LifeStance Health Long Island City

LifeStance Health Long Island City operates as a private mental health practice, and its clinicians work with both substance use concerns and conditions such as anxiety, depression and trauma. Care rests on evidence-based methods, a non 12 Step frame and individual treatment, so your plan is built around your own diagnosis rather than a single template. LifeStance Health Long Island City gives Long Island City residents a therapy setting for drug rehab and dual diagnosis care.

The therapists, psychologists and psychiatrists here draw on acceptance and commitment therapy, cognitive behavioral therapy, narrative therapy, solution-focused work and EMDR. Some clinicians concentrate on particular groups, such as LGBTQ+ clients or people connected to adoption and foster care, and you can ask to be matched with the clinician whose focus fits what you are bringing in.

Sessions run Monday through Friday, in person at the Hunters Point Avenue office or by telehealth, and the practice serves children, adolescents, adults and older adults. For outpatient drug rehab in New York City, the format here is scheduled weekly therapy rather than 24-hour monitoring.

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This is an outpatient program, so it fits people who can keep living at home while attending scheduled therapy instead of stepping away for residential care. Counseling is individual, with group and family sessions also listed, and the therapy menu includes CBT, DBT, EMDR, ACT, narrative therapy and solution-focused work. Across the New York City rehab centers listed by SAMHSA, this one is a therapy practice rather than a residential detox.

When a substance use disorder overlaps with anxiety, depression, OCD or PTSD, clinicians address both together; that dual diagnosis work is often what people need before ordinary talk therapy can take hold. Should withdrawal be a worry, have the helpline check which SAMHSA-listed New York centers provide supervised detox, because alcohol and benzodiazepine withdrawal can be hazardous and a medical team should oversee it.

• Family Therapy
• 1-on-1 Counseling
• Eye Movement Therapy (EMDR)
• Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
• Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
• Narrative Therapy
• Solution Focused, Goal-Oriented Therapy
• Evidence-Based
• Non 12 Step
• Individual Treatment

Who this Long Island City center is

• Adults and older adults seeking outpatient therapy for substance use or mental health concerns
• Adolescents and children whose families want a licensed clinician rather than a residential program
• LGBTQ+ clients who want a clinician attuned to their experience
• People facing co-occurring conditions including depression, bipolar disorder, and anxiety, OCD, PTSD or schizophrenia
• Men and women working through grief, loss, stress or trauma
• Couples and families dealing with relationship strain or major life changes

Setting and care length at this center

Care here typically runs about 30 days, though therapy often continues longer depending on need. The office sits at 3245 Hunters Point Ave, Suite 2L, in Long Island City, and appointments are available Monday through Friday in person or by telehealth. Clinicians speak English, Spanish and Tagalog. If getting to Long Island City is hard in a given week, then telehealth sessions keep treatment on schedule.

Covering care here in Long Island City

The practice lists cash pay rates, and many people use insurance instead. Because coverage varies by plan, call the helpline with your card ready so someone can check whether this center is in network for you. If your plan limits out-of-network mental health visits, then verify coverage before scheduling a first appointment. Under the federal parity law, mental health benefits generally must be handled comparably to medical ones, so it is worth asking your insurer how they apply that.

Questions to ask this center

• Does your insurance cover this clinician, and what will a session cost after the copay?
• Which therapist here has the most experience with your substance use and mental health history?
• Is the 30-day estimate a full course of care, or a starting point that gets reviewed?
• If withdrawal becomes a concern, who coordinates a higher level of care?
• Can appointments be held by telehealth on weeks when getting to Long Island City is hard?