Bold Steps Behavioral Health

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Substance Use and Mental Health

Treatment Focus

This center treats substance use disorders and mental health conditions. You'll receive individualized care catered to your unique situation and diagnosis, learn practical skills for recovery, and make new connections in a restorative environment.

Outpatient

Primary Level of Care

Outpatient treatment offers flexible therapeutic and medical care without the need to stay overnight in a hospital or inpatient facility. Some centers offer intensive outpatient program (IOP), which falls between inpatient care and traditional outpatient service.

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Insurance

Provider's Policy

At Bold Steps, we work closely with most major private insurance providers to ensure comprehensive coverage for our addiction treatment and mental health services.

Founded on the principle that compassionate care and evidence-based treatment can transform lives, Bold Steps provides a safe, supportive space for individuals to begin their recovery journey. They offer detox, day treatment, intensive outpatient, outpatient, and medication management for addiction, primary mental health, and co-occurring disorders. From intake to discharge, clients join a supportive community that listens well, treats clients like friends, and emphasizes comfort and respect.

Pursue Big-Picture Healing

Bold Steps Behavioral Health offers a comprehensive array of evidence-based treatment options. From cognitive behavioral therapy and dialectical behavior therapy to individual counseling and group sessions, clients have access to proven approaches tailored to their unique needs. The skilled therapists at Bold Steps are committed to helping clients develop coping skills, process emotions, and achieve lasting positive change. From family dynamics to lifestyle obstacles, they set clients up for success by taking a big-picture look at how healing fits their lives.

Build Resilience for Life’s Challenges

Bold Steps is committed to matching clients with the right combination of therapy practices to help clients with their addiction and recovery process. They help clients identify and change negative thought patterns and behaviors. Common techniques include cognitive restructuring to reframe distorted thinking, behavioral activation to increase engagement in positive activities, and exposure therapy to reduce avoidance. Clients also learn valuable skills that help them better regulate emotions, develop healthier coping mechanisms, and become aware of their thoughts, feelings, and bodily sensations.

Access a Range of Therapeutic Options

At Bold Steps, clients can explore diverse treatment options beyond CBT and DBT. Two trauma-informed therapists are on staff to provide specific approaches like eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) and trauma therapy. Art and equine therapy help clients process emotions through non-verbal expression. Psycho-education groups include speaking series, presentations, and video trainings on substance use and healthy coping mechanisms. And, family/couples counseling nurtures change in a safe setting under the guidance of a certified therapist with a spouse and/or loved ones.

Prevent Relapse with Ongoing Support

The recovery journey doesn’t end when clients leave Bold Steps. They offer robust aftercare and alumni support services to help clients maintain sobriety and prevent relapse. Their alumni community provides a strong network of encouragement and accountability.

Highlights from the Center

Highlights

These highlights are provided by and paid for by the center.

  • Customized Treatment Plans

  • Medically Assisted Detox

  • Certified Professionals

  • Gender Separate Housing

AT A GLANCE

Center Overview

Location
4755 Linglestown Rd Suite 402, Harrisburg, PA 17112 View Map
Primary Focus
This center treats substance use disorders and mental health conditions....

Treatment Focus

This center treats substance use disorders and mental health conditions. You'll receive individualized care catered to your unique situation and diagnosis, learn practical skills for recovery, and make new connections in a restorative environment.

Accreditation
Joint Commission

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.

Typical Program Length
30 days
Founded in 2022
4 years in business
Occupancy
31-50 beds
Conditions We Treat
Anger, Anxiety, Bipolar, Depression +9 More
Substance Use We Treat
Alcohol, Benzodiazepines, Chronic Relapse, Co-Occurring Disorders +8 More
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(844) 548-2698

Part of the network.
How to pay

Insurance Accepted

BlueCross BlueShield
BlueCross BlueShield
All Centers in Pennsylvania
Medicaid
Medicaid(Not Accepted)
Medicare
Medicare(Not Accepted)
Provider's Policy: At Bold Steps, we work closely with most major private insurance providers to ensure comprehensive coverage for our addiction treatment and mental health services.
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Staff

