Alaska Family ServicesTherapist in Wasilla, AK
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Denali Family Services (DFS) is a 501(c)(3) organization based in Anchorage and the Mat-Su Valley, Alaska, serving youth and families since 1995. DFS connects youth living with mental, behavioral, or emotional disorders to quality services that help them build useful skills in their homes, schools, and communities. The organization operates 57 therapeutic foster homes and serves over 200 youth and families each year. Services include case management, clinical services, school and community-based services, therapeutic foster care, and a transition to independence program. DFS addresses behavioral health challenges in youth facing conditions related to family and community violence, homelessness, child maltreatment, and substance abuse.
Role
Therapist
Evidence-based approaches
Activity therapy
Activity Therapy. Structured therapeutic activities, recreation, movement, hands-on tasks, used as a vehicle for connection and emotional regulation. Often paired with talk therapy in residential and group programs.
Cognitive behavioral therapy
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. Spots the thought-feeling-action loops that fuel urges, then rewires them with practical skills you take into the moment.
Couples/family therapy
Family Therapy. Brings the people closest to the recovery into the room. Less about blame, more about updating the patterns that fed the cycle so the home becomes part of the recovery.
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing therapy
A therapeutic approach included in this provider’s plan of care. Contact for specifics on how it shows up in their work.
Group therapy
Group Therapy. A small facilitated circle where people working on similar struggles practice naming what is hard, hearing themselves in others, and learning skills together. The room is the medicine.
Individual psychotherapy
Individual Psychotherapy. One-to-one sessions with a licensed clinician. The standard-bearer of mental-health care; most evidence-based plans build around it.
Telemedicine/telehealth therapy
Telehealth Therapy. Real clinical sessions delivered over video. Same evidence base as in-person care for most conditions; meets you where you actually are instead of where the office is.
What this facility offers
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