Serenity House

About Serenity House – Addison, Illinois

Serenity House Counseling Services is a nonprofit organization that provides addiction recovery treatment for teenagers and adults in Addison, Illinois. People can come by themselves or allow their family members to participate, too. The services you can find here include residential treatment and several levels of outpatient care.

There are three residential options offered here. They have an extended stay option and separate residential programs for men and women. The extended stay program allows clients to live in a safe, secure halfway house where they can live with others in a sober environment for as long as they need.

Their residential programs include separate living spaces for men and women. At each space, clients will participate in individual and group counseling, family centered education, 12 step meetings, training sessions on life skills and relapse prevention, and recreational activities. Clients need to stay in the program for at least 90 days but they can stay up to six months if they want to. Their team decides which services they need by consulting them personally, checking their mental and physical health, and referencing their addiction history. Most clients attend around five to nine hours of clinical services each week.

When clients are ready to step down to outpatient care, they offer intensive outpatient and general outpatient programs. Both programs use evidence based approaches including dialectical behavioral therapy and acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT). There are also individual and group counseling sessions. The intensive program lasts five to seven weeks and includes about 20 to 25 sessions. The general outpatient program doesn’t meet as often.

One former client said this facility kept them accountable and taught them how to live without shame, which helped them recover from addiction. One client said that while their overall experience was good and the counselors were great, they weren’t equipped or trained to work with clients who have nuanced forms of addiction and need support beyond conventional methods.

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Mark Buschbacher

President, CEO

Donna Rennard

LCPC, CAADC, MISA II, QHEIC, EMDR

Regina Williams

Director of Operations

Kristin Hammer, CADC

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Robert Heldermon, BS, CADC, CPRS

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​Julie Zaitz-Schwarz, LPC, CADC

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