Prairie View – Outpatient – East 21st Street North

Located on East 21st Street, Prairie View’s East Wichita Office was a facility that provided outpatient addiction recovery services. They’re closed now but the primary treatments clients could receive were individual and family therapy. The facility also offered transcranial magnetic stimulation therapy and neuropsychological testing.

Mental health conditions such as depression could sometimes be a contributor to individuals using substances. When talk therapy or medication wasn’t effective, the facility offered transcranial magnetic stimulation as a treatment option.

The treatment involved passing an electrical current through the cortex of the brain to change brain function. Stimulating nerves in charge of mood control could help lower a client’s symptoms and reduce their chances of using substances as a coping mechanism.

The facility’s location in Wichita offered clients multiple outdoor areas they could enjoy as a part of living a sober lifestyle. One of the places they might have visited was the Tunnel of Trees, where they could go hiking, jogging and birdwatching.

In contrast to other facilities that primarily use group therapy, this location focused on healing clients through individual and family therapy. In individual therapy, counselors provided insights to clients about the underlying issues that could be causing their addiction.

They may have also used evidence based therapies such as a dialectical behavioral therapy and cognitive behavioral therapy to guide clients into developing healthy coping skills. The facility also focused on treating clients with co-occurring disorders.