Waccamaw Mental Health Center

Conway, South Carolina

164 Waccamaw Medical Park Drive
Conway, SC 29526

(843) 347-4888

About Waccamaw Mental Health Center

Waccamaw Mental Health Center, located in Conway, South Carolina is a public alcohol and drug rehab that offers treatment for a variety of substance abuse addictions including co-occurring mental health disorders. They offer flexible outpatient addiction therapy allowing patients to live at home while receiving regular treatment.

Specialty rehab programs at Waccamaw Mental Health Center include age-appropriate treatment for teens addressing adolescent-specific issues, age-sensitive addiction treatment considering health and life-stage issues of older adults, and accessible addiction treatment using sign language and adapted communication methods.

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Medical briefcase icon 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.

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check iconAdolescence program

adult-program iconAdult program

children iconChildren program

elderly iconElderly program

hearing iconHearing impaired program

young-adult iconYoung adult program

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

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check iconDual Diagnosis

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.

mental-health iconMental Health

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.

Hand holding medical sign icon Clinical Services

inpatient-file iconCognitive 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.

couples-therapy iconCouples Therapy

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.

family iconFamily Therapy

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.

intervention iconGroup 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.

mental-health iconIndividual 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.

house-medical iconTrauma 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.

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164 Waccamaw Medical Park Drive
Conway, SC 29526

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Awful terrible place!!!!!! Don't like anyone there and very unprofessional with treatment for anyone who goes there. Anyone who goes there will find them selfs stuck and can't get out!! I refer you to get help somewhere else!!

Reviewed on 2/2/2023
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No help at all! We were there 3 times, evaluated and passed on to the next person. Irene Knowlin, I do not know her title but wonder what her qualifications are. Disheveled, unprofessional and very rude person, how did she qualify to work in a mental health center? She hid b ... Read More

Reviewed on 4/17/2019
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They are completely irresponsible when giving me my medication. They don't care that you're out of meds and are endangering your life. The woman at the front desk basically doesn't care no matter how much you try to reason with her. It's sad that I don't have anywhere else t ... Read More

Reviewed on 2/27/2019
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1.7 (112 reviews)
Lizzie Bellamy
2 months ago
1

I called to ask about intake process they referred me to the website it s better for me to talk to someone then I asked if they had a resource person she just connected me to another line . I called back to ask about partners and if I could do intake there they connected me to another line which no one answered . Very disappointed no help at all front desk or whoever was on the phone needs to be trained on front desk etiquette and how to talk to people . Not very not very knowledgeable on what is available and services.

shavonne marcus
2 months ago
5

Very professional staff always on point when I m walking in to check me in the process of waiting is no more than 15 minutes. My doctor and therapist is wonderful. I couldn t ask for anything better thank you for all you waccamaw Mental Health thank you.

