IMPORTANT NOTICE

 

Below is a list defining the services offered by FOCIS Counseling Services, Inc. Please note we do NOT have emergency services and are not a 24hour/7days a week clinic. FOCIS keeps traditional business hours (Monday - Friday 8am - 5pm) with some ability to work around client schedules but we have NO urgent or emergency care capability.

 

CALL 911 IMMEDIATELY IF YOU ARE EXPERIENCING A LIFE ENDANGERING SITUATION OR A MEDICAL EMERGENCY. IF YOU HAVE AN URGENT NEED AND WISH TO SPEAK TO SOMEONE NOW CALL 211 WHERE PEOPLE ARE ON CALL TO ASSIST YOU AND DIRECT YOU TO THE APPROPRIATE RESOURCES.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SERVICES AVAILABLE

 

Individual Counseling

 

     Addresses a client's past, emerging or current problems and issues by a certified or licensed clinician, each a skilled expert 

     in compassionate listening and problem-solving strategies.    

 

Family Counseling  

 

     Teaches and promotes improved communications and relationships between all members of a family enabling them to manage

     day-to-day family challenges. Skilled clinicians will guide and encourage families also during trying times of grief, trauma, financial

     instability, changing health conditions, etc.

 

Case Management

 

 

      Includes  planned linkage, advocacy and referral assistance provided in partnership with a client, family members, and other community

      services and supports as defined by the client. A FOCIS Case Manager engages a client and their identified supports to work on an

      individually-developed treatment plan that establishes goals to address a client's presenting problems and issues.

 

Parent Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT)

     Provides to the parents of children two to six years of age interactive therapy in phases. During child-directed interaction parents

       learn play therapy skills designed to calm a child, address anger, improve attention and focus, learn to cooperate and strengthen

       the parent-child relationship. Through parent-directed interaction parents learn specific strategies to address a child's problem

       behavior.       

 

Trauma Focused- CBT

      Trauma Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is a strengths-based framework grounded in an understanding of and responsiveness

      to the impact of trauma, that emphasizes physical, psychological, and emotional safety for both providers and survivors and creates

      opportunities for survivors to rebuild a sense of control and empowerment. To improve the standard of care as we provide access

      to quality services for​ traumatized individuals and their families throughout the community. 

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Supportive Services for the Homeless  

 

       Provides support to persons participating in the Oklahoma City Housing Authority's program as they strive to transition from

       homelessness to self-sufficiency. This includes providing services both while they wait for a home to be readied for them and once

       move in to a provided supportive home. Those services include, but are not limited to, case management, transportation and

       counseling and are provided by both certified and licensed clinicians, in addition to students and interns from local universities.

 

Couples Counseling

      Supports a couple while they explore the dynamics of their relationship. This includes, but is not limited to, addressing problematic

        interactive styles, communication patterns, conflicting parenting choices, money-management differences and trust and/or fidelity

        issues. Both LMFT's (Licensed Marriage Family Therapist) are licensed and certified to work with couples at FOCIS.

       

Parenting Classes

 

       Advise, counsel and instruct parents who seek FOCIS services regarding problematic relationships and/or interactions with their

       children are offered by a FOCIS clinician. Classes are scheduled by the clinician when parenting assistance is needed and can be

       conducted individually or in groups.

 

Alcohol, Drug, Substance  Abuse Course (ADSAC)

     Serves as a resource to citizens or court-mandated persons who have recent charges involving driving impaired by alcohol or

       drugs. A certified ADSAC instructor takes participants through either a 10 or 24 hour instructional course after the client has been

       through an assesment which will determine if a 10 or 24 hour course will be needed . FOCIS reports participation and completion to

       the appropriate authorities as mandated. Participants are not required to be a FOCIS client and the courses are offered in the evenings

       and on Saturday.

 

Anger Management

 

 

      Develops with the client a strategy to overcome their feelings of anger and to learn to manage destructive impulses caused by excess

        anger. This occurs in either individual or group counseling, and with a trained clinician.

 

Stress Management

 

      Supports a client presenting with abnormal stress and needing stress management to develop a therapeutic strategy to address

        and remediate the stressors linked to excess stress. Clients learn that stress has many sources, including the environment,

        physical change and changes in life circumstances, which can cause a specific response by the body.