Big Horn Basin Counseling Services in Basin, Wyoming, focuses on mental health and substance abuse treatment. This private, non-profit agency offers a sliding fee discount program and has recently merged with two other centers to form Oxbow Center, broadening its services across the Big Horn Region.
Their mission is to provide high-quality, individualized mental health and addiction treatment. Accredited by CARF, they received a three-year accreditation valid through October 31, 2023, with annual reviews recognizing their commitment to excellence.
- Sliding Fee Discount Program: Ensures services are accessible to all income levels.
- Dual Diagnosis Treatment: Specializes in treating co-occurring mental health and substance use disorders.
- Diverse Treatment Options: Offers individual, couple, family, and group therapy sessions.
- Specialized Services: Includes psychological evaluations, anger management, and intensive outpatient treatment groups.
Big Horn Basin Counseling Services treats various addictions and mental health issues, benefiting residents who seek comprehensive behavioral health care and addiction treatment options.
- 1+ Accreditations
- 6 Conditions Treated
- Insurance Accepted
- 6 Levels of Care
- Speaks English, Spanish
- 25 Therapies & Programs
- Multiple Locations
Accreditations

CARF
The Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities (CARF) is a non-profit organization that specifically accredits rehab organizations. Founded in 1966, CARF's, mission is to help service providers like rehab facilities maintain high standards of care.
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 Basin, WY, 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 Big Horn Basin Counseling Services - Basin are here to help.
Opioid + Opiate Addiction Treatment
Opioid addiction treatment helps people addicted to opioids in Wyoming curb their drug use. The selection of a treatment setting depends on the severity of the addiction. Mild cases are usually treated in outpatient facilities; severe cases need hospitalization or treatment in a residential facility. Doctors use medicines along with counseling and behavioral therapies to treat the addiction. The treatment includes medication, counseling and therapy. It can also include group counseling, individual counseling and family counseling.
Dual-Diagnosis
Conditions such as anxiety, depression, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder are part of mental illness. This may occur that opioid abuse and vice versa are induced by mental illness. Diagnosing a concurrent diagnosis or co-occurring condition at Big Horn Basin Counseling Services - Basin is essential to understand the addiction better.
Levels of Care
This center offers a variety of custom treatment tailored to individual recovery. Currently available are Aftercare Support, Drug Rehab, Dual-Diagnosis, Intensive Outpatient, Intervention, Outpatient, with additional therapies available as listed below.
To assist with alcohol or opioid abuse, or a co-occurring condition, Big Horn Basin Counseling Services - Basin offers an outpatient treatment program. For their rehabilitation and other services, the Wyoming patient will go to the treatment center, yet return home every night. After most of the program is completed, the level of mandatory participation reduces.
Most people with addiction in Basin do not readily recognize that they need help. Family and friends need to take action and express their concern over their loved one’s well-being. It’s best to seek specialists like Big Horn Basin Counseling Services - Basin, who provide intervention services.
Aftercare comprises services that help recovering addicts readjust to normal day-to-day Wyoming 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.
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 Big Horn Basin Counseling Services - Basin‘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 Big Horn Basin Counseling Services - Basin in Basin, WY 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 Big Horn Basin Counseling Services - Basin that lets someone recovering work through issues on their own, knowing they have the support of people around them if they need it.
Contingency management is a way to help motivate someone to remain substance free. It is a process Big Horn Basin Counseling Services - Basin uses which involves rewarding positive choices and good outcomes. As humans we are wired to recreate experiences that lead to positive feelings.
Patient Experience
Experiential Therapy at Big Horn Basin Counseling Services - Basin
This is a type of therapy that involves activity to recreate situations that may have caused trauma or negative emotions. Experiential therapy at Big Horn Basin Counseling Services - Basin in Basin, WY can involve acting, props, arts and crafts, animal care or other tools that may be effective.
This therapy is done on an individual basis and can help revisit and heal from past traumas. Trust between the therapist and individual is important for success. Experiential therapy can help you more closely become you and move through life in a positive and authentic manner.
Payment Options
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Location & Contact

116 S 3rd St
Basin, WY 82410
Phone Number
(307) 568-2020
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Basin, Wyoming Addiction and Treatment
Wyoming has some of the highest rates of alcohol abuse and/or dependency in the nation. Drug and alcohol rehabilitation and treatment are so low that the state ranks 48th in the for admittance to drug and alcohol rehab. Marijuana use remains illegal in Wyoming, both for medical and recreational use, but is the second-largest drug threat in the state.
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