Abraxas Hector Garza Center
Abraxas Hector Garza Center in San Antonio, Texas, is a residential substance abuse treatment facility focused on helping adolescents and young adults. Established on a 12-acre suburaban campus, it offers trauma-informed care certified in the Sanctuary® Model and can serve up to 139 residents aged 10 to 17.
Licensed to accommodate up to 139 male and female residents, Hector Garza Center employs a trauma-informed approach, ensuring individualized care for each youth. Emphasizing comprehensive clinical assessments and evidence-based therapies, it seeks to address both addiction and emotional disturbances.
- Specializes in treating youth with emotional disturbances, aiding both immediate behavior and underlying trauma.
- Features an on-site school, gymnasium, commercial kitchen, indoor and outdoor recreation spaces, and gender-specific residential wings.
- Utilizes a holistic approach combining individual, group, and family therapy, along with psycho-educational groups.
- Offers intensive psychiatric transition programs and substance abuse services, ensuring comprehensive care for adolescents.
It treats substance abuse and mental health issues, primarily serving adolescents and young adults aged 10 to 17, and is best suited for youth struggling with addiction and emotional disturbances.
- 3+ Accreditations
- 3 Conditions Treated
- 4 Levels of Care
- Speaks English
- 12 Therapies & Programs
- Multiple Locations
Accreditations
State License
SAMHSA
JCAHO
Conditions and Issues Treated
Opioid + Opiate Addiction Treatment
Addiction to prescription opioid painkillers like oxycodone and hydrocodone, and illicit opioids such as heroin, leads to potentially life-threatening withdrawal symptoms when discontinued. Opioid addiction treatment typically involves an inpatient stay at facilities like Abraxas Hector Garza Center to make sure they get through withdrawal safely. Treatment also includes comprehensive mental health counseling.
Levels of Care
This center offers a variety of custom treatment tailored to individual recovery. Currently available are Aftercare Support, Drug Rehab, Inpatient, Residential, with additional therapies available as listed below.
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.
Aftercare comprises services that help recovering addicts readjust to normal day-to-day Texas activities. It can last a year or even longer. Services include individual and family counseling, medications to reduce cravings, and treatment of psychiatric and other medical conditions. Aftercare support begins once you have completed earlier stages of treatment.
Abraxas Hector Garza Center‘s Therapies & Programs
In addiction recovery at Abraxas Hector Garza Center, therapy plays a significant role. This helps patients get to the root of their addiction and discover how the problems that contributed to their use can be handled better. Therapy can be performed in a group and one on one settings. The patient interacts with the therapist in a one-on-one atmosphere during individual therapy. This encourages them to reflect on the underlying addiction problems and develop ways to avoid potential future abuse.
Addiction and alcoholism affect the entire family. For this reason, family therapy is vital to a person’s recovery from addiction. In contrast to couples counseling, family therapy at Abraxas Hector Garza Center may include siblings, children, parents, and other significant people in the recovering person’s life. Family support is one of the most important pillars of recovery.
Many people turn to drugs and alcohol as a way of processing trauma that has affected them in the past. Trauma can include abuse, neglect, the loss of a loved one and other unpleasant incidents. Trauma therapy at Abraxas Hector Garza Center helps patients process trauma. It gives them the tools to deal with it in a healthier manner.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) examines the relationship between a patient’s thoughts, feelings and behaviors. Abraxas Hector Garza Center aims to establish a healthy response to thoughts and feelings as an alternative to turning to drugs and alcohol. It also promotes healthy communication between addicts and those around them. It is and effective therapy for people suffering with all types of addictions.
Life skills pertain to the skill sets a person should possess to become successful in life. Examples are time management, budgeting, and social abilities. Life skills therapy highlights the fact that addiction recovery is more than just a person’s ability to go through their day-to-day without resorting to substance use in San Antonio, TX once they leave the facility.
Patient Experience
Equine Therapy at Abraxas Hector Garza Center
Equine therapy or Equine Assisted Therapy (EAT) involves the use of horses as a part of the treatment plan. In equine therapy, the patient interacts with a horse regularly. They undertake activities like feeding and grooming the horses. The way the horse reacts to the patient’s moods and behavior provides the patient with feedback to distinguish between acceptable and unacceptable behavior.
The therapist at Abraxas Hector Garza Center observes the interaction between the horse and the patient and gathers information that can be used for the treatment of the patient. Equine therapy helps the patient to develop trust, improve self-confidence, discard negative emotions, improve the ability to focus and boost their self-worth.
Payment Options
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Location & Contact
620 E Afton Oaks Blvd
San Antonio, TX 78232
Phone Number
(210) 568-8600
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Location
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620 E Afton Oaks Blvd
San Antonio, TX 78232 -
(210) 568-8600
Accepts
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GenderFemale, Male
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AgeChildren (0-12), Teenagers
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ModalityFamily, Group, Individuals
Abraxas
Listed May 21, 2021
Updated July 25, 2024
San Antonio, 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.
San Antonio boasts a vibrant River Walk lined with restaurants and the famous San Antonio Stock Show & Rodeo. However, the city faces alarming trends: fentanyl overdose deaths spiked from 96 in 2021 to 181 in 2022, and there was a 40% increase in overdose emergency calls from 2018 to 2020.
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