Addiction treatment

Individual treatment gives you one-on-one time with a counselor to focus on your personal challenges and goals, helping you to improve your mental health and well-being.

We also help families work through problems together in a way that supports both children and adults. Our team gives you tools to feel better and handle life’s challenges using your family's own strengths.

We offer many treatment groups to help you work on your mental health, relationships, and recovery. Some groups focus on topics like grief, managing emotions, trauma, and substance use, and there are groups for children and adolescents, adults, men, women, mixed genders, and all gender identities. No matter where you are in your healing journey, there’s a group ready to support you.

IOPs help people recover while still living at home. They provide counseling and group support several times a week for things like addiction. It’s a way to get intensive help without having to stay overnight in a hospital, so you can keep going with your daily life while getting care.

Offered in our New Britain Family Health & Wellness Center, this is a flexible, person-centered level of care designed to support individuals who may have traditionally qualified for Intensive Outpatient Programming (IOP) but who may benefit from a more individualized and customized approach.

Recovery Plus blends weekly individual therapy, family therapy, structured group support, and integrated medical/psychiatric services which are all coordinated at intake. This improves engagement, reduces barriers to care, and allows for tailored treatment planning while still maintaining clinical intensity.

Medication-Assisted Treatment (MAT) (also called medications for substance use disorder) helps people recover from addiction by combining medicines like Suboxone (buprenorphine) and Vivitrol (naltrexone) with counseling and support. These medicines reduce cravings and withdrawal symptoms, making it easier to stay in treatment. MAT is safe, effective, and can help people build healthier lives.

Stimulant use disorder (StimUD) is a substance use disorder involving any of the class of drugs that include cocaine, methamphetamine, and prescription stimulants. Wheeler offers innovative, evidence-based treatment.

Peer support helps people who are recovering from addiction by connecting them with Wheeler staff who have been through similar struggles. These peers offer understanding, guidance, and encouragement. Their care gives hope and shows that recovery is possible.

NARCAN is a medicine that quickly reverses an opioid overdose and can help save a person’s life. It works by blocking the effects of opioids in the body. Anyone can use it in an emergency to help someone until medical care arrives.

NARCAN is available for patients and families at all Wheeler Family Health & Wellness Centers, including an open cabinet in New Britain for the easiest access.