Phoenix Counseling Center provides mental health and substance use outpatient services for the Cleveland, Gaston, and
Lincoln County communities. These services range from enhanced group services to individual counseling sessions.
Insurances Accepted: NC Medicaid, BCBS, Aetna, Humana, Cigna, Tri-Care
* we will not refuse services to anyone due to the inability to pay
Substance Abuse Comprehensive Outpatient Treatment (SACOT)
Populations Served: Adults
Time Commitment: 20hrs/week, 4hrs/day
Average Length of Treatment: 8-12 weeks
Treatment services emphasize the following:
- Reduction in use of substances or continued abstinence;
- The negative consequences of substance use;
- Development of social support network and necessary lifestyle changes;
- Educational skills;
- Vocational skills leading to work activity by reducing substance use as a barrier to employment;
- Social and interpersonal skills;
- Improved family functioning;
- The understanding of addictive disease; and
- The continued commitment to a recovery and maintenance program.
Types of services included in SACOT:
- Individual counseling and support;
- Group counseling and support;
- Family counseling, training or support;
- Biochemical assays to identify recent drug use (e.g., urine drug screens);
- Strategies for relapse prevention to include community and social support systems in treatment;
- Life skills;
- Crisis contingency planning;
- Disease management; and
- Treatment support activities that have been adapted or specifically designed for beneficiaries with physical disabilities; or beneficiaries with
co-occurring disorders of mental illness and substance use; or an intellectual and developmental disability and substance use disorder.
Substance Abuse Intensive Outpatient Treatment (SAIOP)
Populations Served: Adults, Adolescents
Time Commitment: 9hrs/week, 3hrs/day
Average Length of Treatment: 8-12 weeks
Treatment Services emphasize the following:
- Reduction in use of substances or continued abstinence;
- The negative consequences of substance use;
- Development of social support network and necessary lifestyle changes;
- Educational skills;
- Vocational skills leading to work activity by reducing substance use as a barrier to
employment;
- Social and interpersonal skills;
- Improved family functioning;
- The understanding of addictive disease; and
- The continued commitment to a recovery and maintenance program.
Types of services included in SAIOP:
- Individual counseling and support;
- Group counseling and support;
- Family counseling, training or support;
- Biochemical assays to identify recent drug use (e.g., urine drug screens);
- Strategies for relapse prevention to include community and social support systems in treatment;
- Life skills;
- Crisis contingency planning;
- Disease management; and
- Treatment support activities that have been adapted or specifically designed for beneficiaries with physical disabilities; or beneficiaries with
co-occurring disorders of mental illness and substance use; or an intellectual and developmental disability and substance use disorder.
Shelby Outpatient Office
804 N. Lafayette Street, Suite 2
Shelby, NC 28150
Email info@phoenixcc.us
phone (704) 476-4106
fax (704) 481-7581
Hours: M-F 8am-5pm
Gastonia Outpatient Office
2505 Gaston Memorial Drive
Gastonia, NC 28054
Email info@phoenixcc.us
phone (704) 842-6359
fax (704) 854-4860
Hours: M-TH 8am-5pm // Friday 8am-12pm
Lincoln Outpatient Officer
510 S. Aspen Street
Lincolnton, NC 28092
Email info@phoenixcc.us
phone (704) 735-7325
fax (704) 735-7370
Hours: M-F 8am-5pm
