First Step Counseling - Dallas
First Step Counseling of Dallas is a professional, accredited treatment center providing specialized care for individuals struggling with alcoholism, drug addiction, and substance abuse. The center utilizes a variety of evidence-based therapies and methods to ensure the best outcome for clients. These include, but are not limited to, individual and group therapy, cognitive behavioral therapy, life skills interventions, motivational interviewing and rational emotive behavior therapy. Clients also benefit from comprehensive aftercare and drug rehabilitation services to support long-term recovery.
Clients can access a range of tailored treatment plans and levels of care, including intensive outpatient and outpatient services. This allows the center to provide individualized support to meet their unique needs and ensure the highest quality of care possible. First Step Counseling of Dallas is dedicated to providing a safe, comfortable environment for clients to heal and move forward in life. With its team of experienced professionals, it is committed to helping people achieve their highest potential in sobriety and recovery.
- 2+ Accreditations
- SAMHSA Listed
- 3 Conditions Treated
- 4 Levels of Care
- Speaks English
- 11 Therapies & Programs
Accreditations
State License
SAMHSA
Conditions and Issues Treated
Substance Abuse + Addiction Treatment
The inappropriate use of any drug in Dallas, TX is substance abuse. This involves alcohol, medications, and illicit drugs. With a combination of physical and psychiatric therapies, drug addiction is successfully treated at First Step Counseling - Dallas. After Detox is complete, individuals follow-up with treatments treating the root cause of the addiction.
Opioid + Opiate Addiction Treatment at First Step Counseling - Dallas
Opioid Addiction Treatment supports people recovering from addiction to prescription drugs as well as illegal opioids. This is a hospital-based or residential treatment. Depending upon one’s age, detox without the appropriate medication may be unpleasant or even dangerous–some get body aches, fever, chills, while others may even have seizures.
Opioid treatment involves medically assisted detox, physical and mental support. Most rehabilitations use an array of treatments to ensure overall wellbeing, such as Medication-assisted therapy (MAT) in which one gets behavioral therapy, medicines, and counseling. A client-centered approach can reduce one’s chances of relapse. Therapists at work with the client to figure out environmental and behavioral triggers, giving them the power to change the patterns.
Levels of Care
This center offers a variety of custom treatment tailored to individual recovery. Currently available are Aftercare Support, Drug Rehab, Intensive Outpatient, Outpatient, with additional therapies available as listed below.
Daily trips to the hospital that provides the treatment include intensive outpatient services (IOP). IOP in Texas is appropriate for patients in residential recovery facilities that have been diagnosed with addiction. Patients return to their everyday lives gradually, increasing the likeliness of success in treatment.
Outpatient rehabilitation is a treatment that exists if a patient is not checking into First Step Counseling - Dallas 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 First Step Counseling - Dallas in recovering from addiction.
Treatment for substance abuse does not cease after an individual successfully completes a detox or rehabilitation program. A vital follow-up treatment service is aftercare support provided to individuals at First Step Counseling - Dallas in Texas after they attain initial sobriety.
Aftercare support often takes the following forms: 12-Step Programs, Outpatient Treatment Programs, and Support Groups. The most effective aftercare programs are tailored to meet an individual’s specific needs and circumstances.
Therapies & Programs
Individual therapy involves one on one sessions between the patient and the therapist at First Step Counseling - Dallas. Individual therapy provides patients with a safe environment where they can openly discuss their problems with the therapist. The patients find the therapist as a person who they can trust. It helps them to open up and discuss personal and sensitive issues, which they may not be comfortable discussing in a group setting.
Individual therapy aims to identify the core issues that would have led the patient to substance abuse and address the root cause effectively. The therapist can develop patient-specific customized solutions through individual therapy, which aids speedier recovery.
Trauma is one of the most common causes of psychological disorders. It’s often found in people with addiction diagnoses. Trauma therapy addresses this by examining the emotions and thoughts people have formed due to past traumas. Traumas are complex but trauma therapy can reduce their ability to contribute to addictive behaviors.
Self-defeating thoughts and habits can limit your possible successes. Some examples of this are procrastination, unhealthy eating and angry outbursts. REBT is a method of specific counseling offered by First Step Counseling - Dallas that replaces negative and self-limiting thoughts.
Rehabilitation is not just limited to bringing an individual out of addiction and achieving sobriety. It is considered complete only when an individual starts leading a normal and balanced life. Life skill therapy focuses on the various skills that helps an individual to lead a normal life. Patients often do not take care of themselves, struggle professionally and withdraw from social interaction due to the physical and emotional disturbances caused by addiction.
Life skills therapy helps them to improve various personal, professional and social skills such as cooking healthy meals, maintaining proper hygiene, budgeting, decision making, time management, regulation of emotions and resolving the interpersonal conflicts effectively.
Payment Options
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Location & Contact
219 Sunset Ave
Dallas, TX 75208
Phone Number
(214) 942-8808
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Location
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219 Sunset Ave
Dallas, TX 75208 -
(214) 942-8808
Accepts
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GenderFemale, Male
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AgeAdults (20+), Teenagers
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ModalityGroup, Individuals
Listed June 11, 2021
Updated July 25, 2024
Dallas, Texas Addiction and Treatment
Texas is one of the primary hubs for drug smuggling into the country. The border between Texas and Mexico is more than 1,000 miles long. More than 10 million residents use alcohol every year and more than 25% of those are minors. Alcohol and drug use has become so common in Texas that almost 15% of all deaths can be attributed to these substances.
Dallas beckons with a vibrant arts scene like the sprawling AT&T Performing Arts Center and lush outdoor escapes at the Dallas Arboretum. Yet behind its allures, 13.2% of residents grapple with illicit drug use, and opioid overdose deaths spiked 29% in 2020, with fentanyl positivity nearly tripling over 5 years.
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