Alternative Options Counseling Center
Drug Rehab Center in Cerritos, California
Alternative Options Counseling Center is a CARF-accredited addiction treatment facility in Cerritos, CA that offers a comprehensive range of evidence-based treatments, medication management options, counseling sessions, and aftercare services to help individuals struggling with substance use, mental health issues, dual diagnosis, and more achieve long-term sobriety.
About This California Facility
Alternative Options Counseling Center, located in Cerritos, California, offers comprehensive alcohol and drug rehab services, mental health treatment, dual diagnosis care, eating disorder support, and trauma-informed therapy for men and women. Utilizing a clinical and holistic approach, their programs are designed to address a wide range of life challenges.
• Partial Hospitalization Program (PHP): Provides a high level of supervision within an outpatient setting, offering individual, group, family, and couples therapy five days a week.
• Intensive Outpatient Program (IOP): Meets three times per week for several hours, engaging clients in therapy, groups, and skills classes.
• Aftercare and Outpatient Services: Available for clients who have completed the PHP or IOP programs, ensuring a smooth transition and continued support.
Accredited by the Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities (CARF), Alternative Options Counseling Center meets the highest standards of safety, quality of care, and respect for patients' rights. They accept most insurance plans, including Amerigroup, Anthem, Blue Cross Blue Shield, TRICARE, and HCSC, although out-of-network benefits may vary.
The experienced staff at Alternative Options Counseling Center treats a variety of addictions and mental health issues, such as substance abuse, alcoholism, opioid addiction, and dual diagnosis. They employ evidence-based practices, including Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavioral Therapy, and individual and group therapy, to provide personalized, culturally competent care.
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The Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities (CARF) is a non-profit organization that specifically accredits rehab organizations. Founded in 1966, CARF's, mission is to help service providers like rehab facilities maintain high standards of care.
Conditions and Issues Treated
Rehab centers in California exist to help individuals bounce back from substance abuse. Drug addiction refers to the use of illegal drugs and improper use of prescription drugs. Substance abuse includes all problems that stem out from using psychoactive substances. Centers like Alternative Options Counseling Center are here to help.
Opioids are a set of drugs prescribed for pain relief. Opioid addiction for California residents refers to the compulsive seeking of opioids, even when they are not required medically. Treatment involves medication-assisted therapy in which medicines, counseling, and behavioral therapies are all utilized at Alternative Options Counseling Center.
A dual-diagnosis describes two medical issues that are happening at the same time. They may or may not be related. Over 50% of people with an addiction in California have another mental health condition. Screening for both addiction and any untreated mental health issue is essential, and individually managed by Alternative Options Counseling Center.
Levels of Care Offered at Alternative Options Counseling Center
This center offers a variety of custom treatment tailored to individual recovery. Currently available are Aftercare Support, Dual-Diagnosis, Intensive Outpatient, Outpatient, with additional therapies available as listed below.
Alternative Options Counseling Center offers an Intensive Outpatient Program is for those who need intensive care but prefer to spend the majority of their time in the comfort of their own home. The rehabilitation services differ in length and intensity. They are customized to meet the needs of the patient.
Aftercare support refers to the follow-up care provided after the initial rehab program. The quality of aftercare support plays an important role in preventing relapses and sustains recovery. Aftercare support at Alternative Options Counseling Center is personalized according to the needs of the patient in California.
Therapies & Programs
Individual therapy refers to one-on-one psychotherapy between a patient and their Alternative Options Counseling Center therapist. Individual therapy seeks to help identify the issues that drive and contribute to a client’s addiction or alcoholism. Another goal of individual counseling is to assist the client to learn how to manage their lives without alcohol or drugs.
Group therapy occurs in a group setting as opposed to a one on one setting. It benefits patients by providing a feeling of support and letting them know they are not alone. Patients at Alternative Options Counseling Center also learn to build trust and understanding and gain perspective through discussions.
After experiencing trauma, it’s crucial to look for a facility that can provide trauma therapy. This approach zeroes in on the traumatic incidents that a patient has encountered in the past, recent or not. It’s been widely known that trauma can make an individual resort to alcohol or other substances to mask their troubles and pain. Trauma can originate from domestic violence, sexual abuse, an early encounter with death, sexual assault, and many more. The goal of trauma therapy at Alternative Options Counseling Center in Cerritos, CA is to help the patient see beyond the trauma and move forward. Mental health professionals will facilitate the patient’s journey and see to it that he or she is no longer a victim of his or her traumatic experiences and has wholly regained his or her personal power.
DBT, also known as dialectical behavior therapy, is a form of cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) that helps people understand how their thoughts, behaviors, and feelings all connect. This can give them more control over their actions, effectively stopping self-harm ideations and attempts in some patients. It can also help put people in control over some mental struggles, like borderline personality disorder.
Most individuals suffering from addiction have low self-awareness, so they end up making poor decisions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is suitable for patients recovering from an addiction of any kind. Through it, patients become more aligned with their thoughts, emotions, and behaviors, giving them a better opportunity to respond appropriately to temptations and negative feelings.
This therapy modality at Alternative Options Counseling Center in Cerritos, CA strengthens a person’s ability to stay on top of their emotional state and learn new stress management techniques so they won’t give in to the temptations easily. Moreover, CBT helps people communicate and express their emotions well, which can be vital in relapse management. CBT is also suitable for managing co-occurring disorders like depression and bipolar illness.
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is designed to help patients process trauma. During the therapy, patients follow a bar of light or watch their therapist’s finger move back and forth. This mimics the eye movements of REM sleep. These are the same movements that allow the brain to reprocess memories. When traumatic memories are reprocessed, it reduces the impact they have on emotions. This treatment, offered by Alternative Options Counseling Center, can be helpful to patients who turn to drugs to escape painful memories.
Nutrition Therapy, or Medical Nutrition Therapy (MNT), focuses on improving a patient’s mental and physical health through diet. A diet that is low in certain nutrients can lead to emotions that can trigger addiction or relapse. Alternative Options Counseling Center‘s Nutritional therapy promotes healthy eating to heal the body and prevent addictive behavior.
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Creative Arts
Creative arts therapy helps people in recovery at Alternative Options Counseling Center explore feelings and emotions in a safe environment. Journaling, music, and visual arts, among many others, can help people express themselves in new ways. The goal of creative arts therapy is not an end-product; rather, the process of creating art itself is therapeutic.
Experiential Therapy at Alternative Options Counseling Center
Experiential therapy is a non-traditional treatment that uses physical activities to help work through troubling emotions. Role-playing, use of props, and re-enactments are just a few common techniques in experiential therapy at Alternative Options Counseling Center. Its goal is to help people work with troubling emotions, memories, and trauma that are the source of their psychological issues
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Cerritos, California 90703 Phone Number(562) 921-5701 Meta DetailsUpdated April 15, 2024
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17326 Edwards Rd
Cerritos, CA 90703
(562) 921-5701
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Cerritos, California Addiction Information
More than 3 million of California's citizens are addicted to illegal drugs. Almost 800,000 people use hard drugs, almost 5 million use marijuana, and another 2.1 million abuse alcohol every year. Other substance abuse issues such as binge drinking and teen drug use are also common. Many illegal drugs such as cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine, and marijuana are smuggled into the state from Mexico.
Cerritos, California has some of the highest rates of heroin and cocaine use in the state. 19% of DUI arrests in Cerritos involve drugs. 53% of drug users started using drugs before the age of 18. Most residents who abuse drugs are between the ages of 18 and 34. Cerritos, California also offers detoxification programs to help individuals safely and effectively remove drugs and alcohol from their systems.
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