Services

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Outpatient Counseling

Oceanside Community Services works with various individuals (adults, children and adolescents) with mental health and co-occurring disorders. Through the use of evidence-based practices and interventions, the individual will be able to increase their strengths and resources allowing for personal growth and well-being.

Oceanside Community Services specializes in various areas including,

• Psychotherapy
• Supportive Counseling
• Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
• Dialectical Behavior Treatment (DBT)
• Trauma Focused Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT)
• Problematic Sexualized Behaviors (PSB)
• Harm Reduction
• Structural Family Therapy
• Solution-Focused Therapy

Neuropsychological Evaluations

Neuropsychological evaluations allow the individual to discover their cognitive strengths and weaknesses, acquire accurate cognitive and psychological diagnoses, and gain recommendations for next steps and appropriate services.

Dr. Ashley Besemer, Psy.D

Dr. Leah Baer, Psy.D

Problematic Sexualized Behaviors Risk Assessment

Oceanside’s Problematic Sexualized Behavior Risk Assessment provides a comprehensive review of not only the history of sexually problematic behavior but also personal and contextual factors that contributed to, or in some other way influenced, the problematic sexual behavior. 

The assessment will offer a description of the development of problematic sexualized behaviors and contributing factors to the offenses, identify key contributors/causes including motivation and describe trajectory absent of intervention, as well as youth’s likely response to specific types of treatment, diagnosis and recommendations.

As we know, concerns about risk for reoffending and continued sexually problematic behavior are not based upon any single factor or group of factors. Instead, the prognosis is based upon a thorough clinical assessment, by trained clinicians, that reviews multiple details of the youth’s life, providing a basis for understanding risk and protective factors, using specific evidenced-based protocols.

Those include The Juvenile Sex Offender Assessment Protocol-II (J-SOAP-II), whose purpose is to aid in the systematic review of risk factors that have been identified as being associated with sexual and criminal offending and the SAPROF – Youth Version (SAPROF-YV), a tool intended for the identification of protective factors and to offer guidelines for setting positive treatment goals, and evaluating progress in treatment.

If we can assist in juvenile cases involving problematic sexualized behaviors, please fill out our referral form (attached). You can email it back to me directly or fax it back (207-571-9927)

Julie Herrick, LCSW

Jonathan Negoescu, LCSW