Out-patient Mental health services

Aviva Mental Health Svc provides a wide range of mental health services. With over 20 years of experience in the industry, our master’s level clinicians are very empathetic and dedicated individuals. They are highly trained in effective, research-based interventions. Through individualized treatment planning, we help you address existential factors and achieve social and emotional stability.

We treat every patient as an individual and not a static. Our goal is to meet our patients, where they are and work at the patient’s pace and comfort level.

We provide the following services:

• Individual therapy – cognitive therapy
• Family therapy – structural, strategic, trauma-based
• Psychiatric evaluations and assessments
• Medication management
• Psychological testing
• Group therapy
• Mobile mental health therapy
• Specialization in trauma
• Trauma-based therapy
• Trauma-focused cognitive behavioral therapy (TFCBT)
• Trauma recovery and empowerment groups

We also facilitate group counseling for the following on a weekly basis :

• Anger management
• Grief counseling
• Social skills for children
• ADHD group for children

Peer support services

Get the Support You Need to Achieve Your Goals

Aviva Mental Health Svc is here to provide peer support for those with drug and mental health issues. Get the support and motivation you need to get through your daily life and work toward your recovery goals.

Helping to Stabilize Our Community

Our clinicians are recovering addicts themselves and understand the importance of peer support. Our goal is to help stabilize our community by providing help for anyone who needs to recover from their addiction and support for those with mental health issues.

At Aviva Mental Health Svc, we strongly believe in teamwork and that recovery is possible with the right kind of support and treatment, not only in the program but also in the community. We focus and work with young adults and adults who are in and out of the prison system. We also have a strong re-entry program that is evidence-based.

We also help veterans settle down and reduce homelessness. Our evidence-based programs help individuals return to the community. We also work closely with law enforcement, corrections, probation and parole, the judiciary, schools, youth and family services.

Forensic Peer Support

We provide specialized forensic peer support services in prisons as well as in the community for individuals involved with the criminal justice system and suffering from mental illnesses and/or substance abuse disorders. You’ll be pleased to know that we have highly qualified mental health professionals who have been working with peers for over 10 years.

Certified Peer Specialists

We, at Aviva Mental Health Svc, provide recovery-based certified peer support services to individuals who are eligible to receive medical assistance (Medicaid) from the Pennsylvania Department of Public Welfare and are recovering from any mental illnesses or substance abuse disorders.

We use the following modalities :

Evidence-based :

The team at Aviva Mental Health Svc uses the Sanctuary Model, a trauma-informed approach that helps create or change the organizational culture. The Sanctuary Model is a theory based on evidence supported and trauma-informed cultural approach.

• It not only realizes the impact of trauma but also understands potential paths for recovery.
• It recognizes the signs and symptoms of trauma in clients, families, staff, and others involved with the system
• Responds by fully integrating knowledge about trauma into policies, procedures, and practices
• Seeks to actively resist re-traumatization

Strength-based :

We strongly believe that emphasizing the positive allows peers to use their strengths as levers for change. The Peer Specialist at Aviva Mental Health Svc will work with peers to help them empower themselves to improve their support system through :

• Recovery services plans
• Peer coaching / mentoring.
• Peer-led support groups
• Increasing community resource

Person-centered approach:

This approach is powerful and beneficial as it :

• Builds a therapeutic relationship between you and the peer specialist
• Focuses on self-healing and personal growth leading to self-actualization
• Emphasizes your current perception and how you live
• Helps you work on the present and future rather than the past
• Encourages you to think consciously and rationally and build self-confidence to achieve personal growth and eventually self-actualization