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Mental Health and Addiction Resources in Pinellas County Florida

Boley Centers Inc.
boleycenters.org 445 31st St. N. St. Petersburg, FL 33713 727 821-4819 With more than 30 housing and service center locations scattered throughout Pinellas County, the Organization comprises a wide variety of treatment, rehabilitation and vocational services; a network of living opportunities in community residences and apartments.
Directions for Mental Health
directionsmh.org 1437 S Belcher Clearwater, Florida 33764 727-524-4464 Directions for Mental Health is a private nonprofit community mental health counseling organization. Their prevention, early intervention and treatment programs serve the mental health needs of children, families, adults and seniors. This is an outstanding organization, they have very good counselors, therapists, and case managers.
Fairwinds Treatment Center
fairwindstreatment.com 1569 Fort Harrison Ave. S  Clearwater, Florida 34616 727-449-0300  800-226-0301  Fairwinds is a private addiction/ substance abuse treatment center. The grounds surrounding the facility provide a park-like setting and recreational areas including a pool. Nice place, well qualified counseling staff, all therapists have good addictions experience.
Goodwill Industries
goodwill.org 10596 Gandy Blvd. St. Petersburg, Florida 33702 (727) 523-1512; (727) 576-0882; (813) 877-3234 8:00-4:30 M-F Services: vocational counseling , individual counseling; outpatient intensive day/night drug treatment. Populations: Adults 18 years of age and older.
Gulf Coast Community Care
angelfire.com 407 S Arcturas Clearwater FL 33765 813-816-1235 (Pasco) 813-298-1634 (Pinellas) Gulf Coast Community Care is a major provider of an array of community-based services to individuals living with HIV/AIDS, serving more than 1,000 clients in Pinellas and Pasco counties. Gulf Coast provides FREE service to the clients. People living with HIV/AIDS, along with their family and partners, may receive mental health counseling/ therapy as part of the HIV Programs.
Hospice
hospicefoundation.org Specific Services: Providing patients with care primarily in the "home", where patients have loving support of family and friends Circle of Love Children's Program: addresses the needs of the diverse community of children and families, regardless of ability to pay. Specific Population: Those who cope either personally or professionally with terminal illness, death, and the process of grief, primarily those with a prognosis of one year or less. Excellent, dedicated staff. I know some of the therapists and counselors there, and they are very good at what they do.
Operation PAR, Inc.
operationpar.org 6655 66th St N Pinellas Park, Florida 33781 727-545-7564 PAR offers a full continuum of services for individuals with substance abuse, addiction and/or mental health disorders. PAR is awesome! I have had the pleasure of working at many different programs there, as a counselor, therapist, director, and clinical supervisor. The majority of their programs are in Clearwater and Largo but there are PAR programs all over the State. You can really get help here. It's a great place to work too if you want to help people.
Personal Enrichment Through Mental Health Services (PEMHS)
pemhs.org 11254 58th St N Pinellas Park, Florida 33782-2213 727-545-6477 Adult Services Emergency Services – Provides immediate assessment, crisis intervention counseling, referrals, and admission; Crisis Stabilization – Provides brief, intensive counseling services for adults in crisis; Short Term Residential Treatment; Focused Outreach - Mental Health counseling and support for adults returning to the community after incarceration. Children and Family Services: Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Programs; The Children's Center - is an emergency shelter for children; Children’s Continuum of Care–Provides intensive residential treatment, therapy groups, case management, and in-home counseling; Emergency Response Team (ERT) – Provides crisis intervention for children and families at risk for abuse or neglect; Juvenile Detention Center; Screening and Stabilization; Therapeutic Foster Care
Suncoast Center
suncoastcenter.com 4024 Central Avenue St. Petersburg FL 33711 727-327-7656 Adult Services: Outpatient Counseling; Substance Abuse Counseling; Community Support Programs; Senior Support Services Children and Family Services: Outpatient Counseling; School-Based Counseling; In-Home Counseling; Family Support Services
Windmoor Healthcare
windmoorhealthcare.com 11300 U S 19 North Clearwater, Florida 33764 727-541-2646 800-288-HOPE Windmoor Healthcare is a full-service psychiatric facility available 24-hours a day.

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Aface to face counseling session is not always convenient or preferred. With the internet age comes convenience and choice in so many areas of our lives. So many things are at our fingertips, including counseling. From the privacy and convenience of home one can choose to engage in email counseling, and telephonic counseling. Costs are lower because normal therapist office expences are gone.

