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Holistic Approach
Perfect for Professionals
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3+ Individual Sessions a Week
About Ascendant NY
Ascendant New York offers a private and welcoming space for individuals seeking recovery from addiction and co-occurring mental health challenges. Located on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, just steps from Central Park, the center provides detox, residential, outpatient, and intensive outpatient services. Every aspect of care is tailored to meet clients’ unique needs, helping them rebuild their lives with compassion and respect.
At Ascendant, no two recovery journeys are the same. Treatment sessions are designed to reflect the real needs and experiences of clients, focusing on topics that resonate and provide practical tools for everyday life. Whether addressing trauma, strengthening family connections, or navigating personal challenges, Ascendant’s flexible approach ensures each session is meaningful, effective, and helps build resilience.
Ascendant’s Upper East Side brownstone provides a calm and private environment where clients can focus on their recovery without distractions. With a small census and personalized care, the program prioritizes privacy and attention to ensure each client feels supported throughout their treatment.
Recovery doesn’t stop when treatment ends. Ascendant’s alumni program keeps clients connected through weekly in-person and virtual groups, a dedicated app for sharing milestones and resources, and regular outings that encourage community and connection.
Ascendant integrates holistic care into its recovery approach, offering yoga, therapeutic massages, and other wellness practices that support physical and mental healing. Clients enjoy a discreet, fully equipped facility and curated outings that enrich their recovery experience while building sober, meaningful memories.
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Our Centers
Ascendant’s medically-assisted inpatient detox program provides a safe and supportive environment with constant monitoring to ensure patient safety and comfort throughout the detox process. Each client undergoes a thorough assessment addressing physical, mental, and spiritual health to gain a comprehensive understanding of their substance use history. Once admitted, clients receive 24/7 attentive care, including regular assessments and tailored medications to manage withdrawal symptoms effectively and accelerate the detox process when possible. This personalized approach ensures stability and comfort as the body clears toxins, enabling clients to experience detox with dignity and ease before progressing to the next stage of recovery.
Clients in residential treatment stay in Ascendant’s upscale facility that remains a peaceful sanctuary despite the constant stir of the city. Inpatient mental health and drug rehab offer constant care, increased security, and easy access to a greater scope of services. Clients benefit from serene stability, 24/7 clinical care, individual and group therapy sessions, a holistic approach to care, and structured daily routines. Case managers organize activities for residential clients to explore New York as their playground.
Ascendant’s intensive outpatient program (IOP) provides a flexible yet comprehensive approach to addiction recovery, allowing clients to maintain their work and personal commitments while engaging fully in treatment. Available Monday through Thursday, the program offers a consistent and supportive schedule that includes 9 hours of weekly group therapy, individual therapy sessions, and regular drug and breathalyzer tests. Clients receive individualized treatment plans incorporating evidence-based therapies such as cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), dialectical behavioral therapy (DBT), and trauma-informed services. The program also emphasizes holistic care, offering experiential therapies, medication management, and aftercare planning to equip clients with the skills and support necessary for lifelong recovery.
For clients with conditions like anxiety and depression that commonly co-occur with substance use, Ascendant offers personalized integrative therapies that address the symptoms of each condition and how they affect one another. Treating these co-occurring conditions is crucial for addiction recovery, as self-medicating with drugs or alcohol to manage mental health symptoms often perpetuates the addiction cycle. They also provide comprehensive mental health medication management, ensuring that clients have access to necessary medications to support both recovery and mental wellness.
Executives
Executive treatment programs typically directly support the needs of people who manage businesses and may provide flexible schedules and office space to allow work during treatment.
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.
Professionals
Busy, high-ranking professionals get the personalized treatment they need with greater accommodations for work, privacy, and outside communication.
Alcohol
Using alcohol as a coping mechanism, or drinking excessively throughout the week, signals an alcohol use disorder.
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Benzodiazepines
Benzodiazepines are prescribed to treat anxiety and sleep issues. They are highly habit forming, and their abuse can cause mood changes and poor judgement.
Cocaine
Cocaine is a stimulant with euphoric effects. Agitation, muscle ticks, psychosis, and heart issues are common symptoms of cocaine abuse.
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Drug Addiction
Drug addiction is the excessive and repetitive use of substances, despite harmful consequences to a person's life, health, and relationships.
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Executives
Executive treatment programs typically directly support the needs of people who manage businesses and may provide flexible schedules and office space to allow work during treatment.
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Opioids
Opioids produce pain-relief and euphoria, which can lead to addiction. This class of drugs includes prescribed medication and the illegal drug heroin.
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Prescription Drugs
It's possible to abuse any drug, even prescribed ones. If you crave a medication, or regularly take it more than directed, you may have an addiction.
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Professionals
Busy, high-ranking professionals get the personalized treatment they need with greater accommodations for work, privacy, and outside communication.
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Detox
Detox fully and safely removes toxic substances from the body, allowing the next steps in treatment to begin with a clean slate.
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Intensive Outpatient Program
In an IOP, patients live at home or a sober living, but attend treatment typically 9-15 hours a week. Most programs include talk therapy, support groups, and other methods.
Outpatient
During outpatient rehab, patients attend a structured treatment program while continuing to live at home.
