Dharma Counseling ServicesTherapist in Durham, NC
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Dharma Counseling Service (DCS) is a mental health and substance use counseling practice located in Durham, North Carolina. Founded in September 2016, DCS specializes in alcohol and drug counseling, mental health evaluation, and DWI-related assessments and treatment. The practice offers court-mandated evaluations and assessments with referrals as needed. DCS provides a multidisciplinary team of therapists, social workers, and psychiatrists working collaboratively for comprehensive care. Services include individual and group counseling, family counseling, brief therapy, and both short- and long-term outpatient programs. The practice operates with telehealth services via a HIPAA-compliant Secured Zoom platform and is conveniently located in central Durham. DCS prioritizes professional, ethical, and confidential service with affordable payment options and no upfront or enrollment fees.
Role
Therapist
What a first session looks like
Virtual & In-PersonCall (919)-737-8996 to book an appointment. DCS typically completes assessments on the day you reach out.
Specialties & focus areas
Recovery focus
Co-occurring
Evidence-based approaches
Group therapy
Group Therapy. A small facilitated circle where people working on similar struggles practice naming what is hard, hearing themselves in others, and learning skills together. The room is the medicine.
Family systems
Family Systems work. Brings the people closest to you into the recovery picture, since urges and relationships rarely live in separate boxes.
MI
Motivational Interviewing. A collaborative conversation that strengthens your own reasons for change rather than arguing you into it.
What this facility offers
Care offered
Treatment type
- 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
Setting
- Outpatient
- Intensive outpatient treatment
- Regular outpatient treatment
How care is delivered
Ancillary services
- Case management service
- Domestic violence services, including family or partner
- Early intervention for HIV
- Mental health services
- Social skills development
- Integrated primary care services
Education & counseling
- HIV or AIDS education, counseling, or support
- Hepatitis education, counseling, or support
- Health education services other than HIV/AIDS or hepatitis
- Substance use disorder education
- Smoking/vaping/tobacco cessation counseling
- Individual counseling
- Group counseling
- Family counseling
- Marital/couples counseling
Who this is for
Age groups served
- Children/Adolescents
Special programs
- Adolescents
- 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
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