Middle Peninsula Northern Neck - Gloucester
Middle Peninsula Northern Neck - Gloucester, located in Gloucester, VA, focuses on mental health, substance abuse, and developmental services. Providing evidence-based treatments like cognitive behavioral therapy and motivational interviewing, they cater to individuals across all age groups in the Middle Peninsula and Northern Neck regions.
As part of their mission, they aim to offer comprehensive behavioral health services that foster recovery and enhance the quality of life for individuals struggling with substance use and mental health disorders.
- Outpatient Treatment Programs: Offers individual, group, and family counseling services.
- Medication Management: Provides medication-assisted treatment for opioid addiction.
- Dual Diagnosis Treatment: Treats co-occurring mental health and substance use disorders.
- Crisis Intervention Services: Offers immediate psychiatric care for acute mental health needs.
They treat issues including alcohol and drug addiction, and people struggling with co-occurring disorders. Services cater to adolescents, adults, and seniors.
- 3 Conditions Treated
- Insurance Accepted
- 4 Levels of Care
- Speaks English
- 11 Therapies & Programs
Conditions and Issues Treated
Opioid + Opiate Addiction Treatment
Opioid addiction involves addiction to legal or illegal opioids. It may happen very quickly with any opioid use. Sometimes within a matter of days. Opioid addiction is a known as a high-risk factor for future heroin addiction.
Opioid withdrawal can be extremely uncomfortable and lead the user to continue to use even if they want to quit. Stopping using an opioid requires careful medical observation. Sometimes the withdrawal can persist for many weeks, which can put the user at a high risk for relapse.
It is recommended to receive inpatient treatment and a medically supervised detox like those offered at Middle Peninsula Northern Neck - Gloucester in Gloucester, VA, VA, to manage the withdrawal process while learning lasting tools to maintain recovery. In some circumstances medications can be used to manage opioid addiction.
Dual-Diagnosis Treatment in Gloucester, VA
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 Virginia 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
This center offers a variety of custom treatment tailored to individual recovery. Currently available are Aftercare Support, Drug Rehab, Dual-Diagnosis, Outpatient, with additional therapies available as listed below.
Outpatient treatment can be considered the lowest intensity level of addiction treatment in Gloucester, VA. It is ideal for early phase addiction or lower intensity addictions. Middle Peninsula Northern Neck - Gloucester 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 Middle Peninsula Northern Neck - Gloucester is designed to give resources and help on a continued basis. It can involve finding housing in and around Virginia, setting up 12-step meeting groups, continued medical monitoring, and counseling.
Middle Peninsula Northern Neck - Gloucester‘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 Middle Peninsula Northern Neck - Gloucester in a controlled group environment, as opposed to a one-on-one setting. It supports Gloucester, VA 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 Middle Peninsula Northern Neck - Gloucester 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.
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Location & Contact
9228 George Washington Memorial Hwy
Gloucester, VA 23061
Phone Number
(804) 693-5057
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Location
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9228 George Washington Memorial Hwy
Gloucester, VA 23061 -
(804) 693-5057
Accepts
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GenderFemale, Male
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AgeAdults (20+), Children (0-12), Seniors (65+), Teenagers
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ModalityCouples, Family, Group, Individuals
Listed July 26, 2021
Updated July 25, 2024
Gloucester, Virginia Addiction and Treatment
The state of Virginia has been struggling with substance use and abuse like the rest of the United States. A little over 10% of the entire Virginia population uses drugs and almost 5% abuse alcohol every given year. This has led to almost 6.5% of all deaths in Virginia being somehow related to alcohol and/or drugs.
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