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Townsend Recovery Center
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Treatment Focus
This center treats substance use disorders and co-occurring mental health conditions. Your treatment plan addresses each condition at once with personalized, compassionate care for comprehensive healing.
Primary Level of Care
Provides 24/7 medical supervision and intensive treatment in a clinical setting for individuals in crisis or with acute needs, focusing on stabilization and immediate safety
Treatment Focus
This center treats substance use disorders and co-occurring mental health conditions. Your treatment plan addresses each condition at once with personalized, compassionate care for comprehensive healing.
Primary Level of Care
Provides 24/7 medical supervision and intensive treatment in a clinical setting for individuals in crisis or with acute needs, focusing on stabilization and immediate safety
Provider's Policy
We believe financial barriers shouldn't stop healing. Townsend Recovery Center is in-network with major providers and accepts most insurance plans and private pay. Our expert admissions team will conduct a free, confidential verification of benefits to maximize your coverage and ensure a sustainable and affordable treatment plan. Call us—we'll answer all your questions.
Townsend Recovery Center
Townsend Recovery Center
About Townsend Recovery Center
Avenues Recovery Center at Covington is a hospital-based detox and residential program in the heart of New Orleans. They provide high-caliber treatment that serves both privately insured and Medicaid clients, rebuilding each client throughout the stages of recovery, from helplessness through stability. Clients benefit from tailored treatment plans and a comprehensive continuum of care that follows them from medical stabilization (detox), to residential programming, and eventually intensive outpatient (IOP) care.
Receive Clinical Expertise & Relatable Peer Support
At Avenues Recovery Center at Covington, treatment addresses the whole person, blending 12-Step philosophy with evidence-based methods, primarily cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) to rebuild healthy thought patterns. Using a dual-diagnosis approach, staff can select specific methodologies that identify and treat the root causes of each client’s addiction. Clients engage in individual and group therapy sessions, and benefit from a strong family focus that includes a weekly family night.
Settle Into a Welcoming, Communal Space
Avenues Recovery Center at Covington is a 52-bed residential campus with a clean, well-maintained environment that has a youthful decor and vibe that removes the barrier of institutionalized treatment. Clients stay in gender-specific wings, sharing bedrooms and ensuite bathrooms with up to 2 other people. Meals and laundry facilities are provided, as well as access to a fitness center, courtyard with a BBQ area, basketball and volleyball courts, and organized sober leisure activities.
Make a Plan for Continued Support
Following treatment, Avenues Recovery Center at Covington continues to assist clients on their lifelong recovery journey. Each client leaves with an aftercare plan that includes peer support and step-down care—typically referring clients to Avenues Recovery Center at Covington's intensive outpatient program (IOP) in Metairie. They can also assist with sober living housing placements, if needed.
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Center Overview
Treatment Focus
This center treats substance use disorders and co-occurring mental health conditions. Your treatment plan addresses each condition at once with personalized, compassionate care for comprehensive healing.
Joint Commission Accredited
The Joint Commission accreditation is a voluntary, objective process that evaluates and accredits healthcare organizations (like treatment centers) based on performance standards designed to improve quality and safety for patients. To be accredited means the treatment center has been found to meet the Commission's standards for quality and safety in patient care.
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Meet Your Care Team
Michelle Adams
Primary Counselor
Gabriel Bass
Primary Counselor
Robert R Fezekas II
Clinical Director
Julie Batt
Clinical Director
Brandie Smith
Nurse Practitioner
Noel Miles
Primary Counselor
Langley Laporte
Primary Counselor
Nicole Pichon
Nurse Practitioner
Amy Wise
Primary Counselor
Your Care Options
Specializations
Alcohol
Using alcohol as a coping mechanism, or drinking excessively throughout the week, signals an alcohol use disorder.
Detox
Detox fully and safely removes toxic substances from the body, allowing the next steps in treatment to begin with a clean slate.
Holistic
A non-medicinal, wellness-focused approach that aims to align the mind, body, and spirit for deep and lasting healing.
Medication-Assisted Treatment
Combined with behavioral therapy, prescribed medications can enhance treatment by relieving withdrawal symptoms and focus patients on their recovery.
Who We Treat
Treatment Services
Detox
Detox fully and safely removes toxic substances from the body, allowing the next steps in treatment to begin with a clean slate.
Intensive Outpatient Program
In an IOP, patients live at home or a sober living, but attend treatment typically 9-15 hours a week. Most programs include talk therapy, support groups, and other methods.
Outpatient
During outpatient rehab, patients attend a structured treatment program while continuing to live at home.
Residential
In a residential rehab program, patients live onsite, with access to daily treatment and 24-hour care. An average stay is 30-90 days.
