Where Hope Finds A Home
Restoring hope and health in adults with serious mental illness through comprehensive and enduring care of the mind, body, and spirit. Monarch is a compassionate residential therapeutic community fostering an enhancement of the quality of life.
Who We Treat
Schizophrenia and Psychotic Spectrum Disorders are serious mental illnesses affecting thought processes, emotions, and behavior. Symptoms may include paranoia, severe and unpredictable mood swings, hallucinations, delusions, disorganized thinking, and bizarre behavior. Untreated psychosis results in more severe symptoms, hospitalizations, social problems, and poor health, including a shorter life expectancy. Our
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Treatment-Resistant Bipolar Disorders are complex hereditable illnesses marked by extreme mood swings lasting more than a few days and without a clear external triggering event. Manic phases of the illness present as sleeping very little, feeling energized often with reckless behavior, excessive spending, and hypersexuality. Depressive phases can last months
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Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) is a severe mental illness marked by great difficulty regulating emotions, impulsivity, suicidality and self-harm, impairment in relationship functioning and social cognition (reading people and their intentions accurately). In more serious cases, it is common for individuals to have multiple psychiatric diagnosis. Fortunately, there are several
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Treatment-Resistant Depression (TRD) is a special class of depressive disorders that do not respond to medications or therapy alone. When depression persists despite normal treatment, those suffering become disillusioned and may blame themselves for lack of response. Suicidal ideation and substance use are all too common responses to such suffering
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Treatment-Resistant Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder does not respond quickly to evidence-based treatment approaches such as exposure and response prevention (ERP). The intensity of exposures in briefer treatment programs can be overwhelming and cause increases in anxiety, obsessional thoughts, and compulsive behaviors in some individuals. Monarch’s slower-paced approach allows individuals to modulate exposures
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Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder is a persistent condition of autonomic hyperarousal following traumatic event(s) and may last months or years. Sounds, smells, images, memories, and associations with traumatic events can trigger severe flashbacks, nightmares, and frightening memories of the trauma. Avoidance of situations that bring back memories of traumatic events, hypervigilance,
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Treatment-Resistant Anxiety Spectrum Disorders develop when symptoms persist despite evidence-based medication and therapy. Multimodal treatments are needed including higher doses of medications, augmentation strategies, neurostimulation, and intensive psychotherapies, and behavioral activation (exercise, social activity, work, and volunteerism). Our coordinated specialty care program, and affiliation with Houston Methodist Hospital’s psychiatry department allows
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Suicidal Ideation and Self-Harm cuts across many psychiatric disorders and can be both dangerous and frightening for families and loved ones. While there are several effective psychotherapy modalities, Monarch’s mentalization-based approach restores physical and emotional safety by creating a sense of interpersonal safety in the community, staff help with co-regulating
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Co-Occurring Substance Use Disorders are present in many adults who have struggled for years with mental illness. Monarch encourages complete abstinence and supports AA/NA, Smart Recovery, and Refuge Recovery meetings, and utilizes licensed chemical dependency counselors to augment our treatment. Utilization of anti-craving medications can help residents fight urges to
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The Monarch Community is a voluntary residential treatment center in the heart of Houston’s Montrose neighborhood specializing in the treatment of adults with long-standing complex psychiatric illness.