Walden House offers a continuum of mental health services and integrated treatment for clients with co-occurring disorders. Most of our programs include onsite mental health services designed to meet the needs of specific cohorts of client populations. Clients entering Walden House programs undergo screenings and assessments to determine their need for mental health services during their treatment stay. Depending upon individual treatment plans, clients may take part in individual therapy, group therapy, medication services, case management, skills training and crisis services. Working on a multidisciplinary team with counselors, medical staff, and case managers, Walden House therapists provide interventions and support to assist clients to reduce symptoms, better cope with life stressors, fulfill their role obligations, and achieve their treatment goals.
Many clients come into Walden House with a history of "self-medicating" mental health symptoms including depression, anxiety, and reactions to trauma. Walden House mental health services are arrayed to enhance positive coping through the acquisition of specific skills. Skills training groups play an important part in helping clients to make sense of their experiences and reactions and begin to engage in positive coping. In many of our programs, the orientation phase of treatment may include a brief “Coping Skills Curriculum” that helps decode intense emotional reactions and teaches clients to “ground” themselves in present experience and distance from overwhelming emotional pain. Other skills training groups include Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills training in mindfulness, emotional regulation, distress tolerance and interpersonal effectiveness. Additionally, Seeking Safety is a skills curriculum made available to clients with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder or those clients who may not meet the full clinical picture for PTSD, but still re-experience trauma in thoughts, flashbacks, and dreams.
Residential Stabilization Services
The Walden House Dual Recovery Facility located at 214 Haight Street offers several short-term, mental health stabilization programs for clients who are multiply diagnosed. Included are the Multi-diagnosed Service Program (MDSP) for clients diagnosed with HIV/AIDS; the Walden House Intensive Treatment Program (WHITS) for non HIV clients; the MHSA funded Walden Residential Acute Psychiatric Stabilization Program (WRAPS) providing recovery-oriented services for clients undergoing acute psychiatric episodes. All of these programs offer brief treatment for up to 45 days and a full array of mental health services including assessment, case management, individual therapy, group therapy, medication services, skills training, discharge planning and crisis intervention. Additionally, these programs offer an intimate, supportive treatment environment that is either an alternative to hospitalization or a step-down from a hospitalization episode. Admission requirements include recent TB clearance and for clients entering the MDSP program, a letter of diagnosis. For more information, contact:
Walden House Admissions Dept. The CBHS Treatment Access Program
1885 Mission Street 679 Bryant Street
San Francisco, CA 94103 San Francisco, CA
415-934-3451 or 415-934-3450 415-538-5500
Residential Variable-Length Dual Recovery Programs
San Francisco clients presenting with co-occurring disorders may receive residential services at any of three San Francisco facilities. The specific facility and their length of stay will be determined by assessments conducted at the time of admissions. The Women’s Facility located at 815 Buena Vista West and the Mens Facility at 890 Hayes Street offer gender specific, integrated treatment and a full array of mental health services including assessment, individual therapy, group therapy, medication services, skills training, discharge planning, and crisis intervention. Clients presenting with more significant mental health challenges may receive variable-length residential services at our co-ed Dual Recovery Facility located at 214 Buena Vista West. This facility offers a more intimate treatment environment where clients can live with peers experiencing similar challenges. Admission requirements include recent TB clearance. For more information contact:
The Walden House Admissions Dept.
1885 Mission Street
San Francisco, CA 94103
415-934-3451 or 415-934-3450