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Canaan, Connecticut, United States
Mountainside Treatment Center
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28+ days
A private-insurance center providing integrated addiction treatment with a loved one standard of care, personalized treatment, and a seamless continuum of care.
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About Mountainside Treatment Center
Mountainside Treatment Center is a nationally acclaimed behavioral health network specializing in individualized addiction rehabilitation programs and services. They respect each client’s recovery journey, and for over two decades, have proudly served thousands of people in need of holistic addiction treatment. Mountainside Treatment Center uses a unique Integrative Model of Care to guide clients through their personalized recovery journey. Their levels of care include:
•Medically supervised detox
•Residential care
•Extended residential care (sober living)
•Intensive outpatient program (IOP)
•Outpatient program, virtual outpatient services, and adolescent services.
Professional And Personalized Treatment
Mountainside Treatment’s staff includes an addiction psychiatrist, medical doctors, masters-level clinicians, therapists, nursing staff, and wellness professionals. They tailor each treatment plan to each client's unique needs, goals, and histories. Their plans include individual and group therapy, anger management, 12-Step meetings, adventure therapies, wellness services like acupuncture, and a specialized healthcare professionals program. Mountainside Treatment provides daily group therapies and 2-3 weekly individual sessions with their primary clinician and additional sessions with a family wellness clinician and/or recovery support clinician. They offer weekly family therapy to help loved ones understand addiction, recovery, and how to offer support.
Specialized Programs And Sequential Care
Mountainside Treatment’s Bespoke Program offers a private suite with high-speed wifi, a laptop, phone, and tablet for work needs. Clients in the Bespoke Program can continue to work as they focus on their recovery. Their individual therapy sessions and wellness services can come to the client’s suite for highly private care. Mountainside Treatment’s residential treatment lasts 35 days, after which clients can begin sober living, intensive outpatient, or outpatient programs. Intensive outpatient lasts 7 weeks.
In outpatient treatment, clients attend weekly 1:1 therapy and a group session of their choice for 10 weeks. Groups include Recovery Maintenance, Women’s Empowerment, CBT for Co-Occurring Disorders, Remembrance and Mourning, and Integrative Healing. Their sober living program takes place in a comfortable nearby home.
A Special Place to Heal
Mountainside Treatment rests in the foothills of the Berkshire mountain range in Canaan, Connecticut. The facility spans over 80 acres and borders 3,000 acres of state preserve. Each single or double room is carefully designed with the client’s healing in mind. Their campus provides serene walking trails, calming streams, waterfalls, and a meditation garden. Clients can enjoy an on-site fitness center, meditation room, volleyball court, and basketball court. On-site chefs prepare healthy meals. Mountainside Treatment Center is accredited by the Joint Commission and accepts most private insurance. Additionally, clients can self-pay.
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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 start receiving 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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Integrative Care Model
Mountainside Treatment uses their unique Integrative Care Model to provide comprehensive, patient-focused care. Their clinicians and practitioners focus on the whole person, integrating physical, mental, and spiritual care into treatment. Mountainside Treatment uses psychiatric evaluations, physical exams, genetic matching, and medication-assisted treatment to further personalize treatment.
Multiple Levels of Care
Mountainside Treatment sequentially guides clients through their levels of care. These levels include detox and residential treatment, intensive outpatient, outpatient, virtual outpatient services, sober living/extended care, and recovery coaching. Depending on their unique needs, clients may start in residential care, intensive outpatient, or outpatient and smoothly progress to the next level of care.
Family-Wide Recovery
Mountainside Treatment provides weekly family therapy sessions in person or online. Clients can also meet 1:1 with their therapist to discuss their family relationships and dynamics. In family sessions, loved ones learn more about addiction, mental health, recovery, and how they can best support their family member in recovery.
