First Step Counseling in Kingsport, TN
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
Adults
Facility accepts adults (26-64) for treatment.
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.
Buprenorphine used in Treatment
Buprenorphine is used in medication-assisted treatment (MAT) to help people reduce or quit their use of heroin or other opiates.
Buprenorphine maintenance
Buprenorphine with naloxone
A prescription medication that combines buprenorphine (which helps relieve symptoms of opiate withdrawal) and naloxone (reverse the effects of narcotics) used to treat opioid addiction.
Buprenorphine without naloxone
An opioid used to treat opioid addiction by relieving the symptoms of withdrawal. It can be used under the tongue, by injection, as a skin patch, or as an implant.
Cash or self-payment
Payment for treatment is made by the person directly, through cash or other means, rather than using health insurance.
Clonidine
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.
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.
Lofexidine or Clonidine detoxification
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.
Female
Female
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.
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.
Interim services for clients
Male
Male
Complete medical history/physical exam
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.
Medication for mental disorders
Adult men
Facility has a program or group specifically tailored for adult men.
Does not treat alcohol use disorder
Naloxone and overdose education
Nicotine replacement
Administers nicotine to the body by means other than tobacco, without other harmful chemicals found in tobacco. Common forms of nicotine replacement therapy are nicotine patches, nicotine gum or lozenges, nasal spray and inhaler. The goal of nicotine replacement is to prevent cravings in a tobacco user, allowing the person to abstain from tobacco.
Non-nicotine smoking/tobacco cessation
Medications that do not contain nicotine but are designed to reduce a person's craving for tobacco. Some common examples are Bupropion (Zyban, Wellbutrin) and Nortriptyline (Pamelor). Medications are often prescribed in conjunction with counseling or support groups to provide the best chance for achieving long-term smoking abstinence. (http://www.mayoclinic.com)
Naltrexone used in Treatment
Outpatient methadone/buprenorphine or naltrexone treatment
Outpatient
Describes patients who receive treatment services without an overnight stay at a treatment facility or hospital.
Regular outpatient treatment
Opioid use disorder clients only
Mentoring/peer support
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).
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
Prescribes buprenorphine
Prescribes naltrexone
Vaping permitted without restriction
Naltrexone (extended-release, injectable)
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
3550 Highway 75, Kingsport, TN, 37663
Phone: 865-465-7088