

Metropolitcan Center for Mental Health - Families and Individuals in Recovery (FAIR)
Treatment Focus
This center treats substance use disorders and mental health conditions. You'll receive individualized care catered to your unique situation and diagnosis, learn practical skills for recovery, and make new connections in a restorative environment.
Primary Level of Care
Outpatient treatment offers flexible therapeutic and medical care without the need to stay overnight in a hospital or inpatient facility. Some centers offer intensive outpatient program (IOP), which falls between inpatient care and traditional outpatient service.
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Treatment Focus
This center treats substance use disorders and mental health conditions. You'll receive individualized care catered to your unique situation and diagnosis, learn practical skills for recovery, and make new connections in a restorative environment.
Primary Level of Care
Outpatient treatment offers flexible therapeutic and medical care without the need to stay overnight in a hospital or inpatient facility. Some centers offer intensive outpatient program (IOP), which falls between inpatient care and traditional outpatient service.
Provider's Policy
The clinic accepts Medicaid, Medicare, and multiple Managed Care Plans, and offers sliding-scale fees for uninsured clients, including $50 intake and psychiatric evaluations. Payment is available by Zelle or check. Contact the clinic to confirm coverage and schedule your intake.
Metropolitcan Center for Mental Health - Families and Individuals in Recovery (FAIR)
Metropolitcan Center for Mental Health - Families and Individuals in Recovery (FAIR)
About Metropolitcan Center for Mental Health - Families and Individuals in Recovery (FAIR)
Accessible via West 165th Street near Saint Nicholas Avenue, Metropolitan Center for Mental Health is a nonprofit behavioral health clinic in New York City that operates Families and Individuals in Recovery (FAIR). It is an outpatient program supporting recovery from substance use disorder (SUD), alcohol addiction, and co-occurring mental health conditions. The program serves adults and families through structured outpatient care that includes assessment, counseling, psychiatric support, and aftercare planning. They offer weekday and evening hours to help clients stay engaged while balancing work, school, and family responsibilities.
They offer weekday and evening hours with appointments available Monday and Wednesday from 9:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m., and Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday from 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m., ensuring clients can stay engaged while balancing work, school, and family responsibilities.
Rebuild Balance With Support
FAIR uses a social and psychodynamic approach supported by individualized, evidence-informed therapies. Clients participate in individual counseling, group therapy, family and couples therapy, relapse-prevention groups, and self-help support. Care focuses on understanding substance use patterns, reducing relapse risk, and strengthening emotional insight, coping skills, and communication to support long-term recovery and mental wellness.
Trust Care With Deep Roots
The program is rooted in a long-standing commitment to community mental health that dates back to the clinic’s founding in 1962. FAIR builds on decades of experience serving diverse New York City neighborhoods with culturally responsive, family-centered care. Bilingual clinicians support English- and Spanish-speaking clients while addressing the needs of individuals, children, and loved ones affected by addiction. This legacy of service reinforces trust, continuity of care, and lasting recovery within the communities FAIR serves.
Center Overview
Treatment Focus
This center treats substance use disorders and mental health conditions. You'll receive individualized care catered to your unique situation and diagnosis, learn practical skills for recovery, and make new connections in a restorative environment.

Supportive Medication for Recovery
Medication-Assisted Treatment (MAT) is an evidence-based approach that pairs FDA-approved medications with counseling to treat addiction. The medications are used to reduce cravings, ease withdrawal symptoms, or block the effects of substances. More about MAT
Methadone
Naltrexone
Buprenorphine
This center accepts patients receiving MAT prescribed elsewhere for opioid use disorder, but does not provide MAT.
Note: Treatment centers offer different forms of MAT—such as oral tablets, dissolvable films, or monthly injections—and their policies can vary based on state regulations, provider preferences, and insurance coverage. Because of these differences, it's best to contact the center directly to learn what options are available and what might be right for your situation.
Insurance Accepted
Cash Pay Rates
Estimated Cash Pay Rate
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Levels of Care
Your Care Options
Specializations
Alcohol
Using alcohol as a coping mechanism, or drinking excessively throughout the week, signals an alcohol use disorder.
Co-Occurring Disorders
A person with multiple mental health diagnoses, such as addiction and depression, has co-occurring disorders also called dual diagnosis.
Drug Addiction
Drug addiction is the excessive and repetitive use of substances, despite harmful consequences to a person's life, health, and relationships.
Who We Treat
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.
Approaches
Evidence-Based
A combination of scientifically rooted therapies and treatments make up evidence-based care, defined by their measured and proven results.
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.
Medical
Medical addiction treatment uses approved medications to manage withdrawals and cravings, and to treat contributing mental health conditions.
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.
Couples Counseling
Partners work to improve their communication patterns, using advice from their therapist to better their relationship and make healthy changes.
Family Therapy
Family therapy addresses group dynamics within a family system, with a focus on improving communication and interrupting unhealthy relationship patterns.
Life Skills
Teaching life skills like cooking, cleaning, clear communication, and even basic math provides a strong foundation for continued recovery.
Medication-Assisted Treatment
Combined with behavioral therapy, prescribed medications can enhance treatment by relieving withdrawal symptoms and focus patients on their recovery.
Psychoeducation
This method combines treatment with education, teaching patients about different paths toward recovery. This empowers them to make more effective decisions.
Languages
Conditions We Treat
Anxiety
Anxiety is a common mental health condition that can include excessive worry, panic attacks, physical tension, and increased blood pressure.
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.
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.
Stress
Stress is a natural reaction to challenges, and it can even help you adapt. However, chronic stress can cause physical and mental health issues.
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."
Substances We Treat
Alcohol
Using alcohol as a coping mechanism, or drinking excessively throughout the week, signals an alcohol use disorder.
Chronic Relapse
Consistent relapse occurs repeatedly, after partial recovery from addiction. This condition requires long-term treatment.
Co-Occurring Disorders
A person with multiple mental health diagnoses, such as addiction and depression, has co-occurring disorders also called dual diagnosis.
Drug Addiction
Drug addiction is the excessive and repetitive use of substances, despite harmful consequences to a person's life, health, and relationships.
Smoking Cessation
Quitting smoking—i.e., ceasing to smoke—means giving up smoking nicotine and tobacco products. This process has very important health benefits.






