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This center treats primary substance use disorders and co-occurring mental health conditions. Your treatment plan addresses each condition at once with personalized, compassionate care for comprehensive healing.
Offering intensive care with 24/7 monitoring, residential treatment is typically 30 days and can cover multiple levels of care. Length can range from 14 to 90 days typically.
This center treats primary substance use disorders and co-occurring mental health conditions. Your treatment plan addresses each condition at once with personalized, compassionate care for comprehensive healing.
Offering intensive care with 24/7 monitoring, residential treatment is typically 30 days and can cover multiple levels of care. Length can range from 14 to 90 days typically.
We work with most major insurance providers. We offer free no-obligation insurance benefit checks for those who are interested in our program. Our admissions team will speak with your insurer and get a detailed verification of your insurance benefits and share those details with you. Unfortunately medicaid and medicare do not cover our facility.
Offering detox and residential treatment for those aged 13 to 17, Guardian Recovery -Montville Adolescent Center offers an intimate, boutique-style program with unparalleled support for teens and families. Drawing in- and out-of-state clients, the serene, New Jersey facility is a distraction-free safe haven where children can build trust, relationships, and coping skills.
Guardian Recovery’s adolescent services focus on both substance use disorders and the underlying behavioral and mental health disorders that drive them. During detox, medical staff are available 24/7 to ensure client safety and comfort and to administer medications and supportive measures as needed. Following detox, teens move to residential, which features intense individual, group, and family therapy paired with behavioral care and academic work. Upon program completion, aftercare planning ensures teens and their families are equipped to handle the new normal together.
Guardian Recovery provides evidence-based and holistic therapies during treatment, including cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), dialectical behavior therapy (DBT), life skills training, motivational interviewing techniques, art therapy, and mindfulness practices. Teens attend daily group therapies and regular 1:1 therapy with their primary therapist. Guardian Recovery also prioritizes recreational therapy, bringing teens together for movie nights, game nights, and scheduled activities.
Guardian Recovery involves family each step of the way, from admissions to aftercare planning. Families can attend family therapy online or in-person once a week. Loved ones can also receive 1:1 guidance from Guardian Recovery’s team and attend a weekly support group designed for teen’s parents and loved ones. Teens can keep up with their academic needs at Guardian Recovery with 2 hours offered Monday-Friday to work on school.
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Holistic Approach
Certified Professionals
On-site Medical Detox
Adolescents
This center primarily treats substance use disorders, helping you stabilize, create relapse-prevention plans, and connect to compassionate support.
The Joint Commission accreditation is a voluntary, objective process that evaluates and accredits healthcare organizations (like treatment centers) based on performance standards designed to improve quality and safety for patients. To be accredited means the treatment center has been found to meet the Commission's standards for quality and safety in patient care.
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Melissa Thalia Zea
LAC, M.A
Laura Lauritano
Director of Nursing
Kaitlyn Santucci
Primary Therapist
MA R-DMT
Audrey Costa
Program Coordinator
CPRS
Alexa Sharpe
Primary Therapist
MA, LAC
Alexis Giglio
Family Therapist
MA, LAMFT
Adam Schaffer
Continuing Care Coordinator
BA
Fred Crotchfelt
Executive Chef
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.
A person with multiple mental health diagnoses, such as addiction and depression, has co-occurring disorders also called dual diagnosis.
Teens receive the treatment they need for mental health disorders and addiction, with the added support of educational and vocational services.
This method combines treatment with education, teaching patients about different paths toward recovery. This empowers them to make more effective decisions.
Drug addiction is the excessive and repetitive use of substances, despite harmful consequences to a person's life, health, and relationships.
Teaching life skills like cooking, cleaning, clear communication, and even basic math provides a strong foundation for continued recovery.
Using alcohol as a coping mechanism, or drinking excessively throughout the week, signals an alcohol use disorder.
Teens receive the treatment they need for mental health disorders and addiction, with the added support of educational and vocational services.
In a residential rehab program, patients live onsite, with access to daily treatment and 24-hour care. An average stay is 30-90 days.
Detox fully and safely removes toxic substances from the body, allowing the next steps in treatment to begin with a clean slate.
A non-medicinal, wellness-focused approach that aims to align the mind, body, and spirit for deep and lasting healing.
A combination of scientifically rooted therapies and treatments make up evidence-based care, defined by their measured and proven results.
Providers involve family in the treatment of their loved one through family therapy, visits, or both–because addiction is a family disease.
Individual care meets the needs of each patient, using personalized treatment to provide them the most relevant care and greatest chance of success.
Patients learn specific stress management techniques, like breathing exercises and how to safely anticipate triggers.
Tending to spiritual health helps treatment become more effective, allowing patients to better cope with their emotions and rebuild their spiritual wellbeing.
Patient and therapist meet 1-on-1 to work through difficult emotions and behavioral challenges in a personal, private setting.
Family therapy addresses group dynamics within a family system, with a focus on improving communication and interrupting unhealthy relationship patterns.
12-Step groups offer a framework for addiction recovery. Members commit to a higher power, recognize their issues, and support each other in the healing process.
This method combines treatment with education, teaching patients about different paths toward recovery. This empowers them to make more effective decisions.
Visual art invites patients to examine the emotions within their work, focusing on the process of creativity and its gentle therapeutic power.
PTSD is a long-term mental health issue caused by a disturbing event or events. Symptoms include anxiety, dissociation, flashbacks, and intrusive thoughts.
Anxiety is a common mental health condition that can include excessive worry, panic attacks, physical tension, and increased blood pressure.
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.
Personality disorders destabilize the way a person thinks, feels, and behaves. If untreated, they can undermine relationships and lead to severe distress.
Stress is a natural reaction to challenges, and it can even help you adapt. However, chronic stress can cause physical and mental health issues.
This mental health condition is characterized by extreme mood swings between depression, mania, and remission.
Some traumatic events are so disturbing that they cause long-term mental health problems. Those ongoing issues can also be referred to as "trauma."
The act of intentionally harming oneself, also called self-injury, is associated with mental health issues like depression.
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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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Ecstasy is a stimulant that causes intense euphoria and heightened awareness. Abuse of this drug can trigger depression, insomnia, and memory problems.
A person with multiple mental health diagnoses, such as addiction and depression, has co-occurring disorders also called dual diagnosis.
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Drug addiction is the excessive and repetitive use of substances, despite harmful consequences to a person's life, health, and relationships.
Consistent relapse occurs repeatedly, after partial recovery from addiction. This condition requires long-term treatment.
Yoga is both a physical and spiritual practice. It includes a flow of movement, breathing techniques, and meditation.
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