Adult Outpatient Treatment Program, Adolescent Outpatient Treatment Program, Phone Counseling, Personal Growth Seminars, Value Based Parenting, Parent Coaching, Life Coaching, Body Appreciation Therapy, Referral Treatment Services.

"It's not about change, it's about growth."

1240 East 100 South Building 22 Suite 121

St. George, UT 84790

Office: 435-652-1202 Fax: 435-652-1206

 Phone Counseling

There are many people who would like to do counseling sessions, but live out of the area or for other reasons, cannot come regularly to the center.  For such patients, we offer phone counseling.  Once a regular appointment is established, which can be done over the phone, one of our clinicians will conduct therapy sessions over the phone.

Phone counseling offers the utmost confidentiality, and can be used to work out problems like drug and alcohol abuse, self-esteem issues, depression, and many of the other problems we treat at TurningLeaf.

For more information contact Dr. Moody

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Life Coaching

The purpose of retaining a life coach is to help you progress in what you are trying to create for yourself.  Life Coaching is an essential part of the wellness process, as it bridges the gap between the seminar levels.  Your coach will discuss situations in which you would be able to use the skills you learn to better your life.  It is important that you have a coach that will lead you in a positive direction and help you progress.  Almost everyone has someone in life that they trust to give them advice, that person can be their parents, friends, or teachers, and it is up to the individual to make sure their mentor is not leading them into a place they shouldn’t be.

Your one-on-one work with your life coach will help you use the tools you learn here and enable you to use them in your everyday life. Coaches help you hold yourself accountable, review what you are learning, set boundaries and create time lines to ensure your success.  With your life coach, you will learn how to integrate a purpose into your life, better understand the process of communication, and also understand the different roles you play in your life.

Learning these skills and applying them to your life is an essential element of personal success and development.  Your life coach will help you keep your life simple, so you can focus on reaching your goals.

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Aikido

Aikido is not only a defensive form of martial art, but also a way of life.  The goal is to harmonize with others to avoid violence and gain control over any situation.  Once we reach this objective, we will earn to control ourselves, avoid danger, protect ourselves, respect others, work cooperatively and become one with our surroundings.

Aikido uses the momentum and energy of your opponents against themselves, applying escapes, throws, joint locks and control holds.  By adding your energy to the incoming energy and blending with the attack rather than meeting force with force, one can easily control the aggressor without being big or strong.  Although Aikido is less physical, it is still very effective.

Practicing Aikido and integrating its values into your life will greatly increase self confidence under pressure.  Aikido also provides numerous health benefits such as agility, flexibility and stress reduction.  You will do breathing exercises and meditation, which are very beneficial for anger management.

Aikido teaches something to kids that they have a hard time learning otherwise, like self-discipline, self-confidence, avoiding situations risky and getting out peacefully, defending when needed and not to use attack as a means to solve problems.  “The reason why most kids do bad things is because they lack self-confidence.  Aikido teaches them about confidence so they can prove to themselves that they know better and don’t have to succumb to peer pressure,” says Lazslo.

“By learning how to gain harmony within oneself and with others we begin to see how to develop peace and understanding.  This peace and understanding will be the force needed to unite people and cultures to make the world a better place.”

-Laszlo Vegvari

Aikido is taught by Laszlo Vegvari, Sensei.

For more information visit www.Aikido-Vegvari.com

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Referral Treatment Services

Finding the right treatment facility to help your loved one can be a difficult task.  Our staff has extensive experience within the troubled youth, substance abuse, and emotional disorders industry.  When you get a referral to an alternate treatment facility from TurningLeaf, you can be assured that you are getting good advice from an experienced professional.

TurningLeaf provides treatment programs for many individuals within the center, but if there is a specific problem that they cannot treat, they are willing to provide a consultation, for a fee, and make a recommendation to a facility that will provide the best care for your loved one.  Our staff is able to make referrals for adults and adolescents for drug and alcohol abuse, troubled teens, many different addictions, eating disorders, depression, and other difficult problems.

The benefit of using TurningLeaf to provide a referral instead of choosing one at random off of the internet or out of the phone book is that you can be sure you are getting a referral from someone who has your best interests at heart.  Knowing how to write good treatment programs helps our staff recognize good treatment programs.  There are a lot of different programs out there, and some of them are sub-par.  Calling the hotline for a specific program doesn’t mean you are getting advice from a licensed professional, but from the salesperson who answers the phone.

Let us help you find the best program to suit your individual needs.

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Parent Coaching

When a family is going in and out of crisis, it is important to realize that each person in the home is contributing to the family dynamic.  Our clinicians work with parent coaches to help the family find out how to solve their problems in the very atmosphere where these problems are occurring – the home.  Parent Coaches will go into the home and spend between one and four hours per week observing the family dynamic, consult with the therapist, and then implement changes to the dynamic, observing how these changes shift the dynamic within the home.  This is a great alternative to inpatient treatment because it doesn’t remove the child from the home.

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Adult Outpatient Treatment Program

Our Outpatient Treatment Program is our way of offering customized treatment to clients who want to enroll in a drug and alcohol treatment program.  We offer three levels of treatment, ranging from one group to a variety of groups chosen to help each individual reach their goals.

What To Expect

The first step to enrolling in our Outpatient Treatment Program is completing an evaluation with one of our experienced drug and alcohol counselors.  The evaluation usually takes one hour.  A follow-up appointment is scheduled about a week later, which is when the counselor makes their recommendation for treatment.

Courses of Treatment

Level One consists of any one 1 group recommended by the counselor.

Level Two consists of 2 or more recommended groups and 2 individual sessions with the counselor.

