Southwest Youth and Family Services - Community Mental Health Agency is a non-profit organization based in Seattle, Washington, focused on providing mental health and addiction treatment services to children and families. Their mission is to promote resilient and healthy individuals, families, and communities through advocacy, education, and trauma-informed, culturally competent care. They offer a wide range of services, such as individual and family therapy, group therapy, and crisis intervention.
Southwest Youth and Family Services - Community Mental Health Agency provides specialized support for addiction and substance abuse. They offer evidence-based treatment approaches, such as medication-assisted treatment, motivational interviewing, and cognitive-behavioral therapy. Their team of experienced and qualified professionals offer rehabilitation and recovery services, such as relapse prevention, harm reduction, family support, and nutrition counseling. Additionally, they have a dedicated assessment and referral program to ensure clients are connected with the resources and support services needed for successful recovery.
Southwest Youth and Family Services - Community Mental Health Agency is accredited by the Commission of Health Care and the National Association for Addiction Professionals, and is a licensed Mental Health Treatment Provider in the state of Washington. They have also been awarded a four-star rating from the Washington Department of Social and Health Services, and have a highly trained and qualified staff of multicultural professionals that bring a wealth of experience and expertise. Additionally, their Recovery Outpatient Program has been recognized for excellence in the Washington Recovery Alliance's Outstanding Addiction Program award.
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Conditions and Issues Treated
Levels of Care
This center offers a variety of custom treatment tailored to individual recovery. Currently available are Outpatient, with additional therapies available as listed below.
Outpatient rehabilitation is a treatment that exists if a patient is not checking into Southwest Youth and Family Services - Community Mental Health Agency 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 Southwest Youth and Family Services - Community Mental Health Agency in recovering from addiction.
Therapies & Programs
Individual therapy involves one on one sessions between the patient and the therapist at Southwest Youth and Family Services - Community Mental Health Agency. 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.
Addiction and alcoholism always harm an addict’s relationships with others and none more than relationships with a spouse or partner. Couples therapy is an essential part of restoring trust and good communication to intimate relationships harmed by addiction. Couples therapy by Southwest Youth and Family Services - Community Mental Health Agency helps repair the damage done to these important relationships.
Recovery can be more effective if the entire family’s involved. Family therapy hosted by Southwest Youth and Family Services - Community Mental Health Agency brings in the addict’s family to explore genetic factors. It gives loved ones the tools for dealing with addiction and its underlying mental issues. It is a recommended step in helping addicts adapt to sober living.
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.
Dialectical Behavioral Therapy is a form of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. It is designed for those who are prone to self-harm and suicidal behaviors. Southwest Youth and Family Services - Community Mental Health Agency aims to help patients understand the relationship between their thoughts, feeling and behaviors and it gives them the tools to make a change. It is effective for those whose addictions and behaviors stem from extreme mental health issues.
The right diet can improve a person’s general outlook, sleep habits and thought processing skills. MNT also lowers the occurrence of chronic diseases such as adult-onset diabetes. Dieticians like those at Southwest Youth and Family Services - Community Mental Health Agency in Seattle, WA believe that nutrition therapy is the key to making significant lifestyle changes.
Nicotine Replacement Therapy (NRT) uses low dose nicotine products to ween smokers away from cigarettes. The products get nicotine into the bloodstream without smoking reducing addiction to the physical habit. It also allows addicts to adjust to lower doses to reduce withdrawal symptoms.
Patient Experience
Experiential Therapy at Southwest Youth and Family Services - Community Mental Health Agency
Experiential therapy involves recreating or creating new experiences for the patient. Many people struggled with past issues such as memories or trauma. By creating a new experience, it allows people to work through the issues associated with those moments in a new experience. This can give them a new measure of control and can help them role play a new scenario. That can help push addiction into their past and help them begin the healing process.
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Location & Contact

4555 Delridge Way SW
Seattle, WA 98106
Phone Number
(206) 937-7680
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Seattle, Washington Addiction and Treatment
Washington's substance use, abuse, and addiction rates have followed the trends of the rest of the over the past years. Methamphetamine abuse is the biggest threat to Washington. Heroin-related overdoses increased by almost 450% from 2006 to 2016. 20% of all annual deaths in Washington are somehow drug and/or alcohol-related. Drugs are widely abused in Washington because they are easily trafficked in and out of the state.
Seattle, an isthmus city between Puget Sound and Lake Washington, offers diverse outdoor activities like hiking in Olympic National Park and kayaking on lakes. The city boasts a thriving arts scene, from the Seattle Opera to cutting-edge galleries, and a vibrant music culture as the birthplace of grunge. In King County, there were 141 opioid-related deaths from January 2022 to October 2023, with 90% involving Fentanyl.
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