Meet Your Care Team

Dr. Muhammad Ikram

Dr. Muhammad Ikram

Psychiatrist

Carla Colflesh

Carla Colflesh

Executive Director

Lara Slimmer

Lara Slimmer

Clinical Director

Christine Hall

Christine Hall

Primary Counselor

Engage in a Proven Path to Sobriety
Engage in a Proven Path to Sobriety
Bold Steps Behavioral Health offers comprehensive 12-Step Facilitation Therapy. This evidence-based approach aims to increase the likelihood of a person becoming affiliated with and actively involved in 12-step self-help groups like Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) or Narcotics Anonymous (NA). A Bold Steps therapist will introduce the 12 steps, encourage meeting attendance, and explore challenges around embracing a spiritual recovery program. The goal is to facilitate the client’s smooth transition into a community-based fellowship after completing formal treatment.
Manage Co-Occurring Disorders with Confidence
Manage Co-Occurring Disorders with Confidence
With guidance and a treatment plan from Bold Steps Behavioral Health, clients are equipped for the challenges of managing multiple conditions simultaneously. Their team specializes in evidence-based therapies that will treat co-occurring disorders concurrently, monitoring progress to ensure that one element is not a barrier to progress in treatment. They help clients identify triggers, find healthy coping strategies, and start building the life they deserve. With small steps each day, clients gain hope, resilience, and a community of support.
Ensure Safe and Balanced Medication Use
Ensure Safe and Balanced Medication Use
The proper prescription and monitoring of medications is crucial to effective mental health and behavioral health treatments. Bold Steps’ specialists will review clients’ prescriptions and their effects on the daily regimen to promote a healthy lifestyle and overall well-being. They work to ensure safe, effective, and appropriate use of medications. This involves monitoring, reviewing, and adjusting medications to optimize therapeutic outcomes while minimizing potential risks or adverse effects.
Connect with Sober Living Options
Connect with Sober Living Options
Bold Steps understands the immense value of sober living environments in supporting long-term recovery. That’s why they’ve forged strategic partnerships with premier luxury sober living facilities. For clients seeking additional treatment options to support their journey toward wellness, Bold Steps will help them find placement in a safe, supportive, and structured living situation to help maintain sobriety and develop the life skills necessary for long-term recovery.
Care Options

Levels of Care

Substance use and mental health issues can occur simultaneously or as primary conditions. Effective treatment explores how mental health conditions contribute to addiction, and vice-versa. Many rehabs treat substance use disorders and mental health conditions with personalized care plans.
Residential
Not Offered at This Center
Residential programs for substance use and mental health with structured care and 24/7 monitoring. Treatment takes place on-site, with behavioral health professionals often providing care in group, individual, and family settings.
Sober Living
Not Offered at This Center
Transitional housing designed to support individuals recovering from substance use disorders offering a safe, supportive and structured environment for practicing long-term sobriety, while reintegrating back into daily living.
Day Treatment
In a PHP, patients live at home but follow an intensive schedule of treatment. Most programs require you to be on-site for about 40 hours per week.
Intensive Outpatient Program
An intensive outpatient program (IOP) falls between inpatient care and traditional outpatient services, with therapy and skills-building activities designed to support recovery and provide flexibility. IOP is ideal for those needing support but not the 24/7 care of a residential facility.
Outpatient
Outpatient treatment offers flexible therapeutic and medical care without the need to stay overnight in a hospital or inpatient facility. Outpatient care typically offers a range of therapies and medical interventions individuals can attend alongside daily life.
Virtual & In-Home Care
The delivery of therapeutic services utilizing technology such as video conferencing, online messaging or phone calls, allowing for flexibility, comfort and increased access to care.
Licensed Primary Mental Health
Some primary care providers offer mental health diagnosis and treatment. This can prevent patients from developing more serious conditions.
Co-Occurring Disorders
Substance use and mental health can occur simultaneously as co-occurring disorders. Treatment for co-occurring disorders involves therapy and other personalized interventions to address both conditions.
Treatment

Your Care Options

Specializations

Alcohol

Alcohol

Using alcohol as a coping mechanism, or drinking excessively throughout the week, signals an alcohol use disorder.

Anxiety

Anxiety

Anxiety is a common mental health condition that can include excessive worry, panic attacks, physical tension, and increased blood pressure.

Co-Occurring Disorders

Co-Occurring Disorders

A person with multiple mental health diagnoses, such as addiction and depression, has co-occurring disorders also called dual diagnosis.

Depression

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.

Intensive Outpatient Program

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

Outpatient

During outpatient rehab, patients attend a structured treatment program while continuing to live at home.

Post Traumatic Stress Disorder

Post Traumatic Stress Disorder

PTSD is a long-term mental health issue caused by a disturbing event or events. Symptoms include anxiety, dissociation, flashbacks, and intrusive thoughts.

Trauma

Trauma

Some traumatic events are so disturbing that they cause long-term mental health problems. Those ongoing issues can also be referred to as "trauma."

Who We Treat

Men
Women
Couples
Executives

Executives

Executive treatment programs typically directly support the needs of people who manage businesses and may provide flexible schedules and office space to allow work during treatment.

