Southern Arizona Center Against Sexual Assault Mental Health Services You Are Not Alone We Believe You It Is Not Your Fault

Mental Health Services
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Through our Mental Health Services we:

Seek to alleviate the trauma of sexual assault through specialized therapeutic services to recent and past victims/survivors, their families and friends.
Facilitate the transformation of victim (an individual who has been harmed and is hurting) to a survivor (an individual who is healing and is able to return to regular activity).
Provide referrals to the victim/survivor of sexual assault to appropriate community resources.
Advocate for victim rights and increased resources.
Create and participate in activities to raise community awareness relating to the biological, psychological, psycho-social impact of sexual assault.
Work in partnership with other departments of the Center, as well as with other organizations in the community, state and nation-wide to prevent sexual violence.

Our guiding principles:

All forms of sexual violence are rooted within a socio-political and cultural context, and conditions that promote sexual violence require change.
Traumatic events have a psychological impact that may develop into serious, painful and long-lasting disruptions in the survivor's life.
We reject viewing responses to trauma as pathological.
We do not overlook even the most severely disabling psychological issues.
We create a safe, facilitating environment for the exploration and emotional understanding of relevant issues.
We use a variety of clinical modalities (individual, couple, family, group) and treatment approaches, including EMDR, to address our clients' needs.
We focus on restoring dignity and empowerment.
We partner with people, not symptoms or diagnostic categories.
We endeavor to be optimally responsive.
We affirm and appreciate cultural diversity.

Who we are and what we do:

Trained, credentialed professional clinicians provide an assessment session and on-going psychotherapy to individuals, couples and families.
We are a training facility for interns in graduate and undergraduate social work, counseling and other human service programs.
Our Adjunct Therapist program provides volunteer opportunities for therapists. In exchange for four hours of direct practice, the Adjunct Therapist receives one hour of supervision which may be applied to Board of Behavioral Health Credentialing
Clinical team partners with crisis team to provide crisis intervention for persons needing immediate support, information or referral.
Clinical services are provided in our Country Club office located in central Tucson as well as our office (Su Voz Vale - Your Voice Counts) at the El Pueblo Neighborhood Center in South Tucson.
Groups
- Adult Male Survivors Group
- Adult Female Survivors Group

Center Therapists and their specialties:

Mirto Stone, LCSW	Center Against Sexual Assault/Tucson Rape Crisis Center history; sexual assault intervention and treatment; ideological issues re: victimology; GLBT issues; EMDR
Gypsy Lyle, M.S.S.S., A.C.S.W., L C S W	Medical, family service and behavioral health settings experience; client-centered; cognitive therapy with development framework; Seriously Mentally Ill population; trained in Level I and II of EMDR.
Minnie Almader, M. Ed., Ed. D. LPC
Marianne Mora, MSW, LCSW	Individualized, client centered therapy utilizing various approaches, including psychodynamic, relational, and cognitive behavioral; trained in EMDR.
Sarah Forrester, MA, LPC	Relationship-based approach, person-centered therapy; Individuals, families;experience + Specialized training in Psyco Dynamic Therapy;Child and Adult Trauma;Play and Art Therapy;Issues affecting parents of infants and children
Ralph Hamby, MSW, LCSW	Compassionate psychotherapy with emphasis on psychodynamic (self psychology) Rational emotive and cognitive behavioral approaches to integration and resolution of childhood and adult sexual trauma