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Gandara Mental Health Center

Drug Rehab Center in Springfield, Massachusetts

  • Substance Abuse
  • Opioid Addiction
  • Mental Health
  • Drug Addiction
  • Alcoholism

Gandara Mental Health Center's drug rehab program offers comprehensive services, including aftercare support and specialized detox, to help individuals achieve long-term sobriety through evidence-based therapeutic techniques and accepts private health insurance plans.

About This Springfield, MA Facility

Gandara Mental Health Center, located in Springfield, Massachusetts, is a comprehensive behavioral health center that provides a wide range of services to meet the needs of those struggling with addiction and mental health issues. This mental health center offers outpatient, residential, and community-based services to adults and adolescents, which are tailored to each individual’s specific needs and circumstances. Their team of dedicated, experienced professionals is committed to providing evidence-based treatment and support so that individuals can achieve a successful recovery.

At Gandara Mental Health Center, individuals can receive specialized care for addiction and substance abuse. Their treatment approach focuses on the physical, emotional, and spiritual aspects of recovery, and includes individual, group, and family counseling, psychotherapy, and medication management. In addition, the center offers support groups and educational workshops to help individuals learn essential skills for lasting recovery. There are also programs available that focus on relapse prevention, grief and trauma counseling, and dual diagnosis.

Gandara Mental Health Center is a CARF-accredited organization that has been providing quality behavioral health care services to the community since 1969. They are dedicated to delivering the highest level of care and are committed to evidence-based best practices. The center is also a proud recipient of the 2020 Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration’s Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Block Award for its excellent services in the field. In addition, the center has received numerous awards for their innovative and comprehensive services for individuals and families affected by addiction.

Genders
  • Male
  • Female
  • Gender Exclusive Center
  • Ages
  • Children
  • Teenagers
  • Adults
  • Seniors (65+)
  • Modality
  • Individuals
  • Couples
  • Family
  • Groups
  • Additional
  • LGBTQ+ Allied
  • Hearing Impaired
  • Veteran Specific
  • Additional Languages
  • Conditions and Issues Treated

    Substance abuse is the excessive use of any type of drug. This includes alcohol, medications and illegal drugs. Substance abuse is treated with a combination of physical and mental treatments. Gandara Mental Health Center patients detox and follow up with therapies that target the underlying cause of the addiction.

    Opioid addiction is one of Massachusetts‘s most prominent forms of addiction. Drugs, including heroin, oxycontin, and fentanyl, are the most common. To relieve pain, or ease other ailments, they are professionally prescribed, but they are often abused because they and the feelings they give are addictive.

    Addiction is treated by detoxifying the body, so the medications’ chemicals are no longer impacting the individual. Gandara Mental Health Center offers therapies to correct behavior and target the root of the problem are supplemented during and throughout treatment.

    Levels of Care Offered

    This center offers a variety of custom treatment tailored to individual recovery. Currently available are Aftercare Support, Detox, Drug Rehab, Intensive Outpatient, Outpatient, with additional therapies available as listed below.

    Detoxification is the mainstay of drug addiction treatment. Recovery from drug addiction requires regular medical monitoring, temporary medication use, and other techniques.

    If you or someone you know has a substance abuse problem in Springfield provide various methods for drug and alcohol rehabilitation.

    Intensive Outpatient Programs (IOPs) are treatment programs suitable for people who wish to stay at home while undergoing treatment. IOPs like Gandara Mental Health Center make it possible for individuals to carry on with their responsibilities at work or school, in or near Springfield, MA. It’s easy to find an IOP center that offers individualized treatment protocols.

    In outpatient programs at Gandara Mental Health Center, the Springfield resident can live with their family while continuing with their job or studies. Treatment includes educating the patient on drug abuse, medications, and counseling sessions at the individual or group level.

    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 Gandara Mental Health Center is personalized according to the needs of the patient in Massachusetts.

    Gandara Mental Health Center‘s Therapies & Programs

    Addiction in Springfield, Massachusetts can occur due to a wide variety of reasons. Understanding your addiction and the best methods for maintaining sobriety involves learning about yourself. Gandara Mental Health Center treatment programs include individual therapy for the greatest chances of success.