Young Adults

Young Adults

Emerging adults ages 18-25 receive treatment catered to the unique challenges of early adulthood, like college, risky behaviors, and vocational struggles.

LGBTQ+

LGBTQ+

Addiction and mental illnesses in the LGBTQ+ community must be treated with an affirming, safe, and relevant approach, which many centers provide.

Men and Women

Men and Women

Men and women attend treatment for addiction in a co-ed setting, going to therapy groups together to share experiences, struggles, and successes.

Midlife Adults

Midlife Adults

For adults ages 40+, treatment shifts to focus on the unique challenges, blocks, and risk factors of their age group, and unites peers in a similar community.

Mild Disabilities

Mild Disabilities

Adults with mild physical or intellectual disabilities receive treatment catered to their specific needs in a safe and clinically supportive environment.

Approaches

Evidence-Based

Evidence-Based

A combination of scientifically rooted therapies and treatments make up evidence-based care, defined by their measured and proven results.

Individual Treatment

Individual Treatment

Individual care meets the needs of each patient, using personalized treatment to provide them the most relevant care and greatest chance of success.

Trauma Informed
Twelve Step

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

1-on-1 Counseling

Patient and therapist meet 1-on-1 to work through difficult emotions and behavioral challenges in a personal, private setting.

1-on-1 Counseling with Clinical Psychologist
Art Therapy

Art Therapy

Visual art invites patients to examine the emotions within their work, focusing on the process of creativity and its gentle therapeutic power.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Dialectical Behavior Therapy
Eye Movement Therapy (EMDR)

Eye Movement Therapy (EMDR)

Lateral, guided eye movements help reduce the emotional reactions of retelling and reprocessing trauma, allowing intense feelings to dissipate.

Group Therapy
Introduction to the 12 Step Program
Massage Therapy

Massage Therapy

Massage therapy relieves physical and emotional tension, reduces pain, promotes relaxation, and improves emotion regulation.

Languages

English

Conditions We Treat

Anger

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

Anxiety is a common mental health condition that can include excessive worry, panic attacks, physical tension, and increased blood pressure.

Bipolar

Bipolar

This mental health condition is characterized by extreme mood swings between depression, mania, and remission.

Depression

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 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.

Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)

Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)

OCD is characterized by intrusive and distressing thoughts that drive repetitive behaviors. This pattern disrupts daily life and relationships.

Perinatal Mental Health
Personality Disorders

Personality Disorders

Personality disorders destabilize the way a person thinks, feels, and behaves. If untreated, they can undermine relationships and lead to severe distress.

Post Traumatic Stress Disorder

Post Traumatic Stress Disorder

PTSD is a long-term mental health issue caused by a disturbing event or events. Symptoms include anxiety, dissociation, flashbacks, and intrusive thoughts.

Substances We Treat

Alcohol

Alcohol

Using alcohol as a coping mechanism, or drinking excessively throughout the week, signals an alcohol use disorder.

Benzodiazepines

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

Chronic Relapse

Consistent relapse occurs repeatedly, after partial recovery from addiction. This condition requires long-term treatment.

Co-Occurring Disorders

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

Cocaine is a stimulant with euphoric effects. Agitation, muscle ticks, psychosis, and heart issues are common symptoms of cocaine abuse.

Drug Addiction

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

Ecstasy is a stimulant that causes intense euphoria and heightened awareness. Abuse of this drug can trigger depression, insomnia, and memory problems.

Heroin

Heroin

Heroin is a highly addictive and illegal opioid. It can cause insomnia, collapsed veins, heart issues, and additional mental health issues.

Methamphetamine

Methamphetamine

Methamphetamine, or meth, increases energy, agitation, and paranoia. Long-term use can result in severe physical and mental health issues.

Aftercare

Relapse Prevention Planning
Experience

Care Designed for Your Needs

Personal Amenities

Air-Conditioned Rooms
Shared Bathroom
Shared Rooms

Special Considerations

Family Program
Kosher
Gender-specific groups

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.

Wheelchair Accessible
Flexible technology policies

Flexible technology policies

Centers with flexible technology policies allow professionals to stay in touch with work and give patients a greater sense of connection and normalcy.

Couples program

Couples program

Using gentle clinical care, therapists guide patients and their partner through guided sessions to address issues and work towards lasting solutions.

Activities

Massage
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Frequently Asked Questions

Further Research

The following therapies are included: group therapy, 1-on-1 counseling and more.
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, United States.
At Bold Steps, we work closely with most major private insurance providers to ensure comprehensive coverage for our addiction treatment and mental health services.
The typical length is 30 days.
Yes, they offer detox.
Bold Steps Behavioral Health provides day treatment, intensive outpatient program and more.

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