About Faith and Family Advocates
Faith and Family Advocates is located in Richmond, Virginia. The organization offers outpatient services for the treatment of mental health and co-occurring addiction disorders. The therapist, Dr. Deidre Whittle, LPC, has been treating clients since 2001. She also specializes in relationship issues and offers marriage counseling and divorce recovery. She accepts insurance from various major commercial providers as well as Medicaid. She allows smoking in the facility in designated areas.
The treatment facility is between I-64 and US Route 250 (Broad Street). The Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden is nearby, where clients can immerse themselves in a calming and healing environment before or after therapy treatments. For clients who want to take advantage of the healing nature of art, the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts is three miles from the facility.
Emphasizing Holistic Addiction and Mental Health Healing
Dr. Whittle emphasizes a holistic approach to treatment. Her mission is to use her academic, personal, and spiritual experiences to enrich and empower others through personal coaching and counseling.
Multimodality Therapeutic Approach
The therapist has experience helping clients through mentally and emotionally challenging situations. She treats clients with anxiety, behavioral issues, eating disorders, grief, dissociative disorders, mood disorders, sexual issues, teen violence, and many other types of emotional and mental health issues.
She uses a multimodality approach to treatment. This includes different types of targeted therapy based on the age of the client and the type of challenges he/she is facing.
Dr. Whittle uses cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) in the treatment of addiction and mental health issues. Depending on your unique circumstances, she may use mindfulness based therapy, psychodynamic therapy, or rational emotive behavior therapy (REBT).
Additionally, she offers coaching services to help clients identify, address, and treat their specific addiction and mental health disorders. From marital and family therapy to individual addiction therapy, clients can find the type of therapy at this center to help them address their challenges and regain hope.
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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.
Addiction Treatments
Levels of Care
Outpatient
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

Young 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.
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.
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.
Contact Information
2235 staples Mill Road
Suite 110
Richmond, VA 23230