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Holistic Approach
Trauma-Informed Care
About River Place Behavioral Health
Serving the New Orleans and Baton Rouge areas, River Place Behavioral Health offers a place for healing away from the pressures of daily life. They treat mental health conditions and co-occurring substance use disorders through inpatient crisis care and intensive outpatient programming (IOP), blending traditional and experiential therapies. Committed to accessibility, they welcome clients with Medicaid, Medicare, and commercial insurance, and focus on positively impacting the community.
River Place helps clients identify and replace negative thought patterns that affect their ability to heal and motivates behavioral change through a conversational approach. Group therapy helps clients build communication skills, identify and address triggers, and build self-esteem, while family therapy provides a safe environment to address relational challenges. Psychiatric providers manage medications and meet with clients at least twice per week, promoting stability through consistent care.
Designed with safety and accessibility in mind, private or shared rooms feature ample space for personal belongings. Their large outdoor areas create opportunities for recreation and fitness through basketball games and yoga sessions, as well as space to relax in the shade. Clients connect in group areas, facilitating both organic and intentional peer support, while calming artwork throughout the facility contributes to a peaceful environment for restoration.
Beginning at the start of treatment, River Place works with clients and their families to develop a detailed discharge plan. This plan outlines professional referrals, community-based resources, and online support to help clients maintain and build upon the progress they achieved during treatment. Discharge planning promotes lasting wellness by ensuring clients continue to receive care beyond their time at River Place.
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Insurance Accepted
Provider's Policy:Please call our admissions team for more information on insurance coverage. A knowledgeable member of our team can answer any financial questions you might have, and they can also reach out directly to your insurance carrier to verify and maximize your benefits. This service is free and puts you under no obligation to choose our programming.
Medicaid
<p>Signed into law through the Social Security Act in 1965, Medicaid is a United States government program that offers health insurance to those with limited income.</p>
Medicare
A simple coverage option for Americans without health insurance and disabilities. Many private insurances incorporate Medicare to expand its coverage options.
River Place strives to spark hope for those who need it most, including individuals with suicidal ideation and self-harm behaviors. Their safe and secure setting provides peace of mind for both clients and their loved ones, while their intensive approach focuses on stabilization and equipping clients with skills for building a brighter future.
River Place provides compassionate care for adolescents in mental health crises, with detox available for co-occurring substance use. By combining coping strategies and skills development with family therapy and medication management, their services empower teens to lead happy, successful lives. Healing also happens as teens connect through basketball games and leisure time in the courtyards.
The intensive outpatient program (IOP) at River Place helps adults change harmful thought patterns, regulate emotions, and build healthier behaviors. Group sessions facilitate healing by exploring boundaries, self-care, and crisis survival. This level of care is most appropriate for clients who do not require 24/7 support or who are transitioning from inpatient treatment.
Clients explore new ways to express their emotions and manage symptoms through experiential therapies led by seasoned recreational therapists. Yoga and exercise therapy help clients become more mindful of their bodies and improve physical health, while expressive therapies like art and music encourage creative expression and support mind-body-spirit healing.
Teens receive the treatment they need for mental health disorders and addiction, with the added support of educational and vocational services.
Men and women attend treatment for addiction in a co-ed setting, going to therapy groups together to share experiences, struggles, and successes.
This center specializes in primary mental health treatment and offers programs for co-occurring substance use. You receive collaborative, individualized treatment for whole-person healing.
Schizophrenia is a serious mental health condition that causes hallucinations, delusions, and disordered thinking.
ADHD is a common mental health condition caused by dopamine imbalance. Common symptoms include inattention, hyperactivitiy, and impulsivity.
Anxiety is a common mental health condition that can include excessive worry, panic attacks, physical tension, and increased blood pressure.
This mental health condition is characterized by extreme mood swings between depression, mania, and remission.
Symptoms of depression may include fatigue, a sense of numbness, and loss of interest in activities. This condition can range from mild to severe.
PTSD is a long-term mental health issue caused by a disturbing event or events. Symptoms include anxiety, dissociation, flashbacks, and intrusive thoughts.
The act of intentionally harming oneself, also called self-injury, is associated with mental health issues like depression.
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 highest level of care, medically managed intensive inpatient services provides 24-hour nursing and physician care.
In an IOP, patients live at home or a sober living, but attend treatment typically 9-15 hours a week. Most programs include talk therapy, support groups, and other methods.
Some primary care providers offer mental health diagnosis and treatment. This can prevent patients from developing more serious conditions.
During outpatient rehab, patients attend a structured treatment program while continuing to live at home.
A combination of scientifically rooted therapies and treatments make up evidence-based care, defined by their measured and proven results.
Expressive tools and therapies help patients process past situations, learn more about themselves, and find healing through action.
The specific needs, histories, and conditions of individual patients receive personalized, highly relevant care throughout their recovery journey.
Incorporating spirituality, community, and responsibility, 12-Step philosophies prioritize the guidance of a Higher Power and a continuation of 12-Step practices.
Patient and therapist meet 1-on-1 to work through difficult emotions and behavioral challenges in a personal, private setting.
Visual art invites patients to examine the emotions within their work, focusing on the process of creativity and its gentle therapeutic power.
With this approach, patients heal by doing. Therapists help patients process difficult emotions to speak, using guided activities like art or dance.
Family therapy addresses group dynamics within a family system, with a focus on improving communication and interrupting unhealthy relationship patterns.
Teaching life skills like cooking, cleaning, clear communication, and even basic math provides a strong foundation for continued recovery.
Combined with behavioral therapy, prescribed medications can enhance treatment by relieving withdrawal symptoms and focus patients on their recovery.
Based on the idea that motivation to change comes from within, providers use a conversational framework to discover personalized methods for change.
Singing, performing, and even listening to music can be therapeutic. Music therapy sessions are facilitated by certified counselors.
In recreation therapy, recovery can be joyful. Patients practice social skills and work through emotional triggers by engaging in fun activities.
Schizophrenia is a serious mental health condition that causes hallucinations, delusions, and disordered thinking.
Personality disorders destabilize the way a person thinks, feels, and behaves. If untreated, they can undermine relationships and lead to severe distress.
ADHD is a common mental health condition caused by dopamine imbalance. Common symptoms include inattention, hyperactivitiy, and impulsivity.
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 is a common mental health condition that can include excessive worry, panic attacks, physical tension, and increased blood pressure.
This mental health condition is characterized by extreme mood swings between depression, mania, and remission.
Symptoms of depression may include fatigue, a sense of numbness, and loss of interest in activities. This condition can range from mild to severe.
PTSD is a long-term mental health issue caused by a disturbing event or events. Symptoms include anxiety, dissociation, flashbacks, and intrusive thoughts.
The act of intentionally harming oneself, also called self-injury, is associated with mental health issues like depression.
With suicidality, a person fantasizes about suicide, or makes a plan to carry it out. This is a serious mental health symptom.
A person with multiple mental health diagnoses, such as addiction and depression, has co-occurring disorders also called dual diagnosis.
Yoga is both a physical and spiritual practice. It includes a flow of movement, breathing techniques, and meditation.
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