Programs

Adult programs offer a full range of diagnostic and treatment services for persons aged eighteen and older, who may be experiencing a variety of problems including, but not limited to anxiety, depression, and family or work-related issues. Professional therapeutic assistance may include a psychiatric evaluation. Various therapeutic treatments include, but are not limited to, individual, marriage, and family counseling as well as Peers/DSC Services.

This program provides diagnostic and treatment services for children and adolescents up to age eighteen who have adjustment or emotional problems including depression, ADD, ADHD, school adjustment, parent/child conflict, eating disorders, fears, anxiety and loss of control. Evaluations include family assessment and psychiatric evaluations. Treatment includes, but is not limited to, individual, family, and play therapy.

The Community and School Based Behavioral Health Services (CSBBH) Program is a specialized, school-based treatment program designed to serve as a clinical home for youth ages 5 to 18 years in a specific school, who demonstrate an emotional or behavioral disturbance that interferes with their ability to be educated and to function in the home and community.

CSBBH utilizes a multi-disciplinary team approach including responsibility for clinical treatment, coordination of care and case management, on-call crisis services and provides individual, family and group counseling services.

Medication management is the ongoing process where mental health professionals—often in collaboration with psychiatrists, primary care physicians, or psychiatric nurse practitioners—ensure that clients receive the appropriate type, dosage, and combination of medications to effectively manage mental health symptoms, with minimal side effects, while integrating these efforts with therapeutic interventions such as counseling. Scranton Counseling Center offers:

• Spravato (Esketamine)
• Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) Therapy
• Clozapine Management
• GeneSight Testing
• Long-Acting Injectable Medications (LAIs)

Multisystemic Therapy (MST) is an intensive family and community evidence-based program that empowers youth (ages 10 – 17) and their families to reduce delinquent and antisocial behavior by addressing the core causes of such conduct. MST addresses the youth’s network of systems including family, peers, school, and neighborhood, working intensely to promote sustainable changes and decrease reliance on formal services. Therapists have small caseloads and provide services in the home and community at times convenient to the family. MST is available to families multiple times per week for sessions as well as on-call 24/7 to maximize changes and maintain youth in their home environment.

The Adult Partial Hospitalization Program is an outpatient program available to mental health consumers 18 years of age and older with a serious mental health disorder. The Partial program at SCC is an intensive clinical treatment program that focuses on managing, reducing, and resolving mental health symptoms as well as assisting program members in obtaining additional needed services in the community.

Psychological assessment (sometimes called ‘psychological evaluation’ or ‘psych testing’) is a specialized service that assists consumers and their care teams with obtaining an accurate mental health diagnosis and gaining additional recommendations and resources to meet their unique care needs. A licensed psychologist will work with the consumer over a series of approximately 3 appointments to gain more information about their presenting concerns, select and administer the appropriate psychological assessments, and provide individualized information regarding results and recommendations.  Consumers must be 10+ years old.  These services are not eligible for telehealth visits.

Scranton Counseling Center’s telehealth services offer several important benefits including: convenience and accessibility, improved continuity of care, increased comfort and privacy, reduced stigma and flexibility.

Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) is a consumer-centered, recovery-oriented mental health Service Delivery Model.  ACT Teams are an evidence-based treatment model that facilitate community living, psycho-social rehabilitation and recovery for individuals with the most serious mental illnesses and impairments who have not benefited from traditional outpatient programs.

Blended Case Management (BCM) is a service that is provided to children, adolescents and adults with serious and persistent mental health concerns. Blended case managers assist consumers in creating service plans that are designed to help them reach specific life goals. These plans identify and focus on our consumer’s strengths as a way to work towards goal-oriented outcomes. Blended case managers assist the consumer by monitoring and coordinating services across multiple spectrums. The program is designed to assist consumers in accessing much needed community resources such as mental and physical health care, housing, educational & vocational programs, and other additional valuable services.

Forensic Services provide community based behavioral health services for individuals currently, or formerly, involved with the criminal justice system to promote recovery, resiliency, and the principles of self-direction, individualized and person-centered empowerment and hope.  These services are offered at various points along the Sequential Intercept Model, in a number of different settings, all under the umbrella of the Forensic Services Department.

​Forensic Services staff engage consumers in behavioral health services to obtain treatment, support, skills, and opportunities for recovery, as well as support in navigating the criminal justice system to reduce the risk of recidivism.  Assistance is offered for incarcerated individuals with ‘Serious Mental Illness’ to develop appropriate home and treatment service plans for reentry to, and continued stability in, the community.

