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Goodyear, Arizona, United States
Algamus Gambling Recovery Center
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5 Weeks
Helps clients begin a new life that is no longer gripped by gambling. Clients benefit from a 1:1 staff-to-client ratio and 30+ years of gambling-specific care.
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About Algamus Gambling Recovery Center
Algamus Recovery Services has been treating gambling addiction and the unique issues related to it for over 30 years. They serve men and women from all walks of life and all types of gambling addiction, including sports betting, poker, table games, slot machines, online games, and more. Featured on A&E’s Intervention, Algamus is one of the only residential gambling treatment centers in the United States, and the only one that is JCAHO accredited.
Benefit from Proven Therapies and Holistic Practices
Algamus offers a 4- to 8-week residential program tailored to gambling addiction. Many staff members are in recovery themselves, creating a compassionate environment with deep insight into the unique financial, legal, and emotional challenges gambling addiction presents. Their approach combines evidence-based modalities like cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), group sessions, and holistic practices that promote mindfulness, physical fitness, and creativity. Certified gambling counselors and clinical psychiatrists address the root causes of addiction, including underlying mental health disorders, while integrating the 12-Step model.
Pursue Recovery with Personality-Based Strategies
At Algamus, they integrate the Enneagram, a personality framework, into treatment to offer a holistic and effective approach to recovery. This tool enhances self-awareness by helping clients understand the thought patterns, emotional triggers, core fears, and desires that lead to gambling. As a result, the Enneagram supports emotional healing and reduces reliance on unhealthy coping mechanisms. Treatment strategies are tailored to each client’s Enneagram type.
Heal in a Homelike Setting Away from Triggers
Algamus hosts clients in a serene lodge completely free from gambling and substances. With only 10 beds, including 2 private rooms ideal for unique needs like CPAP users, their accommodations ensure comfort with queen beds and no TVs in bedrooms, promoting rest and reflection. Clients can relax in one of three living rooms—two with TVs and one with a cozy den and fireplace—or enjoy outdoor amenities like a swimming pool and fire pit. A fitness regimen, including gym access, and the opportunity for clients to cook their own meals add to the homelike environment. Their scenic desert location is intentionally distanced from gambling venues, making it a welcoming space for those seeking to overcome gambling disorder.
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Insurance Accepted
Provider's Policy:Algamus Gambling Treatment Center accepts most commercial insurance providers, but coverage may vary by state or policy. Please note that at this time, we are not able to accept Medicare or Medicaid. Some of the major insurance providers that we are in network with include: Cigna, Tricare West, and Tricare West VA.
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Receive Tailored Support as a Female Gambler
Algamus creates a safe and supportive environment where women gamblers can feel secure as they work through recovery. With over 30 years of experience, they understand the unique differences in gambling behaviors by gender and provide effective support tailored to women’s needs. Their co-ed program addresses gambling addiction and its underlying mental health challenges, offering comprehensive treatment plans that promote healing for individuals and their relationships with loved ones, friends, and employers. Women are welcomed into a compassionate community focused on helping them build healthier lives.
Reset Over Winter Break from College
Algamus offers a winter gambling recovery program tailored for college students seeking to reclaim control over their lives during the December and January break. This program equips college students with tools to overcome any form of gambling addiction, from sports betting to online games. Their experienced team of therapists, psychiatrists, and counselors helps uncover the root causes of addiction while empowering students to build a healthier future. Free from the pressures of classes and exams, students can fully commit to their recovery journey, preparing for a fresh start the next semester.
Rebuild Trust and Heal as a Family
Algamus recognizes the critical role families play in the recovery process and offers a family program designed to support both the individual in recovery and their loved ones. Led by renowned therapist Renee Siegel, their family programming provides biweekly sessions, typically via telemedicine. Families learn to address their own concerns, identify enabling behaviors, rebuild trust, and create a supportive environment for sustained recovery. This program equips loved ones with the tools to support the client effectively while fostering their own healing, with lifelong access to family therapy.
Prevent Relapse with Comprehensive Aftercare
Recognizing that transitioning back to daily life can be challenging, Algamus provides each client with a personalized aftercare plan beginning upon arrival and evolving throughout treatment. This written plan includes relapse prevention strategies, techniques for managing triggers, and a roadmap for sustained recovery. Upon discharge, clients receive a comprehensive aftercare folder with medical records, clinical insights, and recommendations. Algamus connects clients with gambling-informed therapists and Gamblers Anonymous meetings in their local communities, as well as a curated list of self-help resources.
Center Overview
Founded
1992
Occupancy
6-15
Insurance
Accepted
Languages
English
Estimated Cash Pay Rate
$16,000 - 5 Weeks
Who We Treat
Men
Women
Older Adults
Addiction and mental health treatment caters to adults 55+ and the age-specific challenges that can come with recovery, wellness, and overall happiness.
