— Constellation Program —
Constellation is a Brooklyn-based treatment program for young adults experiencing psychosis and extreme states. Through the personalized use of treatment services and the engagement of the individual’s broader network (family, friends, involved community members, and groups), the program aims to render private torment and pain communicable to others, decrease isolation, and help program participants to create a place for themselves in the world.
Constellation services include:
Intensive psychotherapy.
Shared decision-making medication management.
Ongoing dialogic meetings among those the client identifies as being in their network.
Liaison services, accompaniment in the community.
Group psychotherapy (including hearing voices).
Collective projects.
You are free to choose the components of the program you wish to make use of, and this may change and evolve over the course of your treatment. We ask that you initially make contact with your psychotherapist, psychiatrist, or liaison, choose members of your network, and schedule a meeting with the program directors. Meeting regularly with your liaison at the beginning of treatment may be helpful in determining which components of the program will be particularly helpful to you.
✦ For inquiries regarding treatment consultation, please contact info@constellationsnyc.com.
— Constellations Open Group —
Coming into contact with psychiatric systems can be an experience that leads to stigma and isolation. But what are commonly perceived as symptoms can be understood as forms of knowledge. This is a group to cultivate that knowledge — to discuss values and beliefs, fear and paranoia, seeing and hearing and noticing things that others do not — and to talk about what has happened, what can happen after, and anything else.
If you are interested in attending, please contact Siena Froment.
In-person on Monday, from 7:15pm - 8:30pm.
— In Connection - Relating to Psychosis and Extreme States —
With Jacob Prescott & Siena Froment.
Starting on September 24th — more details will be available soon.
Being in connection with someone experiencing psychosis or extreme states can be an isolating and distressing experience. Stigma can prevent us from reaching out for support and limit the possibility for change. This group is time to center experience and see what emerges. To talk about the suffering that exists between us — individually and collectively — as well as a path forward.
Using a dialogic and psychodynamic approach, this group places a strong emphasis on understanding oneself in connection to a loved one experiencing psychosis and extreme states. In learning to navigate the impact of the past, present, and future, group members will work toward practicing agency within their social network and beyond.
If you are interested, know someone who might be, or have questions about whether this group could be a good fit, please contact siena@constellationsnyc.com.