GRASP Program for Adolescents
What Is the GRASP Program?
The GRASP Program supports adolescents navigating emotional, behavioral, relational, and substance-related challenges. GRASP stands for Growth & Recovery for Adolescents: Strategies and Programs and reflects a flexible, individualized approach to care.
Instead of a one-size-fits-all program, GRASP brings together individual therapy, group support, and family involvement. Care may be delivered through outpatient services or an intensive outpatient program (IOP), depending on each adolescent’s needs.
Care for Real-Life Youth Challenges
Adolescents enter the GRASP Program with a wide range of challenges, and care is designed to reflect that complexity. Some teens struggle primarily with mood or anxiety. Others are navigating trauma, substance use, behavioral concerns, or difficulties at school, with peers, or within their family.
GRASP is built to support adolescents whose challenges may overlap rather than fit neatly into a single category. By addressing emotional health, behavior, relationships, and daily functioning together, the program creates space for meaningful progress while meeting teens where they are.
Flexible Levels of Care Within the GRASP Program
The G.R.A.S.P. Program is a coordinated group of outpatient services designed to help adolescents grow and move forward from the challenges holding them back. Care may include individual therapy alone or a combination of individual, group, and family-based support, with options that range from flexible outpatient care to a full intensive outpatient program (IOP).
Individual Outpatient Support
One-on-one counseling focused on emotional regulation, behavior, relationships, and personal growth. Individual therapy is tailored to each adolescent and may include family involvement, offering consistent support with greater flexibility.
Structured Group Outpatient Support
A combination of individual therapy and group-based support that adds structure, accountability, and skill development. This level is helpful for adolescents who need more consistency while remaining engaged in school, home, and social routines.
Intensive Outpatient Program (IOP)
A higher level of outpatient care that includes multiple therapeutic touchpoints each week. IOP supports adolescents facing more complex emotional, behavioral, or substance-related challenges while allowing them to live at home and continue daily responsibilities.
A Lifeline to the Support Your Family Deserves
If you are exploring options for your adolescent, you do not have to have everything figured out. Our team is here to answer questions, explain next steps, and help you understand what level of care may be appropriate.
Personalized Support for Each Adolescent
Individual Therapy
Individual therapy within the GRASP Program is tailored to each adolescent’s needs, strengths, and challenges. Sessions focus on understanding how thoughts, emotions, and behaviors interact, and on developing healthier ways to respond to stress, relationships, and life events.
Care is grounded in cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), with additional approaches such as EMDR or narrative therapy used when appropriate to process trauma and significant life experiences. Parent involvement is encouraged to support progress outside of sessions.
Skill-Building Groups That Support Growth and Recovery
Group experiences within GRASP give adolescents space to learn, practice, and grow alongside others facing similar challenges. These structured groups focus on skills that support emotional stability, healthier choices, and long-term growth.
Substance Use & Recovery
Focus: Awareness, accountability, relapse prevention
Addresses substance use and other risky or compulsive behaviors common in adolescence. This group helps teens identify triggers, peer pressure influences, and self-defeating patterns while developing healthier coping strategies and relapse prevention.
Emotional Processing & Regulation
Focus: Awareness, expression, coping
Helps adolescents identify, understand, and express emotions in healthy ways. Skills include mindfulness, emotional regulation, distress tolerance, and effective communication during stress or conflict.
Trauma-Focused Processing
Focus: Safety, grounding, resilience
Supports adolescents who have experienced trauma, abuse, or neglect through Trauma-Focused CBT and experiential techniques such as grounding, narrative work, visual storytelling, and boundary development.
Cognitive Skills Development
Focus: Thinking patterns and decision-making
Builds problem-solving, critical thinking, emotional awareness, and social perspective skills. This group helps adolescents challenge distorted thinking and develop more productive, pro-social behaviors.
Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) Skills
Focus: Emotional balance and relationships
A structured, evidence-based group that teaches mindfulness, emotional regulation, distress tolerance, interpersonal effectiveness, and self-respect skills.
Expressive Processing
Focus: Experiential healing
Uses creative and experiential methods such as art, music, psychodrama, and letter writing to help adolescents process emotions and life experiences in a supportive, non-verbal environment.
Life Skills Development
Focus: Real-world readiness
Prepares adolescents for daily responsibilities and future independence through practical living skills, employment readiness, personal growth, and social development.
Teen Empowerment
Focus: Confidence and accountability
Helps teens navigate bullying, peer relationships, and personal responsibility while addressing entitlement beliefs or victim mindsets and preparing for adulthood.
Interpersonal Communication
Focus: Connection and communication
Develops active listening, conflict resolution, empathy, and respectful self-expression through role-playing, guided discussion, and interactive exercises.
No Insurance? No Problem.
Not everyone has insurance, and that shouldn’t stand in the way of getting help. We offer cash pay options for all services, making care more accessible and straightforward. Many clients prefer cash pay for its flexibility, especially for lower-cost treatments. Reach out to explore your options and get started today.
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Adolescent Counseling Services Near You
Lifeline Behavioral Health offers specialized child and adolescent therapy at all six Arizona locations and through secure telehealth. Wherever you are, your family has a lifeline to healing through in-person or virtual teen counselling services.
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