Vashti Center

About the Facility

Vashti Center, in Thomasville, Georgia, provides faith-based mental and behavioral healthcare services for children and adolescents between the ages of 10 and 18. They specialize in dual diagnosis care and residential treatment and aftercare services. They also offer dedicated programming for youth involved in the juvenile justice system and/or referred by the Department of Family and Children’s Services.

Vashti Center is a faith-based mental health and dual diagnosis care center for youth between the ages of 10 and 18 in Thomasville, Georgia. They provide residential treatment and aftercare planning and support, including dedicated programming for clients referred by the Georgia Department of Family and Children Services and/or the state juvenile justice system.

Residential Program
The residential program allows clients to focus on their recovery in a highly structured and supportive environment. Clients receive medical and mental health assessments, personalized care planning, and comprehensive case management. They also engage in intensive, trauma-informed individual, group, and family therapy drawing on proven modalities, including CBT and DBT. The program prioritizes recovery-focused life skills training to support their successful reintegration into their home, school, and community. Recovery education may address age-specific topics such as coping, self-care, emotional regulation, wellness, anger and stress management, decision-making, communication, problem-solving, and relapse prevention. The faith-based approach also promotes spiritual development as a cornerstone of recovery. Evidence-based complementary therapies include equine therapy, meditation, mindfulness, creative arts, and recreational therapy.

Aftercare Planning and Support
Vashti Center’s aftercare services ensure a complete continuum of care aligned with clients’ evolving needs and may include transitional support for clients stepping down to outpatient treatment, 12 step program facilitation, and referrals for medical, mental health, and social service programs.

Accreditation and Payment
Vashti Center is state licensed and CARF accredited. They accept state insurance, Medicaid, and self-pay. Financial aid is available.

Treatment

Dual Diagnosis

In Georgia, specialized dual-diagnosis addiction treatment programs address co-occurring substance use disorders and mental health conditions. Care levels include outpatient, inpatient, and partial hospitalization. Therapies like cognitive behavioral therapy, or dialectical behavioral therapy, equine therapy, mindfulness-based therapy, skills training, and recovery groups — like 12-step — support you in achieving sobriety and sustaining recovery. Developing the tools to establish a solid support system (or strengthen an existing one) will also increase your chances of long-term recovery success.

Mental Health

While in treatment for a substance use disorder, mental health services are provided, and you have access to a mental health counselor or therapist round the clock. Clinical staff constantly monitor your care, and you receive a number of mental health therapies including individual and group counseling, relapse prevention education, and coping skills training. Other mental health offerings will vary by rehab.

Insurance and Financial

Medicaid
Financial aid

Programs

Adolescence program

Levels of Care

Outpatient

Outpatient rehab enables clients to receive addiction treatment while continuing to work and reside at home. Many programs offer evening, night, and weekend services so that clients may receive treatment on their own schedule. Outpatient treatment modalities typically include addiction counseling, recovery-focused life skills training, and/or medication assisted treatment (MAT). Many programs also provide step-down care, including partial hospitalization (PHP), intensive outpatient (IOP), and standard outpatient services, to align with clients’ evolving needs.

Clinical Services

Cognitive 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

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 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.

Group 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.

Individual 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.

Trauma 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.