About Persad Center – Pittsburgh
Persad Center is a premier LGBTQ+ behavioral health facility in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. They offer LGBTQ+ affirming mental health and substance use treatment. Their program options are outpatient drug or alcohol treatment and intensive outpatient dual diagnosis therapy. The latter is more structured and requires more therapy sessions. It serves those simultaneously affected by mental health and substance addiction.
Their recovery approach is 100% LGBTQ+ responsive. You’ll have access to specialists who understand addiction treatment and are knowledgeable about LGBTQ+ cultures. Their highly skilled therapists will help you break addictive patterns and live as LGBTQ+ without relying on drugs. Services include individual, family and couple counseling as well as group therapy. This is geared toward building robust coping skills, strengthening relationships and life skill development. This fosters relapse prevention and lasting recovery.
You’ll also find strength in their peer support groups and gain essential knowledge from addiction education classes that guide you through recovery. The intensive outpatient dual diagnosis treatment may include psychiatric education and medication management. Their treatment prioritizes state designated high risk patients. This includes pregnant injection drug users, pregnant substance users and injection drug users.
Other services include HIV/AIDS case management and counseling as well as battering intervention programs. This may or may not be connected to your addiction and mental health issues. Their services are very affordable. It’s especially convenient that they accept Medicaid, Medicare and TRICARE. Comments from past clients reflect an overall positive experience and impressive quality of care.
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