Specialty Group IOP

Trauma Recovery Program

About Our Trauma Recovery Program

This group IOP is available separately for men and women who have experienced trauma involving the persistent violation of emotional, physical, or sexual boundaries. Within the context of the latest neurobiological understanding of trauma and traumatic attachment, the impact of trauma on the body, and the psychology of mindfulness, this group focuses on how trauma influences one’s self and interpersonal relationships in the present. Based upon the research of trauma expert Bessel van der Kolk and others, this program adheres to an interpersonal focus format as well as techniques for managing sensorimotor aspects of traumatic memory. Components of our program include:

Trauma Recovery Education & Discussion Group is a curriculum developed at Yellowbrick that teaches skills based on works of top trauma researchers and clinicians, B. Van der Kolk, J. Fisher, P. Ogden, P. Levine, A. Schore, S. Porges and other mindfulness experts.

Trauma Recovery Discussion Group Therapy provides a forum for the development of increased safety as issues related to trauma are explored and identified as they arise both in content and within/between the interpersonal relationships in the group. Specific educational information about trauma is shared, discussed, and skills are developed and practiced to help understand and to manage responses related to trauma.

Issues specific to men and women are addressed in all group components, as they arise in the interpersonal group and via the separation of all group components.

Reward Alternative Pathways (Addiction) IOP

This program includes expert assessment of each individual’s substance-related issues; development of individually tailored relapse prevention plans; individual sessions with the Substance Abuse and Behavioral Addictions Specialist; support for attending 12 Step meetings in the Evanston and Chicago community; and, three hours a week of group programming to educate and to assist members in gaining and maintaining sobriety.

Soma Self/Eating Disorders Program

Synchrony Brain Health works with individuals who have eating disorders and a broad range of challenges in the relationship between their body and self-experience within the Soma-Self program. Patients with histories of eating disorders, trauma, chronic pain, physical injury, chronic illnesses such as Crohn’s Disease or asthma, or having survived cancer, etc., all share a challenging relationship to their bodies which have often been experienced as having betrayed, disappointed or otherwise failed them. Synchrony Brain Health offers a Soma-Self IOP in addition to a comprehensive array of personalized Professional Services to eating disorders and Soma-Self young adults.