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About Mountainside Treatment Center
Mountainside Treatment Center is a nationally recognized behavioral health network known for its compassionate, best-in-class addiction treatment. For over 25 years, they have empowered individuals to reclaim their lives through a holistic approach that heals the mind, body, and spirit. Guided by their innovative Integrative Model of Care, Mountainside meets clients where they are on their recovery journey and provides personalized treatment every step of the way.
Accredited by the Joint Commission, ASAM, and CARF, Mountainside works with most private insurance plans and offers self-pay options, ensuring accessibility to their exceptional care.
Their comprehensive services include:
Mountainside is built on the belief that recovery is possible for everyone. They create a safe, supportive environment where hope and healing can flourish.
Mountainside Treatment Center’s multidisciplinary team includes addiction psychiatrists, medical doctors, masters-level clinicians, therapists, nursing staff, and wellness professionals, all working collaboratively to provide seamless, compassionate care. Each client receives a personalized treatment plan tailored to their unique needs, goals, and histories. Their integrated approach combines evidence-based clinical therapies—such as individual and group counseling—with holistic practices like acupuncture, adventure therapy, and wellness services. By addressing both the physical and psychological aspects of addiction, Mountainside empowers clients to achieve lasting recovery.
Mountainside also offers family services to help loved ones better understand addiction and recovery, fostering a supportive environment that contributes to lasting transformation.
Mountainside Treatment Center’s Bespoke Program is designed for individuals seeking an elevated level of privacy and flexibility during their recovery journey. This exclusive program includes a private suite equipped with high-speed Wi-Fi, a laptop, phone, and tablet to accommodate work needs. Clients in the Bespoke Program receive highly private care, with individual therapy sessions and wellness services brought directly to their suite. For those seeking a more structured treatment experience, Mountainside offers a 35-day residential program that can transition seamlessly into sober living, intensive outpatient (IOP), or outpatient programs. The intensive outpatient program spans seven weeks, providing robust support as clients continue to progress in their recovery.
Mountainside clients have access to a full continuum of addiction treatment programs and offerings across the Northeast, including Connecticut, New York, and New Jersey. This expansive network allows clients to transition seamlessly between levels of care, ensuring consistent support at every stage of recovery. Mountainside’s outpatient programs accommodate diverse schedules with morning, evening, weekend, and virtual options, enabling clients to balance their work, family, and personal commitments while receiving the therapy and support they need. This personalized and flexible approach ensures that clients have access to high-quality care whenever and wherever they need it.
Mountainside’s primary location rests in the serene Berkshire Mountains in Canaan, Connecticut. The expansive 200+ acre property provides a peaceful setting designed to support healing and transformation. Each single and double room is thoughtfully designed with the client’s recovery in mind.
The campus features walking trails, calming streams, waterfalls, and a meditation garden, offering spaces for restoration and connection to nature. Clients also have access to an on-site fitness center, meditation room, volleyball court, and basketball court. On-site chefs prepare meals that emphasize both health and nourishment, ensuring that every detail of the environment supports physical, emotional, and spiritual wellbeing.
Mountainside’s tranquil surroundings and thoughtful amenities come together to provide a sanctuary where clients can focus on their recovery and rediscover their potential.
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Insurance Accepted
Provider's Policy:We work with most private insurance plans, including Aetna, Anthem, BCBS, Beacon, Connecticare, Cigna, Empire BCBS, GEHA, Harvard Pilgrim, NYSHIP, Optum, Oxford, The Empire Plan, UBH, UHC, and UMR. WE DO NOT ACCEPT STATE INSURANCE, MEDICARE, OR MEDICAID. We make the insurance verification process fast and simple so that you can receive the quality treatment you need as soon as possible. Simply fill out our secure online form. Within 24 hours, one of our admission specialists will provide you with an estimated cost of treatment and discuss the next steps in your recovery journey.
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Mountainside Treatment Center offers a comprehensive continuum of programs, ensuring clients receive the right level of care at every stage of their recovery journey. From medically supervised detox and residential treatment to intensive outpatient, outpatient, and virtual services, Mountainside provides a seamless progression of care tailored to each individual’s unique needs. This integrated approach allows clients to transition smoothly between programs, including sober living/extended care and recovery coaching, with a focus on maintaining stability and momentum in their recovery. By offering a full spectrum of services, Mountainside empowers individuals to build a strong foundation for long-term healing and transformation.
Mountainside Treatment Center employs its unique Integrative Care Model to deliver comprehensive, patient-focused care that addresses the whole person—mind, body, and spirit. By combining behavioral, psychiatric, and somatic therapies, their approach is designed to treat the whole person. Grounded in a trauma-informed philosophy, Mountainside provides a safe and supportive environment where clients can heal from past experiences and develop healthy coping mechanisms. Their services range from traditional counseling to innovative therapies like Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), ensuring that each treatment plan is tailored to the individual’s unique needs. Mountainside further personalizes care with tools like psychiatric evaluations, physical exams, genetic matching, and medication-assisted treatment, delivering a level of clinical sophistication that fosters lasting recovery.
