Yellowbrick
Drug Rehab Center in Evanston, Illinois
Yellowbrick, located in Evanston, Illinois, is an addiction and mental health treatment center that offers holistic and gender-responsive treatment for adults struggling with substance abuse and addiction, providing evidence-based treatments, specialized therapies, continuing care, and comprehensive addiction treatment, as well as trauma-informed care and mental health services for clients with additional needs.
About This Evanston, IL Facility
Located in Evanston, Illinois, Yellowbrick is a beacon of hope for troubled emerging adults and their families, specializing in integrated intensive outpatient treatment. With a unique approach that blends psycho-neurobiology, developmental psychology, and in-depth psychotherapy, Yellowbrick stands out for its commitment to addressing the distinctive challenges faced by the emerging adult population.
- Integrated Treatment Model: Yellowbrick combines findings from neuroscience with innovative psychotherapies and wellness medicine, offering a comprehensive approach to treatment.
- Specialized Programs: Offers programs like the Life Strategies Program, Trauma Recovery, Eating Disorders, & Addictions, utilizing methods such as dTMS and neurofeedback.
- Focus on Emerging Adults: Specifically designed to support emerging adults through multi-specialty evaluation, therapeutic residences, and life-skills interventions.
Accredited by The Joint Commission and licensed by the Illinois Department of Human Services, Yellowbrick upholds high standards of care. Their treatment philosophy is deeply rooted in research and aims to empower individuals by working through actual life experiences with professional support.
Yellowbrick addresses a wide range of issues, including substance abuse, addiction, trauma, and eating disorders. Treatment methods encompass cognitive-behavioral therapy, dialectical behavior therapy, and medication-assisted treatment, ensuring a tailored approach to recovery across various levels of care.
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Conditions and Issues Treated
Opioid addiction is one of Illinois‘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. Yellowbrick offers therapies to correct behavior and target the root of the problem are supplemented during and throughout treatment.
Levels of Care Offered
This center offers a variety of custom treatment tailored to individual recovery. Currently available are Drug Rehab, Dual-Diagnosis, Inpatient, Intensive Outpatient, Outpatient, Residential, Sober-Living / Half-Way, with additional therapies available as listed below.
When a patient checks into Yellowbrick, inpatient care takes place. Patients undergo treatment that requires detoxification and counseling round the clock. While outpatient treatments are available, as the first phase in recovery, inpatient care is suggested. Intensive and thorough rehabilitation sets patients on the road to a drug-free life.
Intensive Outpatient Programs (IOPs) are treatment programs suitable for people who wish to stay at home while undergoing treatment. IOPs like Yellowbrick make it possible for individuals to carry on with their responsibilities at work or school, in or near Evanston, IL. It’s easy to find an IOP center that offers individualized treatment protocols.
In outpatient programs at Yellowbrick, the Evanston resident can live with their family while continuing with their job or studies. Treatment includes educating the patient on drug abuse, medications, and counseling sessions at the individual or group level.
Sober living houses reinforce healthy living behaviors and can help prevent relapse. They are designed to feel more like a home with greater independence and privacy. A sober living house in Evanston, IL managed by Yellowbrick might incorporate random drug screening, curfews, rotating chores, group meetings.
Residential treatment programs are those that offer housing and meals in addition to substance abuse treatment. Rehab facilities that offer residential treatment allow patients to focus solely on recovery, in an environment totally separate from their lives. Some rehab centers specialize in short-term residential treatment (a few days to a week or two), while others solely provide treatment on a long-term basis (several weeks to months). Some offer both, and tailor treatment to the patient’s individual requirements.
Yellowbrick‘s Therapies & Programs
Customized individual therapy is counseling involving you and your counselor at Yellowbrick. 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 Yellowbrick in Evanston, IL 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 Yellowbrick 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. Yellowbrick 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
Nutrition therapy, which is also known as Medical nutrition therapy (MNT) involves providing healthy diet and improving the eating habits of the patient. Expert dieticians provide individualized meal plan, that addresses the specific nutritional deficiencies and the nutritional impact associated with the medicines that are given as a part of the treatment. It helps to overcome the food cravings that are seen in certain addictions and also addresses the co-occurring conditions such as eating disorders.
Nutrition therapy is very important to support the different therapies provided as a part of comprehensive care. Nutrition therapy also teaches the associated life skills such as cooking healthy food and grocery shopping.
Nicotine replacement is a way to move towards stopping smoking or using any form of nicotine. This can be nicotine gum or nicotine patches. The process of working with trained staff at Yellowbrick in setting a goal quit date, using nicotine replacement and gradually decreasing nicotine intake is proven to help.
Patient Experience
Creative Arts
It is believed that enhancing creativity and developing skills related to it can help people with addiction recover faster. Activities such as painting, writing, acting, and dancing are considered therapeutic as they become outlets for patients to blow off steam, channel their emotions, and express their thoughts. Some people in recovery find it difficult to do so, especially when they suffer from co-occurring disorders such as depression.
Creative arts therapy at Yellowbrick in Evanston, IL heals these individuals and teaches them to express themselves more meaningfully. With this type of treatment, the process matters a lot more than the final output because it’s more important for therapists and counselors to see how a patient frees himself or herself up for expression.
Experiential Therapy at Yellowbrick
Experiential therapy at Yellowbrick includes helping people work through emotional disorders by participating in events in real-time. It moves away from conventional talk therapy to discuss their concerns and emotions by making patients play roles or use props. It allows people to handle trauma and feelings healthily, reducing the need to resort to alcohol and substances in Evanston, IL.
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1560 Sherman Ave
Evanston, IL 60201
(866) 364-2300
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Evanston, Illinois Addiction Information
In 2016, more than 2,350 Illinoisans died from drug overdoses. More than 5,500 deaths annually occur in Illinois due to the abuse of alcohol and other drugs. 7.17% of Illinois residents reported using illicit drugs in the past month (2018). Substance abuse costs the state approximately $3.5 billion every year.
Evanston, IL is a community that is struggling with addiction and abuse problems. 54% of high school students in Evanston have tried alcohol. There were over 2,000 admissions to drug and alcohol treatment facilities annually. The number of deaths from drug overdoses in the area has quadrupled since 1998. Outpatient treatment typically lasts for 12 weeks. This type of treatment is best for those with a mild to moderate addiction.
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