Valerie Wood LCSW, LCADC
Valerie Wood LCSW, LCADC operates the Willow Health and Wellness Center LLC in Ramsey, NJ. This center focuses on treating substance abuse, drug addiction, and co-occurring mental health disorders, offering outpatient services and utilizing evidence-based therapies such as CBT, DBT, and REBT.
Valerie Wood, a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and Licensed Clinical Alcohol and Drug Counselor, is recognized for maintaining high standards of care. Willow Health and Wellness Center is accredited by SAMHSA and The Joint Commission, ensuring compliance with industry regulations.
- Specializes in treating individuals with dual diagnoses, addressing both mental health and substance use disorders.
- Provides tailored programs for court-ordered clients, women-only, men-only rehab, and transitional age young adults.
- Extensive experience in treating eating disorders and offering criminal justice system services across multiple states.
- Utilizes various therapeutic approaches, including CBT, DBT, REBT, and motivational interviewing, to support recovery.
Treatment options address substance abuse, drug addiction, and dual diagnoses. Services are tailored for court-ordered clients, women, men, and young adults transitioning to adulthood.
- 1+ Accreditations
- SAMHSA Listed
- 4 Conditions Treated
- 4 Levels of Care
- Speaks English
- 21 Therapies & Programs
Accreditations
SAMHSA
Conditions and Issues Treated
Substance Abuse + Addiction Treatment
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. Valerie Wood LCSW, LCADC patients detox and follow up with therapies that target the underlying cause of the addiction.
Opioid + Opiate Addiction Treatment
Opioid addiction is one of New Jersey‘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. Valerie Wood LCSW, LCADC offers therapies to correct behavior and target the root of the problem are supplemented during and throughout treatment.
Dual-Diagnosis Treatment in Ramsey, NJ
Some of the most common co-occurring disorders are schizophrenia, depression, and bipolar disorder. Most rehab facilities in Ramsey, NJ like Valerie Wood LCSW, LCADC provide patients with a dual diagnosis. Dual diagnosis gives rehab the means to treat addiction while restoring mental and emotional health.
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 rehabilitation is a treatment that exists if a patient is not checking into Valerie Wood LCSW, LCADC 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 Valerie Wood LCSW, LCADC in recovering from addiction.
Valerie Wood LCSW, LCADC‘s Therapies & Programs
Customized individual therapy is counseling involving you and your counselor at Valerie Wood LCSW, LCADC. 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.
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 Valerie Wood LCSW, LCADC in Ramsey, NJ 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.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) is an improved version of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) DBT is a treatment of choice for people being treated at Valerie Wood LCSW, LCADC 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. Valerie Wood LCSW, LCADC 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.
The 12-step program is a part of substance abuse treatment offered at Valerie Wood LCSW, LCADC. It was initially developed by the founders of Alcoholics anonymous. The program provides the benefit of cognitive restructuring. It refers to the process of change in the negative thoughts that leads to long-term benefits.
Some people refer to contingency management, or CM, as motivational incentives. This type of therapy is a reconditioning of the mind and responses of the body. The point of CM is to help the body understand the proper responses to behaviors should be, as well as the effects that come with both problematic and desired behaviors. The more positive choices a person makes, the more incentives they will receive, all managed with sobriety goals by Valerie Wood LCSW, LCADC in Ramsey, NJ.
Payment Options
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Location & Contact
47 N Franklin Tpke
Ramsey, NJ 7446
Phone Number
(201) 694-5300
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Location
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47 N Franklin Tpke
Ramsey, NJ 7446 -
(201) 694-5300
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
Ramsey, New Jersey Addiction and Treatment
The state of New Jersey is afflicted by the rising opioid overdose crisis and the increase in the number of residents engaging in illegal substance abuse. 90% of the 2,900 drug overdose deaths in New Jersey involved opioids in 2018. Over 1.1 million New Jersey residents reportedly use drugs in a given year. High prevalence of drug and alcohol abuse caused 14% of all deaths in the state between 2008 and 2017.
There were more than 100 drug overdoses in Ramsey, New Jersey in 2017. Of those overdoses, more than 70% were attributed to heroin and other opioids. There were also more than 300 drug-related arrests in Ramsey last year. The majority of those arrests were for possession of drugs. Some of the most common treatments in Ramsey, New Jersey, include inpatient rehab, outpatient rehab, 12-step programs, and sober living houses.
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