Gateway to Success - Pueblo County
Gateway to Success in Pueblo, CO, is an outpatient treatment facility that supports behavioral health, mental health, and substance use disorders. Serving Fremont, Pueblo, and El Paso Counties, it offers evaluations, diverse outpatient treatments, and specialty services for various demographic groups, including adolescents, adults, and LGBTQ+ clients.
With licenses from the State substance abuse agency and State mental health department in Colorado, Gateway to Success is dedicated to providing comprehensive treatment programs. This licensed facility ensures high standards of care and treatment for its clients.
- Offers psychiatric services and medication-assisted treatment to aid in recovery.
- Accepts multiple forms of payment, including Medicaid, Medicare, and private insurance.
- Specializes in dual diagnosis treatment for co-occurring mental health and substance use disorders.
- Accessible through telemedicine and telehealth options, ensuring broader reach.
This facility addresses various addictions and issues, including substance use disorders and co-occurring mental health conditions. Services are tailored to benefit clients from diverse demographics like adolescents, adults, and LGBTQ+ individuals.
- 17 Conditions Treated
- Insurance Accepted
- 8 Levels of Care
- Speaks English, Spanish
- 32 Therapies & Programs
Staff
- Karen MorgenthalerExecutive Director, LCSW, LAC, DVCSDVOMB Domestic Violence Clinical Supervisor
- Kristina CarreraDirector of Clinical Services, LCSW, LAC, DVCSDomestic Violence Clinical Supervisor
- Tonya WoodsonDirector of Operations, MS, LACCo-Occurring Clinician
- Katherine DeRossettMedical Director, MSN, APNP, FNP-c, CAN, WCC
- Alan DonaldProgram Director, MSW, CAS, DVFL, ADSCo-Occurring Clinician
- Brittany KellyFinancial Director
- Edward Bever IIIDirector of Administrative Services, BS
- Kacey MasseBA
Conditions and Issues Treated
Substance Abuse + Addiction Treatment
Using both legal medications and illegal substances in order to maintain an addiction is substance abuse. If you are taking more of your prescription, or earlier than the prescribed time interval between doses than is directed you may be abusing that medication. If you are obtaining legal medications illegally in or near Pueblo, CO, you may be suffering from substance abuse.
Illegal substances can become addictive after a single use and lead rapidly to substance abuse. The professionals at Gateway to Success - Pueblo County are here to help.
Opioid + Opiate Addiction Treatment at Gateway to Success - Pueblo County
Opioids are a set of drugs prescribed for pain relief. Health care providers prescribe opioids for relief of severe pain after major surgeries and in conditions like cancer. Oxycodone, fentanyl, oxymorphone, hydrocodone, codeine, and morphine are some of the commonly prescribed opioids. They also include illegal drugs of abuse like heroin. Opioid addiction refers to the compulsive seeking of opioids, even when they are not required medically.
Opioid addiction treatment involves medication-assisted therapy (MAT) in which medicines, counseling, and behavioral therapies are all employed. Opioid addiction treatment is a comprehensive approach at Gateway to Success - Pueblo County in Pueblo, CO that boosts the treatment success rate and provides sustained recovery.
Dual-Diagnosis
Mental illness includes conditions such as anxiety, depression, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder. It can also happen that mental illness causes drug addiction and vice versa. Gateway to Success - Pueblo County in Colorado knows it is vital to diagnose dual diagnosis or co-occurring disorder.
Levels of Care
This center offers a variety of custom treatment tailored to individual recovery. Currently available are Aftercare Support, Detox, Drug Rehab, Dual-Diagnosis, Intensive Outpatient, Intervention, Outpatient, Partial-Hospitalization, with additional therapies available as listed below.
Detoxification is a process that allows the patient to stop using opioids without experiencing severe withdrawal symptoms. This can be necessary for those who have been addicted for a long period of time or who are struggling with chronic pain.
During this process, addicts will receive medication and psychological support from doctors and other medical professionals until they can control their cravings.
Intensive outpatient programs (IOP) comprise regular visits to the Colorado facility that provides the therapy. IOP is suitable for patients who have been treated in residential treatment programs. Gateway to Success - Pueblo County‘s patients gradually get back to their routine life.
Facilities like Gateway to Success - Pueblo County offer a variety of services, such as individual and group counseling and family therapy. During the sessions, you work with a team of experts that include: General physicians, Psychiatrists, Social Workers, and Psychologists. The main goals of outpatient recovery programs are to help addicted individuals reduce drug use and addictive behaviors, eventually becoming entirely sober.
