Lighthouse Counseling

About Lighthouse Counseling

Lighthouse Counseling offers outpatient treatment for individuals with alcohol and/or substance addiction. The program includes Dialectical Behavior Therapy, individual counselling, Motivational Interviewing and more. Lighthouse Counseling is located at Fredericksburg, Virginia.

The IOP is a group therapy program that meets three times per week, with one individual session per week. There are three phases to this program, and individuals step down into a less intensive phase as they progress. The Honors track provides incentives to develop recovery-based activities that help sustain recovery following treatment.

The recovery action program is the second phase of treatment. Participants meet twice per week. Individuals can begin at this level of care if their assessment shows they are ready. This phase is four months long.

The Recovery Group is the final phase of treatment and meets once a week for six months. It focuses on the benefits of recovery and reacclimating after treatment. The Harm Reduction Therapy Group is also available for individuals who do not identify as having an addiction but want to address issues in their lives that have come from substance abuse. This group meets weekly for six months. Lastly, there is a Substance Abuse Treatment Group that is for individuals who have never attended treatment before.

Lighthouse Counseling accepts insurance, including Aetna, Anthem, Carelon, CareFirst National Capital Area, Cigna, GEHA, Innovation Health, Johns Hopkins USFHP, Optima, and Optum. Verify your coverage and out-of-network benefits with your provider.

Payment Options

Private insurance
Self-pay options
Financial aid
Military insurance
Military Insurance

Levels of Care

Outpatient

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.

Inpatient Rehab

Clients who are in early recovery, leaving detox, or experiencing a crisis often require the intensive treatment of an inpatient rehab facility. Clients in inpatient care receive robust clinical supervision, housing, and meals, allowing them to focus exclusively on their recovery while they stabilize. The primary treatment modalities used in most inpatient centers include extensive addiction counseling and recovery-focused life skills training. Many drug rehabs also offer holistic therapies, such as music, art, fitness, and experiential therapies.

Aftercare

Clients participating in a rehab aftercare program receive comprehensive and customized support as they leave high-intensity treatment, reintegrate into their community, and focus on maintaining their sobriety. These programs offer a wide variety of services to align with the client's unique and evolving needs, often including medical, mental health, and social service program referrals. Clients typically develop their drug rehab aftercare plan in conjunction with their case manager and care team.

12-Step

Once involved in a 12 step recovery program, clients can commit to a model of life-long recovery rooted in spiritual growth and intensive peer support. 12 step meetings are anonymous, peer-led, free, and accessible day and night, year-round, in most communities. Self-selected sponsors provide one-on-one coaching as participants work through the steps of recovery. These steps are based on spiritual principles used to address the origins of the addiction and to encourage self-compassion, forgiveness, acceptance, and accountability.

Intervention Services

A drug intervention in Virginia requires careful planning and execution. Due to complex family dynamics, intervention services are often necessary to help families successfully navigate the process. An intervention specialist can help family members plan what they will say and then facilitate the conversation. This expert also educates everyone involved about addiction, enabling behaviors, and treatment options.

Medically Assisted Detox

Known as the first step of the addiction recovery process, medical detox is the removal of addictive drugs and alcohol from your body and helping manage physical withdrawal. Medically assisted detox takes place in an inpatient setting where you will be closely monitored by a team of medical professionals to ensure your maximum health and safety. Medications like Suboxone or Vivitrol may be administered if needed to alleviate any potential withdrawal symptoms. This process is typically at least partially covered by most insurance plans.

Programs

Adult program

Program for men

Program for women

Young adult program

LGBTQ program

Military program

Settings & Amenities

Residential setting
Private rooms

Insurance

Our Policy: Lighthouse Counseling works with several private insurance providers and also accepts private payments when possible, please contact us to verify your specific insurance provider.

Aetna

Blue Cross Blue Shield

CareFirst

Carelon Behavioral Health

GEHA

Johns Hopkins Health Plans (JHHP)

Magellan Health

Optima Health

UMR

UnitedHealth Group

Treatment

Alcoholism

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

When you enroll in drug rehab in Virginia, a treatment plan is designed by professional staff in order to help you overcome drug addiction and modify addictive behaviors. This may include evidence-based treatments, group and individual therapy, and relapse prevention.

Opioid Addiction

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.

Substance Abuse

Substance rehabs focus on helping individuals recover from substance abuse, including alcohol and drug addiction (both illegal and prescription drugs). They often include the opportunity to engage in both individual as well as group therapy.

Clinical Services

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is a therapy modality that focuses on the relationship between one's thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. It is used to establish and allow for healthy responses to thoughts and feelings (instead of unhealthy responses, like using drugs or alcohol). CBT has been proven effective for recovering addicts of all kinds, and is used to strengthen a patient's own self-awareness and ability to self-regulate. CBT allows individuals to monitor their own emotional state, become more adept at communicating with others, and manage stress without needing to engage in substance abuse. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is a therapeutic approach that focuses on changing cognitions which will then result in changes in feelings, thoughts and behaviors.

Dialectical Behavior Therapy

Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) is a modified form of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), a treatment designed to help people understand and ultimately affect the relationship between their thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. DBT is often used for individuals who struggle with self-harm behaviors, such as self-mutilation (cutting) and suicidal thoughts, urges, or attempts. It has been proven clinically effective for those who struggle with out-of-control emotions and mental health illnesses like Borderline Personality Disorder. he DBT skills group is (at its core) A CLASS that helps teach coping skills and therefore, is useful for a wide variety of clients who struggle with emotion regulation. DBT skills group is not a group in which folks process their feelings but rather learn in an almost classroom environment how to use new coping skills.

