LSSI in Sterling, IL

Sterling Counseling Center

About This Facility

Directory information from SAMHSA N-SUMHSS 2025. This listing is not an endorsement or independent verification. Confirm current services, eligibility, and availability directly with the facility.

Services Listed in the Directory

  • Aftercare/continuing care

  • Accepts clients using medication assisted treatment for alcohol use disorder but prescribed elsewhere

  • Active duty military

    Facility has a program or group specifically tailored for active duty military persons.

  • Adolescents

    Facility has a program or group specifically tailored for Adolescents.

  • Anger management

    Uses strategies to address the anger cycle, conflict resolution, assertiveness skills, and anger-control plans. The goal of anger management is to reduce both emotional feelings and the physiological arousal that anger causes.

  • Assistance with obtaining social services

    Assistance obtaining government services provided for the benefit of the community designed to promote social well being (i.e. education, medical care, housing, etc.).

  • Sign language services for the deaf and hard of hearing

    Service provided for persons who are deaf and hard of hearing.

  • Other contracted prescribing entity

  • Breathalyzer or blood alcohol testing

    A device for estimating blood alcohol content (BAC) from a breath sample.

  • Brief intervention

    A short-term intervention, usually one to five sessions, for substance abusers who are not yet dependent.

  • Cash or self-payment

    Payment for treatment is made by the person directly, through cash or other means, rather than using health insurance.

  • Cognitive behavioral therapy

    Involves recognizing unhelpful patterns of thinking and reacting, and then modifying or replacing these with more realistic or helpful ones. The therapy can be conducted with individuals, families, or groups, and clients are generally expected to be active participants in their own therapy.

  • Criminal justice (other than DUI/DWI)/Forensic clients

    Facility has a program or group specifically tailored for clients referred from the court/judicial system.

  • Case management service

    Helps people arrange for appropriate services and supports through a case manager who monitors the needs of clients/patients and their families and coordinates services, such as mental health, social work, health, educational, vocational, recreational, transportation, advocacy, and respite care, as needed.

  • Comprehensive mental health assessment

    An examination used to determine if a patient is functioning on a healthy psychological, social, or developmental level. It can also be used to aid diagnosis of some neurological disorders, specific diseases, or possible drug abuse.

  • Contingency management/motivational incentives

    A treatment approach for drug and alcohol use. This approach uses a positive-reinforcement treatment method in which patients are given rewards for constructive actions taken toward their recovery.

  • Council on Accreditation (COA)

    Partners with human service organizations worldwide to improve service delivery outcomes by developing, applying and promoting accreditation standards.

  • Clients with co-occurring pain and substance use disorders

  • Comprehensive substance use assessment

  • Drug and alcohol oral fluid testing

  • Drug or alcohol urine screening

    Analyzes your urine for the presence of certain illegal drugs and prescription medications.

  • Discharge Planning

    A process that aims to improve the coordination of services after discharge from the hospital by considering the patient’s needs in the community.

  • Specially designed program for DUI/DWI clients

  • Clients who have experienced intimate partner violence, domestic violence

    Facility has a program or group specifically tailored for persons who have experienced domestic violence or sexual abuse.

  • Domestic violence services, including family or partner

    Provide safety assistance to victims of domestic violence.

  • Family counseling

    A type of psychological counseling (psychotherapy) that can help family members improve communication and resolve conflicts.

  • Female

    Female

  • Federal, or any government funding for substance use treatment programs

    Financial assistance provided by the federal, state, or local government for substance use treatment.

  • Group counseling

    Form of therapy where people with similar experiences/issues come together with a professional therapist.

  • HIV or AIDS education, counseling, or support

    Access to education, counseling, and support groups to ‘at risk’ individuals and also individuals who have been infected with the virus.

  • Health education services other than HIV/AIDS or hepatitis

    Any combination of learning experiences designed to help individuals and communities improve their health, by increasing their knowledge or influencing their attitudes.

  • Clients with HIV or AIDS

    Facility has a program or group specifically tailored for persons with HIV or AIDS.

  • Housing services

    Are designed to assist individuals with finding and maintaining appropriate housing arrangements.

  • Individual counseling

    Process through which clients work one-on-one with a trained mental health clinician in a safe, caring, and confidential environment.

  • Intensive outpatient treatment

  • Integrated primary care services

    These services address the general health care needs of persons with mental and substance use disorders. These general health care needs include the prevention and treatment of chronic illnesses (e.g., hypertension, diabetes, obesity, and cardiovascular disease) that can be aggravated by poor health habits such as inadequate physical activity, poor nutrition, and smoking. The services include screening, care coordination with staff, and providing linkages to ensure that all patient needs are met in order to promote wellness and produce the best outcomes.

  • Interim services for clients

  • Male

    Male

  • Marital/couples counseling

  • Medicaid

    A joint federal and state program that helps with medical costs for some people with low incomes and limited resources. Medicaid programs vary from state to state.

  • Mental health services

    Assessment, diagnosis, treatment or counseling in a professional relationship to assist an individual or group in alleviating mental or emotional illness, symptoms, conditions or disorders.

  • Clients with co-occurring mental and substance use disorders

    Facility has a program or group specifically tailored for persons with co-occurring mental and substance abuse disorders.

  • Motivational interviewing

    A counseling approach which acknowledges that many people experience ambivalence when deciding to make changes. The aim is not to focus immediately on the action of changing, but to work to enhance motivation to change.

  • Members of military families

    Facility has a program or group specifically tailored for Military families.

  • Adult men

    Facility has a program or group specifically tailored for adult men.

