Effective Living Center

821 W St Germain St
# 2
St Cloud, MN 56301

Effective Living Center MN 56301
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About Effective Living Center

Effective Living Center, located in Saint Cloud, Minnesota is a private alcohol and drug rehab that offers treatment for a variety of substance abuse addictions including alcoholism, co-occurring mental health disorders, and opiate addiction. They offer flexible outpatient addiction therapy allowing patients to live at home while receiving regular treatment. Additional levels of care offered include intensive outpatient, relapse prevention, and 12-step therapy.

Specialty rehab programs at Effective Living Center include tailored care focusing on women's specific needs and experiences, gender-specific addiction treatment addressing unique challenges faced by men, and age-appropriate treatment for teens addressing adolescent-specific issues.

Effective Living Center has received accreditations from SAMHSA.

Latest Reviews

Anthony Kantor
1 month ago on Google
5
Reviewed on 04/02/2023
5
The best program I have ever been to. Kind, caring and professional. They provided everything I needed to start my road to recovery.
Jt Lechner
2 years ago on Google
1
YOU FAIL SOON AS YOU STEP IN THERE!!! You will have to pay more$ to go do more tests or classes I sujest go somewhere else that place playing the $ sistem also told me on phone cost is 140$ when I showed up it was 180$

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Effective Living Center works with several private insurance providers and also accepts private payments when possible, Please contact to verify your specific insurance provider.

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Private insurance refers to any kind of healthcare coverage that isn't from the state or federal government. This includes individual and family plans offered by an employer or purchased from the Insurance Marketplace. Every plan will have different requirements and out of pocket costs so be sure to get the full details before you start treatment.

Self-pay involves paying for treatment out of your own pocket. You can use savings or credit, get a personal loan, or receive help from family and friends to fund your treatment. If you don't have insurance or your insurance plan doesn't cover a specific program, self-pay can help ensure you still get the care you need.

Financial aid can take many forms. Centers may have grants or scholarships available to clients who meet eligibility requirements. Programs that receive SAMHSA grants may have financial aid available for those who need treatment as well. Grants and scholarships can help you pai for treatment without having to repay.

Military members, veterans, and eligible dependents have access to specific insurance programs that help them get the care they need. TRICARE and VA insurance can help you access low cost or no cost addiction and mental health treatment. Programs that accept military insurance often have targeted treatment focused on the unique challenges military members, veterans, and their families face.

Medicaid is a state based program that helps lower-income individuals and families pay for healthcare. Medicaid covers addiction treatment so those enrolled can use their coverage to pay for rehab. When a program accepts Medicaid the client often pays very little or nothing out of their own pocket.

Military members, veterans, and eligible dependents have access to specific insurance programs that help them get the care they need. TRICARE and VA insurance can help you access low cost or no cost addiction and mental health treatment. Programs that accept military insurance often have targeted treatment focused on the unique challenges military members, veterans, and their families face.

Addiction Treatments

Levels of Care

outpatient iconOutpatient
Outpatient Programs (OP) are for those seeking mental rehab or drug rehab, but who also stay at home every night. The main difference between outpatient treatment (OP) and intensive outpatient treatment (IOP) lies in the amount of hours the patient spends at the facility. Most of the time an outpatient program is designed for someone who has completed an inpatient stay and is looking to continue their growth in recovery. Outpatient is not meant to be the starting point, it is commonly referred to as aftercare.
intensive-outpatient iconIntensive Outpatient
Intensive Outpatient Programs (IOP) are for those who want or need a very structured treatment program but who also wish to live at home and continue with certain responsibilities (such as work or school). IOP substance abuse treatment programs vary in duration and intensity, and certain outpatient rehab centers will offer individualized treatment programs.
12-step icon12-Step
12-step programs are addiction recovery models based on Alcoholics Anonymous (AA). A number of substance abuse programs (including some drug and alcohol rehab centers) use the 12 steps as a basis for treatment. Beginning steps involve admitting powerlessness over the addiction and creating a spiritual basis for recovery. Middle steps including making direct amends to those who've been hurt by the addiction, and the final step is to assist others in addiction recovery in the same way. 12-Step offshoots including Narcotics Anonymous (NA), Cocaine Anonymous (CA), Dual Recovery Anonymous (DRA), Sex and Love Addicts Anonymous (SLAA) and Gamblers Anonymous (GA).
aftercare iconAftercare Support
Completing a drug or alcohol rehab program shouldn't spell the end of substance abuse treatment. Aftercare involves making a sustainable plan for recovery, including ongoing support. This can include sober living arrangements like halfway houses, career counseling, and setting a patient up with community programs like Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) or Narcotics Anonymous (NA).

