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About Columbia Area Mental Health Center – Independence House
Columbia Area Mental Health Center (CAMHC) in Columbia, South Carolina, is a community based outpatient mental health treatment facility. Children, adults, and families in Richland county are eligible to receive services.
Adult Services and Programs
The center specializes in mental health emergencies. If you’re in crisis due to overuse of substances or withdrawals, you can contact the clinic from 8:30 am to 5:00 pm or contact their emergency line after hours.
Clinic services are available for less intensive therapy and treatment. The clinic provides a psychiatric assessment and diagnosis for clients nursing services, and case management services. Clients are scheduled for individual and group therapy.
The clinic offers several intensive and specialty programs. Clients who have not responded to medications and therapy receive intensive rehabilitation and stabilization services. The suicide prevention program offers psychotherapy during individual sessions, family sessions, and group sessions.
The impact state program lasts 90 days and features an intensive assertive community treatment program. Adults with persistent and severe mental illness and substance use disorders receive home visits, medication management, and resources such as with housing or employment.
Adults with serious mental illness and co-occurring substance use disorders may be eligible for the homeless outreach program at Transitions. The clinic can refer you.
Children’s Services and Programs
The clinic also offers several programs for children. Youngsters ages 3-21 years old can receive clinic-based outpatient services. Treatment is offered for emotional issues, psychiatric issues, and behavioral issues such as substance use.
School based mental treatment is available for children at all three school districts in Richland County. We know that your child’s mental health is important to you and easy immediate access to needed care is what we as parents want to have available.
If your child overdoses or withdraws due to substance use, the clinic offers crisis services. Based on the extremity of the crisis, your child may be referred for inpatient treatment.
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Accepted Insurance
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.
Sliding scale payments are based on a client's income and family size. The goal is to make treatment affordable to everyone. By taking these factors into account, addiction recovery care providers help ensure that your treatment does not become a financial burden to you or your family, eliminating one barrier to care.
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.
Military members, veterans, and eligible dependents have access to specific insurance programs that help them get the care they need. TRICARE and VA insurance can help you access low cost or no cost addiction and mental health treatment. Programs that accept military insurance often have targeted treatment focused on the unique challenges military members, veterans, and their families face.
Addiction Treatments
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
Adult Program
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.
Experiential therapy is a form of therapy in which clients are encouraged to surface and work through subconscious issues by engaging in real-time experiences. Experiential therapy departs from traditional talk therapy by involving the body, and having clients engage in activities, movements, and physical and emotional expression. This can involve role-play or using props (which can include other people). Experiential therapy can help people process trauma, memories, and emotion quickly, deeply, and in a lasting fashion, leading to substantial and impactful healing.
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.
Nutrition therapy, aka medical nutrition therapy (MNT), is a way of treating physical, emotional, and medical conditions through diet. Specific dietary plans are designed by professional nutritionists or registered dietitians, and patients follow them in order to positively affect their physical and mental health.
Staff
Kathy L. Hugg, LPC
Executive Director
Allison Smith
Chief of Staff
Dr. David A. Justice
Medical Director
Vickie L. Brown
Director of Human Resources Services
Genevieve LaRose
Director of Clinical Support Services
Contact Information
2715 Colonial Drive
Suite 100
Columbia, SC 29203
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