South Coast Private Hospital offers a variety of therapeutic group mental health day programs.
Day programs are an important part of your treatment plan to support your transition after an in-hospital stay or if you need structured support between appointments to strengthen your coping strategies. Our group mental health day programs offer targeted, evidence-based support to promote your long-term mental health, emotional stability, and overall wellbeing.
Group sessions occur once per week, anywhere from 8 to 24 weeks depending on the program. Our day programs are led by our experienced team of psychologists. A referral from your GP is required.
Speak with our day group programs team to discuss which program best suits your needs. Our day programs team can be contacted by calling 02 4286 6847 or email: sco.dayprograms@aurorahealth.com.au
Acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) is ideal if you are aiming to overcome anxiety, depression, or stress. This program helps you relate to painful thoughts and feelings in a way that has less impact and influence on your daily life. This program is ideal if you are pursuing personal growth and want to learn how to align your life with your values, particularly if you are open to utilising mindfulness and acceptance to enable transformative change.
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This 24-session advanced half day program is based on the principles of ACT and aims to promote self-compassion, acceptance of emotions and thoughts as well as strengthening the ability to commit to values guided actions. It builds on skills in the introductory program and details how to apply ACT skills to a range of issues such as sleep, grief, relationships, procrastination, anxiety and depression.
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This half-day group program is designed to offer strategies that address the specific symptoms of ADHD in conjunction with other medication strategies. This skills-based group helps you make lifestyle changes to better manage living with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).
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This half-day program is designed to provide a way to express oneself through different art activities and mediums. If you have a diagnosis of a mood disorder, anxiety disorder or an addictive disorder and find creative activities beneficial, this program helps to engage a range of senses to explore problems creatively rather than relying solely on talking therapies. You do not need to have art skills to participate.
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This semi-open program is designed for people who are experiencing difficulties in emotion regulation, impulsivity, frequent interpersonal conflict and poor coping in stressful situations. This program offers an introduction to dialectical behavioural therapy (DBT) to develop skills of mindful awareness, distress tolerance and acceptance. This program is ideal if you experience intense, unstable moods, relationship difficulties or self-harming behaviours. This program is suitable if you have been diagnosed with borderline personality disorder, complex post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), severe mood or anxiety disorders.
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This program is designed for people who have completed the Dealing with Distress Day Program and want to learn advanced techniques in managing distress, emotions and relationships. This semi-open program aims to assist you to improve your relationships, identity and capacity for self-regulation. This program is based on dialectical behavioural therapy (DBT) and incorporates skills from schema therapy and compassion focused therapy to assist you to overcome unhelpful beliefs and regrettable actions to build a life worth living.
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This semi-open program is ideal if you are experiencing difficulties in distress regulation or poor coping in stressful situations. This program offers an introduction to distress tolerance skills to support you to find ways of managing crises and feelings of overwhelm. It is suitable for people with adjustment disorder, borderline personality disorder (BPD) or severe mood or anxiety disorders.
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This program is ideal if you have a diagnosis of substance use or an addictive disorder (e.g. alcohol abuse, drug dependence, gambling addiction) and other mental health disorders such as depression or anxiety. This open program focuses on the cycle of addiction and depression/anxiety, providing strategies for both disorders at the same time. This helps you to work on underlying problems as well as preventing relapse from addiction. It offers advanced strategies to monitor cravings, improve wellbeing, set goals and implement change.
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This program is designed for individuals who have a diagnosis of a mood or anxiety disorder, addictive, personality or trauma disorder and are in the maintenance phase of their recovery. This half-day program is based on the principles of positive psychology and uses a strengths-based approach to you to enhance resilience and maintain wellness. This program enables you to build on skills learnt in other groups and apply them through the lens of recovery maintenance to promote ongoing wellbeing and relapse prevention.
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This full-day program aims to empower you with the knowledge and skills to support good physical and mental health. This program will provide practical strategies to assist you in moving towards healthier food choices, improving the nutritional quality of your diet, and supporting improved mood. This program is ideal if you:
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This semi-open program is designed for people who want to identify, understand, and change unhelpful patterns of thinking which may be negatively affecting their day-to-day lives. It deals with how your current thoughts and behaviours affect you and helps you to create a plan for moving forward with your recovery. This program is ideal if you want greater control over depression or anxiety disorder.
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This semi-open program is designed for people who want to learn and apply advanced cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) techniques to manage their mood and anxiety disorders. This program aims to assist you to lift your mood and reduce anxiety through targeting maladaptive thought processes, unhelpful behaviours and replacing these with more skilful strategies.
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This program is you would like to learn more about parenting, and strategies to deal with what gets in the way of parenting and interacts with mental health. This full-day group program provides support to parents of under 18-year-olds. It seeks to help you increase confidence in your parenting and optimise your relationship with your children. This program incorporates strategies from cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT), dialectical behavioural therapy (DBT) and acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT).
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This program is developed for individuals who struggle with any type of persistent pain. This program might be particularly helpful if you struggle with mental health as a result of the pain. For example, if you are suffering from depression, anxiety or addictive disorders. This full day program is based on cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT) and acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) and aims to provide psychoeducation on understanding pain from a psychological perspective and how this can impact your mental health. You will learn skills and strategies to manage chronic and persistent pain, including flare-ups. We also understand that many individuals may develop addiction/substance disorders after years of struggling with chronic pain. This program is addiction-informed and provide strategies to manage addiction in the context of chronic pain.
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This program is designed for people who want to learn and apply advanced cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) techniques using a schema therapy framework to manage their mood and anxiety disorders. This closed program aims to assist you in addressing underlying beliefs that perpetuate low mood, poor self-esteem, relationship difficulties, burnout and shame. This program will introduce both schemas and schema modes, using advanced techniques to tackle core issues that are experienced as a deeper level to create more lasting change.
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This program is designed for people who want to learn and apply skills in self-compassion, self-validation, gratitude and resilience. This semi-open group program aims to assist you to live a rich, full and meaningful life by applying the principles of compassion focused therapy to enhance your wellbeing. You will learn how to use compassionate practise to manage anger, shame, fear and build resilience.
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If you experience sleep difficulties at least three nights per week for the past few months, and have a diagnosis of a mood disorder, anxiety disorder or a trauma-based disorder, this program is ideal for you. This may include difficulty getting to sleep, staying asleep, early wakening, nightmares or daytime fatigue.
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This program has been designed for Individuals who have experienced trauma and who may have been diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), complex PTSD, adjustment disorder or mood and anxiety disorders. This group program is delivered in a safe treatment setting for participants. Sessions focus on implementing skills and techniques to help manage the symptoms of trauma and understand its impact on oneself in preparation for further trauma work.
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This program has been designed for Individuals who have experienced trauma and who may have been diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), complex PTSD, adjustment disorder or mood and anxiety disorders. This group program is delivered online via Microsoft Teams. Sessions focus on implementing skills and techniques to help manage the symptoms of trauma and understand its impact on oneself in preparation for further trauma work.
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This program is for individuals who have experienced trauma in adulthood and who may have been diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), complex PTSD, adjustment disorder or mood and anxiety disorders. This group program is designed to provide a safe treatment setting for you to process the impact of trauma. Sessions utilise cognitive processing therapy to evaluate the effect of the trauma on belief systems and create change by challenging negative thoughts and unhelpful behaviours.
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