Changed Lives Substance

About Changed Lives Substance

Changed Lives Mental Health and Substance Abuse Counseling is a private behavioral health practice in Lexington, Kentucky, offering outpatient substance use and mental health care for teens and adults. Founded in 2016 by people with personal experience of these struggles, they treat chemical dependency as a serious illness that touches every part of life, including the family members around the person using. Care includes individual counseling, group sessions, and an intensive outpatient program (IOP), with housing available during treatment for those who need it. They also run a sober living home where residents can work on jobs, education, meetings, and sponsorship while rebuilding stability.

Each client works with the team on a formal treatment plan, and services can combine counseling, psychiatric care, primary care, and medication management, with attention to trauma, grief, and loss alongside substance use. Group work includes Moral Reconation Therapy (MRT), a structured cognitive-behavioral program approved by the Department of Corrections, as well as anger management and domestic violence classes for people looking to change controlling or violent behavior. For those facing DUI charges, they offer court-mandated DUI classes in a combined English and Spanish setting, with discounted rates when paired with ignition interlock installation. They aim for a relaxed, non-judgmental setting rather than a clinical one, and their affiliated nonprofit foundation helps people leaving treatment with housing, clothing, child care, and other basic needs.