Human Empowerment Institute in Irvington, NJ

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

• 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.

• Children/Adolescents

  Facility accepts children/adolescents (17 or younger) for treatment.

• 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.

• Employment counseling or training

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

• Female

  Female

• Group counseling

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

• 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

• Male

  Male

• 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.

• 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.

• Does not use medication assisted treatment for alcohol use disorder

• Does not treat opioid use disorders

• Outpatient day treatment or partial hospitalization

• Outpatient

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

• Regular outpatient treatment

• Private for-profit organization

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

• 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.

• 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

• 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.

• 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.

• State department of health

• Vaping not permitted

Contact and Location

49 Nesbit Terrace, Irvington, NJ, 07111

Phone: 973-351-9111