Outpatient Treatments
Not everyone needs inpatient services. You may be able to continue living at home and/or working during treatment. If so, the Addiction Institute of Mount Sinai offers innovative and flexible outpatient programs. With a full range of programs at various times of the day, you can receive treatment that fits around your work schedule and/or child care needs.
Outpatient Programs at Mount Sinai- Behavioral Health Center
At Mount Sinai-Behavioral Health Center (MSBHC), we can help you make behavioral changes to gain and maintain chemical abstinence. We continually re-evaluate and adjust your services. We want to offer exactly as much help—and as often—as you need. We also ensure that you have access to psychiatrists if appropriate.
Treatment planning may include the following:
- Brief Therapy: With 10 sessions in 10 weeks, brief therapy is solution-focused. You work with a counselor on relapse prevention skills and techniques and coping strategies. We emphasize self-help and community resources and provide Weekly assignments. You receive support in person and by telephone. To qualify, you must be medically and psychiatrically stabilized and highly motivated. Random urine testing is required.
- Outpatient Medication-Assisted Treatment Programs: Outpatient medication treatment can help you get—and stay— sober. It works well for opioids, alcohol, and tobacco. We use therapy approaches that focus on how you think about addiction, such as cognitive behavioral therapy and motivational interviewing.
- Services for Adolescents: Teenagers are very impressionable and vulnerable to substance abuse problems. And these problems can affect the rest of the family as well. Our programs include an on-site high school, after-school program, and an intensive day program for teens who need a significant amount of support.
Additional Outpatient Services:
- Anger management groups help you learn to control your anger. We also teach assertiveness and cognitive restructuring.
- Boomer’s group is for patients who are 50 years of age or older. The group provides education, support, and discussion.
- Co-dependency groups help you see what you do that affects your addiction. These behaviors may stem from your own experiences, family dynamics, and other relationships. We can also help you change these behaviors.
- Domestic violence groups teach about domestic violence. You learn about safety planning. We also offer referrals to other services.
- Dual focus groups help people who have both an addiction and a psychiatric diagnosis. You see how addiction affects your psychiatric disorder. You also learn about how the disorder affects your addiction. We offer education and coping strategies.
- DWI screening, assessment, and referral services are for people who are sent by the court system after an arrest for driving while intoxicated (DWI). Please bring all court-issued documents. We will fax any required documents to the courts after you complete the evaluation. If we diagnosis you with substance abuse, we will refer you to a DWI-specific program.
- Family therapy happens one-on-one and in groups. We focus on your family and how addiction affects your family members.
- Gender-specific groups center on the needs of men and women in recovery. They provide education, support, and discussion.
- The women’s group addresses relationships, trauma, setting limits, and self-esteem.
- The men’s group talks about resentment, respect, being valued, and healthy relationships.
- Group therapy is our primary approach. It includes all aspects of education and the recovery process.
- Health education lectures happen regularly. Our nursing and medical staff focuses on your medical, health, and nutrition needs.
- Individual counseling is working one-on-one with a counselor. You meet with your counselor throughout treatment.
- Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender (LGBT) Group focuses on issues LGBT patients experience during recovery.
- Parenting groups teach ways to raise your children. We use education and emotional support.
- Psychiatric Services are available if you need them. We can also provide psychiatric consultation and treatment.
- Spanish-speaking relapse prevention group takes place in Spanish. It has the same curriculum as the other relapse prevention group.
- Stress management helps prevent relapse. You learn to relax using breathing, exercise, guided imagery, and meditation.
- Substance use disorder education helps you understand addiction as a disease. We explore how it affects your body chemistry and behavior. You learn coping strategies.
- Vocational preparation can assist in your job search. Our vocational counselor helps you explore different careers, prepare to work, fine-tune our resume, and search for employment. We can refer you to training programs and practice job interviews.
Outpatient Programs at Mount Sinai West
- The Outpatient Addiction Program at Mount Sinai West is offers the full spectrum of addiction treatment ranging from intensive outpatient programming to non-intensive programming. We offer a group therapy based program that includes individual counseling and the use of the latest FDA-approved pharmacotherapy.
- Specific groups include the following:
- Crystal Clear Project (Methamphetamine): We designed the Crystal Clear Project to address the growing problem of crystal methamphetamine use. We also focus on its link to unsafe sexual practices among gay and bisexual men.
As part of our Crystal Clear Project, you can also join our other programs that address crystal methamphetamine abuse. The programs are also open to gay men struggling with other substances.
The Addiction Institute of Mount Sinai - West is a welcoming place for open conversation. You can talk about drug and alcohol use, sexual behaviors, homophobia, and intimacy. We hope that this environment will help you feel better about yourself as a gay man. And change your substance use patterns. We also provide education to increase awareness about methamphetamines. Our goals are to help clinicians become more sensitive to the needs of their LGBT clients.
