CORE Behavioral Health ServicesTherapist in Manitowoc, WI
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CORE Behavioral Health Services is an outpatient clinic that provides counseling for individuals, couples, families, and groups. The clinic is staffed by licensed clinical social workers, professional counselors, and substance abuse counselors who help individuals understand and cope with their thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. They specialize in trauma and abuse, anger issues, childhood issues, depression, anxiety, stress, grief, substance use disorder, PTSD, human trafficking, and veteran mental health. The practice offers multiple treatment modalities including EMDR, animal-assisted therapy with therapy dog Samurai, and complementary and alternative medicine services such as Reiki and shamanic practices. They provide culturally responsive, gender-affirming care for LGBTQ+ communities. All therapists are licensed by the State of Wisconsin.
Role
Therapist
Specialties & focus areas
Recovery focus
Co-occurring
Other focus areas
Evidence-based approaches
EMDR
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing. A structured trauma therapy that helps the brain re-file painful memories so they stop hijacking the present.
Group therapy
Group Therapy. A small facilitated circle where people working on similar struggles practice naming what is hard, hearing themselves in others, and learning skills together. The room is the medicine.
Trauma-informed care
Trauma-Informed Care. Approaches addiction as something layered on top of unprocessed trauma, not in isolation. Pacing matters more than confrontation.
Mindfulness
Mindfulness-Based Relapse Prevention. Practices noticing urges without acting on them, building the gap between trigger and choice.
Cognitive behavioral therapy
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. Spots the thought-feeling-action loops that fuel urges, then rewires them with practical skills you take into the moment.
Couples/family therapy
Family Therapy. Brings the people closest to the recovery into the room. Less about blame, more about updating the patterns that fed the cycle so the home becomes part of the recovery.
Dialectical behavior therapy
Dialectical Behavior Therapy. Pairs acceptance with change. Especially useful when emotions feel too big to ride out without acting on them.
Integrated mental and substance use disorder treatment
Integrated Treatment. Treats addiction and co-occurring mental health conditions in the same plan, rather than sequentially. Most clinically effective when both are present.
Individual psychotherapy
Individual Psychotherapy. One-to-one sessions with a licensed clinician. The standard-bearer of mental-health care; most evidence-based plans build around it.
Telemedicine/telehealth therapy
Telehealth Therapy. Real clinical sessions delivered over video. Same evidence base as in-person care for most conditions; meets you where you actually are instead of where the office is.
What this facility offers
Care offered
Treatment type
- Substance use treatment
- Mental health treatment
- Treatment for co-occurring substance use plus either serious mental illness (SMI) in adults and/or serious emotional disturbance (SED) in children
Setting
- Outpatient
Facility
- Outpatient mental health facility
How care is delivered
Ancillary services
- Court-ordered outpatient treatment
- Family psychoeducation
- Case management service
- Suicide prevention services
Education & counseling
- Smoking/vaping/tobacco cessation counseling
Who this is for
Age groups served
- Children/Adolescents
- Young Adults
- Adults
- Seniors
Special programs
- Clients with co-occurring mental and substance use disorders
- Clients who have experienced trauma
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