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Muskegon County Resources
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Arbor Circle
At Arbor Circle, we are proud to be one of West Michigan's most comprehensive providers of mental health counseling, substance use treatment and family services. Our expert staff collaborates with local resources to address the needs of our community, promote new ways of assistance, and find better strategies to help the people we serve.
By emphasizing and forming strong, therapeutic relationships with clients and families, we lay the foundation for successful outcomes and essential progress.
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Beacon of Hope (Muskegon)
Beacon of Hope was founded by Joan Crowe and Kyle Thompson as a place to offer Christ-centered, inclusive mental health counseling to the local community. Their vision is to transform the community by caring as Christ does.
As a scriptural-based ministry, Beacon of Hope believes that Jesus Christ is the only way to salvation and that we can show our genuine love for God through serving others. At Beacon of Hope, God’s Work provides hope to all situations a person may face.
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Catholic Charities West Michigan
Catholic Charities West Michigan is a community-based agency offering a wide range of services to vulnerable populations across West Michigan. They offer adoption services, counseling services, foster care, family preservation and support programs, pregnancy support services, God's Kitchen Food programs and more.
Catholic Charities West Michigan is committed to serving a diverse population in the spirit of their Catholic tradition through collaborative programs lead by highly-trained employees and dedicated volunteers.
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Cherry Health (Substance Abuse Treatment)
Cherry Health is a non-profit, Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) with a focus on providing high quality health services to all, regardless of their ability to pay. A sliding fee payment scale based on income and family size is available to those with or without insurance. Medicaid and Healthy Michigan are accepted, as are many other insurance plans.
Cherry Health's goal is to help you lead the life you deserve. We can help you manage stress, sadness, worry, grief, trauma, relationship problems, communication problems, substance use, and more. Services include therapy, psychiatric care, case management, psychosocial rehabilitation, and substance use treatment. We also offer counseling for children and adolescents, to address behavior problems, mood concerns, trauma, challenges with family or friends, low self-esteem, communication issues, and other hurdles. Visit our website to learn more: cherryhealth.org/services/counseling
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Counseling Center of West Michigan
Counseling Center of West Michigan is home to a diverse group of clinicians who share one common goal: to serve our community by supporting the mental and emotional health of everyone who walks through our doors. Our collective belief is that none of us were ever meant to walk this journey alone. Our clinicians aim to ensure that every patient is heard, understood, and supported. We believe that everyone can benefit from counseling no matter where they are in their journey. We make every effort to create a welcoming environment that is accessible to all.
Specialty training and extensive experience allow our team of mental health providers to treat a wide range of concerns throughout all age groups. We proudly offer counseling, testing and assessment services, and psychiatric services in-person at 13 West Michigan locations and virtually to anyone in the state of Michigan.
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316 Morris Ave Suite 200
Muskegon, MI 49440
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Guiding Light Recovery Program
The Guiding Light Recovery Program offers men struggling with addiction to drugs and alcohol a four-month long, comprehensive, "no-joke" substance abuse rehabilitation program provided at no financial cost to clients. The program offers access to professional therapists, life-coaches, spiritual directors, and cognitive behavioral treatment.
Men that come through our doors seeking help are spiritually, emotionally, and often physically broken. They are beaten down by years, if not decades, of lost time due to addiction and hopelessness. At Guiding Light Recovery, we offer these men safety, security, tolerance, and hope. We give them the means and the tools to realize they are worthy human beings, can live a fulfilling life, and are not doomed to an inescapable cycle of addiction and relapse.
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Hackley Community Care
The goal of our Mental Health staff is to help each patient enhance their mental well being to improve their quality of life. We serve a diverse clientele that range from ages four through older adulthood. Our therapists understand the uniqueness of each person's mental health. We strive to empower our patients to make informed and positive life changes.
Evidence based interventions are used to help people with mental or substance abuse recovery to recover to a quality life. The Mental Health staff utilize a variety of tools and teaching methods to help people cope and overcome mental health issues. Adult services ease the pain of depression, anxiety, trauma and relationship issues. Children's services assist with behaviorial problems, family relationship issues, low self-esteem and friend issues.
