Sea Mar Community Health Centers - Tacoma
Sea Mar Community Health Centers - Tacoma, founded in 1978, is an addiction treatment facility located in Tacoma, Washington. This center specializes in providing care for individuals suffering from opioid addiction, substance abuse, drug addiction, and mental health issues. Sea Mar Community Health Centers - Tacoma offers a range of treatment services, including aftercare support, drug rehab, intensive outpatient programs, and outpatient levels of care. These various levels of care allow patients to receive the appropriate level of treatment based on their specific needs. Sea Mar Community Health Centers - Tacoma is accredited by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO), which ensures that the facility meets high-quality standards in providing addiction treatment services. Additionally, the center accepts private health insurance, making their services accessible to a wider range of individuals seeking help for their addiction.
Sea Mar Community Health Centers - Tacoma offers a comprehensive array of services to address addiction and substance abuse. Their aftercare support program helps individuals transition back into society after completing their initial treatment. This includes ongoing counseling, support groups, and resources to help patients maintain their sobriety. The drug rehab program at Sea Mar Community Health Centers - Tacoma provides a structured and supportive environment for individuals to overcome their addiction. They offer a range of evidence-based therapies, such as individual counseling, group therapy, and family therapy, to address the underlying causes of addiction and promote long-term recovery. The center also provides intensive outpatient programs, which offer more intensive treatment for individuals who require a higher level of care but do not need 24-hour supervision. Lastly, their outpatient services allow patients to receive ongoing support and treatment while living at home and continuing their daily routine.
- 1+ Accreditations
- 3 Conditions Treated
- Insurance Accepted
- 4 Levels of Care
- Speaks English
- 22 Therapies & Programs
Accreditations
JCAHO
Conditions and Issues Treated
Substance Abuse + Addiction Treatment
Rehab centers in Washington 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 Sea Mar Community Health Centers - Tacoma are here to help.
Opioid + Opiate Addiction Treatment
Opioids are a set of drugs prescribed for pain relief. Opioid addiction for Washington 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 Sea Mar Community Health Centers - Tacoma.
Levels of Care
This center offers a variety of custom treatment tailored to individual recovery. Currently available are Aftercare Support, Drug Rehab, Intensive Outpatient, Outpatient, with additional therapies available as listed below.
Sea Mar Community Health Centers - Tacoma 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 Sea Mar Community Health Centers - Tacoma is personalized according to the needs of the patient in Washington.
Therapies & Programs
Individual therapy refers to one-on-one psychotherapy between a patient and their Sea Mar Community Health Centers - Tacoma 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 Sea Mar Community Health Centers - Tacoma 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 Sea Mar Community Health Centers - Tacoma in Tacoma, WA 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 Sea Mar Community Health Centers - Tacoma in Tacoma, WA 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 Sea Mar Community Health Centers - Tacoma, can be helpful to patients who turn to drugs to escape painful memories.
When it comes to maintaining sobriety, people who quit recovery without developing life skills are disadvantaged. While teaching life skills at Sea Mar Community Health Centers - Tacoma is difficult, support with aftercare helps patients learn these skills over time. Life skills include getting a career, living in a good environment, self-care, and finance management, all in Tacoma, WA.
Patient Experience
Creative Arts
Creative arts therapy helps people in recovery at Sea Mar Community Health Centers - Tacoma 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 Sea Mar Community Health Centers - Tacoma
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 Sea Mar Community Health Centers - Tacoma. 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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Location & Contact
1119 Tacoma Ave S
Tacoma, WA 98402
Phone Number
(253) 246-6820
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Location
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1119 Tacoma Ave S
Tacoma, WA 98402 -
(253) 246-6820
Accepts
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GenderFemale, Male
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AgeAdults (20+), Children (0-12), Teenagers
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ModalityFamily, Group, Individuals
Ownership
Listed May 26, 2020
Updated July 24, 2024
Tacoma, Washington Addiction and Treatment
Washington's substance use, abuse, and addiction rates have followed the trends of the rest of the over the past years. Methamphetamine abuse is the biggest threat to Washington. Heroin-related overdoses increased by almost 450% from 2006 to 2016. 20% of all annual deaths in Washington are somehow drug and/or alcohol-related. Drugs are widely abused in Washington because they are easily trafficked in and out of the state.
Tacoma, situated along the scenic Puget Sound, offers a mild climate perfect for outdoor activities like hiking and cycling. The city boasts a thriving arts scene, with venues like the Pantages Theater and the Museum of Glass. Opioid-related overdoses are the leading cause of accidental death in Pierce County, with fentanyl being the main contributor to the rapid increase in overdose deaths. Pierce County also has a higher rate of alcohol-related deaths per 100 deaths compared to the state average.
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