Griffith CentersResidential Treatment in Colorado Springs, CO
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Griffith Centers is a nonprofit organization providing mental and behavioral health services across Colorado since 1927. The organization serves over 3,000 children, adults, and families annually, specializing in trauma-informed care for individuals and families at risk of child maltreatment. Services include outpatient mental and behavioral health delivered in-home, in community-based settings, and via telehealth; a Qualified Residential Treatment Program (QRTP) for children and adolescents with high trauma and acuity; specialized school-based interventions through the ASK School and Truancy Program and J. Wilkins Opportunity School and Day Treatment; foster care services including recruitment, training, and licensing of foster parents; substance use treatment through intensive outpatient and partial hospitalization programs; and additional services such as vocational training, animal-assisted therapy, and support for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
Role
Residential Treatment
Specialties & focus areas
Recovery focus
Co-occurring
Other focus areas
Evidence-based approaches
Trauma-informed care
Trauma-Informed Care. Approaches addiction as something layered on top of unprocessed trauma, not in isolation. Pacing matters more than confrontation.
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.
Family systems
Family Systems work. Brings the people closest to you into the recovery picture, since urges and relationships rarely live in separate boxes.
Activity therapy
Activity Therapy. Structured therapeutic activities, recreation, movement, hands-on tasks, used as a vehicle for connection and emotional regulation. Often paired with talk therapy in residential and group programs.
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.
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