Personalized Mental Health & Addiction Treatment in Atlanta

If the following signs and symptoms describe your experience, then you might need mental health treatment:

• Persistent feelings of sadness, worry, or guilt
• Overwhelming anxiety or fears that limit your life in significant ways
• Irritability or outbursts of anger
• Difficulty controlling emotions
• Low mood and energy
• Extreme shifts in mood from low (depressive) to high (manic)
• Physical pain without any medical explanation
• Frequent tension headaches due to stress
• Weight loss or gain without intention
• Sleeping too much or too little
• Isolating from loved ones and friends
• Loss of interest in hobbies or other pleasurable activities
• Trouble concentrating or focusing
• Suicidal ideations or actions
• Engaging in self-harming behaviors
• Abusing drugs or alcohol to improve your mental state or manage stress

The following are signs that you need addiction treatment:

• Using more substances than you intend to (in other words, losing control or struggling to put limits on yourself)
• Failing at any attempt to quit or cut back on using drugs or drinking alcohol
• Spending most of your time and energy abusing substances, obtaining them, or recovering from the aftereffects
• Abusing substances to cope with stress, social anxiety, poor self-esteem, trauma, or other emotional health issues
• Misusing prescription drugs for euphoric or relaxing side effects (such as opioid painkillers or benzodiazepines for anxiety)
• Mixing prescriptions drugs with alcohol or other drugs to enhance the effects
• Urges and cravings for drugs and alcohol that occupy much of your waking thoughts
• Failure to fulfill responsibilities to family, work, or school due to substance abuse
• Choosing to drink or abuse drugs instead of engaging in hobbies or other activities
• Conflicts in relationships due to substance abuse
• Experiencing negative legal, social, vocational, financial, or psychological effects from substance abuse and still being unable to quit
• Engaging in reckless behavior while under the influence
• Needing more substances or stronger doses for the same effect (developing a tolerance)
• Having unpleasant withdrawal symptoms when you stop abusing drugs or alcohol 

Each person has different needs for treatment due to their past experience with treatment, the severity of their symptoms, the presence of co-occurring disorders, and other factors. In addition, each person has different treatment preferences and responds to treatment interventions differently. That is why we offer comprehensive treatment programs to help our clients build individualized plans that work best for them.

However, there are a few things to consider when looking for a treatment program to ensure that they can meet your needs at an appropriate level of care:

• Inpatient stabilization services: These programs provide the highest level of care to those who need to detox from substances or stabilize their mental health during a crisis.
• Residential treatment centers: This is another type of inpatient treatment that is long-term when compared to stabilization services. During residential treatment, you gain a foundation of recovery skills without distractions from the outside world.
• Outpatient treatment programs: Outpatient treatment is for those living at home or in a therapeutic housing environment with relatively stable symptom management. This type of treatment includes stepping down from higher levels of care to lower ones, starting with a partial hospitalization program (PHP), then to an intensive outpatient program (IOP), and finally to aftercare services.

Relapse is common during recovery from any medical, behavioral, or psychological condition. In fact, it’s often part of the process of learning what works and what doesn’t. In addition, as you change over time or experience new challenges in life, some treatment techniques or coping mechanisms wane in their effectiveness.

If you relapse during treatment, the best thing to do is to take a step back in your treatment. This means you go back to a higher level of care or get additional support. Thus, if you relapse during an IOP program, you might enter residential treatment or detox, or find a supportive housing program for more structure and accountability.

Yes, you can have your phone during treatment at Valor Behavioral Health. Generally, inpatient or residential treatment programs have strict phone policies due to the intensive level of support in these facilities. Since we are an outpatient treatment center, we still allow our clients to have their phones with them during treatment. 

However, we do have a policy that phones cannot be used during group sessions. That way, everyone can participate and focus with limited distractions.

Yes, health insurance covers some, most, or all of the costs of treatment. Under the Affordable Care Act (ACA), mental health and addiction treatment are considered essential health benefits. So, even if you don’t have an ACA marketplace plan, many private insurance companies also cover mental health and substance abuse treatment as essential.

Of course, exactly what your insurance provider covers and how much depends on your provider, individual plan, and what types of treatment they cover. Most plans cover evidence-based treatments and those deemed medically necessary. However, they might not cover holistic approaches to treatment, such as meditation or other mindfulness-based activities.

We are in-network with most of the popular insurance carriers, including:

• Anthem
• Beacon
• Cigna
• GEHA
• UMR
• United Healthcare
• TRICARE