Support for everything around medication

Medication helps your body stabilize. Counseling helps with everything around it, like stress, relationships, mental health, and your goals for work, school, and home. Having someone who knows your story can make hard moments easier to get through and positive changes easier to keep. Counseling is available to everyone in treatment, and you decide how much to take part.

Compassionate, individualized care

All of our counseling and therapy is individualized. Our approach is humanistic, person-centered, strength-based, trauma-informed, and collaborative. In practice, that means we treat you as the expert on your own life, build on what’s already working for you, and set goals together at your pace.

Counseling and therapy, in one place

Substance use counseling

Counseling focused on your substance use goals, like managing cravings and preventing relapse.

Psychotherapy with licensed therapists

Deeper, recovery-focused therapy with a licensed clinician for what often comes with substance use, like depression, anxiety, trauma, and grief.

Approaches your counselor or therapist may draw on:

Motivational Interviewing

A collaborative conversation that helps you find your own reasons and goals for change.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)

Builds practical ways to cope by looking at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect.

Trauma-Focused Counseling

Helps you work through how painful experiences have affected the way you see yourself and the world.

Harm Reduction Counseling

Practical, nonjudgmental support to lower risks and stay safer, whatever your goals are right now.

Your goals set the agenda

  • Stress, cravings, and staying on track
  • Trauma, grief, or a crisis
  • Depression, anxiety, and other mental health concerns
  • Relationships and family
  • Work, school, and housing goals
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Case Management

Your counselor also provides case management: help connecting you with housing, jobs, medical care, and transportation.

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Answers to common questions

Do I have to do counseling to get medication?

No. Counseling is always available to you, but your medication never depends on it.

What will we talk about?

Whatever matters most to you. Your counselor will help you decide where to start.

What if I’m not ready to talk?

That’s okay. You can start with practical support, like help with housing or transportation, and build trust over time.

How often will I meet with my counselor?

You and your counselor will set a schedule together. Your schedule can change as your needs do.

Can I change counselors?

Yes. Feeling comfortable with your counselor matters. If you’d like to work with someone else, let your counselor or any member of our team know, and we’ll help you make the change.

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HAART Oakland

10850 MacArthur Blvd
Oakland, CA 94605

Phone: (510) 661-3948
Fax: (510) 875-2310

HAART Hayward

20094 Mission Blvd
Hayward, CA 94541

Phone: (510) 727-9755
Fax: (510) 727-9761

Email: info@haart.org

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