Columbia Associates North Bethesda

About Columbia Associates North Bethesda

Columbia Associates North Bethesda, located a short distance northwest of the U.S. Capitol, provides treatment for adults, teens, and children dealing with mental health, substance use, and eating disorders. Services address concerns such as anxiety, depression, ADHD, anger, grief and loss, trauma, mood disorders, alcohol use, anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, binge-eating disorder, avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder (AFRID), autism spectrum disorder (ASD), low self-esteem, stress, and self-harm, as well as learning difficulties in children and conflicts within families. Counseling is available both for individuals and for couples.

The center offers a range of evidence-based approaches, including cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), dialectical behavior therapy (DBT), acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), interpersonal therapy, exposure therapy, family therapy, family systems therapy, group therapy, mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT), mindfulness-based stress reduction, and medication management. Columbia Associates also provides couples counseling and therapies such as humanistic and psychodynamic therapy, along with eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR). Additional options include transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS). For depression that does not improve adequately with therapy alone, they use Spravato. Their blog contains educational material on the conditions they treat and practical recommendations.

Columbia Associates North Bethesda supports therapy both in person and through virtual sessions. New clients can begin care through the website or through a professional referral. The team includes clinicians who speak English and many other languages, including Amharic, Amharit, Arabic, Egyptian Arabic, French, Gujarati, Hausa, Hindi, Igbo, Marathi, Pharoes, Sindhi, Urdu, and Yoruba.

Specialized programs include care for mothers experiencing depression through the Perinatal Project. They also focus on children’s stress-related challenges and evaluate behavioral concerns such as school avoidance, bullying, and oppositional defiance disorder (ODD). Clients can use the Valant MYIO portal to monitor and follow their treatment plan.

Columbia Associates North Bethesda is situated in Rockville, north of North Bethesda and Bethesda. Rockville is well known for its restaurants in the downtown area. The organization also operates other clinics across Northern Virginia and Maryland offering the same kinds of services. They are part of Transformations Care Network, which runs additional locations along the East Coast and near Seattle. Some centers operate under names such as Northeast Health Service, West Central Mental Health, Cape Behavioral Health Center, New Directions Mental Health, Harmony, and LightHeart Associates.

Paying for treatment at Columbia Associates North Bethesda

Columbia Associates North Bethesda did not report which payment types it accepts. If you have Medicaid, ask whether the facility accepts your Maryland Medicaid plan or can refer you to one that does. Most private plans must cover substance use treatment on terms comparable to other medical care under federal parity law.

Distance to specialized care from Rockville

Measured from the population center of Montgomery County, using SAMHSA locator data mapped by FindRehabMap:

• Nearest medical detox: Rockville, about less than a mile
• Nearest methadone clinic (OTP): Rockville, about less than a mile (27 within 25 miles)
• Nearest buprenorphine (Suboxone) provider: Rockville, about less than a mile (74 within 25 miles)

See the Montgomery County treatment map, methadone clinics near Montgomery County and Suboxone doctors near Montgomery County.

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