Arapahoe House – Lakewood Clinic

Arapahoe House – is a drug and alcohol rehab facility located in Lakewood, Colorado. They are an outpatient facility that treats teens and adults with substance use disorder and alcohol use disorder.

They treat people with dual diagnoses who struggle with mental health issues and mental health conditions at the same time. However, they do not treat people whose psychological condition has made them violent.

The first thing you will do when you come into the clinic is take a medical and psychological assessment. If your problems with drugs and alcohol are very severe, they may refer you to an inpatient treatment center.

If you qualify for outpatient treatment, you will participate in group therapy sessions as well as individual sessions. The therapist here you several different methodologies to treat clients. Your individual sessions will be customized to you.

You may be treated with cognitive behavioral therapy which teaches you to look at your life differently to change your behaviors. The therapist may also use motivational interviewing in which they simply ask you questions and remain objective. This is done to help you find your motivation to change.

This facility offers many different groups. People feel the most comfortable sharing intimate details of their lives with those they have most in common with. Hence, there is a group for teens and there is a group for women. They have a separate group session for people whose drug and alcohol use caused them to be in the criminal justice system.