  • Accepts clients using MAT but prescribed elsewhere

  • Matrix Model

    Provides a framework for substance abuse users to obtain the ability to cease drug use, stay in treatment, and participate in an educational program on addiction and relapse. Users are provided with direction and support from a trained therapist and are introduced to self-help programs.

  • Naloxone and overdose education

  • Outcome follow-up after discharge

  • Outpatient

    Describes patients who receive treatment services without an overnight stay at a treatment facility or hospital.

  • Outreach to persons in the community

  • Regular outpatient treatment

  • Mentoring/peer support

  • Private health insurance

  • Professional interventionist/educational consultant

  • Private non-profit organization

    A charitable organization that does not qualify as a public charity.

  • Pregnant/postpartum women

    Facility has a program or group specifically tailored for Pregnant/postpartum women.

  • Recovery coach

    Are provided by mental health consumers and include mental health treatment or support services, such as social clubs, peer-support groups, and other peer-organized or consumer-run activities (e.g., consumer satisfaction evaluations of mental health treatment).

  • Relapse prevention

    A cognitive behavioral therapy developed for the treatment of problem drinking and adapted later for treatment of cocaine addiction. Individuals learn to identify and correct problematic behaviors. Relapse prevention encompasses several cognitive behavioral strategies that facilitate abstinence as well as provide help for people who experience relapse.

  • Other contracted prescribing entity

  • Substance use treatment

    Refers to a range of services, including problem identification and diagnosis, brief interventions, assessment of substance use and related problems, treatment planning, counseling, medical services, psychiatric services, psychological services, social services, and follow-up for persons with alcohol or other drug problems (Institute of Medicine, 1990).

  • Substance use disorder counseling

    A short-term treatment that has been generalized for a variety of disorders including opiate drug dependence and cocaine abuse. The therapy includes supportive techniques which encourage the patient to discuss personal experiences, and expressive techniques, which enable the patient to work through interpersonal relationship issues and gain greater self-understanding.

  • Substance use disorder education

  • SAMHSA funding/block grants

  • Seniors or older adults

    Facility has a program or group specifically tailored for Seniors or older adults.

  • Clients who have experienced sexual abuse

    Facility has a program or group specifically tailored for persons who have experienced sexual abuse.

  • Self-help groups

    Groups in which members share the same issue, condition, or situation and thus are in a position to provide help and support to each other.

  • State-financed health insurance plan other than Medicaid

  • Screening for mental disorders

    Test to determine whether a person is experiencing symptoms of mental health conditions and needs treatment.

  • Smoking permitted in designated area

    A designated area in which smoking is permitted.

  • Suicide prevention services

    Services include identifying risk factors; educating staff on the signs of suicidal behavior and using methods to detect risk; and the assessment, intervention, and management of suicidal patients including treatment of an underlying mental or substance use disorder, and use of psychotropic medication, supportive services, and education. Hotlines help individuals to contact the nearest suicide prevention mental health provider.

  • Sliding fee scale (fee is based on income and other factors)

    Variable prices for services based on a person’s ability to pay.

  • State substance use treatment agency

    Government organization responsible for planning, organizing, delivering, and monitoring substance use disorder services in their respective state.

  • Social skills development

  • Screening for substance use

    Test to determine whether a person is experiencing symptoms of substance use and needs treatment.

  • State department of health

  • Screening for tobacco use

    Determines a client's use of tobacco products, such as cigarettes, cigars, pipe tobacco, or smokeless tobacco. It is generally recommended that providers screen for tobacco use on a regular basis by asking clients, as they are seen, about their current and past use of tobacco products and their exposure to secondhand smoke or tobacco.

  • Treatment for co-occurring substance use plus either serious mental illness (SMI) in adults and/or serious emotional disturbance (SED) in children

    Refers to treatment services intended to help their clients’ ability to function as a result of substance use and/or mental disorders. By definition, serious mental illness is someone over 18 having (within the past year) a diagnosable mental, behavior, or emotional disorder that causes serious functional impairment that substantially interferes with or limits one or more major life activities. For people under the age of 18, the term ‟Serious Emotional Disturbance” refers to a diagnosable mental, behavioral, or emotional disorder in the past year, which resulted in functional impairment that substantially interferes with or limits the child’s role or functioning in family, school, or community activities.

  • Transportation assistance

  • Hepatitis education, counseling, or support

    Provides education, counseling, and guidance and support for individuals who are at risk for or potentially infected with the hepatitis virus.

  • Smoking/vaping/tobacco cessation counseling

    Includes interventions for persons who use tobacco and want help with stopping, including behavioral support or counseling in groups or individually.

  • Telemedicine/telehealth therapy

    The ability for healthcare providers, working remotely and using telecommunications technology, to communicate with patients, diagnose conditions, provide treatment, and discuss healthcare issues with other providers to ensure quality healthcare services are provided.

  • Treatment for gambling disorder

  • Trauma-related counseling

    Multiple types of therapy designed to treat clients suffering from a traumatic event(s).

  • Clients who have experienced trauma

    Facility has a program or group specifically tailored for persons who have experienced trauma.

  • 12-step facilitation

    A 12-step program is a support group made up of people who share the same addiction. The 12 steps refer to the steps recovering addicts must take to overcome their addiction as part of this program. Attendees at group meetings share their experiences, challenges, successes and failures, and provide peer support for each other.

  • Veterans

    Facility has a program or group specifically tailored for Veterans.

  • Vaping permitted in designated area

  • Adult women

    Facility has a program or group specifically tailored for adult women.

  • Young adults

    Facility has a program or group specifically tailored for Transitional age young adults.

Contact and Location

1901 1st Avenue, Sterling, IL, 61081

Phone: 833-610-5774