If you are part of the Crystal Clear Project, you can join any of the other services at The Addiction Institute of Mount Sinai West. You can also participate in any of the other medical and psychiatric services of Mount Sinai Morningside and Mount Sinai West hospitals.
- Intensive Outpatient Program
- 5 days per week
- Dedicated group programming for relapse prevention, recovery skills, psychoeducation, family of origin, men’s group, women’s group, coping with triggers, DBT-group, and weekend planning.
Recovery for Seniors
- Recovery process group in the context of aging, which presents unique challenges and considerations. Therapeutic interventions focus on addressing patient issues and promoting emotional resilience.
Resilience after Trauma
- Provides a safe space for individuals to process and heal from past traumas that may have contributed to their addiction. This group focuses on developing resilience, coping skills and strategies to navigate triggers, stressors and challenges associated with trauma and addiction.
Integrating Recovery into Practice
- Helps individuals transition from structured addiction treatment programs to real-world settings, where they can apply learned skills, navigate challenges, and maintain long-term recovery
Crafting a Life
- Focuses on reintegration and adjustment, goal setting, skill development, rediscovery of self and community support. This group supports the rebuilding of your healthy life.
Life Stages in Recovery
- A process group that acknowledges and addresses the varying challenges and needs individuals face at different stages of their recovery journey.
- Structured, supportive, and therapeutic environment where individuals can explore, heal, and grow on their journey towards recovery.
Recovery Relationships
- Designed to address the complex dynamics of relationships during and after addiction recovery.
Emerging Adulthood
- Designed to support young adults (typically ages 18-29) who are navigating the challenges of addiction recovery during this developmental stage. Focus is placed on navigating transitions, supporting developmental challenges, skill development, peer support and goal setting/achievement.
Interpersonal therapy
- This is a structured and attachment-focused therapeutic approach designed to help individuals improve their interpersonal relationships and manage interpersonal issues that contribute to psychological distress.
Empowered in Recovery
- Designed to empower individuals in their journey towards sustained sobriety and personal growth highlighting self-discovery, skill development, peer support and holistic wellness.
Interpersonal Relationships
- A process-oriented group that focuses on navigating relationship challenges, developing self-awareness, and practicing emotion-regulation skills. Members are encouraged to express their thoughts and feelings in real time, and the interpersonal experience between group members is emphasized. This group is designed to help individuals develop a more authentic sense of self, deepen relationships, and build meaningful connections as tools to manage their addiction.
Dual Recovery
- This group is specifically designed to support, empower, and enhance skills of individuals who are facing the dual challenge of substance use disorder (addiction) and co-occurring mental health disorders.
- 5:00pm (M and Thursday in Person)
- 1:00pm (T, W F in person)
- 10:30am (W in person)
Recovery Circle
- Provides support, encouragement, and guidance to individuals who are actively engaged in addiction recovery.
Self-Compassion
- Focused on cultivating self-compassion, reducing self-criticism, promoting emotional resilience, improving self-care practices and building a supportive community.
Alumni Group
- Specifically designed for individuals who have met their primary treatment goals for addiction. This group is focused on stable recovery, community engagement, continued learning, personal growth and fulfillment and an improved quality of life.
- 2x a month (virtual)
- 2x a month (in person)
- Addiction Medicine Service: At our Addiction Medicine Service, we treat a wide variety of problems. Our staff includes an addiction medicine physician and an addiction psychiatrist. We do in-depth assessments to understand what is going on. Then we develop a personalized outpatient treatment plan for you. You can benefit from this program if you work or attend school, and do not require a residential program.
We offer medication management for opioids, alcohol, tobacco, and other substances. You may receive buprenorphine (Suboxone) for opioid dependency. We can also prescribe medication to treat any other psychiatric disorders you may have. In addition, we do one-on-one counseling. We use cognitive behavioral therapy and motivational interviewing. - Buprenorphine: We use buprenorphine to treat opioid dependence. It is the only opioid that is FDA-approved for use outside of a traditional methadone maintenance program. We use it to help you detox and to stay off opioids, short- and long-term. It is effective for inpatients and outpatients. Our program has three parts:
- Induction is when we switch you from another opioid to buprenorphine. We can do this complex procedure as an inpatient or as an outpatient under a doctor’s guidance.
- Stabilization is finding the dosage of buprenorphine that allows you to participate in therapy and return to work. This can take weeks to months.
- Naltrexone is an opioid antagonist that blocks the effects of opioids. We offer a naltrexone program for people who are interested.