The Guidance Center - Lynwood Clinic, located in Compton, California, focuses on outpatient mental health treatment for children, adolescents, and young adults. It specializes in trauma-related counseling and serious mental illness (SMI), including services tailored for the LGBT community and those with PTSD.
The clinic's mission is to provide comprehensive mental health services that enhance the emotional, psychological, and social well-being of its clients. It offers a variety of innovative treatment modalities to support individual recovery and community reintegration.
- Comprehensive Services: Offers family, individual, trauma-related, and cognitive behavioral therapy.
- Specialized Programs: Tailored programs for the LGBT community and those with PTSD.
- Vocational Support: Provides vocational rehabilitation and supported employment services.
- Crisis Outreach: Includes crisis outreach services and community education to promote mental health awareness.
Treats mental health issues such as depression, anxiety, PTSD, and serious mental illness. Serves children, adolescents, young adults, and those from the LGBT community.
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- LGBTQ+ Allied
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- Speaks English
- 17 Therapies & Programs
- Multiple Locations
Conditions and Issues Treated
Levels of Care
This center offers a variety of custom treatment tailored to individual recovery. Currently available are Outpatient, with additional therapies available as listed below.
In outpatient programs at Guidance Center - Lynwood Clinic, the Compton resident can live with their family while continuing with their job or studies. Treatment includes educating the patient on drug abuse, medications, and counseling sessions at the individual or group level.
Guidance Center - Lynwood Clinic‘s Therapies & Programs
Customized individual therapy is counseling involving you and your counselor at Guidance Center - Lynwood Clinic. This builds a personal and trusting relationship so you can truly be yourself and express any emotions as you feel them. Individual therapy leads to greater peace and understanding about your triggers for addiction and coping strategies to prevent relapse.
Substance abuse does a number on an individual’s relationship with other people, particularly in marriage. Spousal relationships bear the brunt of alcohol and drug dependence. Therefore, it becomes critical to submit the relationship to couples therapy to prevent straining it further. Most programs only zero in on the individual with substance addiction without factoring in the importance of the other half’s emotional support.
However, some facilities, like Guidance Center - Lynwood Clinic in Compton, California, offer couples therapy options to manage intimate partnerships amid the recovery process. Other couples-focused treatment plans can provide the patient and their partner tools to get things back to normal, support each other, and the patient’s sobriety.Group Therapy is a type of counseling that occurs between a bunch of strangers. These groups are suitable for patients who are not confined in a treatment facility, but group sessions are also common in inpatient rehab programs. Group therapy is led by a trained individual at Guidance Center - Lynwood Clinic in Compton, CA and consists of members from different stages of recovery.
The goal of group therapy sessions is to foster hope and a sense of belonging, share information, and learn coping mechanisms. It also helps to have people who can relate to what you’re going through. Good behaviors can also be contagious, and participants can learn from one another.
Unresolved trauma is often a key reason why many patients resorted to substance abuse. Trauma could be physical abuse, sexual abuse, war, natural disasters, divorce, accident, loss of a loved one, etc. If trauma is the primary cause of substance abuse, then both issues must be addressed.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) is an improved version of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) DBT is a treatment of choice for people being treated at Guidance Center - Lynwood Clinic whom are suffering from self-harming behaviors. Conditions such as obsessive-compulsive disorder and borderline personality disorder also benefit from DBT.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is an approach and method in psychotherapy. Guidance Center - Lynwood Clinic asks people to investigate how their thoughts, including habitual, negative, and inaccurate ways of thinking affect behaviors. CBT is based on the idea that rigid, inflexible ways of thinking cause people to have a limited ability to cope with stress
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is a form of reliable psychotherapy that treats trauma or injury. Usually, the therapist moves his or her fingers back and forth under a bar of light. The patient undergoes various eye movements and bilateral stimulation (BLS) techniques that place them under REM sleep. This helps the brain remember traumatic incidents.
EMDR reduces the intensity of the traumatic event and makes the patient achieve a state of tranquility. The main goal of EMDR is to treat trauma by identifying problems in the memories and addressing the links connecting traumatic memories. It also helps reduce negative emotions and bodily tensions brought on by suppressed or repressed trauma. The therapist provides solutions that can urge the patient to move forward.
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Location & Contact

901 W Victoria St
Compton, CA 90220
Phone Number
(310) 669-9510
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Compton, California Addiction and Treatment
More than 3 million of California's citizens are addicted to illegal drugs. Almost 800,000 people use hard drugs, almost 5 million use marijuana, and another 2.1 million abuse alcohol every year. Other substance abuse issues such as binge drinking and teen drug use are also common. Many illegal drugs such as cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine, and marijuana are smuggled into the state from Mexico.
Compton, CA, is located in Los Angeles County, which had the highest number of overdose deaths in 2013. Approximately 9.4% of the population in Compton abuses drugs. Additionally, there are 18.7 alcoholics per 1,000 people in Compton. Drug and alcohol abuse costs the city about $100 million each year. There are plenty of resources available to help someone stay sober, and it's important to seek out those resources.
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