Drug Rehab Centers in Brookline, Massachusetts

I started the Ascend PHP group let by clinicians Alexandria and Sheng Mei in October. Ascend is one of the many groups available at this hospital, so I can only speak to the quality of this one. What is unique and revolutionary about it is that it is that it is aimed specifically at Black, Indigenous and other women of color. This is the first hospitalization that I ve attended as an adult and the best program that I have ever had the opportunity to go through. You can tell that these clinicians care about their patients and are extremely innovative and resourceful with what they are given, despite deserving more funding in my personal opinion.The space focuses on a curriculum of Dialectical Behavioral Therapy, which I was familiar with before starting the program, but it leaves space to interpret the resources through the lens of living in a country where laws and regulations are not made with our specific identities in mind. The curriculum includes but is not limited to distress tolerance, interpersonal effectiveness, unpacking trauma.Many of the women in this program come bearing generational trauma, issues from workplace bullying and racism, and/or being victimized due to not being treated for learning disabilities and other conditions such as ADHD and Autism. Going through this program has helped me apply DBT to my life in a way that is specifically catered to issues that government institutions do not usually acknowledge, let alone view as real systemic issues, so I am forever grateful that this program exists. I hope that more groups like this for other cultural and ethnic communities emerge in Ascend s footsteps, because the key to healing the mental wounds that many experience is unpacking generational trauma with empathy and transparency.Having this group in a stressful time of my life allowed me to maintain a sense of structure and come as I was despite feeling like a shell of myself. This group is available both in person and on zoom, so on days that I was not feeling well I was able to show up via zoom, and having this option made the world of a difference to me. This is also a program that you can always return to if you ever find yourself in a dark place later down the line and I feel much better returning to work and school knowing this.I would also like to address a review left by another client who I met in group under the name Shaquania Moses. This is a client who joined over a month into my time at HRI, and despite being the very first person to welcome and accept this person into the space, they were extremely judgmental of myself and others, and did not follow group guidelines that are set in order to make sure clients do not trigger each other while sharing. Their blatant disregard for others and the guidelines quickly made the space a negative and judgmental one for everyone in the group.I am offended at this review because this client regularly hijacked our limited time for group with tangents that were unrelated to skills and comments that triggered others and overall made the space unsafe. My attendance and mental health was negatively impacted for over a week because of this person and I think it was generous that they were not discharged earlier.I am the person that is referenced in their review who said that they should not show up to group if they didn t like how they were being treated. The missing context to this situation is that the Friday before their Monday discharge, the client lashed out at other clients and our clinicians multiple times through out the day and ruined the graduation of a different client, and the next appropriate time to address this situation happened to fall on this patients last day of treatment.I do commend both clinicians for addressing this client and their concerns to the best of their ability, but I feel as if they were not fit for group therapy at that specific point in time regardless. Let this be a reminder that this is a psychiatric hospital, and some reviews need to be taken with a grain of salt, even including my own. Thank you.

Love it there, all the staffs and doctors were nice. Treated me great. Highly recommend. It s also clean. Sheila was a great staff. Got my meds on track as well.

Amazing most helpful place I've been too for my medical appointments. And the staff are really nice and helpful, 5 stars