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HealthWest
HealthWest provides care for all ages with behavioral health challenges, developmental disabilities and co-occurring substance use disorders. They offer services and supports that vary in levels of intensity and are carried out by a team of professionals to meet the needs of each patient.
Clients of HealthWest work with staff to create a Person Centered Plan to help them achieve their goals. Services are provided by diverse teams that include Support Coordinators, Nurses, Peer Support Specialists, psychiatrists and more.
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I Understand Love Heals
i understand is a non-profit organization that offers compassionate comfort, hope and understanding to those living with a mental/brain health illness or have lost a loved one to death by suicide. We believe in a future where the stigma associated with mental/brain health and suicide is erased. We have created a definition petition to change the narrative and views surrounding suicide to an accurate and updated definition.
The simple change in language will help bring understanding to something so difficult to understand. The change includes removing stigmatized words, recognizing the illness and understanding pain is the common denominator of all suicides. Our work includes bringing the conversation to everyday places to normalize, support groups, training program, resources, speaking engagements, the 'Behind the Smile' podcast, the book, i understand pain, love and healing after suicide and so much more.
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Men's Resource Center of West Michigan
For more than 20 years, the Men's Resource Center of West Michigan has helped men live better lives. Our wide range of counseling, assessment, consultation, evaluation, and therapy services can be tailored to meet a variety of needs. Our highly trained counselors and therapists provide unique and valuable individual counseling services for many issues that affect men in their daily lives. We provide effective counseling and therapy for everything from parenting skills to questions about intimacy; sex addiction to anger management; mid-life crisis to legal problems or grief and loss.
We offer a wide array of men's counseling and support groups as well. Males — both young and old —have opportunities for support, education, challenge, and growth. These groups are particularly effective in treating men's mental, emotional, and relational health issues in a way that participants find growth producing. Although some men may be initially reluctant to enter a support group, they quickly become comfortable in the setting and enjoy the interaction with other men who face similar personal struggles.
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534 Fountain St NE
Grand Rapids, MI 49503
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Mental Health Clinicians of Color in Grand Rapids
Mental Health Clinicians of Color in Grand Rapids was created so that individuals across West Michigan can have a safe place to turn to to find therapists and providers that look like them. The website features a continuously growing directory of black, indigenous and person of color (BIPOC) therapists.
While the directory largely consists of therapists and clinicians from Grand Rapids, any BIPOC Licensed Wellness Professional who practices in Michigan can be added, as long as they offer virtual appointments. To join the directory, visit the MHCOCGR website today!
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Mental Health Foundation of West Michigan
The Mental Health Foundation of West Michigan is the best source for proactive mental health and suicide prevention education to improve and save lives. The MHF equips individuals with the knowledge to recognize, understand, accept, and take action when it comes to mental health.
The MHF's evidence-based program, be nice., is an upstream mental health and suicide prevention program with an action plan. When used effectively, the be nice.program encourages individuals to challenge themselves and others to seek appropriate professional help when they notice changes in their mental health. This program is available for schools, businesses, faith organizations, and communities.
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Mercy Health Life Counseling
Mercy Health Life Counseling offers locations in Muskegon and Grand Rapids and is designed to help with behavioral health issues that negatively impact a person’s life. Their staff includes state-licensed social workers, psychologists, counselors and psychiatrists who provide help for depression and anxiety, postpartum depression, self-esteem issues and more.
Their West Michigan locations are also a source of intensive outpatient treatment for alcohol and drug abuse and is a leading provider of substance abuse treatment for adults and for adolescents impacted by substance abuse.
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125 E Southern Ave Ste 100
Muskegon, Michigan 49442
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Norton Shores locations
Mercy Health Muskegon
Trinity Health features a highly-skilled team of mental health professionals who specialize in psychiatric care and medical care. The team offers patients freedom of movement, group therapy and social interaction that is otherwise impossible in a hospital setting and offers psychiatrists, psychiatric nurse practitioners, physician assistants, social worker, nurses, occupational therapists, recreational therapists and behavioral health technicians who work as a team to provide each patient with the best treatment possible.
