What we treat
Dual diagnosis
Addiction and mental health rarely travel alone. Anxiety, depression, trauma, and substance use feed each other, and treating only one leaves the other to pull a person back. Dual-diagnosis care treats both at the same time, with a coordinated medical and clinical team.
What it looks like
Sometimes the substance is only the visible half. Anxiety, depression, or old trauma can sit underneath, each feeding the other, so what a family sees can change from week to week. Neither half is a character flaw, and neither has to be sorted out before the other.
What helps
Treating both conditions at the same time — not one first, then the other — is what coordinated dual-diagnosis care means. A medical and clinical team works together from the start, so neither the mental health piece nor the substance use piece is left behind.
A private next step
Questions about someone specific are best answered in a private conversation, at your pace.
There is no pressure here. When you are ready to talk, we will listen.