Grapevine Teen Mental Health Services at Bricolage Behavioral Health

About 5,000 teens are living in Grapevine, Texas. Over 500 of those teens likely experienced serious thoughts of suicide in the past year, and an estimated 800 experienced major depressive episodes.

The key to helping these teens is quality mental health care that treats them like the growing, unique individuals they are. This is exactly the kind of treatment Bricolage provides to youth in the Grapevine area. Let us tell you more about what we do, and most importantly, why it works.

How We Empower Teens Through Evidence-Based, Skill-Building Therapy

If you’ve been searching for treatment for your teen, you’ve probably run into a lot of treatment centers claiming to be “evidence-based.” That means the methods are backed by trustworthy research, and they’ve improved teens’ mental health. Bricolage is the same in this regard. We ensure all of our treatment has proven results behind it, so we don’t waste your teen’s time and energy with therapy that doesn’t work. 

Evidence-based care is vital, but recovery is about more than that. It’s about learning new, healthy skills teens can apply to improve their life circumstances and mental health. The skills we focus on most depend on your teen’s situation. No matter what, we practice those skills over and over until they feel more natural.

Here are a few of the skills your teen might learn and improve at Bricolage:

• Realistic and effective goal-setting
• Emotional regulation techniques
• Stress management
• Healthy communication
• Trigger identification 
• Thought restructuring
• Self-care habits

Why Do Families in the Grapevine Area Choose Bricolage? 

Many qualities make Bricolage shine. Here are some of our most popular ones.

Our Strengths-Based, Real-World Approach

Learning something in therapy is one thing, but it’s a different challenge altogether to apply that knowledge in real life. We highlight this in our treatment and make sure every teen in our care receives ample time to practice the skills they need to thrive in the real world. 

We also don’t constantly harp on teens’ weaknesses and what they’re doing wrong. It’s important to learn what thoughts and behaviors are unproductive, but it’s just as important for teens to know when they’re doing something right. We build our lessons and the strategies teens learn on their strengths, focusing more on building them up than anything else. We always provide an alternative course of action to take, making it much easier to unlearn bad habits and replace them with better ones.

Each treatment plan is built around the child’s strengths and needs. Your teen is unique, and their care under Bricolage will be, too.

Holistic, Family-Involved Care

At Bricolage, we look at the big picture of teen mental health. Every part of a child’s brain works together to create their thoughts, feelings, and perspective. That means to provide comprehensive healing, we need to take care of each area of the brain – not just one responsible for certain symptoms.

Every child’s family plays a massive role in their healing process. Your support is key during your child’s treatment and after. Of course, it’s not always easy to know how to help them on their journey to better mental health. We account for that in our treatment plans, with our day program including family therapy sessions. There, you’ll learn a fair share of skills yourself that you can apply to your everyday life. This will benefit your child, but it’ll also benefit you!

No matter what level of care your teen participates in, we’ll stay in touch every step of the way. We want you to be involved in their care and recovery, so we’ll keep you updated on their progress and how you can empower them on their mental health journey.

Experts in Adolescent Development

We have significant experience working with teens, with psychiatrists, nurses, and other professionals all on our staff and ready to help your child. We also realize that to be the best we can be, we need to improve and keep learning, too. We are committed to ongoing growth and improvement, continually integrating the latest research to provide the most effective, evidence-based treatment for your teen. 

Bricolage’s Mental Health Treatment Programs for Teens

Bricolage offers two primary programs for teens: our intensive outpatient program (IOP) and our day treatment, also known as a partial hospitalization program (PHP). 

Both of these are great and helpful options, and which will suit your teen best depends on their needs and treatment goals. Check out our chart below for some comparisons.

What’s The Program?	What Does a Week Look Like?	How Long Does It Last?	Who Benefits Most?
Intensive outpatient (IOP)	Three-hour meetings three days a week. Weekly health check-in and medication check-in. Various therapies based on your teen’s recovery goals, including whole-group therapy.	Depends on your teen’s needs, but six weeks on average. Can be adjusted as needed, and there’s no “wrong” timeline.	Teens who need treatment, but want to remain in traditional schooling the majority of the time. They are healthy enough to function safely in their regular life and apply the skills they learn in therapy right away.
Partial hospitalization/day program (PHP)	Six-hour days, five days a week. Weekly health check-in and medication check-in twice weekly. Two hours of academic support time daily. Various therapies based on your teen’s recovery goals, including whole-group therapy and family therapy.	Depends on your teen’s needs, but six weeks on average. Can be adjusted as needed, and there’s no “wrong” timeline. After the conclusion of PHP, teens will attend IOP, coming out to a total of 12 weeks of treatment on average.	Teens in need of a more intensive, structured treatment plan. Their mental health may interfere significantly enough that attending regular school isn’t reasonable.

What We Treat: Adolescent Mental Health

At Bricolage, we don’t limit our treatment to only a few conditions. Every teen seeking to improve their mental health is welcome, whether they’ve received a diagnosis or not.

Here are just some of the mental health conditions and symptoms we address:

• Anxiety, including social anxiety disorder, generalized anxiety disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, panic disorder, and specific phobias. 
• Depression, including feelings of sadness and emptiness, loss of interest in activities, fatigue, guilt, self-harm, and suicidal ideation. 
• Behavioral concerns, such as conduct disorder, oppositional defiant disorder, attention-deficit disorder, and trouble regulating anger.
• Trauma, like post-traumatic stress disorder, trauma-related panic attacks, and trauma-related insomnia.
• Disordered eating and other self-esteem and body image concerns.
• Mental health with co-occurring substance use disorders (dual diagnosis), including marijuana, cocaine, meth, benzodiazepine, and opioid use disorders.

This list is not comprehensive. If your teen’s symptoms aren’t represented, we encourage you to still reach out to us. We’ll be happy to help.

Can Bricolage Diagnose Mental Health Conditions?

When it’s appropriate to provide a diagnosis, we’re well-equipped to do so. However, we think focusing on why kids experience their symptoms is significantly more important.

We believe this for a few reasons:

1. Teens can experience painful mental health symptoms even without a diagnosis. While diagnoses can be helpful, they can also be alienating, especially for kids who don’t quite meet the official criteria for a disorder. Their concerns are just as legitimate.
2. A diagnosis isn’t an action plan. Receiving a diagnosis doesn’t actually provide practical solutions to improve your teen’s mental health. It’s just grouping symptoms and giving them a name.
3. There’s no one-size-fits-all treatment for any condition. Some types of therapy might benefit most people with a certain diagnosis, but following “standard protocol” for your child’s condition doesn’t guarantee results.
4. Teens might believe their diagnosis is an unchangeable part of who they are. This just isn’t true! All brains are capable of growth and positive change, and this is at the core of everything we do. Putting in the practice to create brain change is how teens truly heal.