Family First Counseling Center

People of all ages are welcome at Family First Counseling in York, Nebraska. Despite the name, this practice offers its substance use disorder and mental illness treatment services to individuals as well as families, so all are welcome. They even provide counseling for gay and lesbian issues and even have experience treating soldiers.

Their approach is based on making positive lifestyle changes through evidence based counseling and therapy. They accept Medicaid and many private insurance plans.

York is a great place to recover thanks to its abundance of parks. Visiting one of its parks or trails can be a nice follow up to treatment sessions, or something new to incorporate into your routine in sobriety. I also noticed the Children’s Museum and an arboretum nearby.

Rebuilding the Bridges

Our relationships suffer when we're gripped by SUD. You may have already experienced it yourself: you could be withdrawn or pushing people away, or your changed behavior could be creating conflict. Repairing your relationships should always be part of your drug and alcohol addiction recovery.

This location offers both relationship and parenting counseling as specialties, which you can combine with or use independently of addiction treatment. While repairing personal relationships is usually part of counseling, having entire services dedicated to the subject allows you to give it more of your attention.

Learning Self Control

Addiction is something too complex to boil down into a simple definition, though people sometimes try. One thing that I think makes it so complex is that it can exploit other pre-existing issues to make your chemical dependence worse. So it only follows that those who already have poor impulse control may struggle more with substance abuse.

Another form of specialty counseling offered here is impulse control. Learning to change behaviors isn't easy, but with a supportive professional on your side, you can learn the best techniques for your situation.

Treating the Impact, Far and Wide

Other specialties this clinic offers include depression, PTSD, anxiety, and other mental health disorders. When you suffer from mental illness and drugs, it becomes necessary to address both problems, as they worsen one another when they are comorbid. If you're considering this location for treatment, be sure to look over all their specialties so you can get the most out of your time in treatment.