Washington Institute of Addiction Stud in Auburn, WA
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.
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.).
Alcohol use disorder clients only
Brief intervention
A short-term intervention, usually one to five sessions, for substance abusers who are not yet dependent.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Domestic violence services, including family or partner
Provide safety assistance to victims of domestic violence.
Employment counseling or training
Advises, coaches, provides information to and supports people who are planning, seeking and managing their life/work direction.
Any Chinese Language
Any principal language group of eastern Asia, belonging to the Sino-Tibetan language family.
Japanese
Staff counselors provide treatment in Japanese.
Korean
Staff counselors provide treatment in Korean.
Family counseling
A type of psychological counseling (psychotherapy) that can help family members improve communication and resolve conflicts.
Female
Female
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.
Individual counseling
Process through which clients work one-on-one with a trained mental health clinician in a safe, caring, and confidential environment.
Male
Male
Marital/couples counseling
Complete medical history/physical exam
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.
Does not use medication assisted treatment for alcohol use disorder
Does not treat opioid use disorders
No payment accepted
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.
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
Payment assistance (check with facility for details)
A program which helps low-income, uninsured, or underinsured patients who need help paying for all or part of their medical bills.
Mentoring/peer support
Professional interventionist/educational consultant
Private non-profit organization
A charitable organization that does not qualify as a public charity.
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
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 not permitted
Smoking is not allowed.
Seniors
Facility accepts seniors (65 or older) for treatment.
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
State department of health
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.
Treatment for other addiction disorder
Treatment for behavioral addictions or process addictions and occur when a person is dependent upon a specific behavior (i.e. gambling addiction, compulsive shopping disorder, etc.).
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
Young Adults
Facility accepts young adults (18-25) for treatment.
Contact and Location
32025 52nd Avenue South, Auburn, WA, 98001
Phone: 253-223-3149