Connecticut Outpatient Rehabs

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Mountainside is a nationally acclaimed substance abuse treatment center providing individualized alcoholism and drug addiction treatment to men and women aged 18 and over. Private rooms available.

Apex Community Care is a nonprofit behavioral health provider in Danbury, Connecticut, rooted in the AIDS Project of Greater Danbury and serving Western Connecticut since the mid-1980s. It provides intensive outpatient and outpatient treatment for substance use and mental health conditions alongside HIV services and support groups, with additional locations in Torrington and Waterbury. Apex serves all patients regardless of ability to pay, offering income-based discounts, and accepts private insurance, Medicaid, and Medicare.

Apex Community Care, formerly the AIDS Project of Greater Danbury, is a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization serving Western Connecticut since the AIDS crisis began. Alongside HIV/AIDS services, the Torrington location provides intensive outpatient substance use and behavioral health treatment. Apex accepts Medicaid, Medicare, and private insurance.

Mountainside Treatment Center provides outpatient addiction treatment in Wilton, Connecticut, part of a provider with locations across Connecticut, New York and New Jersey. Its programming includes intensive outpatient and outpatient care, adolescent services, family wellness programming and a crisis intervention team. The center accepts private insurance and self-pay, with most major insurance plans accepted.

Aware Recovery Care in North Haven is an outpatient rehab and detox clinic and intensive outpatient program (IOP) for men and women/ boys and girls. The facility accepts clients on opioid medication.

New Era Rehabilitation Center provides outpatient addiction treatment and mental health therapy at its Bridgeport and New Haven, Connecticut locations. Services include intensive outpatient and partial hospitalization programs, medication-assisted treatment, psychiatry, and court-related substance use and DUI evaluations. The center accepts Medicaid, Medicare, private insurance and military coverage.

The Patrick F. McAuliffe Center is Connecticut Renaissance's co-occurring residential program at 70 Central Avenue in Waterbury. Connecticut Renaissance is a CARF-accredited non-profit corporation established in 1967 that runs residential, outpatient and community-based behavioral health, addiction and criminal-justice programs for adults and adolescents across Fairfield and New Haven counties, including specialist treatment for problem gambling for adults 18 and over and family-based services for younger people affected by someone else's gambling. The organization says most insurances are accepted and that a sliding fee scale is available for people who would otherwise have difficulty paying; Medicare, military insurance and state-financed coverage are also recorded for this location.

Newport Academy's Todd Hill campus in Bethlehem is a residential treatment center for adolescents in rural Litchfield County, Connecticut, treating mental health conditions, trauma, co-occurring disorders and substance use, with intensive outpatient care alongside. Teaching continues through an accredited academic curriculum so a student does not fall behind while admitted, families are treated as part of the work, and therapy draws on CBT, DBT and EMDR. Newport holds the Joint Commission's Gold Seal of Approval and publishes third-party outcomes research. Coverage is through private or military insurance, or self-pay.

Newport Academy's Darien location is an outpatient site for adolescents, running partial hospitalization and intensive outpatient programming for mental health conditions, co-occurring disorders and substance use — the step-down levels of the residential care Newport provides elsewhere. Treatment draws on cognitive behavioral therapy, DBT and EMDR, involves families directly, and is delivered under the Joint Commission's Gold Seal of Approval. Private and military insurance and self-pay are accepted.

McCall Behavioral Health Network – Danbury is the Danbury location of a Connecticut nonprofit that has helped individuals and families heal from substance use and mental health disorders for more than 50 years. It offers intensive outpatient (IOP) and outpatient treatment within a continuum that also spans residential care, primary care, and recovery supports. McCall accepts Husky (Connecticut Medicaid), Medicare, and most private insurance, and offers a sliding fee scale — no one is denied care for inability to pay.

The Chemical Abuse Services Agency (CASA) is a private non-profit community behavioral health organization that has worked in Bridgeport since 1987 and now also serves New Haven. Its supportive residential recovery runs as 90-day transitional programs for men aged 18 and over — two houses, one of ten beds and one of fourteen, both with 24-hour support — alongside withdrawal management, intensive outpatient and outpatient care, with longer stays sometimes available through the PILOTS program. CASA describes its care as culturally responsive, shaped around the Latino, African-American and LGBTQ+ communities it serves, and aimed at the trauma, shame and isolation underneath the substance use. Medicaid coverage is accepted, some cases individually evaluated, along with Medicare, private and military insurance, state funding, public assistance and self-pay.

Liberation Programs has helped Fairfield County families recover from addiction since 1971, offering outpatient and intensive outpatient treatment at its Stamford location on Main Street. The nonprofit operates a women's REACH program, mobile outreach, and residential beds for women with children through its Families in Recovery Program. Liberation also provides a men's inpatient program and medication-assisted treatment.

Midwestern Connecticut Council of Alcoholism (MCCA) offers medically supervised withdrawal management in Torrington, followed by coordinated step-down into residential or intensive outpatient care rather than a discharge to nothing. Outpatient services include individual, group and family therapy. Medicare, private and military insurance and state funding are accepted.

MCCA in New Milford is an outpatient rehab and intensive outpatient program (IOP) for men and women/ boys and girls.

Liberation Programs' Stamford clinic provides outpatient and intensive outpatient treatment for substance use and mental health conditions, including opioid use disorder. The agency began in Stamford in 1971 — Liberation House was its first site — and now runs services in Bridgeport, Greenwich, Norwalk, Stamford and Westport, working with adolescents, men, women and families. It says most of the people it serves are on Medicaid and that services are provided regardless of ability to pay: staff help clients obtain coverage through the Affordable Care Act, check eligibility for state and federal benefits, offer a self-pay sliding scale and, in limited circumstances, provide scholarship treatment. Scholarship beds may be available for people with opioid use disorder whose insurance will not cover inpatient care, and the organization has beds for women and children.

Connecticut Counseling Centers is a not-for-profit providing licensed outpatient substance use and mental health treatment for adults, and this is its Norwalk site. Medication-assisted treatment here covers all three FDA-approved medications for opioid use disorder — methadone, buprenorphine and naltrexone — delivered with medical, nursing, psychiatric and counseling support, and the organization has been expanding methadone access through a new opioid treatment program. Intensive outpatient programs run for substance use, mental health and co-occurring conditions, with gender-specific groups available, and bilingual staff serve Spanish-speaking clients. The organization is CARF-accredited, licensed by the Connecticut Department of Public Health and funded in part by the Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services. Medicaid, Medicare, private and military insurance are accepted.

Elevate Health and Wellness is a Connecticut behavioral health provider with an intensive outpatient program in Westport serving teens and adults, plus a women's residential program in Clinton and virtual IOP statewide. Licensed by the Connecticut Department of Public Health at residential, IOP and outpatient levels, it offers outpatient detoxification, ADHD evaluations, and three IOP tracks meeting three hours a day, three days a week. It accepts most major insurance plans including Medicaid.

Connecticut Renaissance is a CARF-accredited nonprofit established in 1967, providing substance use and mental health treatment across 12 Connecticut locations. Its Norwalk programs include outpatient and residential care for adults and adolescents, along with the LYNC community-based program and problem-gambling treatment. The organization accepts Medicaid, Medicare, private insurance and military coverage, with a sliding fee scale.