Nova Counseling Associates Inc in Big Rapids, MI

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

  • Adults

    Facility accepts adults (26-64) for treatment.

  • Active duty military

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

  • 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.).

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Clients with co-occurring pain and substance use disorders

  • Comprehensive substance use assessment

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Employment counseling or training

    Advises, coaches, provides information to and supports people who are planning, seeking and managing their life/work direction.

  • Family counseling

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

  • Female

    Female

  • 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.

  • Transitional housing, halfway house, or sober home

    Housing for individuals recovering from substance abuse that is designed to provide a drug and alcohol-free living environment and appropriate support services to facilitate movement to independent living. Such housing includes transitional living, sober houses, sober living, recovery houses, and 3/4 houses.

  • 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

  • Interim services for clients

  • Male

    Male

  • Marital/couples counseling

  • Complete medical history/physical exam

  • 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

  • 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 for-profit organization

    A business or other organization whose primary goal is making money (a profit).

  • 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).

  • Residential/24-hour residential

  • Long-term residential

  • 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

  • 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.

  • Screening for mental disorders

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

  • Smoking permitted without restriction

    Smoking permitted with no restriction.

  • State substance use treatment agency

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

  • Screening for substance use

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

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Vaping not permitted

  • Veterans

    Facility has a program or group specifically tailored for Veterans.

  • 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.

  • Young Adults

    Facility accepts young adults (18-25) for treatment.

Contact and Location

1724 North State Street, Big Rapids, MI, 49307

Phone: 231-796-4637