A handoff you can stand behind.
Secure referrals, a warm phone handoff from a clinician within four business hours of admission, and a treatment summary returned to your chart inside five business days. We do not take over your patient’s prescriptions and we do not redisclose without an ROI that names you.
Three documents. Each on a clock.
Warm phone handoff
A clinician — not an intake coordinator — calls you to confirm the client is in care, summarize level of care, and confirm the release scope on file.
Treatment summary
A reviewed letter on practice letterhead: diagnoses (DSM-5), level of care, goals, progress to date, and recommendations. Director-signed.
Discharge summary + continuing-care plan
Final diagnoses, treatment course, response to care, and a continuing-care plan with explicit follow-up cadence. Faxed or sent via secure portal.
Instruments your chart will recognize.
Every assessment, every treatment plan, and every discharge summary references the same validated instruments you already use. Nothing proprietary, nothing improvised.
- CIWA-ArAlcohol withdrawal severity
- COWSOpioid withdrawal severity
- DSM-5Diagnostic criteria
- ASAM PPC-3Level-of-care placement
- PHQ-9Depression screen
- GAD-7Anxiety screen
- AUDITAlcohol-use screen
- DAST-10Drug-use screen
- C-SSRSSuicide-risk screen
We coordinate. We don’t take over.
Our LCADCs and LPCs work alongside your medication plan, not around it. The shortest distance from a med question to a med answer is still you.
- 01Your prescriptions stay yours. We do not initiate, change, or discontinue psychiatric medications.
- 02Our LCADCs and LPCs document side effects and adherence concerns and forward them to you within one business day.
- 03For acute medication concerns, our consulting medical director calls you directly.
- 04If a medication adjustment is clinically indicated, we will say so in writing — but we will not make the change.
What coordination looks like in practice.
Adult with AUD + GAD
PCP continued SSRI; we ran a 12-week IOP track addressing alcohol use and anxiety triggers in parallel. Treatment summary back at week 5; discharge summary at week 13. SSRI never touched.
DWI 2nd offense — court-aware
Evening IOP scheduled around work; attorney received Compliance-Summary letters at IDRC milestones. PCP received Treatment-Summary letter (separate ROI). No clinical content in court letter.
Opioid use, ambivalent
PCP flagged escalating prescription opioid use. We completed COWS, ASAM placement, warm handoff to MAT prescriber. Client entered our OP program for behavioral support; PCP-coordinated buprenorphine maintained outside our practice.
The questions we get most.
Will you take over my patient’s psychiatric medications?+
No. We are a counseling practice (LCADC, LPC, LSW). We do not prescribe psychiatric medications. Our consulting medical director provides addiction-medicine consultation and coordinates with you rather than replacing you.
How do I send a referral that contains PHI?+
Use the secure portal form below, or call (201) 256-1826 for secure records transfer. Please do not send PHI by plain email. Encrypted email is acceptable if your system supports it.
How fast do you respond to a referral?+
A clinician calls the patient within one business hour of receipt during business hours, and we call you (with the patient’s consent) within four business hours of admission.
Do you accept 42 CFR Part 2 patients?+
Yes. We are a 42 CFR Part 2 program. Information disclosures require a Part 2-compliant ROI naming each recipient and scope. We will not redisclose without explicit, written re-authorization.
We will pick up the phone and we will call you back.
For the fastest handoff, call our 24-hour intake line. For routine referrals, use the secure form.