Young Adults
Emerging adults ages 18-25 receive treatment catered to the unique challenges of early adulthood, like college, risky behaviors, and vocational struggles.
Men and Women
Men and women attend treatment for addiction in a co-ed setting, going to therapy groups together to share experiences, struggles, and successes.
Midlife Adults
For adults ages 40+, treatment shifts to focus on the unique challenges, blocks, and risk factors of their age group, and unites peers in a similar community.
Professionals
Busy, high-ranking professionals get the personalized treatment they need with greater accommodations for work, privacy, and outside communication.
Accreditation
Joint Commission
Address
1616 N. Litchfield Rd, Suite 220, Goodyear, AZ, 85395
Treatment Focus: Behavioral Addiction
Care Options
Behavioral addictions cause repeated compulsory engagement in pleasurable activities, such as gambling, despite adverse consequences. Treatment typically involves therapy and psychoeducation to help individuals understand and modify their behaviors while addressing underlying psychological factors.
Residential
Structured, live-in care for behavioral addiction treatment with various therapies to address underlying concerns, build new habits, and learn coping tools in group, 1:1, and family settings.
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Outpatient
Not Offered at This Center
Outpatient treatment offers flexible therapeutic and medical care without the need to stay overnight in a hospital or inpatient facility. Outpatient care typically offers a range of therapies and medical interventions individuals can attend alongside daily life.
Outpatient treatment in ArizonaVirtual & In-Home Care
Not Offered at This Center
The delivery of therapeutic services utilizing technology such as video conferencing, online messaging or phone calls, allowing for flexibility, comfort and increased access to care.
Online treatment centersCo-Occurring Disorders
Behavioral addictions can occur alongside a mental health condition or substance use disorder. Treatment for co-occurring behavioral addictions uses therapy and skill-building to teach new coping tools and address co-occurring disorders.
Treatment
Specializations
Co-Occurring Disorders
A person with multiple mental health diagnoses, such as addiction and depression, has co-occurring disorders also called dual diagnosis.
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Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Gambling
Compulsive gaming is most often a problem for children and teens. The disorder can affect physical health, sleep, and the ability to focus at school.
Individual Treatment
Individual care meets the needs of each patient, using personalized treatment to provide them the most relevant care and greatest chance of success.
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Twelve Step
Incorporating spirituality, community, and responsibility, 12-Step philosophies prioritize the guidance of a Higher Power and a continuation of 12-Step practices.
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Approaches
Evidence-Based
A combination of scientifically rooted therapies and treatments make up evidence-based care, defined by their measured and proven results.
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Individual Treatment
Individual care meets the needs of each patient, using personalized treatment to provide them the most relevant care and greatest chance of success.
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Twelve Step
Incorporating spirituality, community, and responsibility, 12-Step philosophies prioritize the guidance of a Higher Power and a continuation of 12-Step practices.
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Gender-Specific
Separate treatment for men or women can create strong peer connections and remove barriers related to trauma, shame, and gender-specific nuances.
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Therapies
1-on-1 Counseling
Patient and therapist meet 1-on-1 to work through difficult emotions and behavioral challenges in a personal, private setting.
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Meditation & Mindfulness
A practiced state of mind that brings patients to the present. It allows them to become fully aware of themselves, their feelings, and the present moment.
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Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Twelve Step Facilitation
12-Step groups offer a framework for addiction recovery. Members commit to a higher power, recognize their issues, and support each other in the healing process.
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Group Therapy
Two or more people meet with a therapist together. Patients get valuable peer support, strengthen interpersonal skills, and improve self-awareness.
Yoga
Yoga is both a physical and spiritual practice. It includes a flow of movement, breathing techniques, and meditation.
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Conditions We Treat
Gambling
Compulsive gaming is most often a problem for children and teens. The disorder can affect physical health, sleep, and the ability to focus at school.
Substances We Treat
Co-Occurring Disorders
A person with multiple mental health diagnoses, such as addiction and depression, has co-occurring disorders also called dual diagnosis.
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Aftercare
Aftercare Group Therapy
Experience
Personal Amenities
Air-Conditioned Rooms
Shared Rooms
Amenities
Access to Nature
Outdoor Lounge
Walking Trails
Special Considerations
Gender-specific groups
Patients in gender-specific groups gain the opportunity to discuss challenges unique to their gender in a comfortable, safe setting conducive to healing.
Activities
Yoga
Yoga is both a physical and spiritual practice. It includes a flow of movement, breathing techniques, and meditation.
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AA/NA Meetings
Adventure Outings
Physical Fitness
Professional Staff
Rick Benson
Founder
ICGC-II, CPGC
Bryan Hullihen
Managing Director
Jody Pegram
Co-Founder & CEO
ICGC-II
Ken Litwak
Executive Director
MS, LCADC, ICGC-II, CCTP, DRCC, IGDC
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