Mental Health Center – Albany Clinic - Decatur, AL

About Mental Health Center – Albany Clinic

Mental Health Center–Albany Clinic provides outpatient psychiatric care and addiction recovery services for youth and families in Decatur, Alabama, including specialized programming for adolescents, children, persons with hearing impairments, justice-involved juveniles, and persons with co-occurring disorders. Their state-licensed services also include crisis intervention; home, school, and community-based care, and aftercare planning and support.

Clients in general outpatient care receive medical and mental health assessments, personalized care planning, and case management. Referrals for acute and subacute inpatient treatment are available. Clients also engage in intensive individual, group, and family counseling drawing on proven psychotherapeutic modalities. The program promotes clients’ sustained sobriety through age-specific, recovery-focused life skills training addressing topics such as coping, self-care, and relapse prevention.

Their aftercare services promote a complete continuum of care aligned with clients’ evolving needs and may include academic and vocational training, step-down support, and referrals for additional medical, mental health, and social service programs.

Mental Health Center–Albany Clinic works with major insurers, such as Cigna, Aetna, BlueCross BlueShield, Humana, and United Healthcare. Out of network benefits can vary. Contact your provider to confirm coverage. Financial aid is available.

Latest Reviews

Chelsey George

8 months ago on Google

Horrible clinic. My child goes here strictly because it's who partners with his school and we have no other options. If you have options, choose any where else.First of all, they will make promises about therapy that is not kept. For example, they'll tell you your kid will be seen bi-weekly. That's not going to happen most months. They'll make up 15 different excuses as to why it just couldn't. But they won't make any effort to actually make it happen. Also a very specific example is that we were promised bi-weekly individual sessions and bi-weekly group sessions over the summer. They changed my kid down to one session a month individually. Didn't even bother to tell us.You'll try to get in contact with the therapist and that won't happen. Messages don't get delivered. But it really wouldn't matter even if they did, because you're not going to get any updates about how your child is doing. Who cares that it's your child who you enrolled and who you signed all the paperwork for. It's like you don't need to know what's going on. So you'll ask your kid instead and he'll tell you oh we just played video games... you'll ask if you talked about anything while you played those video games... and he'll say no.First appointment is at 8:00 a.m., let me tell you what, if you like to be early, don't. They won't open the door until after 8:00 so you'll be stuck standing outside. And then if your therapist has to reschedule, you won't get a phone call until after you're already there. And their excuse will be "well we don't open until 8:00." As a provider of care, if your first appointment is at 8:00 then you need to open at 7:30. Under no circumstances should someone be having to miss work/school, to come to an appointment, just to be told upon arrival that it's been rescheduled. That is a complete and utter at lack of professionalism.They'll also tell you that they're scheduling system has been down for 2 months... And perhaps that's true... but the lack of getting it fixed combined with the lack of having an alternate solution, goes to further show the problems and issues with this clinic.

gary miller

2 years ago on Google

Excellent professional care. Absolutely no complaints.

Nick Hatton

2 years ago on Google

Was referred by people who live in Lawrence county. The clinic told us they don't accept people who live in Lawrence County

Location

Accepted Insurance

Mental Health Center – Albany Clinic 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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800-985-8516

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Other Forms of Payment

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.

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.

Medicare is a federal program that provides health insurance for those 65 and older. It also serves people under 65 with chronic and disabling health challenges. To use Medicare for addiction treatment you need to find a program that accepts Medicare and is in network with your plan. Out of pocket costs and preauthorization requirements vary, so always check with your provider.

Addiction Treatments

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.

Treatments

Mental health rehabs focus on helping individuals recover from mental illnesses like bipolar disorder, clinical depression, anxiety disorders, schizophrenia, and more. Mental health professionals at these facilities are trained to understand and treat mental health issues, both in individual and group settings.

Programs

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.

Child Program

The providers who specialize in the children's rehab space understand the specialized needs that this population faces. School-based and social services such as tutoring and family counseling are often central to treatment. Child programs may also address the needs of youth experiencing substance abuse in the home, including a parent's or sibling's addiction.

Hearing Impaired Program

A sensory disability, such as hearing impairment, can compound the challenges of addiction recovery. Drug rehabs that are specially designed to accommodate the needs of persons with hearing impairments will include special accessibility features and accommodations to make treatment as comfortable and effective as possible. This may include access to American Sign Language interpreters.

Clinical Services

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.

Whether a marriage or other committed relationship, an intimate partnership is one of the most important aspects of a person's life. Drug and alcohol addiction affects both members of a couple in deep and meaningful ways, as does rehab and recovery. Couples therapy and other couples-focused treatment programs are significant parts of exploring triggers of addiction, as well as learning how to build healthy patterns to support ongoing sobriety.

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.

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.