Katie’s Place Clubhouse is a program designed for individuals who live with mental illness where we assist them in their mental health recovery by enhancing their vocational and social skills with the longer-term goal of entering or re-entering the workforce and/or reintegrating within the community.  Katie’s Place Clubhouse operates two units daily, Clerical and Hospitality, and the members choose which unit they wish to work in.   A Clubhouse is based on the belief that members are all needed, wanted and valued as part of the Clubhouse community.  All members work alongside staff as colleagues, to keep the Clubhouse running.  Everyone in the Clubhouse is equal, and there is no hierarchy. Guided by Clubhouse International, Clubhouses around the globe follow a set of 37 standards designed for best practice in mental health recovery.  If you or someone you know would like to become a member of Katie’s Place Clubhouse, please fill out our brief referral form here.

The Peers / DSC program helps individuals achieve wellness through Personal Medicine and Power Statements. Personal Medicine includes activities like journaling, exercising, volunteering, or playing with a pet to improve mood, manage symptoms, and support overall recovery. Power Statements are self-advocacy tools that connect treatment plans with personal goals, helping individuals collaborate with their providers to find the right medications and dosages.

Possibilities is a program which focuses on discovering and developing a person’s strengths. Possibilities inspires and assists members with mental health experiences, to learn or relearn necessary skills to reach their goals in one of five domains: living, learning, working, socializing, and staying healthy. Possibilities promotes members to make their own choices and achieve success and satisfaction in their life. They can and do have the ability to achieve self-reliance and community integration.

​The Possibilities Program is grounded in the Principles of Boston University Approach to Psychiatric Rehabilitation, The Community Support Program, and Recovery Oriented Behavioral Health Services.  Possibilities is designed to assist members with mental health experiences choose, get and keep skills of their choice in a safe, healthy environment.

​If you are not satisfied or are not having success with your current living situation, job, social life, wellness, or maybe you are thinking of going to school, the Possibilities Psychiatric Rehabilitation Program might be for you.

ACSA is an integral part of Scranton Counseling Center with offices located in Dunmore, PA.  ACSA provides outpatient behavioral health services to all ages including traditional therapy and alternative therapies for treatment resistant depression.

A 24-hour walk-in facility, the CRSU is available to divert people in crisis situations where they may need added support on a 24-hour basis but do not quite need the level of safety support provided by an inpatient psychiatric hospital. Crisis counselors can help connect these individuals with services and resources to be successful in the community. It is an 8-bed unit that provides a less restrictive option to help manage individuals in crisis.  In general, the CRSU offers no ‘wrong-door’ access to mental health and co-occurring substance use care, operating in a manner that accepts all walk-ins as well as fire and police drop-offs.

Early Intervention consists of services designed to help families with children who have developmental delays or disabilities. Early Intervention builds upon the natural environments in a child’s first few years of life. Early Intervention is a process that promotes collaboration among parents and service providers, presented in the family home or the child’s natural setting.

​Children do not need a diagnosis to qualify for Early Intervention services.  A developmental evaluation determines eligibility for services, and all children determined eligible receive free and appropriate services, regardless of the family’s insurance or income.

Individuals requiring immediate crisis services can receive them at any time through Scranton Counseling Center’s 24/7 emergency services.  Individuals can come to the center to meet with a crisis clinician face to face to determine an appropriate level of care. Our office is located at 329 Cherry Street, Scranton PA 18505.  Telephone crisis services are available by calling 570-348-6100, 24 hours a day.  All telephone calls are screened by a crisis clinician.  Consumers can also go to one of the local emergency rooms in Lackawanna and Susquehanna counties at which SCC provides crisis services: Lackawanna County – Commonwealth Health Regional Hospital; Susquehanna County – Endless Mountains Health Systems and Barnes-Kasson Hospital.

​SCC also has Mobile Crisis Team services available Monday through Friday, 8:30 am – 12:30 am, and weekends and holidays from 4:30 pm-12:00 am, providing individuals support and a face-to-face evaluation at their home or a safe environment within their community. It avoids a sometimes-unnecessary trip to the local emergency room in order to speak with a crisis clinician in person. Mobile Team services eliminate any barriers such as long wait times at the emergency room in order to access crisis services, transportation and childcare. Mobile team eliminates these barriers that may otherwise prevent individuals from seeking services. The mobile crisis team will assist the individual in developing a crisis safety plan as well as a plan to assist them in accessing behavioral health services from SCC, their current behavioral health provider, or a provider of their choosing.

These services are available to residents of Lackawanna and Susquehanna Counties.

Scranton Counseling Center partners with schools in Lackawanna and Susquehanna Counties to provide the mental health liaison for their SAP teams.

The Student Assistance Program (SAP) is a systematic team process used to mobilize school and community resources to remove barriers to learning.

SAP is designed to assist in identifying issues including alcohol, tobacco, other drugs, and mental health issues which pose a barrier to a student’s success.

The primary goal of the Student Assistance Program is to help students overcome these barriers so that they may achieve, advance, and remain in school.