Des Moines Mental Health Center provides integrated outpatient counseling for co-occurring mental health and substance use disorders. One practice, one team, one treatment picture. Same-week appointments. Medicaid and all major insurances accepted.
What It Is
It is estimated that roughly half of people with a substance use disorder also have a co-occurring mental health condition. The two feed each other. Anxiety leads to drinking to manage it. Drinking makes the anxiety worse. Depression reduces the motivation to stay sober. Untreated trauma is one of the leading drivers of substance use.
Treating substance use without addressing the mental health piece, or addressing mental health while ignoring the substance use, produces incomplete results. Co-occurring treatment addresses both together.
WHAT WE OFFER
Integrated Mental Health & Substance Use Care
Our counselors are trained in both mental health treatment and substance use counseling, allowing both conditions to be addressed together in a coordinated outpatient setting.
Whole-Person Treatment Approach
Sessions focus on the connection between mental health challenges and substance use patterns because these issues often impact each other in everyday life.
Evaluation & Referral Support
For individuals who need a higher level of care, we provide evaluations and referral coordination to help connect each client with the most appropriate treatment and support.
COMMON COMBINATIONS WE TREAT
Anxiety and alcohol use
Depression and substance use
PTSD and opioid use
Bipolar disorder and alcohol or stimulant use
ADHD and substance use
