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At Bold Steps Behavioral Health, we accept a wide range of private insurance plans to help make mental health and addiction treatment more accessible. Our team works closely with your insurance provider to verify your benefits and ensure that you receive the coverage you are entitled to.
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About Bold Steps Behavioral Health New Hampshire
Founded on the principle that compassionate care and evidence-based treatment can transform lives, Bold Steps provides a safe, supportive space for individuals to begin their recovery journey. They offer detox, day treatment, intensive outpatient, outpatient, and medication management for addiction, primary mental health, and co-occurring disorders. From intake to discharge, clients join a supportive community that listens well, treats clients like friends, and emphasizes comfort and respect.
Bold Steps Behavioral Health offers a comprehensive array of evidence-based treatment options. From cognitive behavioral therapy and dialectical behavior therapy to individual counseling and group sessions, clients have access to proven approaches tailored to their unique needs. The skilled therapists at Bold Steps are committed to helping clients develop coping skills, process emotions, and achieve lasting positive change. From family dynamics to lifestyle obstacles, they set clients up for success by taking a big-picture look at how healing fits their lives.
Bold Steps is committed to matching clients with the right combination of therapy practices to help clients with their addiction and recovery process. They help clients identify and change negative thought patterns and behaviors. Common techniques include cognitive restructuring to reframe distorted thinking, behavioral activation to increase engagement in positive activities, and exposure therapy to reduce avoidance. Clients also learn valuable skills that help them better regulate emotions, develop healthier coping mechanisms, and become aware of their thoughts, feelings, and bodily sensations.
At Bold Steps, clients can explore diverse treatment options beyond CBT and DBT. Two trauma-informed therapists are on staff to provide specific approaches like eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) and trauma therapy. Art and equine therapy help clients process emotions through non-verbal expression. Psycho-education groups include speaking series, presentations, and video trainings on substance use and healthy coping mechanisms. And, family/couples counseling nurtures change in a safe setting under the guidance of a certified therapist with a spouse and/or loved ones.
The recovery journey doesn’t end when clients leave Bold Steps. They offer robust aftercare and alumni support services to help clients maintain sobriety and prevent relapse. Their alumni community provides a strong network of encouragement and accountability.
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Provider's Policy:At Bold Steps Behavioral Health, we accept a wide range of private insurance plans to help make mental health and addiction treatment more accessible. Our team works closely with your insurance provider to verify your benefits and ensure that you receive the coverage you are entitled to.
Bold Steps Behavioral Health offers comprehensive 12-Step Facilitation Therapy. This evidence-based approach aims to increase the likelihood of a person becoming affiliated with and actively involved in 12-step self-help groups like Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) or Narcotics Anonymous (NA). A Bold Steps therapist will introduce the 12 steps, encourage meeting attendance, and explore challenges around embracing a spiritual recovery program. The goal is to facilitate the client’s smooth transition into a community-based fellowship after completing formal treatment.
With guidance and a treatment plan from Bold Steps Behavioral Health, clients are equipped for the challenges of managing multiple conditions simultaneously. Their team specializes in evidence-based therapies that will treat co-occurring disorders concurrently, monitoring progress to ensure that one element is not a barrier to progress in treatment. They help clients identify triggers, find healthy coping strategies, and start building the life they deserve. With small steps each day, clients gain hope, resilience, and a community of support.
The proper prescription and monitoring of medications is crucial to effective mental health and behavioral health treatments. Bold Steps’ specialists will review clients’ prescriptions and their effects on the daily regimen to promote a healthy lifestyle and overall well-being. They work to ensure safe, effective, and appropriate use of medications. This involves monitoring, reviewing, and adjusting medications to optimize therapeutic outcomes while minimizing potential risks or adverse effects.
Bold Steps understands the immense value of sober living environments in supporting long-term recovery. That’s why they’ve forged strategic partnerships with premier luxury sober living facilities. For clients seeking additional treatment options to support their journey toward wellness, Bold Steps will help them find placement in a safe, supportive, and structured living situation to help maintain sobriety and develop the life skills necessary for long-term recovery.
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.
Emerging adults ages 18-25 receive treatment catered to the unique challenges of early adulthood, like college, risky behaviors, and vocational struggles.
Addiction and mental illnesses in the LGBTQ+ community must be treated with an affirming, safe, and relevant approach, which many centers provide.
Men and women attend treatment for addiction in a co-ed setting, going to therapy groups together to share experiences, struggles, and successes.
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.
Adults with mild physical or intellectual disabilities receive treatment catered to their specific needs in a safe and clinically supportive environment.
Addiction and mental health treatment meets the clinical and psychological needs of pregnant women, ensuring they receive optimal care in all areas.
Busy, high-ranking professionals get the personalized treatment they need with greater accommodations for work, privacy, and outside communication.
Patients who completed active military duty receive specialized treatment focused on trauma, grief, loss, and finding a new work-life balance.
You can admit to this center with a primary substance use disorder or a primary mental health condition. You'll receive support each step of the way and individualized care catered to your unique situation and diagnosis.
In a PHP, patients live at home but follow an intensive schedule of treatment. Most programs require you to be on-site for about 40 hours per week.
