Community Counseling Institute Inc

About Community Counseling Institute Inc

Community Counseling Institute is a Tacoma, Washington, organization that treats co-occurring substance use and mental health disorders, with a strong focus on youth and families. Their approach rests on the idea that substance use and mental stress feed each other, worsening symptoms, masking problems, and making medications less effective, so they address both together. They place particular emphasis on young people who often face barriers to care, including ethnic and racial minority youth, LGBTQ individuals, young parents, and youth who have experienced homelessness, detention, or long-term confinement.

Care begins with a strength-based bio-psychosocial assessment, which licensed counselors use to build an individual service plan around each client’s own goals. Services include individual behavioral health counseling, group counseling, family therapy, gender-specific and age-appropriate counseling, trauma-informed therapy, relapse prevention, and drug testing. When medication may play a role in recovery, they provide consultations and ongoing medication management, and case managers help clients with practical needs like education and employment. Beyond treatment, they run the evidence-based Botvin Life Skills Training program in local schools and lead federally funded prevention efforts, including the Prevent! Tacoma Drug-Free Communities and STOP Act grants, to reduce underage drinking and youth substance use.