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Washington, DC
Addiction treatment and mental health care
Whitman-Walker Health
Mental Health and Addiction Treatment Services
Whitman-Walker Health provides addiction treatment and mental health care in Washington, DC, with outpatient services. People seeking care can access cognitive behavioral therapy, dialectical behavior therapy, and individual counseling. Payment options include private health insurance, Medicaid, Medicare, and self-payment.
1525 14th Street NW, Floor 5-R, Washington, DC, 20005
Services & treatment options
Treatment
Type of Care
- Mental health treatment
- Substance use treatment
- Treatment for co-occurring substance use plus either serious mental health illness in adults/serious emotional disturbance in children
Care setting
- Outpatient
- Outpatient methadone/buprenorphine or naltrexone treatment
- Regular outpatient treatment
Opioid Medications used in Treatment
- Buprenorphine used in Treatment
- Naltrexone used in Treatment
External Opioid Medications Source
- In-network prescribing entity
- No formal relationship with prescribing entity
Type of Alcohol Use Disorder Treatment
- Accepts clients using medication assisted treatment for alcohol use disorder but prescribed elsewhere
- This facility administers/prescribes medication for alcohol use disorder
External Source of Medications Used for Alcohol Use Disorder Treatment
- In-network prescribing entity
- No formal relationship with prescribing entity
Type of Opioid Treatment
- Accepts clients using MAT but prescribed elsewhere
- Buprenorphine maintenance
- Maintenance service with medically supervised withdrawal after stabilization
- Prescribes buprenorphine
- Prescribes naltrexone
- Relapse prevention with naltrexone
Pharmacotherapies
- Acamprosate (Campral®)
- Antipsychotics used in treatment of SMI
- Aripiprazole
- Asenapine
- Brexpiprazole
- Buprenorphine (extended-release, injectable)
- Buprenorphine with naloxone
- Buprenorphine without naloxone
- Cariprazine
- Chlorpromazine
- Clonidine
- Clozapine
- Disulfiram
- Fluphenazine
- Haloperidol
- IIoperidone
- Lofexidine
- Loxapine
- Lurasidone
- Medication for mental disorders
- Medications for HIV treatment
- Medications for Hepatitis C treatment
- Medications for pre-exposure to prophylaxis
- Naltrexone (extended-release, injectable)
- Naltrexone (oral)
- Nicotine replacement
- Non-nicotine smoking/tobacco cessation
- Olanzapine
- Olanzapine/Fluoxetine combination
- Paliperidone
- Perphenazine
- Pimozide
- Prochlorperazine
- Quetiapine
- Risperidone
- Ziprasidone
Treatment Approaches
- Cognitive behavioral therapy
- Couples/family therapy
- Dialectical behavior therapy
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing therapy
- Group therapy
- Individual psychotherapy
- Integrated Mental and Substance Use Disorder treatment
- Matrix Model
- Motivational interviewing
- Relapse prevention
- Substance use disorder counseling
- Telemedicine/telehealth therapy
- Trauma-related counseling
Assessment/Pre-treatment
- Complete medical history/physical exam
- Comprehensive mental health assessment
- Comprehensive substance use assessment
- Interim services for clients
- Screening for mental disorders
- Screening for substance use
- Screening for tobacco use
Testing
- Breathalyzer or blood alcohol testing
- Drug and alcohol oral fluid testing
- Drug or alcohol urine screening
- HIV testing
- Laboratory testing
- Metabolic syndrome monitoring
- STD testing
- TB screening
- Testing for Hepatitis B (HBV)
- Testing for Hepatitis C (HCV)
Medical Services
- Hepatitis A (HAV) vaccination
- Hepatitis B (HBV) vaccination
Emergency Mental Health Services
- Crisis intervention team
Who we help
Special Programs/Groups Offered
- Clients who have experienced trauma
- Clients with HIV or AIDS
- Clients with co-occurring mental and substance use disorders
- Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or queer/questioning (LGBTQ)
- Persons 18 and older with serious mental illness (SMI)
- Persons with eating disorders
- Persons with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
- Seniors or older adults
- Young adults
Age Groups Accepted
- Adults
- Children/Adolescents
- Seniors
- Young Adults
Gender Accepted
- Female
- Male
Payment & insurance
Payment and insurance
- Cash or self-payment
- Community Mental Health Block Grants
- County or local government funds
- Federal military insurance (e.g., TRICARE)
- Federal, or any government funding for substance use treatment programs
- Medicaid
- Medicare
- Other State funds
- Private health insurance
- SAMHSA funding/block grants
- State welfare or child and family services funds
- State-financed health insurance plan other than Medicaid
Support services
Transitional Services
- Aftercare/continuing care
- Discharge Planning
- Naloxone and overdose education
- Outcome follow-up after discharge
Recovery Support Services
- Assistance with obtaining social services
- Mentoring/peer support
Other Services
- Treatment for other addiction disorder
Education and Counseling Services
- Family counseling
- Group counseling
- HIV or AIDS education, counseling, or support
- Health education services other than HIV/AIDS or hepatitis
- Hepatitis education, counseling, or support
- Individual counseling
- Marital/couples counseling
- Smoking/vaping/tobacco cessation counseling
- Substance use disorder education
Language Services
- Sign language services for the deaf and hard of hearing
Ancillary Services
- Acupuncture
- Chronic disease/illness management
- Diet and exercise counseling
- Early intervention for HIV
- Family psychoeducation
- Illness management and recovery
- Integrated primary care services
- Legal advocacy
- Mental health services
- Suicide prevention services
- Transportation assistance
About the center
Facility operation
- Private non-profit organization
License/Certification/Accreditation
- Federally Qualified Health Center
- State Substance use treatment agency
- State mental health department
Facility Smoking Policy
- Smoking not permitted
Facility Vaping Policy
- Vaping not permitted
Facility Type
- Outpatient mental health facility