First Step Counseling

Types of Care:

• substance use treatment
• dual diagnosis treatment for co-occurring serious mental health illness/serious emotional disturbance and substance use disorders

Service Settings:

• outpatient treatment
• regular outpatient treatment

External Opioid Medications Source:

• Personal physician/health care provider

Type of Alcohol Use Disorder Treatment:

• Accepts clients using medication assisted treatment for alcohol use disorder but prescribed elsewhere

External Source of Medications Used for Alcohol Use Disorder Treatment:

• Personal physician/health care provider

Treatment Approaches:

• anger management
• brief intervention
• cognitive behavioral therapy
• motivational incentives
• dialectical behavior therapy
• motivational interviewing
• relapse prevention
• substance use counseling approach
• trauma counseling
• 12-step rehab

Facility Ownership:

• a private for-profit organization

Payment/Insurance/Funding Accepted:

• Military insurance
• Private health insurance
• Cash or self-payment

Payment Assistance Available:

• Sliding fee scale

Special Programs/ Population Groups Supported:

• teenagers
• transitional-age young adults
• adult women
• pregnant and postpartum women
• adult men
• seniors and older adults
• LGBT
• veterans
• active duty military
• military families
• judicial clients
• dual diagnosis treatment
• people with HIV or AIDS
• sexual abuse victims
• domestic violence victims
• people with trauma
• people with co-occurring pain and substance use

Assessment/Pre-treatment:

• Comprehensive substance use assessment
• Outreach to persons in the community

Screening & Testing:

• Breathalyzer or blood alcohol testing
• Drug or alcohol urine screening
• Screening for mental disorders
• Screening for substance use

Transitional Services:

• Aftercare/continuing care
• Discharge Planning

Ancillary Services:

• Case management
• Domestic violence services
• Mental health services
• Social skills development
• Professional interventionist/Educational consultants

Other Addictions Treatment:

• Treatment for non-substance use addiction disorder
• Treatment for gambling disorder
• Treatment for internet use disorder

Counseling Services and Education:

• individual counseling
• group counseling
• family counseling
• marital/couples counseling
• substance use education
• hepatitis education, counseling and support
• HIV and AIDS education, counseling and support

Tobacco/Screening Services:

• Smoking/tobacco cessation counseling

Facility Smoking Policy:

• Smoking permitted in designated area

Age Groups Accepted:

• adults
• children / teenagers

Gender Accepted:

• women
• men

Exclusive Services:

• Specially designed program for DUI/DWI clients

Additional Spoken Languages:

• Spanish