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About Pride Institute
Opened in 1986 as a direct response to the HIV/AIDS pandemic, Pride Institute has led the way in helping LGBTQ+ folx recover from substance use, sexual health issues like chemsex, and mental health conditions. Their residential, day treatment, and intensive outpatient programs provide a safe space and tools to overcome addiction no matter how clients identify within the LGBTQ+ community. Clients join a community that understands the unique experiences and challenges of the LGBTQ+ journey.
Pride Institute ensures each client’s treatment aligns with their needs, goals, and identity for a meaningful recovery experience. Clients work with a primary counselor to create a tailored plan that may include individual, couple, family, and group therapy, addressing topics like trauma, sexual health, and LGBTQ+ issues. Evidence-based approaches such as cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) help clients challenge negative beliefs, develop coping skills, and improve emotional regulation for lasting sobriety.
While each client’s recovery program is tailored to their individual journey, all programming at Pride is specifically developed for the LGBTQIA2+ community. Their inclusive and affirming environment removes barriers often found in non-LGBTQ+-specific treatment settings, ensuring clients receive 24/7 support from knowledgeable staff and peers who understand their experiences.
At Pride Institute, their alumnx program connects clients with a community that helps each other live the life they’ve worked so hard to achieve in treatment. Events include reunions, speakers, sober activities, and connections with the recovery community on an international level.
Pride Institute’s main campus is located in a quiet, wooded area with a creek flowing nearby. Their outpatient location is in the heart of a highly artistic and progressive area of the city. The Twin Cities, home to the fifth-largest LGBTQ+ community in the U.S., offers access to LGBTQ+-specific sober housing, LGBTQ+-specific recovery meetings, and a thriving cultural scene. To help clients stay focused on recovery, they do not allow most electronics, such as tablets, recording devices, or digital cameras. Pride Institute arranges travel and covers the costs to ensure clients can access the care they need.
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Insurance Accepted
Provider's Policy:Pride Institute accepts most major forms of insurance, self-pay and Minnesota state funding. We’ll work closely with patients and families to help understand and navigate your insurance co-pay and deductible, if applicable. Unfortunately, we do not accept Medicare or out-of-state Medicaid programs due to our specific licensure.
Pride’s sexual health program aims to normalize, educate, and bring attention to the interconnectedness of substance use and problematic sexual behaviors. In a private, affirming group setting, clients explore structured strategies like boundary-setting, trigger prevention, and safety planning to develop a sexual life aligned with their values and recovery goals.
Pride offers specialized mental health subtopic groups, including those focused on stigma and shame, BIPOC experiences, HIV+ support, and gender-specific concerns, with a dedicated TransWellness group to address the unique challenges faced by transgender, gender-diverse, and nonbinary clients. These groups provide a safe space to process the impact of transphobia, social exclusion, and victimization alongside addiction treatment.
Pride Institute’s partial hospitalization program (PHP) and intensive outpatient program (IOP) offer structured care with flexible housing options. PHP provides 30 hours of programming per week, with clients residing in an off-campus house near the treatment center. IOP includes a step-down model with morning and evening group sessions, telehealth options, and scholarship housing in Uptown Minneapolis for eligible clients.
Pride Institute is able to treat clients with co-occurring mental health disorders, emphasizing trauma-focused care to help clients process past traumatic experiences. They offer individual and group therapy sessions that provide a safe space to talk openly about traumas that may or may not be rooted in society’s response to clients’ gender/sexual identity or orientation.
LGBTQ+
Addiction and mental illnesses in the LGBTQ+ community must be treated with an affirming, safe, and relevant approach, which many centers provide.
LGBTQ+ only
Those who identify as LGBTQ+ receive treatment for addiction and mental health with others in the community, making treatment highly relevant and effective.
LGBTQ+
Addiction and mental illnesses in the LGBTQ+ community must be treated with an affirming, safe, and relevant approach, which many centers provide.
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LGBTQ+ only
Those who identify as LGBTQ+ receive treatment for addiction and mental health with others in the community, making treatment highly relevant and effective.
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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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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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Dr. Patrick Zhao (he/him)
Psychiatrist and Medical Director
MD
Div Mehta (he/him)
Chief Executive Officer
MBBS, MBA, MHA
Meena Iyer (she/they)
Director of Nursing
DNP, MN, BA, RN, PHN
Meghan Bang (she/her)
Director of Utilization Management/Compliance
LADC-S
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