THE CENTER FOR SUCCESS AND INDEPENDENCE (TCSI) is a residential treatment program in Houston, Texas for adolescents, ages 12-17, whose psychological and emotional disorders, substance abuse and/or history of trauma have impaired their behavioral functioning and adversely impacted their everyday home, school and community environments. We are a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. Clients receive proven adolescent-focused treatment directed at the emotional, cognitive, and social roots of their behavioral issues. We have a proven success rate with youths and teens who complete the program. It is one of the reasons we receive referrals from physicians, hospitals, state agencies, and schools. We are one of only a few free-standing intensive adolescent residential treatment centers in Houston offering a recommended 25 hours of therapy per week. We are also one of the very few residential treatment center in Texas providing a complete Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) treatment program designed specifically for adolescents. DBT is an innovative treatment method developed specifically to treat difficult clients in a way which is optimistic and preserves the morale of the therapist and the client. Research findings suggest DBT is successful in reducing acting-out behavior, self injury, and in-patient treatment time. TCSI specializes in the treatment of teens with dual diagnoses and the implementation of our Dialectical Behavior Therapy
HISTORY TCSI was founded in 1999 by Marylou Erbland, PhD, Robert Woods, MEd and Karl Webster, EdS, to fill an unmet need not only in Houston but throughout Texas. Prior to opening The Center for Success and Independence, their private practice clients had to be referred out of state to receive intensive DBT, dual- diagnosis and other intensive treatments. This was not only a more difficult transition for the client, but it also meant that the family could not be involved in the family therapy sessions that Dr. Erbland, Mr. Woods and Mr. Webster had found to be essential to long- term success and reintegration into home, school and the community. With the creation of TCSI, individual clients and their families along with area physicians, hospitals, schools and state agencies have a place to turn to for recovery and counsel.
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