Pablo Batista
3 months ago
1

2023.07.08 JulyI've felt the affects of great laboratory clinical equipment at Waccamaw Center For Mental Health of Conway, SC. Dr. Martha Smith, especially, can hit the nail on the head of foreshadowing involuntary states such as a delayed onset of manic hyper-vigilance brought on by suggestiveness by Dr. Smith of *over*-concern for my mother's health and welfare. What more could you ask from a neurologist... other than about these involuntary, spine/brain-induced mental aberrations? I've been thinking of Dr. Martha Smith, getting all of the nails on the head, and I think predicting what the central nervous system (CNS) will do, next, will be the start of a golden time for WCMH...... atleast, it can be?Updated: 2024.05.03 MayIt's like doctors have reserved the right for microdosing for a very long time like what Doctor Martha Smith tended to use sparingly to make me hyper and stop short of saying the 'word' to call my mother in fear of my mom encountering, "Anaphylactic shock". But people like Nurse Suzanne Heroux bought into it wholeheartedly (I think the term is they were more liberal and messy adopters). Such as when Susie was illuminating her makeup with the bandwidth of the radiation that the Sun gives off (UV Light) that causes permanent blindness. She'd place Morning Glory candle wax mixed with an acid-burning sensation on my whorl of scalp, and she'd tell me to tolerate the trial because she was a priestess and I could become a prince to become so manic, I'd enter a state to also glow.Nurse Benjamin Duvall just bucks and weaves like the simpleton Pentecosts do, and makes me feel like the chair is giving me contraindications like chocolate+tea with my Abilify.You're talking to someone dead and hollow all day of every second of his life, who's very susceptible to mania and schizophrenia proper dosing on a razor's edge.And why were all of the shirts I lent my brother corroded at the armpits??? Steroids do that. Steroids make him homicidal.Updated 2024.05.08 MayOf course microdosing has its limits. That's why they employ for Meditam (A patient transportation service) religious fanatics, such as, Roger McDermott, whose goal is to make you enter 'as though everything felt like another world' by taking you to a Pentecostal church such as The Father's House of Myrtle Beach, on 17 Bypass after him clown-gagging me with my Abilify contraindication of tea and chocolate. Or how Nurse Suzanne Heroux put Morning Glory candle wax with a stimulant disbursed into me by some acid around my scalp in the whorl of my hair. Supposedly there are hidden cameras but, in my experience, amongst open drug trade, there aren't any cameras in public facilities.Updated: 2024.06.03 JuneSome caseworkers and nurses at WCMH are archetypes. They have lots of stand-ins that do each other's voices. Since 2002, Connie Strickland, a stand-in for Suzanne Heroux, said she guaranteed she was getting me off all of my medicine for yelling at Mr. Richard Avery in 2001 or 2002(?), "And. We will see why you take it. Because??? Because, it's bad to take it as a crutch." The Natzo funny part, was, her pint-sized 'daughter(?)' (the daughters switch around, too) was the one tasked with figuring out the type of coma I start falling into without my antipsychotic. Like rigid-immovable vs waxy rigidity. The joke happens when they drink alcohol but I feel sorry for them.Updated: 2024.07.09 JulyNurse Suzanne Heroux asked me for a secret. So I explained, up North if a kid turns paranoid, they keep it within the family so the kid will try to kill family members rather than taking it out on some random stranger. And they base it on a lie to manipulate them, back and forth.Dr. Chioma Ekechukwu said Suzanne was plotting my brother to kill me, because the lie was I was a North Korean in khaki BDUs or if I took them off, I'd be an injured soldier.That doesn't work in South Carolina. Mental patients get out after 4 or 6 years for good behavior as their 10-year sentence for murder.Some peers would push elderly into trucks infront of traffic cameras.

Judi Rowe
4 months ago
4

We've had nothing but AMAZING experiences here! The staff has been wonderful... Nurse Dave is awesome... Rick the therapist is amazing and the Dr we have is OUTSTANDING!! They all have made it easy for us!!

Sadie Casey
5 months ago
5

So good

Jason Templeton
6 months ago
4

Teresa Copenhaver
6 months ago
1

If I could give zero stars I would. I went here to try and help a freind. They treated me like a liar and a criminal. I am far from it

Katie Fisher
9 months ago
1

Absolutely awful place. I pray no one has to admit theirselves here. The workers do not care about anyone. All the workers here truly need to think about how they want to live their life. It makes no sense why everyone that works at this facility is disrespectful and not one person has 1 spec of humanity in their hearts.

Roxane Lynn
10 months ago
1

Marshall Rasnick
10 months ago
1

No courtesy. Horrendous service. Drove over an hour this morning for my appointment (which was set up through another doctors office, not directly by me, the patient), only to be told they could not see me because they were short-staffed. No notice of this what-so-ever, prior to my appointment. Only reason they get 1 star is because 0 stars is not an option.

Christina Scism
1 year ago
1

Had 2 appts today went to the 1st one and was harassed when I entered and left for cigs. I said no and they approached me at my car. When I was checking out the girl at the counter said we need 5 dollars before you leave today. I stated I'll be back for my next appointment in 15 mins. She said if I didn't pay 5 dollars I couldn't leave. I left but now fear being harassed again when I go back.Threatening someone with mental health problems for 5 bucks does not seem like the best care. I am definitely looking other places. Also an update now my therapist Jamie is upset because my work schedule doesnt convience her. If you haven't applied here yet don't. Jamie my therapist also lied and said she had covid on the 1st visit. She was in the back doing paperwork it's just very unprofessional

dana.carolina
1 year ago
1

Had my intake there recently and probably will not return. Most people do not like their information publicly announced, especially HIPPA binding info. So when you check in they make you state your full name and address, they refused to take my ID. They will make someone more uncomfortable in an already uncomfortable place. The reception staff try to be-friend patients, and allow video calls from the receptionists personal phone with patients! I mean very horrible first impression. Intake staff also mentioned that they are always losing staff. Office staff was also ordering food and talking about food nonstop. Not a good environment to do that, a patient may not be able to get or buy food, or not have had food in days and it's basically a slap in the face to them.

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