Counseling Services
Center for Alternatives to Domestic Violence (CADV)
The Center for Alternatives to Domestic Violence is a counseling center in San Luis Obispo that provides services to all people affected by domestic violence. This is a service of the Women’s Shelter Program of San Luis Obispo County. Please call (805)473-6507 for information about our programs or to schedule an appointment.
The Center provides counseling to educate and heal those perpetrating and those impacted by intimate partner violence (women, men, teens and children). It also provides counseling groups for survivors and children, as well as play therapy for children. Counseling is also available for partners in gay and lesbian relationships. Art as a healing tool is also available in both individual and group formats.
The requirements for acceptance and participation in the program are the same for everyone regardless of race, color, national origin, sexual orientation, age, gender, disability, belief systems, or spiritual-based practices and are based on program requirements and funding guidelines. A sliding-scale fee is available for individuals who are dealing with issues of unresolved anger, controlling behavior, and verbal aggression as a result of Intimate Partner Violence (IPV).
Individual Counseling for Intimate Partner Violence
Individually scheduled appointments for women, children, and men who have been impacted by domestic violence and/or IPV.
Groups for Intimate Partner Violence
- Groups for children affected by IPV
- Groups for teens affected by IPV
- Support groups for women affected by IPV, including Spanish-speakers
- Pattern changing groups for women- this 15 week group helps women learn to recognize old patterns and make new, healthy choices
Please call (805)473-6507 for dates and locations of groups and information on counseling services. We are also at various school sites throughout the county to provide individual counseling for children and teens.
South County Counseling Services
The Center for Alternatives to Domestic Violence has a location in south San Luis Obispo County as well as in the city of San Luis Obispo. CADV South is located in Grover Beach. Counseling and related services are offered to those affected by domestic violence and intimate partner violence. Group and individual counseling is offered to educate and heal those perpetrating and impacted by IPV. Sliding-scale fees based on ability to pay are available for individuals who are dealing with issues of unresolved anger, controlling behavior, and verbal aggression related to IPV.
Please call (805)473-6507 for information or to schedule an appointment.
Why the WSP does not provide couples counseling:
The following information is adapted from Turning Point Services
Your partner may try to get you to go to couples counseling, telling you that you and he need to work on this together. He may encourage you to go to pastoral counseling with him. If he has done this, he is refusing to take full responsibility for his abusive behavior. He may be manipulating you into staying with him by taking this approach. His abusive behavior is not likely to stop unless he acknowledges that you are in no way responsible and that he has a problem that he needs to seek help for regardless of whether you stay with him or not.
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