Continued Connection
Mountainside Treatment connects with clients long after their treatment programs end. Their recovery coaches check-in daily and meet with clients weekly to help them with legal needs, getting a job, starting school, and learning daily living skills. Mountainside Treatment hosts alumni events and activities, offers an alumni-only app, free virtual support groups, and mobile alcohol testing through Soberlink.
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Center Overview
Founded
1998
Occupancy
50+
Languages
English
Accreditation
Joint Commission
Who We Treat
Men
Women
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.
Address
Canaan, CT, USA
Treatment Focus: Substance Use and Co-Occurring Mental Health
Care Options
Substance use involves repeated use of substances like alcohol, cocaine, or heroin. Taking the substance can become addicting and cause physical dependency. Comprehensive treatment addresses the physical and emotional effects of substance use to help people safely detox and learn coping strategies.
Detox
Typically the initial stage of treatment for substance use, focusing on medically supervised management of withdrawal symptoms.
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Residential substance use treatment offers long-term care for those with severe or chronic health conditions, providing a structured live-in environment that includes meals, social activities, and therapeutic services. Residents receive medical monitoring and access to continuous care.
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Sober Living
Not Offered at This Center
Transitional housing designed to support individuals recovering from substance use disorders offering a safe, supportive and structured environment for practicing long-term sobriety, while reintegrating back into daily living.
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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.
Explore all day treatment centers in New EnglandIntensive Outpatient Program
An intensive outpatient program (IOP) falls between inpatient care and traditional outpatient services, with therapy and skills-building activities designed to support recovery and provide flexibility. IOP is ideal for those needing support but not the 24/7 care of a residential facility.
Intensive outpatient centers in New EnglandOutpatient
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.
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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.
Explore all online treatment centersCo-Occurring Mental Health
Treatment for co-occurring mental health disorders, which affect the majority of individuals diagnosed, integrates care for mental health conditions with primary substance use. Personalized care plans are crafted to effectively address each condition simultaneously, optimizing the healing process.
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Treatment
Specializations
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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Approaches
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.
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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Online Therapy
Patients can connect with a therapist via videochat, messaging, email, or phone. Remote therapy makes treatment more accessible.
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Acupuncture
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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Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
DBT
This stage-based therapy helps patients address their realities and behaviors while inspiring healthy change, primarily in regulating emotions.
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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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Dialectical Behavior Therapy
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
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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Substances We Treat
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.
Marijuana
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.
Aftercare
Recovery Retreats (alumni pay an event fee)
Outpatient Treatment
Online Aftercare
Aftercare App
Alumni Reunions
Private, Online Alumni Groups
Support Meetings (on-site)
Experience
Personal Amenities
Air-Conditioned Rooms
Desk
En Suite Bathroom
Housekeeping
Laundry Service
Private or Shared Rooms
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Welcome Package
Amenities
Access to Nature
Airport Transfers
Basketball Court
Fitness Center
Gardens
Library
Chef-prepared Meals
Outdoor Lounge
Recreation Room
Volleyball Court
Luxury
Special Considerations
Dietary Accommodations
Family Program
COVID-19 Measures
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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Activities
Rock Climbing
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
Games
Hiking
Physical Fitness
Ropes Course
Ziplining
Acupuncture
Off-Site Activities
AA/NA Meetings
Adventure Outings
Hiking
Acupuncture
Professional Staff
Randall Dwenger
Chief Medical Officer
MD
Ashley McGee
Senior Vice President of Medical Services
RN
Caroline Newton
Medical Director
MD
Jennifer Schoonmaker
Director of Nursing
RN
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5.0Average of 7 review(s)
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Treatment
Value
Pros
- Friendly & Competent Staff (7)
- Family Program (3)
- Treated My Loved One With Respect (3)
- Trustworthy (2)
Mike A
Alcohol
Opioids
Marijuana
BC
Alcohol
Benzodiazepines
Opioids
+3
Ethan R
Alcohol
Marijuana
Anxiety
+2
JC
Alcohol
Benzodiazepines
Cocaine
+4
TL
Alcohol
Cocaine
Prescription Drugs
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