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Health Council - Mental Health Department

Health Council - Mental Health Department

Drug Rehab Center in Oakland, California

  • Mental Health
  • Dual Diagnosis

Health Council - Mental Health Department in Oakland, CA offers addiction treatment and dual-diagnosis services, providing outpatient levels of care to individuals seeking help for addiction while still maintaining their daily responsibilities, and accepting private health insurance.

About This California Facility

Health Council - Mental Health Department is an Addiction Treatment Facility located in Oakland, CA. With a focus on helping individuals suffering from dual diagnosis and mental health issues, Health Council offers a comprehensive approach to addiction recovery. Their facility provides outpatient levels of care, allowing individuals to receive treatment while still maintaining their daily responsibilities. Health Council is affiliated with Ventura County Behavioral Health and accepts private health insurance, making their services accessible to a wide range of individuals seeking help for addiction. With a team of dedicated professionals, Health Council - Mental Health Department is committed to providing the support and treatment necessary for individuals to achieve lasting sobriety.

At Health Council - Mental Health Department, individuals struggling with addiction can expect a variety of services and treatment methods tailored to their specific needs. The facility offers dual-diagnosis treatment, recognizing and addressing the underlying mental health issues that often contribute to substance abuse. Through therapy and counseling sessions, individuals are provided with tools and strategies to manage their mental health while on the path to recovery. Additionally, Health Council offers outpatient levels of care, allowing individuals to attend treatment sessions while still living at home and maintaining their daily responsibilities. This flexible approach provides a supportive environment for individuals to address their addiction and work towards lasting sobriety. Overall, Health Council - Mental Health Department is committed to providing comprehensive and effective treatment for individuals struggling with addiction and mental health issues.

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

    When someone in California struggles with both addiction and mental or emotional illness, this is considered a dual diagnosis. Dual diagnosis treatment can include emotional trauma, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, depression. Getting treatment for these issues must occur at the same time to treat either of them effectively.

    Levels of Care Offered at Health Council - Mental Health Department

    This center offers a variety of custom treatment tailored to individual recovery. Currently available are Dual-Diagnosis, Outpatient, with additional therapies available as listed below.

    Outpatient rehabilitation is a treatment that exists if a patient is not checking into Health Council - Mental Health Department long term. In addition to helping them recover, the patient attends regular therapy sessions and detox and participates in other therapies. However, this is all primarily done from home. As a follow-up to inpatient treatment, outpatient treatment is usually recommended.

    After rehabilitation, it helps people return to their everyday lives. It may also be an alternative to inpatient care in some situations. If they cannot leave their jobs, children, or don’t have the money for inpatient care, people can choose this method. Inpatient therapy, however, is the best method and most suggested level of treatment offered by Health Council - Mental Health Department in recovering from addiction.

    Therapies & Programs

    Individual therapy involves one on one sessions between the patient and the therapist at Health Council - Mental Health Department. Individual therapy provides patients with a safe environment where they can openly discuss their problems with the therapist. The patients find the therapist as a person who they can trust. It helps them to open up and discuss personal and sensitive issues, which they may not be comfortable discussing in a group setting.

    Individual therapy aims to identify the core issues that would have led the patient to substance abuse and address the root cause effectively. The therapist can develop patient-specific customized solutions through individual therapy, which aids speedier recovery.

    Addiction and alcoholism always harm an addict’s relationships with others and none more than relationships with a spouse or partner. Couples therapy is an essential part of restoring trust and good communication to intimate relationships harmed by addiction. Couples therapy by Health Council - Mental Health Department helps repair the damage done to these important relationships.

    Recovery can be more effective if the entire family’s involved. Family therapy hosted by Health Council - Mental Health Department brings in the addict’s family to explore genetic factors. It gives loved ones the tools for dealing with addiction and its underlying mental issues. It is a recommended step in helping addicts adapt to sober living.

    Group therapy is an important tool in recovery. Addiction tends to lead to isolation and feelings of uniqueness. Accountability and friendship that is found in group therapy can be more effective than any single other treatment approach. With Health Council - Mental Health Department in Oakland, California, there’s no reason to go through recovery alone.
    Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, focuses on the connection between how someone feels, acts, and thinks. It shows someone how to accept responsibility for their behaviors and actions, while also strengthening a person’s awareness of the circumstances they put themselves into. It can give people attending Health Council - Mental Health Department in Oakland, California the strength to realize they were self-destructing, allowing them to finally reach out and get the help they need.

    The right diet can improve a person’s general outlook, sleep habits and thought processing skills. MNT also lowers the occurrence of chronic diseases such as adult-onset diabetes. Dieticians like those at Health Council - Mental Health Department in Oakland, CA believe that nutrition therapy is the key to making significant lifestyle changes.  

    Nicotine Replacement Therapy (NRT) uses low dose nicotine products to ween smokers away from cigarettes. The products get nicotine into the bloodstream without smoking reducing addiction to the physical habit. It also allows addicts to adjust to lower doses to reduce withdrawal symptoms.

    Patient Experience

    Experiential Therapy at Health Council - Mental Health Department

    Experiential therapy involves recreating or creating new experiences for the patient. Many people struggled with past issues such as memories or trauma. By creating a new experience, it allows people to work through the issues associated with those moments in a new experience. This can give them a new measure of control and can help them role play a new scenario. That can help push addiction into their past and help them begin the healing process.

    Payment Options Accepted

    For specific insurance or payment methods please contact us.
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  • Medicare
  • Medicaid
  • Military Insurance
  • IHS/Tribunal/Urban
  • State-Financed
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    Additional Details

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    Health Council - Mental Health Department Location and Directions
    Address Information700 Adeline St
    Oakland, California 94607 Phone Number(510) 465-1800 Meta DetailsUpdated November 25, 2023
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    Oakland, 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.

    Drug addiction is a serious problem in Oakland, California. There were over 1,000 drug-related arrests in Oakland in 2016. Additionally, over 9,000 people were admitted to local hospitals for drug abuse in 2016. Drug overdose is the leading cause of death for people under the age of 50 in the city. The most common type of drug treatment in Oakland is an outpatient program.

    Treatment in Nearby Cities
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    17 Embarcadero Cv, Oakland, CA 94606
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    Bay Area Community Services - Towne House Wellness Center
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    3124 International Boulevard, Oakland, CA, 94601


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