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Time to Change

Time to Change

  • Minneapolis, MN
  • Accredited
  • Outpatient

Time to Change, based in Minneapolis, Minnesota, is a substance abuse treatment facility offering detoxification, residential, and outpatient care. Specializing in addiction treatment with a multifaceted therapeutic approach, this center caters to a diverse population including people with co-occurring mental health disorders.

Their mission focuses on providing tailored treatment plans to meet individual needs. Time to Change is structured to integrate various therapeutic modalities to offer comprehensive care.

  • Offers a range of services including detoxification, residential treatment, and outpatient care.
  • Incorporates evidence-based practices like cognitive behavioral therapy and 12-step facilitation.
  • Specialized programs for LGBTQ+ clients, veterans, and seniors ensure targeted care.
  • Provides medication-assisted treatment for opioid addiction and incorporates holistic approaches.

They address addictions to alcohol, benzodiazepines, cocaine, methamphetamines, and opioids, serving diverse groups such as LGBTQ+ clients, veterans, and seniors.

  • 2+ Accreditations
  • SAMHSA Listed
  • 4 Conditions Treated
  • Insurance Accepted
  • 5 Levels of Care
  • Speaks English
  • 27 Therapies & Programs

Accreditations

State License

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. Time to Change patients detox and follow up with therapies that target the underlying cause of the addiction.

Opioid + Opiate Addiction Treatment

Opioid addiction is one of Minnesota‘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. Time to Change offers therapies to correct behavior and target the root of the problem are supplemented during and throughout treatment.

Levels of Care

This center offers a variety of custom treatment tailored to individual recovery. Currently available are Aftercare Support, Drug Rehab, Intensive Outpatient, Intervention, Outpatient, with additional therapies available as listed below.

Intensive outpatient programs mostly conduct meetings on weekdays. Group therapy is the main element in most intensive outpatient programs. Most IOPs last for about 90 days and include drug use monitoring and testing. A Minnesota IOP, like what’s offerd at Time to Change, take much more time than a standard outpatient program. Some programs offer other services as well, such as employment assistance and medication management.

Outpatient rehabilitation is a treatment that exists if a patient is not checking into Time to Change 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 Time to Change in recovering from addiction.

An intervention is a meeting organized by the addicted individuals’ family and friends. It lets the individual know that they are loved and cared for by their friends and family. It is designed to make the addicted party accept getting additional professional assistance.

Interventions are hosted by a mental health and addiction specialist at Time to Change in Minnesota, who knows how to work with people struggling with addiction. When it comes to having a loved one finally and happily consent to care, an intervention service can make all the difference.

Aftercare Support at Time to Change, 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 Minnesota workforce.

Time to Change‘s Therapies & Programs

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

Customized individual therapy is counseling involving you and your counselor at Time to Change. 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 Time to Change in Minneapolis, Minnesota, 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 Time to Change understands this. Family sessions are meant to bring Minnesota 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 Time to Change in Minneapolis, MN 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 Time to Change 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. Time to Change 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.

In the midst of an addiction certain healthy habits and behaviors can be forgotten or discarded altogether. While in treatment you will learn life skills that will help you successfully maintain sobriety in Minnesota.

The 12-step program is a part of substance abuse treatment offered at Time to Change. 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 Time to Change in Minneapolis, MN.

Payment Options

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
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    Location & Contact

    Time to Change Location and Directions
    Address
    8609 Lyndale Ave S
    Minneapolis, MN 55420

    Phone Number
    (952) 358-1009

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    Accepts

    • Gender
      Female, Male
    • Age
      Adults (20+), Children (0-12), Teenagers
    • Modality
      Couples, Family, Group, Individuals
  • Smoking Allowed
  • Ownership
    Privately Owned
    Helpful reference information for Time to Change, a drug treatment center in Minnesota located at: 8609 Lyndale Ave S, Minneapolis, MN 55420, including phone numbers, official website, and more. Listed briefly is an overview of Levels of Care, Therapies Offered, Issues Treated, and accepted forms of Payment Methods.

    Listed May 26, 2020

    Updated July 25, 2024

    Minneapolis, Minnesota Addiction and Treatment

    Minnesota is fighting an opioid epidemic that is leaving hundreds of its residents dead each year. Both prescription opioids and illicit opioids are widely abused in the Land of 10,000 Lakes. Heroin continues to be one of the most commonly abused drugs in the state, if not the most common illicit drug. Over 10% of all treatment admissions in Minnesota list heroin as their drug of choice.

    Minneapolis, a vibrant city nestled between the Mississippi and Minnesota rivers, offers a wide range of outdoor activities, from biking and hiking to ice skating. The city boasts a thriving arts scene with world-class museums, art fairs, and Broadway shows. In 2020, Hennepin County recorded a staggering 285 opioid-related deaths, a significant increase from the previous year. Alarmingly, nearly all opioid deaths involved trace amounts of fentanyl, while methamphetamine overdoses reached a record high of 116 deaths in the same year.

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