Outpatient Services

Serenity Therapeutic Services provide outpatient behavioral health services such as psychiatric and biopsychosocial assessment, individual, group, and family therapies, and psychotherapy for crisis.

These services are intended to determine a beneficiary’s treatment needs, and to provide the necessary treatment. Services focus on reducing psychiatric and behavioral symptoms in order to improve the beneficiary’s functioning in familial, social, educational, or occupational life domains.

Outpatient behavioral health services are available to eligible beneficiaries and often involve the participation of family members, significant others, and legally responsible person(s) as applicable, unless contraindicated.

Based on collaboration between the practitioner and beneficiary, and others as needed, the beneficiary’s needs and preferences determine the treatment goals, frequency and duration of services, as well as measurable and desirable outcomes.

Our Services is provided by trained, certified, licensed, and licensed associates

  1. Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW)
  2. Licensed Clinical Social Worker Associate (LCSWA)
  3. Licensed Clinical Addiction Specialist (LCAS)
  4. Licensed Clinical Addiction Specialist – Associate (LCSA-A)
  5. Certified Clinical Supervisor (CCS)

Our Outpatient Therapy (OPT) Services include:

  1. Comprehensive Clinical Assessment (CCA)
  2. Treatment Plan
  3. Person Centered Plan
  4. Psychotherapy (individual, group, and family)
  5. Crisis Psychotherapy

Our Specialty Services include:

  1. Substance Abuse Services
  2. Sex Offender Treatment
  3. Sex Offender Specific Evaluations (SOSE)
  4. Trauma Focused CBT
  5. Anger Management

Entrance Criteria

All of the following criteria are necessary for admission of a beneficiary to outpatient treatment services:

  1. A Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition [(DSM-5) or any subsequent editions of this reference material] diagnosis; Note: Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition [(DSM-5), or any subsequent editions of this reference material], will be referred to as DSM-5 throughout this policy.
  2. The beneficiary presents behavioral, psychological, or biological dysfunction and functional impairment, which are consistent and associated with the DSM-5 diagnosis;
  3. If a higher level of care is indicated but unavailable or the individual is refusing the service, outpatient services may be provided until the appropriate level of care is available or to support the individual to participate in that higher level of care;
  4. The beneficiary is capable of developing skills to manage symptoms, make behavioral changes, and respond favorably to therapeutic interventions; and
  5. There is no evidence to support that alternative interventions would be more effective, based on North Carolina community practice standards (e.g., Best Practice Guidelines of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, American Psychiatric Association, American Board of Addiction Medicine).