Partial hospitalization (PHP) is a type of outpatient addiction care. Each plan is tailored to meet unique individual needs. Treatment is more intense than that you receive at a therapist’s office. It is less intense than inpatient rehab. The entire treatment takes about ten days to complete. It does not require you to stay at the Colorado treatment center. Each visit lasts several hours, sometimes, eight hours. It can be the best choice for those who have recently developed an addiction.
An intervention is a meeting held by families and friends of the addicted party, managed by Gateway to Success - Pueblo County. It lets the person know that their loved ones are concerned about them. It is intended to make the addicted party agree to get help.
Interventions are often hosted by a mental health professional in Colorado who knows how to communicate with people dealing with addiction. These intervention services can make all the difference when it comes to getting loved ones to agree to treatment.Treatment is just a first step in sustaining sobriety. After rehabilitation, counseling for aftercare helps the person adapt to a life without drugs. A sober living facility in Pueblo, job therapy, or educational assistance may be included in this service, managed by Gateway to Success - Pueblo County. This is when a preventive strategy for relapse starts to take shape.
Therapies & Programs
Therapy plays a major role in addiction recovery. It encourages patients to get to the root of their addiction and learn how to better handle the issues that led to using. Therapy can be conducted in group and one on one settings. In Gateway to Success - Pueblo County‘s individual therapy, the patient meets with the therapist in a one on one setting. This allows them to focus on the underlying issues of addiction and come up with solutions to prevent future abuse.
One of the most common areas of stress and damage during addiction is in intimate relationships. Addiction involves everyone in a family, not only the addict. Couples therapy can rebuild trust and joy that may have been damaged.
When the whole family is involved, healing can be far more successful. Family counseling involves genetic factors to the family of the addict. This offers the means to cope with addiction and its underlying emotional disorders for loved ones. It is a helpful method for addicts in helping to adjust to sober living.
Trauma therapy allows people who struggled with a past trauma to face the situation and learn to overcome the situation. Many people who went through trauma early on, struggle with addiction later in life. By addressing the trauma and moving past the issues, it can help someone attending treatment at Gateway to Success - Pueblo County in Pueblo, CO move forward with their recovery and begin to take a better hold of their sober future.
REBT stands for rational emotional behavior therapy. This is a type of cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, that combines images with thoughts and behaviors. It allows for deeper education and understanding of what one can do to help themselves with recovery. It is a deep sense of self-help education managed by Gateway to Success - Pueblo County that lets someone recovering work through issues on their own, knowing they have the support of people around them if they need it.
Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing, shortened to EMDR, helps patients reprocess past events and memories. This treatment offered at Gateway to Success - Pueblo County in Pueblo, CO can reduce their levels of anxiety and make past traumas easier to overcome, plus it can boost healing. This helps calm many patients down, allowing them to feel more in control and less helpless when it comes to combatting their addiction.
Training someone on improved life skills allows for someone recovering from an addiction to feel more capable at taking care of him or herself. The skills taught at Gateway to Success - Pueblo County in Pueblo, CO are daily skills that give a better recovery foundation by simply giving someone the tools they need to survive. They include communicating, time and money management, career guidance, and more.
Payment Options
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Location & Contact
2429 South Prairie Avenue
Pueblo, CO 81005
Phone Number
(719) 564-5070
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Location
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2429 South Prairie Avenue
Pueblo, CO 81005 -
(719) 564-5070
Accepts
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GenderFemale, Male
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AgeAdults (20+), Teenagers
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ModalityCouples, Family, Group, Individuals
Ownership
Listed May 26, 2020
Updated July 25, 2024
Pueblo, Colorado Addiction and Treatment
The Centennial State has slipped to a ranking of 12th in the country for drug abuse. Each year around 24% of the state's population uses illegal drugs while nearly 5% of its population abuses alcohol. Substance-related deaths in Colorado were responsible for 15.12% between 2008 and 2017. Fortunately, Colorado drug and alcohol addiction treatment are available to help a person overcome addiction.
Pueblo's breathtaking natural scenery, invigorating outdoor activities, and captivating arts scene create an enriching environment for personal growth. Sadly, methamphetamine and fentanyl-related deaths have seen an alarming rise in recent years, highlighting the urgency of addressing this crisis.
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