Intensive Outpatient (IOP) is an 18-week program consisting of 54 group sessions tailored to suit your particular treatment program.  It includes all groups plus 10 individual sessions for progress evaluations, excluding the Parenting Workshops, Dual Diagnosis, and Body Image Development / Weight Management.  These three may be substituted for other classes based on the recommendation of your counselor.

Group Counseling

Substance Abuse Recovery and Life Skills Program (18 Weeks)

The purpose of this program is to help the substance abuser develop and maintain his or her own personal program of recovery.  The program consists of a minimum of 18 group sessions and 2 individual sessions.  Each group is specifically designed to give the participant the necessary tools to help deal with individualized issues in the recovery process.  Completion of this program will be determined by the client’s effort to complete required homework assignments, regular attendance, and the required minimums outlined in the client’s personal treatment program.

Prime for Life (8-week DUI Class)

This is a risk reduction program in establishing a new way of thinking and feeling.  Understand how alcohol and drug problems develop and what can be done to prevent them – reflect on how past choices have either risked or protected the things that are most valuable.  Changing our minds and our choices requires changing our brains to react to the environment in a positive manner.

Relapse Prevention (6 Weeks)

Develop a spiritual connection through the Native American approach to the Twelve Step Program.  At the end of 4 weeks, experience the healing and spiritual guidance that can be received by attending a sweat lodge.  Finish by processing through the experience during the last week.

Emotional Management (4 Weeks)

Raise awareness of negative emotions and patterns of interacting and reacting to them and with others.  Utilize tools on recognizing what works, what does not, and alternative tools to use to manage anger and other “negative” emotions.  Discuss the violence cycle, the rights in a relationship, conflict management, and tools to be more successful in relationships.

After Care (Processing) Group (18 Weeks – Ongoing)

In an open-ended process group, a person is centered.  This is an exploration of life issues that arise on a day to day basis in an effort to avoid relapse and maintain and sustain sobriety.  Helps to master coping skills, strengthen belief systems and continue a positive lifestyle.

Parenting Workshops (8 Weeks)

Guided process parenting groups provide structure, simplicity and confidence in how to parent.  Children come with a crucial set of physical and emotional needs that must be met.  This group will help you create your personal “Thriving as a Parent 101” manual.

Dual Diagnosis (8 Weeks)

This class will teach you methods that will be helpful with mood problems such as depression, anxiety, anger, panic, jealousy, guilt and shame. It will also give you strategies to help you solve relationship problems, handle stress better, improve your self-esteem, and become less fearful and more confident.

Body Image Development / Wight Management (9 Weeks)

This is an open-ended group dealing with self esteem and principles pertaining to your body image.

NOTE:  Completion of any program will be determined by the client’s effort to complete required homework assignments, regular attendance and the required minimums outlined in the client’s personal treatment program.  Please call for times and dates on all classes.

For more information contact Sue Judd

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Adolescent Outpatient  Treatment Program

Our goal in providing outpatient adolescent care is to promote family wellness through teaching effective communication, parental skills, obedience, family cohesion, and love-based interactions.  This is also achieved by building family strength upon key values such as honesty, forgiveness, obedience, love, openness and communication.  In this way, we help to preserve and strengthen the integrity of the family unit.

We realize that the best environment to teach both children and parents the skills they need to be a communicative and healthy family is in the home.  Our objective is to take the solution back to the families and create healing within the home, avoiding treatment that takes anyone outside of the home.  We work with kids to help them vent in a positive way through yoga and Akido, a defensive form of martial art.  We will teach parenting skills, coping and healing, and remove negative parenting techniques. Bringing the family together as a unit in the place where they communicate the most is an essential part of healing a damaged family unit.

By the time a family seeks help, the wounds are often deep and difficult to heal.  We don’t focus on behavioral modification but on internal change, because once positive core values are in place, the behaviors will begin to follow those values.  It takes work to integrate values into your own lives and put into practice within the family unit.  We work with the family both as a whole and individually.  Everyone needs something different to aid their healing process, and we offer many forms of alternative treatment and will suggest which one would be best for you.

For more information contact Kwinten Kemp

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"To quote from a recently published book on addictions: "Substance abuse is the leading cause of preventable illness and death in the United States. The misuse of drugs (alcohol) ruins families, costs billions in lost productivity, strains the health care system and ends lives."

Alcohol and drugs are mind altering. In a recent Time Magazine article on addiction said, "In the brains of addict, there is a reduced activity in the prefrontal cortex, where rational thought can overide impulse behavior." Any kind of addiction inflicts a terrible price in pain and suffering, not only for the addicted person. It also affects other family members and loved ones.

However, there is hope because most addictions can over time be overcome. We can change, but it will be difficult. Below is a self-assessment, you may use. If you have further questions, please contact us.

SELF-ASSESSMENT

Answer the following questions for the last 12 months of your drinking or drug use.

1. When I drink, I often drink more than three drinks.

2. Occasionally, I use illegal drugs or use a prescription drug to get high.

3. It now takes more drugs or alcohol for me to get high or intoxicated than when I frist started.

4. I function best in groups when I am making high-risk drinking or drug choices.

5. Have you wanted or needed to cut down on your drinking or drug use in the last year?

6. In the last year, have you ever drunk or used drugs more than you meant to?

7. Have you had a feeling of guilt or remorse after drinking or drug use?

8. Have you failed to do what was normally expected from you because of drinking or drug use?

9. Have you been unable to remember what happened the night before because you had been drinking or using?

10. Have you needed a drink (or drug) in the morning to get yourself going aftr a heavy drinking (or drug using) episode?

11. Have you tried to cut back on your drinking or drug use but could not?

12. Sometimes when I start drinking or using drugs, it is llike something takes over and I get drunk or high without meaning to.

If you score yes on 3 or more you may need to call for help.

-Sue Judd