Interborough Counseling Center - Crown Heights
Drug Rehab Center in Brooklyn, New York
Interborough Counseling Center - Crown Heights is a specialized addiction treatment facility in Brooklyn, NY providing comprehensive dual-diagnosis, outpatient and aftercare programs that utilize evidence-based treatments combined with personalized recovery plans to help individuals struggling with substance abuse, alcoholism, mental health issues and dual diagnosis reach sobriety.
About This Brooklyn, NY Facility
Interborough Counseling Center - Crown Heights is an Addiction Treatment Facility located in Brooklyn, NY. This center caters to individuals who are seeking help for their substance abuse issues, alcoholism, and drug addiction. They also provide support for those with mental health conditions and offer treatment for individuals with a dual diagnosis. Interborough Counseling Center - Crown Heights understands the importance of personalized care, which is why they offer various levels of care including dual-diagnosis treatment, outpatient programs, and aftercare support. This facility is affiliated with Interborough Counseling Center and accepts private health insurance, making it more accessible for individuals seeking treatment.
At Interborough Counseling Center - Crown Heights, individuals struggling with addiction can expect to receive comprehensive and effective treatment. The center utilizes evidence-based treatment methods to address substance abuse and mental health issues. They offer dual-diagnosis treatment, which focuses on treating both the addiction and any underlying mental health conditions simultaneously. This approach helps individuals to achieve lasting recovery and improve overall well-being. Additionally, the center provides outpatient programs, allowing individuals to receive treatment while still maintaining their daily responsibilities. Aftercare support is also available, ensuring that individuals have the necessary resources and support system in place even after completing the program. With a commitment to personalized care and a range of treatment options, Interborough Counseling Center - Crown Heights is dedicated to helping individuals overcome addiction and achieve lasting recovery.
Genders
Ages
Modality
Additional
Conditions and Issues Treated
Rehab centers exist in Brooklyn, NY to help individuals bounce back from substance abuse, which is an umbrella term for drug and alcohol addiction. Drug addiction refers to the use of illegal drugs and improper use of prescription drugs. Centers like Interborough Counseling Center - Crown Heights provide individuals a chance to access individual and group therapy that can be monumental for recovery.
Substance abuse includes all problems that stem out from using various psychoactive substances. It is also a diagnostic term used by Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV) to define the mental and physical impairment or distress caused by misuse and overuse of certain substances in a period of 12 months.
People with dual diagnosis have coexisting addiction and a mental disorder. 9.2 million US adults had a co-occurring disorder in 2018, so not just limited to New York residents. Best treatment combines medication, psychotherapy (talk therapy), support group, and inpatient rehabilitation. Sometimes, complementary therapies – yoga, massage, and acupuncture – may also be used.
Levels of Care Offered
This center offers a variety of custom treatment tailored to individual recovery. Currently available are Aftercare Support, Dual-Diagnosis, Outpatient, with additional therapies available as listed below.
Outpatient treatment can be considered the lowest intensity level of addiction treatment in Brooklyn, NY. It is ideal for early phase addiction or lower intensity addictions. Interborough Counseling Center - Crown Heights peer group support, 12-step programs, and individual counseling may still be involved.
After treatment, addiction treatment can be frightening for newly sober people. Aftercare support provided by Interborough Counseling Center - Crown Heights is designed to give resources and help on a continued basis. It can involve finding housing in and around New York, setting up 12-step meeting groups, continued medical monitoring, and counseling.
Interborough Counseling Center - Crown Heights‘s Therapies & Programs
Individual therapy aims to identify the core issues that would have led the patient to substance abuse and address the root cause effectively. 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.
Couples therapy is an approach wherein the patients and their partners are engaged together as a part of the treatment process. When a person becomes a victim of substance abuse, it affects the patient and the people around him, particularly his partner. Their relationship can become strained due to lack of communication, financial issues, loss of trust, lack of intimacy, and physical abuse in more severe cases.
Couples therapy addresses these issues and tries to rebuild the trust between the partners. The partner’s involvement in the process will result in greater chances of treatment success and sustained recovery.
Family therapy is a set of therapeutic approaches that assumes that the entire family is a system. It utilizes the strengths and resources of the family to help the patient refrain from resorting to substance abuse. It helps to repair relationships and improve communication between family members.
Group therapy happens at Interborough Counseling Center - Crown Heights in a controlled group environment, as opposed to a one-on-one setting. It supports Brooklyn, NY patients’ recovery by offering a sense of comfort and letting them know that they are not alone. Through shared conversations, patients also learn to develop faith and understanding and gain insight on their addictions.
