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Virginia Beach Psychiatric Center

Virginia Beach Psychiatric Center

Drug Rehab Center in Virginia Beach, Virginia

  • Opioid Addiction
  • Dual Diagnosis
  • Drug Addiction
  • Alcoholism

Virginia Beach Psychiatric Center offers psychiatric and behavioral health services in an outpatient setting, including addiction services, with a focus on empowering patients and providing support for the recovery process.

About This Virginia Beach, VA Facility

Virginia Beach Psychiatric Center, in Virginia Beach, Virginia, offers an array of psychiatric and behavioral health services in an outpatient setting. Established in 1978, it is one of the oldest behavioral health centers in the area. They provide a variety of services ranging from individual and group therapy, medication management, and specialized services crafted to meet the needs of the clinical challenges they fight. Virginia Beach Psychiatric Center also offers comprehensive addiction services to help those struggling with substance abuse and addiction. These services include comprehensive assessments, individual and family counseling, relapse prevention, and recovery planning. Other services include life skills development, 12-Step programs, and structured social groups to assist in the recovery process.

At Virginia Beach Psychiatric Center, the team is committed to empowering patients with the skills and understanding necessary to overcome addiction, as well as providing support and structure to assist in the recovery process. The Center is passionate about helping those with addiction and substance abuse to improve their quality of life and regain a sense of purpose. The team also works to identify and address barriers to recovery, such as co-occurring mental health issues, to ensure the best possible outcome in treatment.

Virginia Beach Psychiatric Center is accredited by the Joint Commission and licensed by the Commonwealth of Virginia Department of Health Professions. The Center has been awarded a number of prestigious awards and acknowledgments for their exemplary services, including receiving the Joint Commission’s Health Care Accreditation Accolade and the National Accreditation Program for Substance Abuse Treatment Accolade. The Center also provides continual professional development opportunities to clinical staff and offers a variety of workshops to the community to spread knowledge and awareness about addiction, substance abuse, and mental health topics.

Genders
  • Male
  • Female
  • Gender Exclusive Center
  • Ages
  • Children
  • Teenagers
  • Adults
  • Seniors (65+)
  • Modality
  • Individuals
  • Couples
  • Family
  • Groups
  • Additional
  • LGBTQ+ Allied
  • Hearing Impaired
  • Veteran Specific
  • SAMHSA Listed
  • Accreditations

    SAMHSA

    JCAHO

    Conditions and Issues Treated

    Opioid addiction is one of Virginia‘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. Virginia Beach Psychiatric Center offers therapies to correct behavior and target the root of the problem are supplemented during and throughout treatment.

    Some of the most common co-occurring disorders are schizophrenia, depression, and bipolar disorder. Most rehab facilities in Virginia Beach, VA like Virginia Beach Psychiatric Center provide patients with a dual diagnosis. Dual diagnosis gives rehab the means to treat addiction while restoring mental and emotional health.

    Alcohol Abuse, Dual Diagnosis (Co-Occuring Disorders), Opioid Addiction 

    Levels of Care Offered

    This center offers a variety of custom treatment tailored to individual recovery. Currently available are Aftercare Support, Detox, Drug Rehab, Dual-Diagnosis, Inpatient, with additional therapies available as listed below.

    Detox treatment begins when the patient leaves their surroundings of family and friends, which is usually when they are most vulnerable. Being in a safe environment surrounded by medical professionals provides them with the safety net many of them need to get over their addiction. With kind and caring staff members, patients can feel relaxed, and they will need to start by admitting that they have a problem in order to get better.

    If a person goes through detox treatment, they will understand their addiction better, and they won’t want to relapse and lose all the benefits of sobriety. They can see the effects of using drugs and how it makes them feel, which will make them want to quit their addiction.

    Drug detox is vital to the recovery process, and it ensures that a patient will be in a safe environment during their withdrawal.

    An inpatient is a person who stays in a hospital or rehab center during treatment. For alcohol- and drug-dependent individuals, inpatient rehabs provide individualized around-the-clock services. Inpatient treatment programs address a person’s unique physical, medical, and psychological needs. A team of experts assess the severity of the addiction and design a highly tailored program. typically, the length of stay in an inpatient facility in Virginia Beach, VA is 30 days. Those with severe addiction may need to stay at the facility for 60 to 90 days.

    Aftercare Support at Virginia Beach Psychiatric Center, in short, is the support provided to a patient after they have finished treatment. It allows them to adjust to everyday life. It may entail setting them up and enrolling them in services such as Narcotics Anonymous (NA) and Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) inside a halfway house. Career coaching may also be offered to patients to help them get back into the Virginia workforce.

    Virginia Beach Psychiatric Center‘s Therapies & Programs

    Addiction in Virginia Beach, Virginia can occur due to a wide variety of reasons. Understanding your addiction and the best methods for maintaining sobriety involves learning about yourself. Virginia Beach Psychiatric Center treatment programs include individual therapy for the greatest chances of success.

    Customized individual therapy is counseling involving you and your counselor at Virginia Beach Psychiatric Center. 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.

    Substance abuse does a number on an individual’s relationship with other people, particularly in marriage. Spousal relationships bear the brunt of alcohol and drug dependence. Therefore, it becomes critical to submit the relationship to couples therapy to prevent straining it further. Most programs only zero in on the individual with substance addiction without factoring in the importance of the other half’s emotional support.

    However, some facilities, like Virginia Beach Psychiatric Center in Virginia Beach, Virginia, offer couples therapy options to manage intimate partnerships amid the recovery process. Other couples-focused treatment plans can provide the patient and their partner tools to get things back to normal, support each other, and the patient’s sobriety.
    Addiction is a family disease. Family therapy aims to heal and rebalance unhealthy roles and habits. Healing any family trauma and dysfunctional communications is important, and Virginia Beach Psychiatric Center understands this. Family sessions are meant to bring Virginia families closer together and live sober, healthy, lives.

    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 Virginia Beach Psychiatric Center in Virginia Beach, VA 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.

    Unresolved trauma is often a key reason why many patients resorted to substance abuse. Trauma could be physical abuse, sexual abuse, war, natural disasters, divorce, accident, loss of a loved one, etc. If trauma is the primary cause of substance abuse, then both issues must be addressed.

    Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) is an improved version of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) DBT is a treatment of choice for people being treated at Virginia Beach Psychiatric Center 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. Virginia Beach Psychiatric Center 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.

    Aftercare, Cognitive Behavioral Treatment (CBT), Couples Therapy, Detox, Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT), Drug Rehab, Dual-Diagnosis, Family Therapy, Group Therapy, Individual Therapy, Inpatient Treatment, Motivational Interviewing, Nicotine Replacement Therapy (NRT), Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT), Trauma Therapy

    Payment Options Accepted

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

    Specifics, location, and helpful extra information.
    Virginia Beach Psychiatric Center Location and Directions
    Address Information1st Colonial Rd
    Virginia Beach, Virginia 23454 Phone Number(757) 496-6000 Meta DetailsUpdated November 25, 2023
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    Virginia Beach, Virginia Addiction Information

    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.

    More than 9,000 people in Virginia Beach are addicted to drugs. The number of teens abusing prescription drugs has increased by more than 400% in the past five years. 3,700 young adults between 18 and 25 were admitted into rehab centers because of drug use. There are several drug rehabilitation programs in Virginia Beach, VA, treatment may include medication sessions with competent physicians, therapists, nurses, and counselors.

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