UPMC Western Behavioral Health

About UPMC Western Behavioral Health

UPMC Western Behavioral Health in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, is an outpatient substance use location of UPMC Western Behavioral Health at Twin Lakes, a Somerset County addiction program that has served the region since 1983. They work with both adolescents and adults and make a point of reaching people who inject drugs, pregnant people who use substances, overdose survivors, and veterans. The broader Twin Lakes program spans medically supervised withdrawal management and adult residential treatment at the Somerset campus, along with intensive outpatient, standard outpatient, DUI services, and prevention and education. Outpatient care is matched to need, ranging from up to eight hours per week in standard outpatient to nine to 19 hours per week in intensive outpatient.

Outpatient care begins with an assessment that shapes an individualized plan, followed by roughly hour-long one-on-one counseling sessions and recovery groups that run two to eight hours per week. A dedicated legal group supports people with pending charges or those on probation or parole, and counselors can form specialty groups as needs change. Family therapy is built in so loved ones can set shared recovery goals, and clients can be connected with resources for housing, employment, mental health, and medication management. Clinicians draw on motivational enhancement therapy, motivational interviewing, CBT, DBT, and trauma-informed care, and staff are trained in prescribing medications for addiction, with aftercare options that include certified recovery specialists and referrals to halfway and three-quarter-way sober living houses.