Briarcliff Institute For Recovery & Development

Specialties

Our mission is to facilitate and create core significant changes so that the recovery process enhances one’s life. Briarcliff Institute for Recovery and Development (BIRD) offers a unique and highly evolved program that can offer compassionate treatment that is intended to facilitate transformation from pain to joy.

Areas of Specialization:

Father/​Son Relationships

How to Develop and Keep a Balanced Life

How to Raise Self-​Esteem in Teens and Young Adults

Integration of Blended Families (Step, Gay, Recovered, Mental Illness)

Keys to Success in Marital and Couple Relationships

Men’s Issues

Mother/​Daughter Relationships

Presentation of a Complete Program that has Integrated Mind, Body, Spirit

Reconstruction of the Family System

Stress Management Reduction

Team Building

Addiction

We offer Consultation Services that Can be Provided to:

Corporations

Family Run Businesses with Conflicts

Religious Organizations

Schools

Sports and Entertainment Individuals

Universities

History

Established in 2001.

Long Lasting Recovery:

The approach is unique in that our professional staff combines core clinical techniques with additional therapeutic approaches designed to heighten awareness and foster trust. In addition to traditional family systems theory therapy, father-​son, mother-​daughter and mentoring work, we incorporate meditation workshops, restorative yoga, drumming, retreats, psychodrama, grief and rage reduction work and other approaches that enable the participant to experience the power derived by living in the present. The result invariably is a long lasting recovery in which one achieves greater appreciation and joy of one’s life experience.

Meet the Business Owner

Scott G.

Business Owner

He has a graduate degree in Social Work from Fordham University and has taught Family Therapy there. Scott did his post graduate work at the Centre for Family Learning. He began at CFL working in the video department when family therapy was just evolving. Scott had the pleasure of creating videos with masters like Murry Bowen M.D., Ackerman, S. Minuchin M.D. and the founders P. Guerin M.D. and T. Fogarty M.D. He has worked in various therapeutic settings dealing with the mental health and addiction of clients and its impact on the family unit. In oncology, he worked for years at Sing Sing Prison for free helping clients through the intense experience of dying from H.I.V., Hepatitis C, etc. He helped clients and family members transition towards dying. He has worked at outpatient and inpatient centers, receiving advanced training in addictions and mental health. Watching his mother change her life through yoga for sixty years inspired him to get his Yoga Teacher Training in 1984.