Action Family Counseling

About Action Family Counseling

Action Family Counseling in Bakersfield, CA, is part of a Southern California addiction and mental health treatment organization that Cary Quashen founded in Santa Clarita in 1997, with additional locations in Simi Valley and Bakersfield. They work with teens ages 12 to 17 as well as adults, treating substance use alongside the mental health conditions that often accompany it, and they involve families in the recovery process. Across the organization, care ranges from residential treatment and partial hospitalization to intensive outpatient, medication-assisted treatment, telehealth, and sober living.

Residential clients receive round-the-clock supervision, an individualized plan based on their medical and mental health history, individual, group, and family therapy, and life skills training. Partial hospitalization offers daytime treatment with evenings at home and pairs dual diagnosis care with 12-Step support, while the intensive outpatient program meets three times a week for three hours, with separate teen and adult groups and an LGBTQ+ friendly approach. For opioid and alcohol use disorders, their MAT program combines medications such as Suboxone, Vivitrol, methadone, acamprosate, and disulfiram with counseling that includes cognitive behavioral therapy and motivational interviewing. Adults stepping down from rehab can move to a 20-acre sober living ranch in Santa Clarita that houses up to 18 residents, with daily AA/NA meetings, rides to IOP, help with jobs and school enrollment, and a behavioral contract that keeps residents accountable.