Mercy Health Muskegon offers a 27-bed, fully licensed inpatient adult psychiatric unit known as Hackley Behavioral Health. The campus serves Muskegon and the larger regional area by offering diagnostic evaluations, unique treatment plans for each individual and a compassionate approach to treatment and recovery.
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MIRecovery
MiRecovery is a comprehensive set of resources for recovery from substance use disorder and addiction. Of special emphasis is the resources available for pregnant mothers, knowing that pregnancy can be a great time for sobriety.
MiRecovery is designed to serve the 7-county region of the Lakeshore Regional Entity (LRE) which includes Allegan, Kent, Lake, Mason, Muskegon, Oceana, and Ottawa counties. Beginning in 2021, the site expanded to provide perinatal resources for the 13-county West Michigan Prosperity region that includes the counties in the LRE plus Osceola, Mecosta, Montcalm, Ionia, and Barry counties.
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Pine Rest North Shore Clinic
Pine Rest Christian Mental Health Services is a nonprofit organization founded in 1910. Pine Rest is the largest behavioral health provider in the state offering a full continuum of services.
These services include: inpatient and partial hospitalization (day programs), psychiatric urgent care, residential programs, 21 outpatient locations in western, southern and northern Michigan, addiction and recovery treatment, extensive child and adolescent programs, senior care services, as well as specialized assessment and treatment clinics. Most programs are available via telehealth as well.
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17325 Van Wagoner Road
Spring Lake, MI 49456
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West Michigan locations!
Sanford Behavioral Health
Sanford Behavioral Health (formerly Sanford House) is a residential and outpatient addiction, mental health, and eating disorder treatment center located in Greater Grand Rapids, Michigan. Our newest facility, Sanford West Behavioral Health Campus, is located 12 miles from downtown Grand Rapids, in Marne, Michigan. Sanford West is the site of our Detox Center and Sanford Comprehensive Treatment for Eating Disorders Residential Treatment – the first in Michigan. We offer excellence in evidence-based practice models in a home-like, restorative setting in all of our facilities.
Our programs are backed by a multi-disciplinary medical and clinical team and most of our programs are available in-person or via telehealth. Our continuum of care includes Sub-Acute Detox; Residential Treatment, Partial Hospitalization (PHP), Intensive Outpatient Programs (IOP); Medication-Assisted Treatment (MAT) and Medical Management; Outpatient Programs; and one-on-one and family counseling.
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TalkSooner
TalkSooner is a resource for parents to access information about substance use prevention. Our mission is to help parents inform youth about the dangers of substance use.
Our "core" TalkSooner team represents the Lakeshore Regional Entity (LRE) and includes Allegan, Kent, Lake, Mason, Muskegon, Oceana, and Ottawa counties. Under the guidance of the LRE and with federal funding, we have been able to reach families through awareness campaigns (billboards, commercials, social advertising) and developing tools that can be accessed by any concerned person via social media and the TalkSooner website. Our work now represents a majority of Michigan counties through partnerships with community coalitions with connections through the partner pages.
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The Truism Center
The Truism Center offers a team of licensed mental health professionals who are trained to help clients experience a mental health transformation, ultimately outgrowing the support of a therapist. Therapists accept self-pay clients along with Employer Assisted Programs and Health Savings Accounts.
The Truism Center offers individual and couples counseling, trauma informed care, support groups, play therapy for children, safe space therapy for LGBTQ+, recovery counseling, psycho educational groups, counseling for teens and more throughout Michigan through virtual sessions.
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Wedgwood's Substance Use Disorder Treatment
Our substance use disorder services provide an atmosphere of support for adults and teens to examine the results of their substance use. The primary goal is to help individuals take the next step in their recovery. Motivational interviewing is a major component in the earlier stages of treatment. Later stages of treatment focus on creating a new lifestyle, coping with triggers and urges, while maintaining a strong commitment to recovery.
Wedgwood's Substance Use Disorder Treatment Services are open to new clients! Eligibility varies by specific program, county, and funding source.
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950 W. Norton Ave. STE. 301
Muskegon, MI 49441
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