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Treatment Houses

In Omega Recovery Treatment Houses, the clients get 30 hrs of clinical treatment in a large, beautiful, secure home right in the community! They spend 5 days a week working with some of the best therapists in Austin, attend life skills groups, receive peer recovery coaching, and person fitness training all in a secure setting.

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Partial Hospitalization Program (PHP)

Part of Omega Recovery’s full continuum of care includes PHP – Partial Hospitalization Program. This service provides a structured program of outpatient recovering addicts and dual-diagnosis patients using psychiatric services as an alternative to inpatient psychiatric care.

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Intensive Outpatient Program (IOP)

Our Intensive Outpatient Programs are for recovering addicts and dual diagnosis individuals needing a structured therapy program that offers counseling and education in an individual and group setting. Our Psychiatrists and Master-Level Clinicians work with staff to provide support and a safe place to heal, learn problem-solving skills and practice stress-reduction techniques.

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Technology Addiction

Playing video games, checking social media, watching YouTube, porn, sending emails, surfing the web, social media obsession, smartphone usage…these are now acknowledged as more than just obsessions. In some cases, they can be debilitating addictions and clinical disorders that have ruined people’s lives.

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Nature Immersion

Nature immersion can be even more powerful and transformative when the struggling person begins to understand the deeper significance of certain experiences. Nature can imbue our lives and our experiences with unimaginable power and meaning.

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Active Recovery Coaching

Active Recovery Coaching provides physical, mental, and spiritual wellness to the recovery community. The care starts with Treatment Center wellness programming and continues in the community with one-on-one coaching. ARC’s goal is to help develop whole individuals that achieve long term recovery while maintaining a well balanced and enjoyable lifestyle.

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Dr. Nicholas Kardaras

Founder, CEO and Chief Clinical Officer

Dr. Kardaras is an Ivy-League educated psychologist, an internationally renowned speaker, and one of the country’s foremost addiction experts. A former Clinical Professor at Stony Brook Medicine where he specialized in teaching the neurophysiology and treatment of addiction, he has also taught neuropsychology at the doctoral-level and has worked closely in developing clinical protocols with Dr. Howard Shaffer, Associate Professor at Harvard Medical School and the Director of their Division of Addiction.

He has appeared on ABC’s 20/20, Good Morning America, the CBS Evening News, FOX & Friends, NPR, Good Day New York and has written about addiction for TIME Magazine, Scientific American, Psychology Today, Salon, The NY Daily News, and FOX News, and has been featured in Esquire, New York Magazine, VICE, and Vanity Fair.

Considered a leading expert on young people and digital addiction, he is the author of “Glow Kids” (St. Martin’s Press, 2016), the seminal book on the clinical, neurological and sociological aspects of Technology Addiction (Smart Phones, Video Games, Social Media, etc.) and has clinically worked with over 1,000 teens and young people during the last 15 years. He has been active in advocating that screen addiction be recognized as a clinical disorder akin to substance addiction and has developed the most comprehensive treatment protocols to treat this emerging global problem.

Dr. Kardaras is also the creator of Seahab, an intensive experiential form of nature immersion therapy. Based on the very successful evidence-based principles of Outdoor Behavioral Healthcare (OBH), Seahab has proven to be very effective as an intensive intervention to help addicts shift out of self-destructive and toxic lifestyle patterns.

Dr. Kardaras has also, admittedly, lived a colorful life: he’s a former AAU National Karate champion, a recovering NYC nightclub owner and a coma survivor. Having once owned high-profile NY nightclubs where he had mingled with the likes of JFK, Jr., Uma Thurman and Tom Cruise, Dr. Kardaras emerged from that glamorous-yet-self-destructive world and discovered a healing path to his own recovery from addiction. Dr. Kardaras is also the author of “How Plato and Pythagoras Can Save Your Life” (Conari, 2011) and devotes his life to helping others find their path to recovery, healing and a life of meaning and purpose.

He lives with his wife and twin sons between Austin, TX and Sag Harbor NY and is a frequent presenter and lecturer on the subjects of mental health, philosophy, and both substance and screen addictions.

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Dr Nicholas Kardaras

Founder, CEO and Chief Clinical Officer

Michael Smeltzer

Executive Director

Michael Smeltzer was born and raised in Austin, Texas. As a teenager, Michael was introduced to drugs and alcohol, and began drinking and using regularly. He noticed early on that his reaction to substances was abnormal. He was constantly thinking of the next high. Like so many addicts, he began to isolate, his relationships were strained, he resorted to crime, and his self-esteem plummeted. While studying business at Texas State University, his addiction reached the point of unmanageability. Read More.

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What Makes Omega Recovery Unique?

At Omega Recovery, Dr. Kardaras and our clinical team have created a new, better, and more effective way for people to not only get sober, but to stay sober. Traditional treatment programs put the struggling addict in an artificial treatment bubble where it’s relatively easy to stay sober, but inevitably when that client leaves treatment, they are unprepared to deal with the stress of everyday life.

In Omega Recovery Treatment Houses, clients get 30 hours of clinical treatment in a large, beautiful, secure home right in the community! They spend 5 days a week working with some of the best therapists in Austin, attend life skills groups, receive peer recovery coaching & person fitness training, and undergo our 12-step program all in a secure setting.

In this “community integration” model, the clients get to experience life–shopping in the supermarket, going on a barbeque, going to a doctor’s appointment, going on a job interview–all with staff supervision, and clinical staff that can help them process any and all the feelings and emotions that can so often arise in early recovery.

The success rates at traditional rehabs are so low because they don’t adequately prepare a client for real life. At the Omega treatment houses, our clients are life-tested and battle ready to launch into their new clean and sober lives after participating in our IOP Intensive Outpatient Program.

Visit our mental health counseling center in Austin to learn more about our program.

Motivational Interviewing (MI)
Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT)
Psychoeducational Classes
Nature Immersion
Somatic Therapy
Japanese Karate as Therapy
Mindfulness Meditation
Relapse Prevention
Psychodrama

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
Group and Individual Therapy
Stress Reduction Classes and Groups
Flotation Therapy
“Hero’s Journey” Archetypal Work
Yoga
12-Step Education
Breathwork
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)