Worry, racing thoughts, or fear that has outgrown the situation and started running your days.
What we treat
Conditions we treat
in Houston
People come to The Lovett Center for many reasons: anxiety that will not quiet down, a depression that flattened everything, the weight of trauma, or a substance that stopped feeling like a choice. Whatever brought you here, there is a place to start and a clinician who treats it.
How we think about it
We treat the person,
not just the diagnosis.
A label can be useful, but it is never the whole story. We start with person-first language that sees you as a whole person, not a diagnosis.
Most people do not arrive with a tidy label. They arrive with a feeling that something is wrong, or that an old way of coping has stopped working. Our job is to understand the whole picture, your history, your relationships, and what you are carrying, before we settle on what to call it or how to treat it.
Everything we offer is outpatient, so you live at home and keep your life while you do the work. Care comes at three levels of intensity, and we match the level to what your situation actually needs, then adjust it up or down as your needs change.
Conditions also rarely keep to themselves. Mental health and substance use struggles often show up together, and when they do we treat them in one plan instead of passing you between programs. If you ever need medically supervised detox or round-the-clock care first, that is not something we provide on site. We will say so plainly and help arrange it through Prairie Recovery Center, our residential partner in Round Top, Texas, then welcome you back when outpatient care is the right fit.
Mental health
When the struggle is in
how you feel and think.
These are some of the mental health conditions our clinicians treat most often. Each one has a place to begin.
A heaviness, numbness, or loss of interest that does not lift the way it used to.
When something you lived through keeps intruding on the present and will not stay in the past.
Mood that swings between highs and lows in ways that disrupt sleep, work, and relationships.
Intrusive thoughts and the rituals meant to quiet them, taking more and more of your time.
Persistent shifts in mood that color everything, when it is hard to name exactly what is wrong.
Hurting yourself to cope with emotional pain that has nowhere else to go, usually a sign of something deeper underneath.
When the pain feels like it will never lift. These thoughts are more common than most people know, and they are treatable.
Substance use
When the struggle involves
alcohol or other drugs.
Substance use rarely starts as the problem. It usually starts as a way to cope with something else. Beyond alcohol, opioids, cocaine, and prescription medications, our team also treats kratom, cannabis, methamphetamine, and inhalant use. We treat all of it without judgment, on an outpatient basis, and we treat what sits underneath it too.
When drinking has become hard to control, or stopping on your own has not worked.
Dependence on heroin or prescription opioids, where medication can be one part of recovery.
Stimulant use that keeps pulling you back, despite the cost to your work, money, and health.
When medication that once helped, opioids or sedatives, has quietly become the problem.
When both show up
Many people are facing
more than one thing at once.
Conditions rarely keep to themselves, and treating them as if they do is one of the most common reasons care stalls. Here is how we hold the overlap.
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Conditions rarely come alone
Anxiety and depression often arrive together. A substance use problem frequently sits on top of trauma or a mood disorder. When two conditions overlap, treating only one tends to leave the other to undo the progress, so we treat them together, in a single plan.
Dual diagnosis at Lovett -
Care is matched, then eased back
The same condition can call for very different levels of support depending on where you are with it. We start where your symptoms actually are, across three outpatient levels, and move the level up or down as your needs change.
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One team, one plan
More than 25 clinicians practice together under one roof and consult on the people they share. You are assessed by someone who can see the whole picture, then routed to the care that fits, instead of being handed a generic track.
About The Lovett Center
Common questions
What we treat,
answered.
We treat a broad range of mental health and substance use conditions on an outpatient basis. On the mental health side that includes anxiety, depression, trauma and PTSD, bipolar disorder, OCD, and mood disorders. On the substance use side we treat alcohol, opioid, cocaine, and prescription drug use, and we treat co-occurring conditions together.
Dual diagnosis means a mental health condition and a substance use condition happening at the same time. We treat it directly, in one integrated plan, because addressing only one side tends to leave the other to undo the progress.
Dual diagnosis careFor some conditions, medication can be one part of recovery, prescribed and monitored alongside therapy rather than on its own. Whether it fits your situation is something we discuss during your assessment and revisit as you progress.
The right level depends on how much structure your situation calls for now, not the diagnosis alone. We match you to one of three outpatient levels after a brief assessment, then adjust it up or down as your needs change.
Compare levels of careYes, and often that is exactly what is needed. Conditions rarely come alone: anxiety and depression frequently arrive together, and substance use often sits on top of trauma or a mood disorder. We build a single plan that holds the whole picture rather than passing you between programs.
All of our care is outpatient, so you live at home throughout treatment and keep your daily life. If you ever need medically supervised detox or round-the-clock care first, that is not something we provide on site, and we will help you arrange it before outpatient care begins.
Start here
You do not have to have it
figured out to reach out.
Tell us a little about what is going on, for yourself or for someone you love. A real person at Lovett will help you find the right next step. No pressure, and no obligation.
Every conversation is confidential. In a crisis, call or text 988 any time to reach the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline.