Our Young Adult Program is designed to meet the needs of young adults ages 18-to-30 who have experienced a disruption in their lives involving substance use and mental health concerns. Many times, this disruption has impacted one’s ability to successfully launch into adulthood. Through evidence-based practices, the goal of this program is to help develop the skills needed to engage in healthy relationships with family and peers in school, work, and social settings.
Psychiatry
Our Addiction and Child and Adolescent Psychiatrists specialize in working with young adults with substance use disorders and co-occurring mental health problems. We provide comprehensive and coordinated psychiatric treatment, including medication management and medications for addiction treatment (MAT), when indicated.
Individual Therapy
Individual therapy is an important modality, providing our clients with a reflective space to address substance use and co-occurring issues with an eye towards long-term growth and healing. Our team of trained and experienced therapists build strong alliances with our clients to support recovery while exploring the past and current challenges that have contributed to their presenting issues.
Group Therapy
Group psychotherapy is a vital aspect of substance use recovery and mental health treatment more broadly. Our groups are focused on the development and utilization of coping skills to support adolescents in early recovery, and building recovery skills to avoid relapse and face the challenges of a life without substance use. Our curriculum draws from Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT), Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Motivational Interviewing (MI), Psychodynamic, Psychoeducation, and 12-Step Recovery approaches to address our clients’ challenges and support their strengths.
Along with groups for our clients, we also provide Multi-Family Group (MFG) and Parent Only Group (POG) to address family recovery and provide support.
Family Therapy
Substance use disorders affect the whole family system, not just the young adult struggling with addiction. As such, we bring all members of the family system into treatment, with the goal of strengthening relationships, supporting effective parenting, and promoting healing and harmony.
Peer Services
Peer recovery is an essential part of providing support to young adults for a recovery-based lifestyle. Using their unique skillset and lived experience, our Certified Recovery Peer Advocates (CRPAs) help co-create short-term, achievable goals together with the client and the clinical team. Whether at an intensive outpatient (IOP) or outpatient (OP) level of care, our recovery peers facilitate linkages to recovery support networks, help to enable educational and/or career goals, enhance motivation for practicing self-care, and provide power of example to achieve a recovery-based lifestyle. Our team is available for young adults throughout the week and can include up to twice weekly 60-minute sessions with one of our experienced OASAS certified peer recovery advocates.
Co-occurring Disorders and Other Behaviors
NYCFL treats young adults with primary substance use disorder diagnoses. We also know that substance use disorders do not exist in a vacuum and are often associated with other mental health conditions and associated behaviors. Both in our intensive outpatient (IOP) and outpatient (OP) program, our team can help effectively manage mood disorders like depression and bipolar disorder, anxiety disorders like generalized anxiety disorder, personality disorders like borderline personality disorder, trauma, attachment issues, self-injurious behaviors, and codependency.
Nicotine Cessation
Additionally, NYCFL seeks to critically address the use of nicotine products by young adults. Our psychiatrists can prescribe nicotine cessation products, including patches and lozenges, with the goal of eliminating nicotine use or, as we like to say, nip it in the bud!
Drug Testing
New York Center for Living provides urine drug screening and utilizes labs for confirmatory testing to provide an objective measure of substance use and ensure young adults in both intensive outpatient (IOP) and outpatient (OP) treatment are working towards the goal of sobriety and recovery.