressive therapies.

Mental Health/ Counseling - MCCHS offers treatment to a variety of patients with mental health problems. Incidents of mental health issues are high among immigrants and there are very few charitable clinics offering mental health services. MCCHS is one of the few clinics to offer these services. Majority of patients seen in our clinic are suffering from depression and stress related anxiety. Marital and Premarital counseling is also provided as a part of mental health services.

Fees and Payment

We're a private not-for-profit agency, check our ABOUT us page for more information.

Services Offered To:
Adults
Couples

Special Groups:
Bilingual

Payment:
Sliding Scale
Medicare
Medicaid