Clinician burnout is real. Connection is the best prevention. If you are a mental health practitioner, we invite you to join us on July 27th to eat and connect with colleagues and learn skills to prevent burnout, and improve connections with self and clients.

A program integrating Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT); peer programming to focus on common challenges in daily professional life; and Veritus Coaching™, and designed exclusively for working professionals for confidential, secure, and convenient treatment with optimum success in recovery and at work.

Whether you are a clinician looking for services for a client or an individual looking for help for yourself or a loved one, Freedom Institute's Assessments and Treatment Consultation Are a Go-To Resource.

Our clinicians are already on a hybrid schedule and will soon be seeing clients in person again. We are currently open in-person for clients who wish to come in for their individual and family appointments contingent on meeting all health and safety guidelines.

The emotional stress of the last two years caused the number of people reporting mental health issues to skyrocket, the onslaught of substance abuse issues continues, and overdose deaths have doubled. The need for Freedom Institute’s services is greater now more than ever.

Meet Allison Nelson, LCSW, CASAC, the latest addition to our clinical team. As an Ackerman Institute-trained Family and Couples therapist, she brings the highest caliber of training and experience to her work at FI.

We talked to the experts at Freedom Institute about the skills we teach to prevent relapse and to learn more about FI’s Advanced Relapse Prevention group.

If you relapse, all is not lost. Like a lot of things, we don’t get it right the first time. Relapse is not uncommon and it doesn’t mean failure. So ask for help.

We know how important healthy, honest relationships are and that loved ones deserve support in the recovery process. Our popular Significant Other Group is a key to success.

“I’ll stop after the pandemic.” Now you can’t seem to stop. Is there a roadmap for substance use from misuse to addiction? How do we know if we have a problem?

Dr. Dan Mierlak, Medical Director of Freedom Institute since 2008 has written The Spanish Molecule, a riveting account of case studies in his work in addiction psychiatry.

The individuals and collective clinical team at Freedom Institute are our greatest assets and a source of great pride. They are a dedicated group of highly trained and experienced professionals.

Addiction is a progressive disease. The trajectory from use, to misuse, to abuse, to dependence can be subtle and swift.

Reach out for help. Addiction is a disease of isolation. September is National Recovery Month and this year’s theme is Celebrating Connections.

Veritus, a Telehealth alcohol and drug treatment program, provides secure and confidential treatment exclusively for licensed medical professionals.

Freedom Institute Donates $1,200 to Support Campaign Zero's Mission, to end police violence.

Frank Wells, LCSW, Director, Family Services, and Salah Bustami, LMHC, Family and Individual Therapist, on talking to loved ones about their substance misuse or abuse.

A study from the universities of Cambridge, Oxford, and Zurich reveals a decline in mental health of women in the US.

For God’s Sake, you have everything. I would ask myself ‘Why do you drink?…And you can’t stop.” In 1976, Mona Mansell was a recovering alcoholic and on a mission.

The isolation of quarantine has been especially challenging for those in early recovery, and devastating for those actively using. Drug related deaths are on the rise.