At the core of serious mental illness is stressful experiences that create insecure attachments making emotion regulation and social learning challenging. The Monarch Community is an ideal total immersion environment for enhancing emotional intelligence and social cognition in real-time.  Group, individual, and family therapy allow residents to hone skills while learning to feel more connected to others and to better understand themselves. Emotion dysregulation, basic distrust, and impaired interpersonal functioning cuts across many psychiatric conditions including psychotic and paranoid conditions, personality disorders, mood disorders, and anxiety disorders such as PTSD. 

Our attachment-based treatment helps residents establish a safe, secure attachment bond to help in the regulation of emotions, foster social cognition, and cultivate healthy interpersonal relationships. When residents feel safe in trusting the basic intentions of their team and peers, new learning and growth emerge. 

While all treatments are tailored to residents’ specific needs, the overall treatment model is the  integration of medications and Mentalization-Based Therapy (MBT), an evidence-based treatment that enhances healthy mentalizing through co-regulation of emotions and strengthening safe/secure attachment bonds. Restoring mentalizing fosters affect regulation, reduces impulsivity, and promotes functional supportive relationships.