Face to face counseling may cost more, and it may be less convenient, but, it is usual worth it. For various reasons not the least of which is that more information is available to the counselor from verbal and non-verbal cues. The greater intimacy is usually an aid in the development of authentic relationships, but it can also be a barrier to some and a irrelavant to others.. Face to face counseling is strongly recommended to all those with the means and inclination. However, you may not need or desire to meet face to face. You may only want or need a few email sessions. Many have resolved issues in as few as three email sessions, some a few more, some with a mixture of other mediums.

Telephone sessions and video phone session are closer to face to face than email or chat, but also a little more intimate. More cues are available to the counselor such as verbal inflection, and emotional pitch.

Email therapy or eTherapy is becoming more and more popular. With the internet age comes convenience and choice in so many areas of our lives. So many things are at our fingertips, including counseling. Costs are lower because normal therapist office expences are gone. From the privacy and convenience of home one can get quality counseling at costs much lower than traditional face to face counseling.

eTherapy is certainly a great place to start. You can get to know your therapist and find out if they are a good fit for your needs with little effort or investment

You may be able to get everything you need with just a few sessions, you may need more, and you may desire ongoing email counseling. You may also deside to move to phone, skype, or in-person counseling.

The choices are there and they are up to you This is your life, and it is your choice to be here, why not let us help you get to where you want to be.

Intention Therapy

Regardless of one's cognitive/behavioral dysfunction on some level there is the intention to bring about the dysfunction. It has long been accepted that Cognitive/Behavioral Therapies are extremely effective in dealing with mood disorders. One can learn to be anxiety free by changing their mental tendencies. One can overcome depression the same way. These therapies are increasing applied to the field of addictions, as well, with some good results These therapies are very effective in dealing with irrational thoughts, and maladaptive tendencies, but they fall short. They do not emphasize the key ingredient of our dysfunction and our transcendence from our dysfunction. They mostly leave out  intention.

Unconscious intention is still intention. There is part of you that wants what it wants. Is it separate from you? No, it is part of you, it is part of your mind. Getting at that, looking at that, seeing all the ways that you intend everything that you bring about, eventually leads to your freedom. Intention Therapy is designed to help you see, really see , that you create your life. You create it unconsciously, mindlessly, habitually, and in many way dysfunctionally. Until you realize that the intent is there, the intent is always there, it can't always be truly seen, and it cannot be ultimately transformed. All human intention is almost always on some level logical, and it is always acceptable. It is acceptable because to not accept it is to deny it. To deny it is to let it stay inaccessible to the conscious mind, thus letting unconscious intention create what it creates without the awareness that it is you that is creating it. It is logical because through analysis almost all maladaptive behavior is adaptive to other maladaptive behavior, so on some level it has an adaptive quality. Nothing is created in a vacuum,  including your intentions, and human behavior is fairly predictable, so based on certain situational factors, you create intentions designed to endure.

 In 12 step recovery the illusion of powerlessness is only appearing because the intention to engage in excess is denied as intent. It may be unconscious on many levels but it is none the less intentionally to use a substance to the extreme.  Just as it is intentional on some level to engage in any cognitive based activity.

Since all behavior is developed cognitively, all behavior is intentional. Our higher power cannot save us unless we admit that they are intentionally creating our current reality. Central to relapse is the set up, "stinking-thinking" . Behind it is the intention to get to that place again, that place that we desire on some level,  that place of distraction has been habituated mindlessly to be preferable to every other mental state. This is true regardless of the mental pattern and tendency. Whether we chose a dysphonic mental state, substance abuse, or any other addiction or distraction we are choosing.  We are choosing a reality that is other than the one that is really here. The reality that is always here in this moment. This reality that lives in us and through us regardless of our intention. This reality is a higher power, this reality and the intention to live it is the power behind all that is. To realize this in any moment is to truly see one's life.

Intention is the key. Change comes about when the individual mindfully examines their destructive  intentions and transforms them. Through the power of wholesome mindful  intention we can all create the life that is - THIS LIFE. When one can say this is the life that I intended, and know that is not a selfish "I" that intended it. When one can know that one's self intent is not apart from the whole. When one clearly sees that  "this is My Life" and everything and everyone is an important part of me. Then one flows with compassionate, and wise intention. However, don't be fooled, this intention is not a place to get to, it is a place to BE. To be free is to have the intention to be free. The true intention. Intention therapy is a way towards this true intention in those who aren't ready to see it for themselves.

Please, have hope, until you have faith, have hope. We are offering a way to freedom, that way is through Intention Therapy. Please call today, this moment is precious, it should not be wasted in painful mindless distraction. Intend to be free.