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Behavioral Health Groups

Adult & Child Health offers a variety of group therapy options to support people at different stages of recovery and mental health treatment. These groups provide a supportive space to learn practical skills, build healthy coping strategies, and connect with others facing similar challenges. If you are interested in joining a group, please talk with your provider to see if a referral may be right for you.

Addictions

Brief Intensive Group (BIG) | Adults (18+)

This group helps clients gain foundational knowledge about substances and their impact on a person’s body, mind, and emotional health. Participants also learn skills that support movement through the stages of change, including recognizing a problem and deciding to take action. This is a lower-intensity option for clients who may not have significant treatment needs but would still benefit from clinical support at this stage in their lives.

Meeting Duration and Frequency:  1 hour, 1 time per week

Living in Balance | Adults (18+)

This group offers a moderate level of support, bridging the gap between our once-weekly groups and Intensive Outpatient Programming (IOP). Participants explore recovery and relapse prevention topics in greater depth while building personal support systems in their daily lives. The group follows the Living in Balance curriculum, an evidence-based practice.
 
Meeting Duration and Frequency:  1.5 hours, 2 times per week 

Matrix Intensive Outpatient (IOP) | Adults (18+)

This group uses the Matrix Model curriculum, an evidence-based practice, to support clients with the highest level of outpatient treatment needs. Participants work on building structure, developing healthy routines, and learning strategies to strengthen their recovery and personal support systems.

Meeting Duration and Frequency:  3 hours, 3 times per week

Matrix Intensive Outpatient (IOP), Hakha Chin | Adults (18+)

This group is conducted in Hakha Chin language for those that speak that as their native language, making it a unique offering in our community. This group uses the Matrix Model curriculum, an evidence-based practice, to support clients with the highest level of outpatient treatment needs. Participants work on building structure, developing healthy routines, and learning strategies to strengthen their recovery and personal support systems. 

Meeting Duration and Frequency:  3 hours, 3 times per week

Illness Management and Recovery | Adults (18+)

This group uses a psychoeducational format based on the IMR curriculum to support clients who are newer to treatment and early in their recovery. Participants learn about mental health symptoms as well as foundational aspects of the recovery process.

Meeting Duration and Frequency:  1 hours, 1 time per week

Seeking Safety | Adults (18+)

This group uses a coping skills approach to help clients attain safety from trauma and/or addictions. This evidenced-based, present-focused approach is safe, optimistic, and specifically designed to engage clients with a history of trauma and substance use concerns to work through recovery. Co-ed or women’s only options are offered.

Meeting Duration and Frequency:  1 hours, 1 time per week

Aftercare | Adults (18+)

This group takes place at the conclusion of IOP and/or Living in Balance as a way for clients to remain connected to treatment after that more intensive treatment has ended. This group aims to assist clients with developing the skills necessary to be prepared to transition out of treatment and to manage their recovery outside of this setting.

Meeting Duration and Frequency:  1 hours, 1 time per week

Outpatient / Connect to Care

Intro to Therapy | Adults (18+) and Adolescents

This group is designed as a 3-week course in which clients are provided with foundational skills and knowledge to prepare them for ongoing treatment. It takes place after intake and before clients begin to work with their ongoing treatment team.

Women's Depression Group | Adults (18+)

This group is designed for older adult women who may be experiencing depression, isolation, or other mental health challenges. It provides a supportive space to build community, share experiences, and learn coping strategies, particularly for those whose physical health may impact their mental well-being or who have limited informal support systems.
 
Meeting Duration and Frequency:  1 hour, 1 time per week 

Dialectical Behavior Therapy | Adults (18+)

This group uses Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) to help clients build healthy relationship and communication skills, strengthen emotional regulation, and develop routines that support mental and physical safety. It is often recommended for individuals experiencing significant emotion regulation challenges, including those with Borderline Personality Disorder or heightened safety concerns. Co-ed groups are offered on Monday, Thursday, and Friday, with a women’s-only, trauma-focused group on Tuesday.

Meeting Duration and Frequency:  1 hour, 1 time per week (offered 4 days a week)

Art Therapy | Adolescents (14-18)

Starting in April, A&C will offer an ACT Art therapy group that brings in principles of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy into a creative space in order to further treatment progress for adolescent clients. Clients will learn specific ACT coping strategies and art therapy techniques aimed at reducing overall distress in their daily lives.

Meeting Duration and Frequency:  1 hour, 1 time per week for 6 weeks

Miller, Sarah

Sarah Miller, PMHNP-BC

Sarah Miller works with the addictions team, general psychiatry for adolescents and adults, and the competency restoration team. She is board-certified as a Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner. Her specialties are working in addictions and with people who experience serious mental illness.

Miller graduated from Indiana University with a psychology degree and went back to school for nursing. She received her nursing degree from Indiana Wesleyan University and worked in a nursing home and also spent time working in a group home with adolescents. She received her master’s degree from Vanderbilt University.

She enjoys hanging out with her family and her two dogs, and going to sporting events.

Joanna Chambers, MD

Dr. Joanna Chambers is a psychiatrist who began seeing Adult & Child Health patients in November 2021. She graduated from Medical College of Georgia with her Doctorate of Medicine in 1996 and completed her residency in psychiatry at Yale University School of Medicine. In addition to bringing a wealth of experience, she currently serves as an associate professor at Indiana University School of Medicine where she teaches Clinical Psychiatry. She is certified in Addiction Medicine and has a special interest in treating pregnant and postpartum women. She is President of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis and Dynamic Psychiatry Organization as well as a sitting member of many medical association boards. Recently, she has won the Residents’ Award for Teaching Excellence in 2020 from Indiana University and has received “Best Doctors Award” in 2010, 2011, and 2014. Dr. Chambers is incredibly active in the medical, academic, and research realms of medicine. She is currently accepting new patients on Wednesdays.