Using alcohol as a coping mechanism, or drinking excessively throughout the week, signals an alcohol use disorder.
Benzodiazepines are prescribed to treat anxiety and sleep issues. They are highly habit forming, and their abuse can cause mood changes and poor judgement.
A person with multiple mental health diagnoses, such as addiction and depression, has co-occurring disorders also called dual diagnosis.
Drug addiction is the excessive and repetitive use of substances, despite harmful consequences to a person's life, health, and relationships.
Opioids produce pain-relief and euphoria, which can lead to addiction. This class of drugs includes prescribed medication and the illegal drug heroin.
During outpatient rehab, patients attend a structured treatment program while continuing to live at home.
PTSD is a long-term mental health issue caused by a disturbing event or events. Symptoms include anxiety, dissociation, flashbacks, and intrusive thoughts.
In a PHP, patients live at home but follow an intensive schedule of treatment. Most programs require you to be on-site for about 40 hours per week.
Detox fully and safely removes toxic substances from the body, allowing the next steps in treatment to begin with a clean slate.
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.
Some primary care providers offer mental health diagnosis and treatment. This can prevent patients from developing more serious conditions.
During outpatient rehab, patients attend a structured treatment program while continuing to live at home.
A combination of scientifically rooted therapies and treatments make up evidence-based care, defined by their measured and proven results.
Individual care meets the needs of each patient, using personalized treatment to provide them the most relevant care and greatest chance of success.
Incorporating spirituality, community, and responsibility, 12-Step philosophies prioritize the guidance of a Higher Power and a continuation of 12-Step practices.
Patient and therapist meet 1-on-1 to work through difficult emotions and behavioral challenges in a personal, private setting.
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.
This form of talk therapy addresses any childhood trauma at the root of a patient's current diagnosis.
Visual art invites patients to examine the emotions within their work, focusing on the process of creativity and its gentle therapeutic power.
Family therapy addresses group dynamics within a family system, with a focus on improving communication and interrupting unhealthy relationship patterns.
Massage therapy relieves physical and emotional tension, reduces pain, promotes relaxation, and improves emotion regulation.
Believing meaning and purpose can ease suffering and inspire change, this therapy connects patients to their spiritual and creative values.
Combined with behavioral therapy, prescribed medications can enhance treatment by relieving withdrawal symptoms and focus patients on their recovery.
Schizophrenia is a serious mental health condition that causes hallucinations, delusions, and disordered thinking.
Personality disorders destabilize the way a person thinks, feels, and behaves. If untreated, they can undermine relationships and lead to severe distress.
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 is a common mental health condition that can include excessive worry, panic attacks, physical tension, and increased blood pressure.
This mental health condition is characterized by extreme mood swings between depression, mania, and remission.
Symptoms of depression may include fatigue, a sense of numbness, and loss of interest in activities. This condition can range from mild to severe.
OCD is characterized by intrusive and distressing thoughts that drive repetitive behaviors. This pattern disrupts daily life and relationships.
PTSD is a long-term mental health issue caused by a disturbing event or events. Symptoms include anxiety, dissociation, flashbacks, and intrusive thoughts.
The act of intentionally harming oneself, also called self-injury, is associated with mental health issues like depression.
Using alcohol as a coping mechanism, or drinking excessively throughout the week, signals an alcohol use disorder.
Benzodiazepines are prescribed to treat anxiety and sleep issues. They are highly habit forming, and their abuse can cause mood changes and poor judgement.
Consistent relapse occurs repeatedly, after partial recovery from addiction. This condition requires long-term treatment.
A person with multiple mental health diagnoses, such as addiction and depression, has co-occurring disorders also called dual diagnosis.
Cocaine is a stimulant with euphoric effects. Agitation, muscle ticks, psychosis, and heart issues are common symptoms of cocaine abuse.
Drug addiction is the excessive and repetitive use of substances, despite harmful consequences to a person's life, health, and relationships.
Ecstasy is a stimulant that causes intense euphoria and heightened awareness. Abuse of this drug can trigger depression, insomnia, and memory problems.
Heroin is a highly addictive and illegal opioid. It can cause insomnia, collapsed veins, heart issues, and additional mental health issues.
Hallucinogenic drugs—like LSD—cause euphoria and increased sensory experiences. When abused, they can lead to depression and psychosis.
Methamphetamine, or meth, increases energy, agitation, and paranoia. Long-term use can result in severe physical and mental health issues.
Using gentle clinical care, therapists guide patients and their partner through guided sessions to address issues and work towards lasting solutions.
Centers with flexible technology policies allow professionals to stay in touch with work and give patients a greater sense of connection and normalcy.
Patients in gender-specific groups gain the opportunity to discuss challenges unique to their gender in a comfortable, safe setting conducive to healing.
Ella Driscoll
Executive Director
MLADC, LCMHC, LCS, LADC, LCPC
Kerry Andrek
Clinical Director
Master’s degree in Trauma Counseling
Joseph Curran
Chief Operating Officer
The staff is absolutely amazing. By far the most important factor in the quality of a recovery center is the people who work there. From the doctors to the therapists to the support team.
Cindy L.
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