Institute for Health and Recovery IncTherapist in Watertown, MA
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The Institute for Health and Recovery (IHR) has been supporting family recovery since 1990. IHR helps people heal, strengthen relationships with loved ones, and thrive while navigating complex and intersecting challenges including substance use, trauma, mental health and medical needs, isolation, poverty and housing instability, and child welfare and justice system involvement. Services are rooted in compassion and lived expertise. IHR provides family-centered outpatient behavioral health treatment available in home, office, or community settings. They offer access to services statewide for pregnant people struggling with substance use through their Promise program. IHR also provides postvention services to programs throughout Massachusetts and offers training and technical assistance to professionals on trauma-informed care and recovery approaches.
Role
Therapist
What a first session looks like
Virtual & In-PersonCall 857-285-6264 for family-centered outpatient behavioral health treatment, or call 866-705-2807 for statewide services for pregnant people struggling with substance use.
Specialties & focus areas
Recovery focus
Co-occurring
Other focus areas
Evidence-based approaches
Trauma-informed care
Trauma-Informed Care. Approaches addiction as something layered on top of unprocessed trauma, not in isolation. Pacing matters more than confrontation.
Family systems
Family Systems work. Brings the people closest to you into the recovery picture, since urges and relationships rarely live in separate boxes.
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
- Regular outpatient treatment
Payment & access
Financial help available
- Sliding fee scale (fee is based on income and other factors)
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
- Mental health services
- Transportation assistance
Education & counseling
- Substance use disorder education
- Smoking/vaping/tobacco cessation counseling
- Individual counseling
- Family counseling
Who this is for
Age groups served
- Children/Adolescents
Special programs
- Adolescents
- Young adults
- Pregnant/postpartum women
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