Unresolved trauma is often a key reason why many patients resorted to substance abuse. Trauma therapy refers to treatment wherein specialist therapists help the patients to resolve the trauma that led the patients to substance abuse. The trauma could be physical abuse, sexual abuse, war, natural disasters, divorce, accident, loss of a loved one, etc. Thinking of these traumatic events causes emotional disturbances like anxiety, depression and results in addiction. If trauma is the primary cause of substance abuse, then both issues must be addressed. Otherwise, there is a risk of relapse. Trauma therapy also improves the cognitive functions and provides long term benefits.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) is an improved version of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT). DBT is a treatment of choice for people suffering from self-harming behaviors characterized by cutting and suicidal thoughts or inclinations.
This treatment is developed to help individuals recognize their thought patterns, behaviors, and feelings. It has demonstrated its effectiveness for people that are finding it difficult to control their emotions and urges. Conditions such as obsessive-compulsive disorder and borderline personality disorder also benefit from DBT as it imparts individuals stress-management techniques and enhanced self-esteem so they can sustain their sobriety by reducing the impact of triggers and out-of-control emotions.
Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is a way of addressing concerns through talking. It can be used in individual counseling sessions. Talking through issues with professionals at Interborough Counseling Center - Crown Heights can identify sources of discomfort or unhealthy thoughts. It is a way of learning about yourself and your individual perceptions. CBT is a healthy way of addressing some behaviors which may be bringing unintended consequences in your life.
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is designed to support patients in treating trauma. Patients follow a bar of light throughout the session or watch their therapist’s finger travel back and forth. All this imitates the eye movements of REM sleep. These are the same movements that enable memories to be reprocessed by the brain. This reduces the impact and reprocesses traumatic memories have individuals, reducing the desire to shelter or escape by abusing substances.
Patient Experience
Experiential Therapy at Interborough Counseling Center - Crown Heights
Experiential therapy works on the principle that the perception of individuals determines their behavior. It is different from medication and talk therapy and suits those who have difficulty in expressing themselves and interact. Experiential therapy works by using tools and activities to recreate past experiences and encourages the release of suppressed thoughts that were responsible for the negative feelings and drug addiction.
Role-playing, arts and crafts, music, animal care, rock climbing, etc. are some of the activities used in this therapy. Gradually the individual will experience calmness and love and change their perception positively. Other than drug addiction, Experiential therapy is useful in various behavioral and eating disorders.
Payment Options Accepted
For specific insurance or payment methods please contact us.
Is your insurance accepted?
Ask an expert, call (888) 674-0062
Interborough Counseling Center Associated Centers
Discover treatment facilities under the same provider.
- Interborough Counseling Center - Kings Highway in Brooklyn, NY
- Interborough Counseling Center - Canarsie in Brooklyn, NY
- Interborough Counseling Center - Williamsburg in Brooklyn, NY
Learn More About Interborough Counseling Center Centers
Additional Details
Specifics, location, and helpful extra information.
Brooklyn, New York 11203 Phone Number(718) 778-0485 Meta DetailsUpdated November 25, 2023
Staff Verified
Patient Reviews
There are no reviews yet. Be the first one to write one.
Location
921 E New York Ave
Brooklyn, NY 11203
(718) 778-0485
Interborough Counseling Center
Language
Quick Reference
Brooklyn, New York Addiction Information
More than 2 million New Yorkers are currently suffering from some type of substance abuse and many of those are minors. Alcohol abuse, in particular, is prevalent among those underage. As a result of the high prices and regulation of prescription drugs, many New Yorkers turn to heroin instead. This has led to a serious heroin epidemic in the state.
Brooklyn has a hospitalization rate for drug overdoses nearly double the New York City average. In 2012, there were 1,814 admissions to drug treatment centers in Brooklyn, which accounted for 6.8% of all admissions in NYC. Over 3 million emergency room visits were related to drug misuse in 2016. Some of the most common treatments include inpatient rehabilitation, outpatient rehabilitation, 12-step programs, and detoxification.
Treatment in Nearby Cities
- Saratoga Springs, NY (167.6 mi.)
- Oneonta, NY (136.9 mi.)
- Red Hook, NY (92.2 mi.)
- Corning, NY (191.6 mi.)
- Hartsdale, NY (25.6 mi.)
Centers near Interborough Counseling Center - Crown Heights
The facility name, logo and brand are the property and registered trademarks of Interborough Counseling Center - Crown Heights, and are being used for identification and informational purposes only. Use of these names, logos and brands shall not imply endorsement. RehabNow.org is not affiliated with or sponsored by Interborough Counseling Center - Crown Heights.