Directions Counseling Center in Watertown, WI
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
Breathalyzer or blood alcohol testing
A device for estimating blood alcohol content (BAC) from a breath sample.
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 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.
Comprehensive substance use assessment
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
Domestic violence services, including family or partner
Provide safety assistance to victims of domestic violence.
Female
Female
General Hospital (including VA hospital)
A hospital in which patients with many different types of ailments are given care.
Individual counseling
Process through which clients work one-on-one with a trained mental health clinician in a safe, caring, and confidential environment.
The Joint Commission
An independent, not-for-profit group in the United States that administers voluntary accreditation programs for hospitals and other healthcare organizations.
Male
Male
Medicare
The federal health insurance program for people age 65 and older and people with disabilities.
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.
Medication for mental disorders
Does not use medication assisted treatment for alcohol use disorder
Does not use MAT for opioid use disorders
Outpatient
Describes patients who receive treatment services without an overnight stay at a treatment facility or hospital.
Regular outpatient treatment
Private health insurance
Private for-profit organization
A business or other organization whose primary goal is making money (a profit).
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
Screening for mental disorders
Test to determine whether a person is experiencing symptoms of mental health conditions and needs treatment.
Smoking not permitted
Smoking is not allowed.
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 mental health department
Government organization responsible for planning, organizing, delivering, and monitoring critical mental health services in their respective state.
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.
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.
Trauma-related counseling
Multiple types of therapy designed to treat clients suffering from a traumatic event(s).
Vaping not permitted
Contact and Location
123 Hospital Drive, Suite 110, Watertown, WI, 53098
Phone: 920-262-4800