Treatments

The goal of treatment for alcoholism is abstinence. Those with poor social support, poor motivation, or psychiatric disorders tend to relapse within a few years of treatment. For these people, success is measured by longer periods of abstinence, reduced use of alcohol, better health, and improved social functioning. Recovery and Maintenance are usually based on 12 step programs and AA meetings.

Drug addiction is defined as an inability to stop using drugs even though it causes negative consequences in your life. Drug rehab in Minnesota provides treatment for drug addiction in a variety of settings including inpatient treatment and outpatient treatment.

Many of those suffering from addiction also suffer from mental or emotional illnesses like schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, depression, or anxiety disorders. Rehab and other substance abuse facilities treating those with a dual diagnosis or co-occurring disorder administer psychiatric treatment to address the person's mental health issue in addition to drug and alcohol rehabilitation.

A combined mental health and substance abuse rehab has the staff and resources available to handle individuals with both mental health and substance abuse issues. It can be challenging to determine where a specific symptom stems from (a mental health issue or an issue related to substance abuse), so mental health and substance abuse professionals are helpful in detangling symptoms and keeping treatment on track.

Opioid rehabs specialize in supporting those recovering from opioid addiction. They treat those suffering from addiction to illegal opioids like heroin, as well as prescription drugs like oxycodone. These centers typically combine both physical as well as mental and emotional support to help stop addiction. Physical support often includes medical detox and subsequent medical support (including medication), and mental support includes in-depth therapy to address the underlying causes of addiction.

Programs

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Teen Program
Teen programs are designed to address the unique pressures teens face, pressures that can drive them to experiment with dangerous, addictive substances. They need programs that meet them exactly where they are and give them tools for long-term recovery. Therapy can help teenagers understand and work through underlying issues so they can reclaim the life ahead of them.
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Adult Program
Adult rehab programs include therapies tailored to each client's specific needs, goals, and recovery progress. They are tailored to the specific challenges adult clients may face, including family and work pressures and commitments. From inpatient and residential treatment to various levels of outpatient services, there are many options available. Some facilities also help adults work through co-occurring conditions, like anxiety, that can accompany addiction.
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HIV/AIDS Program
HIV/AIDS programs support disease prevention and management in high-risk individuals in recovery. Individuals who engage in intravenous drug use and other addictive behaviors are at a higher risk of becoming infected with HIV. Rehab centers that specialize in treating this population typically have a high number of nurses, physicians, and psychiatrists on staff who can make sure both their medical and mental health needs are met.
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Program For Men
Men face specific challenges and concerns when seeking addiction treatment. Gender-specific recovery programs help them tackle these issues head-on in an environment that's focused, targeted, and distraction-free. It also gives them the opportunity to connect with and learn from other men who have been through a similar journey and can offer support for the next step.
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Program For Women
Rehabs for women provide a safe, nurturing space for female clients to heal. These treatment programs consider the specific obstacles that women can face during recovery and place a special emphasis on mental, social, physical, and reproductive health. They explore how each woman's experience has shaped the trajectory of their substance use, addressing issues such as sexual abuse and past trauma.

Clinical Services

Therapists often use cognitive behavioral therapy in Minnesota to treat substance use disorders because it can help clients quickly identify challenges and ways to cope with them. Its structured, specific methods require fewer sessions than other types of therapy.

Group therapy is any therapeutic work that happens in a group (not one-on-one). There are a number of different group therapy modalities, including support groups, experiential therapy, psycho-education, and more. Group therapy involves treatment as well as processing interaction between group members.

In individual therapy, a patient meets one-on-one with a trained psychologist or counselor. Therapy is a pivotal part of effective substance abuse treatment, as it often covers root causes of addiction, including challenges faced by the patient in their social, family, and work/school life.

When conducting motivational interviewing in Minnesota, the interviewer encourages clients to discuss their reasons for making changes and their need for change in their lives. The interviewer's role is to listen and reflect, to evoke conversation about commitment to change.