    Customized individual therapy is counseling involving you and your counselor at Gandara Mental Health Center. This builds a personal and trusting relationship so you can truly be yourself and express any emotions as you feel them. Individual therapy leads to greater peace and understanding about your triggers for addiction and coping strategies to prevent relapse.

    Substance abuse does a number on an individual’s relationship with other people, particularly in marriage. Spousal relationships bear the brunt of alcohol and drug dependence. Therefore, it becomes critical to submit the relationship to couples therapy to prevent straining it further. Most programs only zero in on the individual with substance addiction without factoring in the importance of the other half’s emotional support.

    However, some facilities, like Gandara Mental Health Center in Springfield, Massachusetts, offer couples therapy options to manage intimate partnerships amid the recovery process. Other couples-focused treatment plans can provide the patient and their partner tools to get things back to normal, support each other, and the patient’s sobriety.
    Addiction is a family disease. Family therapy aims to heal and rebalance unhealthy roles and habits. Healing any family trauma and dysfunctional communications is important, and Gandara Mental Health Center understands this. Family sessions are meant to bring Massachusetts families closer together and live sober, healthy, lives.

    Group Therapy is a type of counseling that occurs between a bunch of strangers. These groups are suitable for patients who are not confined in a treatment facility, but group sessions are also common in inpatient rehab programs. Group therapy is led by a trained individual at Gandara Mental Health Center in Springfield, MA and consists of members from different stages of recovery.

    The goal of group therapy sessions is to foster hope and a sense of belonging, share information, and learn coping mechanisms. It also helps to have people who can relate to what you’re going through. Good behaviors can also be contagious, and participants can learn from one another.

    Unresolved trauma is often a key reason why many patients resorted to substance abuse. Trauma could be physical abuse, sexual abuse, war, natural disasters, divorce, accident, loss of a loved one, etc. If trauma is the primary cause of substance abuse, then both issues must be addressed.

    Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) is an improved version of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) DBT is a treatment of choice for people being treated at Gandara Mental Health Center whom are suffering from self-harming behaviors. Conditions such as obsessive-compulsive disorder and borderline personality disorder also benefit from DBT.

    Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is an approach and method in psychotherapy. Gandara Mental Health Center asks people to investigate how their thoughts, including habitual, negative, and inaccurate ways of thinking affect behaviors. CBT is based on the idea that rigid, inflexible ways of thinking cause people to have a limited ability to cope with stress

    Rational Emotional Behavior Therapy (REBT) is a method of specific counseling that replaces negative and self-limiting thoughts with positive and productive behaviors. Self-defeating thoughts and habits can limit your possible successes. Some examples of this are procrastination, unhealthy eating and angry outbursts. You may not be aware that some unhealthy behaviors and thoughts are sabotaging your potential accomplishments.

    In the midst of an addiction certain healthy habits and behaviors can be forgotten or discarded altogether. While in treatment you will learn life skills that will help you successfully maintain sobriety in Massachusetts.

    Payment Options Accepted

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  • Self-Pay / Cash
  • Medicare
  • Medicaid
  • Military Insurance
  • IHS/Tribunal/Urban
  • State-Financed
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    Additional Details

    Specifics, location, and helpful extra information.
    Gandara Mental Health Center Location and Directions
    Address Information85 Saint George Road
    Springfield, Massachusetts 01104 Phone Number413-732-2120 x210 Meta DetailsUpdated November 25, 2023
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    Springfield, Massachusetts Addiction Information

    Massachusetts has one of the highest rates of drug abuse in the country. More than half a million Massachusetts residents abuse alcohol while more than 1.5 million use illegal drugs each year. This drug and alcohol usage is the cause of over 8% of all deaths in the state. In 2017, Massachusetts ranked in the top 10 of the states with the highest opioid overdose rates.

    In Springfield, MA, there were 607 opioid-related overdose deaths in 2016. That's a rate of 24.8 per 100,000 people, which is more than three times the national average. Opioids remain the main driver of drug overdose deaths. Inpatient rehab programs in Springfield, MA, consist of a schedule of rigorous physical exercise and a strict drug and alcohol-free lifestyle for the duration of the stay.

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