Guiding LightResidential Treatment in Grand Rapids, MI
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Guiding Light is a faith-based addiction recovery organization that offers long-term residential programs for both men and women. The men's program is a four-month residential experience in a downtown location that provides a structured environment with evidence-based practices, life-coaching, spiritual direction, therapy, support groups, psycho-social education, and exercise. The women's program offers a similarly designed four to six-month recovery process with day-programming at a location on Aquinas College's campus, along with residential housing. Both programs are offered at no cost to participants through donor support. After completing the main program, participants can transition to long-term sober living options: Iron House, a community of renovated apartments in Kentwood for men working full-time, and Ruth's House and Esther's House for women. The organization emphasizes service, community involvement, and spiritual transformation as core components of recovery. Guiding Light also provides community outreach including food assistance, support group meetings, and holiday meals to neighboring organizations and community members in the Heartside area.
Role
Residential Treatment
Specialties & focus areas
Recovery focus
Other focus areas
Evidence-based approaches
Faith-based
A therapeutic approach included in this provider’s plan of care. Contact for specifics on how it shows up in their work.
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.
Psychodynamic
Psychodynamic Therapy. Explores the older patterns and unconscious dynamics underneath the surface behavior. Slower than skills-based work, deeper on the questions of why you reach for the thing you reach for.
Anger management
A therapeutic approach included in this provider’s plan of care. Contact for specifics on how it shows up in their work.
Cognitive behavioral therapy
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. Spots the thought-feeling-action loops that fuel urges, then rewires them with practical skills you take into the moment.
Motivational interviewing
Motivational Interviewing. A collaborative conversation that strengthens your own reasons for change rather than arguing you into it.
Relapse prevention
Relapse Prevention. Identifies your specific high-risk situations, warning signs, and choice points. Then builds a written, rehearsed plan for each so the moment is not the first time you decide.
Substance use disorder counseling
A therapeutic approach included in this provider’s plan of care. Contact for specifics on how it shows up in their work.
Trauma-related counseling
A therapeutic approach included in this provider’s plan of care. Contact for specifics on how it shows up in their work.
12-step facilitation
Twelve-Step Facilitation. Helps you engage with mutual-aid fellowships (GA, AA, SMART) as a recovery community rather than a solo grind.
What this facility offers
Care offered
Treatment type
- Substance use treatment
- Transitional housing, halfway house, or sober home
Setting
- Residential/24-hour residential
- Long-term residential
- Short-term residential
Payment & access
Financial help available
- Payment assistance (check with facility for details)
Insurance acceptance is listed by the provider and can change. Call the number above to verify your specific coverage before scheduling.
How care is delivered
Ancillary services
- Case management service
- Domestic violence services, including family or partner
- Mental health services
- Social skills development
- Transportation assistance
- Suicide prevention services
Education & counseling
- Health education services other than HIV/AIDS or hepatitis
- Substance use disorder education
- Individual counseling
- Group counseling
- Family counseling
- Marital/couples counseling
- Vocational training or educational support (for example, high school coursework, GED preparation, etc.)
Who this is for
Age groups served
- Young Adults
- Adults
Special programs
- Adult men
- Clients who have experienced trauma
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