Trauma therapy addresses traumatic incidents from a client's past that are likely affecting their present-day experience. Trauma is often one of the primary triggers and potential causes of addiction, and can stem from child sexual abuse, domestic violence, having a parent with a mental illness, losing one or both parents at a young age, teenage or adult sexual assault, or any number of other factors. The purpose of trauma therapy is to allow a patient to process trauma and move through and past it, with the help of trained and compassionate mental health professionals.

Research clearly demonstrates that recovery is far more successful and sustainable when loved ones like family members participate in rehab and substance abuse treatment. Genetic factors may be at play when it comes to drug and alcohol addiction, as well as mental health issues. Family dynamics often play a critical role in addiction triggers, and if properly educated, family members can be a strong source of support when it comes to rehabilitation.

Accreditations

The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) is a branch of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Established in 1992 by congress, SAMHSA's mission is to reduce the impact of substance abuse and mental illness on American's communities.

SAMHSA Listed: Yes

Contact Information

Phone icon (320) 259-5381
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821 W St Germain St
# 2
St Cloud, MN 56301

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5

The best program I have ever been to. Kind, caring and professional. They provided everything I needed to start my road to recovery.

Reviewed on 4/1/2023
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It takes time for you to take your call and give you the information you require, they never call me back.

Reviewed on 2/26/2019
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3.1 (11 reviews)
Anthony Kantor
1 month ago
5

Jt Lechner
2 years ago
1

YOU FAIL SOON AS YOU STEP IN THERE!!! You will have to pay more$ to go do more tests or classes I sujest go somewhere else that place playing the $ sistem also told me on phone cost is 140$ when I showed up it was 180$

Chelsea Larson
4 years ago
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Nope.

Crunchius Maximus
5 years ago
1

Beware of this place. MRT (Moral Reconation Therapy) is quite harmful and is predicated on the notion that "every problem you have in your life is your own fault," among other contrived and callous platitudes. There is absolutely nothing wrong with encouraging accountability here, but none of this is evidence-based medicine. The final nail in the coffin for me was hearing a counselor suggest that a survivor of sexual assault, as part of their assignment, try and explore a way that they *could have* responded to childhood sexual abuse as opposed to the way in which said person actually did, with the subtext suggesting that they couldn't even be a victim correctly and as a consequence this also contributed to their moral deficiencies as an adult. This is deeply offensive, heartless and in fact quite harmful.MRT is not based upon any well-established body of tested, peer-reviewed evidence and is instead a proprietary curriculum; people are not even allowed to purchase their reading materials without ponying up a fee and being themselves indoctrinated as an MRT "counselor." Ironically, because a few skewed and ethically suspect reviews (conducted by the very people who invented this pseudotherapeutic farce) concluded that it reduced the rate of recidivism, it somehow found its way to getting SAMHSA approval, which lends it a degree of credibility it has not truly earned. As one author very accurately described it, calling MRT a type of cognitive behavioral therapy is essentially the same as calling homeopathy medicine. It stretches the entire application of the term so far that it makes the attribution meaningless.I will say the actual psychologists here -- the ones that went to school and studied evidence-based medicine -- are top quality in stark contrast to the counselors that coughed up $600 to go to a training seminar that superficially indoctrinates them to shame an already downtrodden demographic.Bottom line: if you or a loved one are seeking help here or are court-ordered to do treatment, STAY AWAY from this place and any other that sell the psychobabble snake oil that is MRT. It's harmful, fallacious pseudoscience and you will be worse off for it.

Maria Hamilton
5 years ago
5

RICHARD J. THEISEN
5 years ago
5

Brittany Adams
5 years ago
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Delanie Weyer
6 years ago
5

Patrick Haws
6 years ago
5

Jordan Wilson
6 years ago
1

This place is all about INCREASING BILLABLE HOURS. They will try to put you in as many groups as you can possibly handle. When I started at ELC I was going to 13 hours of programming every week. The owner Craig is a dry-drunk who still smokes cigarettes. So he hasn't even got his addiction issues under control, but I should take my cues from you? Their are much better CD/MH places to choose from in the STC area. This place will steal your soul.

Knomia Gnomia
7 years ago
2

There program is not a bad one but they do seem to kick people out near the end....especially hard on court-ordered clients who must re-enroll, repay fees and re-take classes. I personally was never discharged from the program but I know three people who were. One was discharged for having the nerve to go to emergency room on class day, one for attending their parole meeting and one for showing up for court instead of group. Made me feel the whole thing is a scam and I now only recommend people to Recovery Plus.

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