Our Services
We offer Dialectical Behavior Therapy and supporting evidence-based treatments via telehealth to adolescents, young adults, and their families across South Carolina.
Evil Plan Productions, LLC is a direct pay private practice. We are happy to provide clients with the appropriate documentation to file for out-of-network insurance benefits.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy
What is DBT
Dialectical Behavior Therapy is an outpatient evidence-based treatment for the treatment of the problems of emotional dysregulation. Evil Plan Productions strives to provide adherent DBT, this isn’t “DBT-informed” treatment.
Who is DBT for
People who have problems regulating their emotions or behavior while really upset. These problems can include thoughts of suicide or self-harm, suicide or self-harm behaviors, impulsivity, difficulty with relationships, outbursts, and lack of sense of self.
Parents wanting or needing additional support for managing behaviors are referred to Rachel Martin (803-814-4411), a local specialist for meeting the challenges of parenting with behavioral solutions.
What Happens in Treatment
1. Individual therapy. Participants meet once a week with their individual therapist to get help applying new skills to everyday life.
2. Skills Group. Adolescents and their parents participate in a class to learn and receive feedback on using new skills to create a Life Worth Living. Young adults participate in an adults-only skills group of their own.
3. Phone Coaching. Participants can call their individual therapist for help using skills anytime during the week. This is not additional therapy time, but a chance to get coaching to be more skillful in the moment.
4. Treatment team. Expert consultation for your therapist. Your individual therapist meets weekly with other DBT therapists to improve their own skills and resolve issues with delivering the treatment.
How Long Does It Take
DBT participants commit to either 24 (young adult) or 26 (adolescent) weeks of treatment at a time. Most DBT participants can expect to spend 12 - 18 months in treatment. Once life-threatening behaviors are under control, clients may benefit from additional treatment for underlying conditions, such as PTSD or OCD. DBT is structured to support the development of a full, rich life while not creating life-long consumers of mental health services.
Additional Treatments
What is PE
Prolonged Exposure (PE) a theoretically-based and highly efficacious treatment for chronic PTSD and related depression, anxiety, and anger.
It has been empirically validated with more than 20 years of research supporting its use. PE is based on basic cognitive-behavioral principals.
What Happens in Treatment
PE is a flexible therapy that can be modified to fit the needs of individual clients. Clients meet weekly with their therapist to help clients process traumatic events and reduce trauma-induced psychological disturbances.
How Long Does It Take
The treatment produces clinically significant improvement in about 80% of patients with chronic PTSD. Clients can expect to be in treatment for up to 20 weeks.
What is MBCT
Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) is an evidence-based group therapy for preventing depressive relapse and treating mood disorders.
It can reduce depression, anxiety, and stress.
Mindfulness is a non-judgmental way of paying attention to the present moment. Cognitive Behavior Therapy is designed to bring awareness to the habitual negative thinking that leads to depressive and anxious spirals.
Combined, MBCT interrupts how we habitually react to situations, so we can choose to respond in more skillful ways.
Who is MBCT for
Individuals experiencing moderate anxiety or depression and people with a history of depression.
What Happens in Treatment
The group meets for two hours a week for eight weeks to learn skills and practices to manage depression, anxiety, and prevent relapse.
A commitment to attendance and home practice activities is required. Participants are strongly encouraged to attend a day-long silent retreat, and it is an optional part of the program.
How Long Does It Take
The group meets for eight (8) weeks. Each meeting is two (2) hours long. MBCT can be repeated as desired.
What is ExRP or ERP
Exposure and Response Prevention is a treatment for the symptoms of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder.
What Happens in Treatment
Clients meet weekly with their therapist to practice being with distressing thoughts and situations, as well as practice engaging with thoughts and situations during the week, over time reducing distress and increasing the client’s ability to go about their day.
How Long Does It Take
Treatment is estimated to last between eight (8) and fifteen (15) weeks.
What is SPACE
SPACE is the only parent-focused treatment offered by Evil Plan Productions. SPACE is designed for supporting the parents of anxious children. It helps adults change their behavior to foster independence in their children while continuing to provide support and care. It isn’t “tough love” or simple “boundaries,” but a systematic approach that validates a parent’s natural urge to care for children and the child’s natural urge to seek help.
Who is SPACE for
Parents of anxious children (of any age).
What Happens in Treatment
Parents learn how to increase supportive communication, analyze the many ways anxiety is in control of the household - perhaps parent, sibling, and whole family functioning, develop appropriate supports and withdraw accommodations that may reduce a child’s anxiety in the moment and only seem to make things worse in the long run.
How Long Does It Take
Parents typically meet with a therapist for 10 - 12 sessions.