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Residential
In a residential rehab program, patients live onsite, with access to daily treatment and 24-hour care. An average stay is 30-90 days.
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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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Holistic
A non-medicinal, wellness-focused approach that aims to align the mind, body, and spirit for deep and lasting healing.
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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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Personalized Treatment
The specific needs, histories, and conditions of individual patients receive personalized, highly relevant care throughout their recovery journey.
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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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Aromatherapy
Inhaling or topically applying essential oils can help relieve stress, soothe pains, and relieve emotional distress.
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Art Therapy
Visual art invites patients to examine the emotions within their work, focusing on the process of creativity and its gentle therapeutic power.
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Experiential Therapy
With this approach, patients heal by doing. Therapists help patients process difficult emotions to speak, using guided activities like art or dance.
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Family Therapy
Family therapy addresses group dynamics within a family system, with a focus on improving communication and interrupting unhealthy relationship patterns.
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Massage Therapy
Massage therapy relieves physical and emotional tension, reduces pain, promotes relaxation, and improves emotion regulation.
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Motivational Interviewing and Enhancement Therapy (MET)
This approach is based on idea that motivation to change comes from within. Providers use a conversational framework that may help you commit to recovery.
Psychoeducation
This method combines treatment with education, teaching patients about different paths toward recovery. This empowers them to make more effective decisions.
Reiki
Hand placements or light touches over the body aim to strengthen patients' life energy, guided by a Reiki therapist with expertise in this Eastern medicine.
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Relapse Prevention Counseling
Relapse prevention counselors teach patients to recognize the signs of relapse and reduce their risk.
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Solution Focused, Goal-Oriented Therapy
A quick goal-oriented therapy that helps patients identify their current and future goals, find out how to achieve them, and empower future problem-solving.
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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Personality Disorders
Personality disorders destabilize the way a person thinks, feels, and behaves. If untreated, they can undermine relationships and lead to severe distress.
ADHD, ADD
ADHD is a common mental health condition caused by dopamine imbalance. Common symptoms include inattention, hyperactivitiy, and impulsivity.
Anger
Although anger itself isn't a disorder, it can get out of hand. If this feeling interferes with your relationships and daily functioning, treatment can help.
Anxiety
Anxiety is a common mental health condition that can include excessive worry, panic attacks, physical tension, and increased blood pressure.
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Bipolar
This mental health condition is characterized by extreme mood swings between depression, mania, and remission.
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Burnout
Burnout entails mental and physical exhaustion, and leads to a severe lack of fulfillment. This condition is often caused by overwork.
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Codependency
Codependency is a pattern of emotional dependence and controlling behavior. It's most common among people with addicted loved ones.
Depression
Symptoms of depression may include fatigue, a sense of numbness, and loss of interest in activities. This condition can range from mild to severe.
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Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
PTSD is a long-term mental health issue caused by a disturbing event or events. Symptoms include anxiety, dissociation, flashbacks, and intrusive thoughts.
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Suicidality
With suicidality, a person fantasizes about suicide, or makes a plan to carry it out. This is a serious mental health symptom.
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Trauma
Some traumatic events are so disturbing that they cause long-term mental health problems. Those ongoing issues can also be referred to as "trauma."
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Alcohol
Using alcohol as a coping mechanism, or drinking excessively throughout the week, signals an alcohol use disorder.
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Benzodiazepines
Benzodiazepines are prescribed to treat anxiety and sleep issues. They are highly habit forming, and their abuse can cause mood changes and poor judgement.
Chronic Relapse
Consistent relapse occurs repeatedly, after partial recovery from addiction. This condition requires long-term treatment.
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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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Cocaine
Cocaine is a stimulant with euphoric effects. Agitation, muscle ticks, psychosis, and heart issues are common symptoms of cocaine abuse.
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Drug Addiction
Drug addiction is the excessive and repetitive use of substances, despite harmful consequences to a person's life, health, and relationships.
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Heroin
Heroin is a highly addictive and illegal opioid. It can cause insomnia, collapsed veins, heart issues, and additional mental health issues.
Methamphetamine
Methamphetamine, or meth, increases energy, agitation, and paranoia. Long-term use can result in severe physical and mental health issues.
Opioids
Opioids produce pain-relief and euphoria, which can lead to addiction. This class of drugs includes prescribed medication and the illegal drug heroin.
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Prescription Drugs
It's possible to abuse any drug, even prescribed ones. If you crave a medication, or regularly take it more than directed, you may have an addiction.
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Synthetic Drugs
Synthetic drugs are made in a lab, unlike plant-based drugs like mushrooms. Most synthetic drugs are either stimulants or synthetic cannabinoids.
Yoga
Yoga is both a physical and spiritual practice. It includes a flow of movement, breathing techniques, and meditation.
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Luis Cajina
Nurse Practitioner
PMHNP, MS, BSN, RN
Charlotte Bareiss
Chief Clinical Officer
LCSW
Carolyn Vara
Clinical Supervisor
LMSW
Karl Morris
Outpatient Director
CASAC 2
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Would recommend ascendant to anyone who needs medical treatment for a substance abuse problem wholeheartedly. Coming from the darkest moments of my life I look at Ascendant with nothing but gratitude and so happy I found them when I did.
Christopher, Former Client
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