
Counseling & Treatment Programs
The Center for Recovering Families
The Council’s Center for Recovering Families is Houston’s premier outpatient provider of treatment for alcoholism, substance abuse, and mental health disorders. Changing lives for the better, the Center for Recovering Families believes that people can recover from more than just addiction. We believe in recovery from destructive behaviors, from trauma, from shame, and from pain and fear. We also believe recovery can be for everyone. Our personalized treatment approaches help the entire family recover from the effects of substance use disorders, process addictions, and mental and behavioral health issues.
Backed by The Council on Recovery's 72-year reputation for excellence, the Center for Recovering Families guides people who are seeking help to lasting and fulfilling recovery. We offer an intensive an outpatient treatment program (IOP), as well as a broad spectrum of treatment services and counseling for adults, adolescents, and children. We have one goal in mind: To help individuals and families understand their problems and offer new ways of thinking and behaving that result in happier and healthier recovering families.
If you want to know more about our counseling services, treatment programs, or staff at the Center for Recovering Families, click on the links below. Or download our CRF Brochure, call 713.914.0556, or contact us directly.

CRF - Clinical Staff
The Center for Recovering Families employs a team of highly skilled and experienced clinicians who will help you and your family with problems related to alcoholism, substance abuse, other addictions, and co-occurring mental health disorders.
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Intervention
We can help you coordinate an intervention directed towards getting your addicted loved-one into treatment with the least possible effort through a loving, compassionate, and non-blaming process.
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Screening & Assessment
Our licensed clinicians will conduct a comprehensive assessment of your situation and offer expert guidance to you and your family for getting help with problems related to alcoholism, substance abuse, other addictions, and co-occurring mental health disorders.
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Healing Choices (IOP)
Healing Choices is our intensive outpatient treatment program that can help you achieve successful, lasting recovery. Going beyond ordinary treatment approaches, our unique program includes your family members throughout the treatment process.
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Aftercare
The Center for Recovering Families offers you ongoing therapeutic aftercare groups and alumni activities to assure your long-term, successful recovery beyond treatment.
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Therapeutic Counseling
The Center for Recovering Families provides clinical therapy and counseling for you and your family on a stand-alone basis or in conjunction with aftercare groups.
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Children's Services
The Council on Recovery provides expert assessments, counseling, and other services for your child/children that have been carefully tuned to their needs, as well as parent coaching to help heal the family.
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Adolescent Services
The Center for Recovering Families provides counseling and classes for your adolescents that address their unique problems and needs, Concurrent classes and coaching for parents help support your teenagers, promoting understanding and healing in your family.
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Can I afford your help?
Because The Council on Recovery is a nonprofit organization, our Center for Recovering Families can offer you world-class outpatient treatment and counseling services at significantly lower fees than most for-profit treatment centers. We also accept many insurance plans which can mean lower out-of-pocket costs to get the help you need. No matter how much your health plan covers, our admission counselors will work with your insurance company to maximize your benefits. [Scroll down to see the insurance companies that The Council works with.]
Note: If you don’t have insurance or resources to pay for services, The Council can still help. Let us help determine if you qualify for state-funded assistance or other community resources. Click here for more information. We turn no one away.

The Council on Recovery is an "in-network" provider with the following insurance companies and accepts payments from them that may cover some or all of your costs for outpatient services:
- Aetna
- Beacon/Value Options
- Blue Cross / Blue Shield
- Cigna
- ComPsych
- HealthCare Partners
- Magellan
- Managed Health Network (MHN)
- Meritain Health
- Optum
- UnitedHealthcare
- United Behavioral Health
Sometimes, insurance companies have different plans to cover behavioral health services. If you do not see your insurance company on this list, please call us at 713.914.0556, and we will talk to you about other options that may be available to you.