Addiction is often called a “family disease” because its impact extends beyond the individual. Mountainside Treatment Center’s Family Services are designed to help loved ones navigate the challenges addiction can bring to relationships and dynamics. Mountainside understands the complexities that addiction inflicts on family dynamics, and their team provides the tools and nurturing environment needed to navigate these challenges. Their Family Services empowers families to repair trust, enhance communication, and establish healthy boundaries, creating a foundation for lasting healing and stronger connections.
Mountainside fosters a vibrant and supportive recovery community that extends beyond the walls of our facilities. Our alumni program provides ongoing support and connection, offering a network of encouragement and accountability. Mountainside also offers free resources for families and individuals, including support groups, educational workshops, and community events to keep everyone connected.
Young Adults
Emerging adults ages 18-25 receive treatment catered to the unique challenges of early adulthood, like college, risky behaviors, and vocational struggles.
LGBTQ+
Addiction and mental illnesses in the LGBTQ+ community must be treated with an affirming, safe, and relevant approach, which many centers provide.
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.
Pregnant Women
Addiction and mental health treatment meets the clinical and psychological needs of pregnant women, ensuring they receive optimal care in all areas.
Recovery Coaching
Adolescents
Teens receive the treatment they need for mental health disorders and addiction, with the added support of educational and vocational services.
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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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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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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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Group Therapy
Two or more people meet with a therapist together. Patients get valuable peer support, strengthen interpersonal skills, and improve self-awareness.
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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Personalized Treatment
The specific needs, histories, and conditions of individual patients receive personalized, highly relevant care throughout their recovery journey.
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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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Wellness
Wellness philosophies focus on the physical, mental, and spiritual wellness of each patient, helping them restore purpose with natural remedies.
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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Online Therapy
Patients can connect with a therapist via videochat, messaging, email, or phone. Remote therapy makes treatment more accessible.
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Mindfulness Therapy
This ancient practice can be mental, emotional, and even spiritual. In meditation, you focus your attention on the present moment without judgement.
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Adventure Therapy
This experiential approach uses the physical and emotional challenges of outdoor activities as tools for personal growth.
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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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Expressive Arts
Creative processes like art, writing, or dance use inner creative desires to help boost confidence, emotional growth, and initiate change.
Eye Movement Therapy (EMDR)
Lateral, guided eye movements help reduce the emotional reactions of retelling and reprocessing trauma, allowing intense feelings to dissipate.
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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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Horticultural Therapy
Gardening can be both meditative and inspiring. This therapy encourages social, emotional, and physical recovery.
Nutrition Counseling
Nutritious food helps patients heal from within, setting them up for mental and bodily wellness as they learn about healthy eating.
Psychoeducation
This method combines treatment with education, teaching patients about different paths toward recovery. This empowers them to make more effective decisions.
Relapse Prevention Counseling
Relapse prevention counselors teach patients to recognize the signs of relapse and reduce their risk.
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Somatic Experiencing
This method treats emotional trauma stored in the body. A therapist helps patients work through the physical feelings associated with emotional pain.
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Sound Therapy
Sound therapy incorporates music, sound waves, and vibrations to promote emotional and spiritual healing.
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Spiritual Care
Tending to spiritual health helps treatment become more effective, allowing patients to better cope with their emotions and rebuild their spiritual wellbeing.
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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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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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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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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.
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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Ecstasy
Ecstasy is a stimulant that causes intense euphoria and heightened awareness. Abuse of this drug can trigger depression, insomnia, and memory problems.
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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Smoking Cessation
Quitting smoking—i.e., ceasing to smoke—means giving up smoking nicotine and tobacco products. This process has very important health benefits.
Synthetic Drugs
Synthetic drugs are made in a lab, unlike plant-based drugs like mushrooms. Most synthetic drugs are either stimulants or synthetic cannabinoids.
Executive Program
Addiction and mental health treatment for executives typically involves high discretion, greater technology access, and more private, 1-on-1 care.
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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.
LGBTQ group
Group therapy unites LGBTQ+ patients in a safe and culturally competent setting, encouraging peer support under the expert leadership of a therapist.
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Yoga
Yoga is both a physical and spiritual practice. It includes a flow of movement, breathing techniques, and meditation.
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Mackenzie Humes
Manager of Nursing
BSN, RN
Jose Perez
Residential Nurse Lead
RN, CARN
Trisha DiBiase
Psychiatric Advanced Practice Registered Nurse
MSN, PMHNP
Meesha Jemison
Psychiatric Advanced Practice Registered Nurse
MSN, APRN, PMHNP-BC
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