About Urban Life Counseling Center
Urban Life Counseling Center is an outpatient addiction treatment center in East Orange, New Jersey that serves adolescents and adults seeking recovery from substance use disorders. This private nonprofit offers a full range of outpatient services including regular outpatient, intensive outpatient programs, and partial hospitalization, with specialized support for co-occurring mental health disorders.
Addiction Treatment Programs in East Orange
Clients can access regular outpatient counseling, step up to intensive outpatient programming, or participate in partial hospitalization/day treatment depending on clinical need and schedule.
Programs include individual, group, family, and couples counseling using approaches such as cognitive behavioral therapy, dialectical behavior therapy, and motivational interviewing. The center offers medication assisted treatment with buprenorphine and naltrexone for opioid use disorders, relapse prevention planning, trauma-focused counseling, and 12-step facilitation.
What to Know About Urban Life Counseling Center
The center welcomes adolescents and adults, including LGBTQ+ clients, veterans, military families, criminal justice referrals, and those with co-occurring disorders or trauma histories. Payment options include Medicaid, private insurance, VA and TRICARE, sliding fee scale, and federal funding.
Their services are available Monday through Thursday evenings until 9:00 pm and Saturday morning hours. Additional services provided by the center includes housing assistance, employment support, legal advocacy, peer mentoring, child care, and naloxone education.