Approaches
Evidence-Based
A combination of scientifically rooted therapies and treatments make up evidence-based care, defined by their measured and proven results.
Holistic
A non-medicinal, wellness-focused approach that aims to align the mind, body, and spirit for deep and lasting healing.
Medical
Medical addiction treatment uses approved medications to manage withdrawals and cravings, and to treat contributing mental health conditions.
Twelve Step
Incorporating spirituality, community, and responsibility, 12-Step philosophies prioritize the guidance of a Higher Power and a continuation of 12-Step practices.
Therapies
1-on-1 Counseling
Patient and therapist meet 1-on-1 to work through difficult emotions and behavioral challenges in a personal, private setting.
Aromatherapy
Inhaling or topically applying essential oils can help relieve stress, soothe pains, and relieve emotional distress.
Art Therapy
Visual art invites patients to examine the emotions within their work, focusing on the process of creativity and its gentle therapeutic power.
Couples Counseling
Partners work to improve their communication patterns, using advice from their therapist to better their relationship and make healthy changes.
Expressive Arts
Creative processes like art, writing, or dance use inner creative desires to help boost confidence, emotional growth, and initiate change.
Family Therapy
Family therapy addresses group dynamics within a family system, with a focus on improving communication and interrupting unhealthy relationship patterns.
Languages
Conditions We Treat
ADHD, ADD
ADHD is a common mental health condition caused by dopamine imbalance. Common symptoms include inattention, hyperactivitiy, and impulsivity.
Anger
Although anger itself isn't a disorder, it can get out of hand. If this feeling interferes with your relationships and daily functioning, treatment can help.
Anxiety
Anxiety is a common mental health condition that can include excessive worry, panic attacks, physical tension, and increased blood pressure.
Bipolar
This mental health condition is characterized by extreme mood swings between depression, mania, and remission.
Chronic Pain Management
Long-term physical pain can have an affect on mental health. Without support, it can also impact your daily life and even lead to addiction.
Codependency
Codependency is a pattern of emotional dependence and controlling behavior. It's most common among people with addicted loved ones.
Depression
Symptoms of depression may include fatigue, a sense of numbness, and loss of interest in activities. This condition can range from mild to severe.
Grief and Loss
Grief is a natural reaction to loss, but severe grief can interfere with your ability to function. You can get treatment for this condition.
Substances We Treat
Alcohol
Using alcohol as a coping mechanism, or drinking excessively throughout the week, signals an alcohol use disorder.
Benzodiazepines
Benzodiazepines are prescribed to treat anxiety and sleep issues. They are highly habit forming, and their abuse can cause mood changes and poor judgement.
Chronic Relapse
Consistent relapse occurs repeatedly, after partial recovery from addiction. This condition requires long-term treatment.
Co-Occurring Disorders
A person with multiple mental health diagnoses, such as addiction and depression, has co-occurring disorders also called dual diagnosis.
Cocaine
Cocaine is a stimulant with euphoric effects. Agitation, muscle ticks, psychosis, and heart issues are common symptoms of cocaine abuse.
Drug Addiction
Drug addiction is the excessive and repetitive use of substances, despite harmful consequences to a person's life, health, and relationships.
Ecstasy
Ecstasy is a stimulant that causes intense euphoria and heightened awareness. Abuse of this drug can trigger depression, insomnia, and memory problems.
Heroin
Heroin is a highly addictive and illegal opioid. It can cause insomnia, collapsed veins, heart issues, and additional mental health issues.
Aftercare
Care Designed for Your Needs
Personal Amenities
Amenities
Special Considerations
Gender-specific groups
Patients in gender-specific groups gain the opportunity to discuss challenges unique to their gender in a comfortable, safe setting conducive to healing.
Activities
Yoga
Yoga is both a physical and spiritual practice. It includes a flow of movement, breathing techniques, and meditation.
Off-Site Activities
Yoga
Yoga is both a physical and spiritual practice. It includes a flow of movement, breathing techniques, and meditation.
Off-Site Amenities
Learn More About the Center
Understanding the Link Between Anxiety and Addiction
Discover how anxiety may shape addiction patterns and reveal new pathways to healing.
How Intensive Outpatient Intensity Structure Boosts Recovery
See how structured outpatient care can strengthen momentum and deepen commitment to recovery.
Dealing With Someone Addicted to Alcohol
Learn compassionate strategies that can support loved ones through alcohol-related challenges.
Is Addiction Genetic?
Uncover insights into genetics that may reshape understanding of addiction risk.
What people are saying
Treatment
5.0
Accommodations
4.9
Food & Nutrition
4.5
Value
5.0
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Treatment in 2026 • (30 days) • Reviewed 02/06/26
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