Group 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.

Individual Therapy

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.

Motivational Interviewing

Motivational Interviewing (MI) is a clinical approach to helping people with substance abuse issues and other conditions shift behavior in positive ways. It is more goal-oriented than traditional psychotherapy, as MI counselors directly attempt to get clients to consider making behavioral change (rather than wait for them to come to conclusions themselves). Its primary purpose is to resolve ambivalence and help clients become able to make healthy choices freely. Motivational Interviewing is a directive, patient-centered counseling style for eliciting behavioral change by helping clients to explore and resolve ambivalence. The examination and resolution of ambivalence is its central purpose, and the couselor is intentionally directive in pursuing this goal.

Trauma Therapy

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.

Couples Therapy

If you and your partner are facing challenges, couples therapy in Virginia is designed to help you work through those in a healthy way. Common challenges that couples therapy addresses include conflict resolution, financial disagreements, intimacy challenges, health issues, and substance abuse.

Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing

Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is a structured therapeutic technique that reduces emotional stress and fosters cognitive restructuring so your negative beliefs associated with the trauma become positive ones. EMDR uses bilateral stimulation to desensitize the emotional intensity of traumatic memories and reduce your experience with post traumatic stress disorder.

Life Skills

If you've experienced addiction, you may have lost the skills to self manage and adapt to change. Because these basic life skills are crucial for recovery, drug rehab programs typically include life skills training as an integral part of treatment.

Contact

(540) 907-0121

Website

420 Hudgins Road
Suite 201
Fredericksburg VA, 22408

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Reviews

3.43 (13 reviews)

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Google Rating

3.3 (12 reviews)

John Conner

1 year ago

My therapist is amazing, highly recommend

Mariah W

2 years ago

Apparently asking questions about their mistakes is arguing. I was refused service because the owner was disrespectful to me after I asked questions about unclear information. I was also on an imaginary wait list for 3 years, they took me off of with no explanation. I was told I m partially at fault for that, when they apparently have none. I was called names by the owner and she attempted to play it off as a joke when I told her it hurt my feelings. Then I was hung up on a refused to be put on this list

Sloan Rene Smith

Kathryn Taylor

3 years ago

Carmen is amazing and really cares about her clients reaching their "life worth living" goals. I spent over 15 yrs of (at the time 21yr old) my life in and out of therapy. She's the only one who truly helped me make any true progress. Wish I had found her sooner.

Jessica Reid

This office is a VASAP approved counseling center, so court ordered VASAP participants are required to attend counseling sessions here under certain criteria. I would assume that the guaranteed cash flow from mandated participation by VASAP clients gets the most attention judging by the previous reviews about responsiveness. A friend of mine was ordered to complete counseling here by VASAP, which she did...for 22 weeks. They told her that in order to do any group sessions, she would have to discontinue taking all of her other, doctor prescribed medication. The rationale was that it might affect other group counseling members (um what?). That is wholly irresponsible and if anyone has experienced that as well with this office, I strongly suggest you speak with an attorney about a lawsuit. In my opinion, any therapist who works with VASAP is not in the business to actually help people, but to capitalize on mandated medical care by the courts and the 100 percent client funded state agency, the Commission on VASAP.

Raymond Allen

4 years ago

I was referred to Lighthouse Counseling from a couple therapist I have been seeing. When calling I am prompted to select a number to be connected to the right person, and every time I do the phone goes silent and then drops. After multiple attempts I finally got connected and set up an appointment. Today was that Tele-Appointment. I waited a half hour for the therapist to call and she did not, after an hour passed I tried to call the number once more and guess what? Yup, after pressing the number to be connected the call would drop again. I tried 17 times and with each press on the button the call would drop.So to sum it up, my appointment was a no show and I couldn't even get connected with someone to find out why. The only reason why I am doing this is with hope that someone from that place will see it and call me. BTW there is no email address on their website, so I can't even send them an email.

Mark Hovanec

I have had therapists over the years with much success and am a positive person that has succeeded in my therapies. I would not be concerned if one thing had occurred, but multiple things occurred over time. My partner needed therapy. He emailed and got no reply. He made several phone calls and got no return call. Mind you our counselor suggested Lighthouse so we considered it reputable. My partner called again. He finally got a call back and did an intake that included all his personal information including billing. He was told that 'if' there was a therapist available they would call back (?) Not, we will get back to you regardless with an update (?) Well, he finally got a session scheduled. He waited by his phone for 30 minutes and got not NO call. There are very few reviews about this organization here. I hope my sharing this experience as a pretty balanced person is helpful. I would suggest that you reach out elsewhere - especially if you have PTSD or serious issues and you thought you would start in a safe way. Always take care of yourself. If you feel in danger - reach out to friends, family, your faith, a therapist - and be honest - you are worth your life. Call 911 if you need to. I've lost friends. Your friends and family and the world deserve you. Hugs to all.

A. W.

6 years ago

Priscilla Savary

Lauren Siegel

The groups and the therapists (even if at first believe they aren't worth your time) are absolutely amazing!!!Katie Fields is the best therapist i have ever had. Katie and Kylie facilitate the DBT groups and without the DBT skills i learned i would have never been able to stay sober (after years of constant relapse). I also was in Danielle's Thursday night S.A. group was also extremely helpful in my journey in sobriety. Every therapist has different approaches, but every single one of them will never give-up on you even when you want to give-up on yourself. Long story short i LOVE Lighthouse Counseling and would recommend it to anyone!!!

Dom

7 years ago

Ida Johnston

8 years ago