The Guidance Center – Adult Services

For more than six decades, The Guidance Center has been a trusted source of mental health and substance use disorder services in Southgate, Michigan. With a deep commitment to nurturing development, The Guidance Center provides evidence-based care to adults facing mental health challenges, addiction and co-occurring disorders.

The Adult Services offered at The Guidance Center offers a holistic person-centered approach to help those looking for addiction help to rebuild their lives. Whether someone is struggling with severe mental illness, substance abuse, or both, The Guidance Center provides the tools and support to help everyone achieve long-term recovery.

By understanding how addiction often goes hand in hand with mental health challenges, The Guidance Center integrates therapy, crisis intervention, psychiatric care and recovery coaching into its services. Their goal is to treat the whole person and not just the symptoms they’re experiencing.

The Guidance Center offers integrated treatment that addresses both mental health and substance use issues. They offer group therapy, individual counseling and relapse prevention planning. Plus, there is an Assertive Community Treatment, which is a program for adults who have severe mental illness, along with a history of hospitalization.

The Assertive Community Treatment program helps to provide community-based intensive support to help those remain stable in their everyday lives when faced with stressful day-to-day situations.

There is also a Community Recovery Program, which is responsible for a lot of outreach. This program provides support groups, skill-building workshops and individual counseling to help those who are enrolled in the program to develop healthier coping mechanisms when faced with stressful situations.

Clients can also take advantage of the 24-hour crisis support program offered at The Guidance Center, which makes sure those who are struggling with their mental health have around-the-clock access to intervention.