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Guiding Minds Counseling and Treatment Center

Services reported to SAMHSA (2025)

This is what the program told SAMHSA in its 2025 national survey. It may have changed; confirm by phone.

Type of Care

  • Substance use treatment
  • Treatment for co-occurring substance use plus either serious mental illness (SMI) in adults and/or serious emotional disturbance (SED) in children

Service Setting

  • Outpatient
  • Intensive outpatient treatment
  • Outpatient methadone/buprenorphine or naltrexone treatment
  • Regular outpatient treatment

Payment/Insurance/Funding Accepted

  • Medicaid
  • Private health insurance
  • Cash or self-payment
  • State-financed health insurance plan other than Medicaid
  • SAMHSA funding/block grants

Payment Assistance Available

  • Sliding fee scale (fee is based on income and other factors)

Special Programs/Groups Offered

  • Young adults
  • Adult women
  • Pregnant/postpartum women
  • Adult men
  • Seniors or older adults
  • Veterans
  • Active duty military
  • Members of military families
  • Criminal justice (other than DUI/DWI)/Forensic clients
  • Clients with co-occurring mental and substance use disorders
  • Clients with co-occurring pain and substance use disorders
  • Clients with HIV or AIDS
  • Clients who have experienced sexual abuse
  • Clients who have experienced intimate partner violence, domestic violence
  • Clients who have experienced trauma

Opioid Medications used in Treatment

  • Buprenorphine used in Treatment
  • Naltrexone used in Treatment

Pharmacotherapies

  • Acamprosate (Campral®)
  • Buprenorphine sub-dermal implant
  • Buprenorphine with naloxone
  • Buprenorphine without naloxone
  • Buprenorphine (extended-release, injectable)
  • Naltrexone (oral)
  • Naltrexone (extended-release, injectable)

Age Groups Accepted

  • Young Adults
  • Adults

External Opioid Medications Source

  • Other contracted prescribing entity

Type of Alcohol Use Disorder Treatment

  • Accepts clients using medication assisted treatment for alcohol use disorder but prescribed elsewhere
  • This facility administers/prescribes medication for alcohol use disorder

External Source of Medications Used for Alcohol Use Disorder Treatment

  • Other contracted prescribing entity

Type of Opioid Treatment

  • Buprenorphine maintenance
  • Prescribes buprenorphine
  • Prescribes naltrexone
  • Relapse prevention with naltrexone
  • Accepts clients using MAT but prescribed elsewhere
  • Maintenance service with medically supervised withdrawal after stabilization

Treatment Approaches

  • Anger management
  • Brief intervention
  • Cognitive behavioral therapy
  • Contingency management/motivational incentives
  • Community reinforcement plus vouchers
  • Motivational interviewing
  • Matrix Model
  • Relapse prevention
  • Substance use disorder counseling
  • Telemedicine/telehealth therapy
  • Trauma-related counseling

Facility Operation (e.g., Private, Public)

  • Private for-profit organization

License/Certification/Accreditation

  • State substance use treatment agency

Assessment/Pre-treatment

  • Comprehensive substance use assessment
  • Interim services for clients
  • Outreach to persons in the community
  • Screening for tobacco use
  • Screening for substance use
  • Screening for mental disorders

Testing

  • Drug or alcohol urine screening

Transitional Services

  • Aftercare/continuing care
  • Discharge Planning
  • Naloxone and overdose education
  • Outcome follow-up after discharge

Recovery Support Services

  • Self-help groups
  • Housing services
  • Recovery coach
  • Mentoring/peer support
  • Employment counseling or training

Education and Counseling Services

  • HIV or AIDS education, counseling, or support
  • Substance use disorder education
  • Smoking/vaping/tobacco cessation counseling
  • Individual counseling
  • Group counseling
  • Family counseling
  • Marital/couples counseling

Facility Smoking Policy

  • Smoking permitted without restriction

Sex Accepted

  • Female
  • Male

Exclusive Services

  • Specially designed program for DUI/DWI clients

Facility Vaping Policy

  • Vaping permitted without restriction

Ancillary Services

  • Case management service
  • Domestic violence services, including family or partner
  • Social skills development
Before you commit, ask: what level of care they recommend and why, what it will cost after insurance, whether they take your plan, and how long the wait is. Be cautious of anyone offering free travel or payment to enroll.