Behavioral & Life Skills Groups

Everyone gets angry. Anger is a natural, legitimate emotion - and in the right circumstances, it's appropriate. The problem isn't the feeling. The problem is when anger becomes the default response to everything, when it escalates faster than you can control it, when it damages your relationships, your recovery, your freedom.

If you've lost relationships, jobs, or legal standing because of how your anger expresses itself - or if you can feel that it's only a matter of time - this group was built for exactly that.

Anger Management at Success Counseling Services is based on a SAMHSA-supported curriculum and offered five times weekly across four days - because we understand that schedules are complicated and that the need to address this doesn't wait for a convenient time slot.

This isn't about suppressing your anger or pretending things don't bother you. It's about having the skills to respond rather than react - and reclaiming the relationships and opportunities that reactivity has put at risk.

Whether you've been in a relationship defined by control and harm - as the person who experienced it, the person who perpetuated it, or both - you likely already know that what happened wasn't normal, even if at some point it started to feel that way.

Domestic violence and unhealthy relationship dynamics don't exist in a vacuum. They're connected to how we learned to relate to others, how we manage power and fear, and often - directly - to substance use and mental health. Untangling those connections is work worth doing. Not just for legal or treatment compliance, but for the quality of every relationship you'll have going forward.

The Domestic Violence group at Success Counseling Services is a psychoeducational and behavioral change group grounded in evidence-based curriculum. The Tuesday session draws from the Domestic Violence Counseling Training Manual developed by the Cornerstone Foundation.

This group does not shy away from difficult conversations. It's designed for people who are ready to look honestly at their relationship patterns and commit to something different.

Parenting is hard under any circumstances. Parenting while navigating recovery, mental health challenges, co-parenting conflict, or the aftermath of family disruption is something else entirely. And the weight of wanting to do right by your children - while also doing the work of getting well yourself - can feel like too much to carry alone.

This group creates a space to set that weight down for a while and do something productive with it.

Parenting is a structured group facilitated by credentialed addiction professionals who understand the specific intersection of parenting, substance use, and mental health. This isn't a group about judgment. It's a group about practical tools, honest reflection, and building the kind of relationship with your children that recovery makes possible.

Recovery changes what's possible in your family. This group helps you move toward it.

Talk therapy is powerful. But language has limits. There are experiences, emotions, and parts of ourselves that don't translate neatly into words - especially when those experiences involve trauma, shame, grief, or the kind of complex feelings that have never really had a name.

Art therapy offers a different entry point.

This isn't an art class. You don't need talent, training, or any prior experience with creative work. The focus isn't on what you make - it's on what making it reveals. The creative process becomes a way to explore thoughts, feelings, and experiences that might otherwise stay buried. What comes up in the art, and in the group discussion that follows, is often surprising - and often exactly what needed to surface.

Art Therapy at Success Counseling Services is facilitated by a credentialed Mental Health Counselor who guides the group through structured, art-based activities paired with therapeutic reflection. The result is a session that's both lighter in tone and deeper in impact than people often expect.

For people who have been in treatment for a while and found themselves going through the motions, art therapy often reengages something that verbal groups can miss. For people new to therapy altogether, it can be a gentler, more accessible entry point.