The Maxwell Institute

92 Yonkers Avenue

Tuckahoe, NY 10708
(914) 337-6033

The Maxwell Institute in Tuckahoe, New York, offers outpatient chemical dependency treatment for adults, adolescents, and their families. Treatment includes individual and group psychotherapy, family counseling, psychiatric evaluation and medication when indicated. The Maxwell Institute's treatment programs are entirely consistent with outside community-based support groups, and clients are encouraged to attend these self-help activities. We welcome individuals and family members who are experiencing marital and/or work-related distress as a result of their dependency. The following are the 10 pillars of The Maxwell Institute, representing the programs through which Maxwell realizes its mission:

1. Comprehensive Assessment: Help begins with the initial consultation to determine the care most appropriate to meet the needs of the client.
2. Intensive Outpatient Program: The program provides a unique and rewarding treatment program for clients with more complex problems.
3. Early Evening Recovery Program: Meeting three times weekly from 6:30 p.m., to 8:00 p.m., the program is ideal for clients whose work schedules do not permit them to attend the day program.
4. Employee Assistance Treatment Program: In group sessions, the emphasis is on a supportive reality therapy. Consequences of drinking and drug use are stressed, along with likely future consequences if the behavior continues. The relapse process is examined and relapse prevention skills and tools are learned.
5. Women's Program: The women's program empowers women to make changes in their lives and discover who they really are and what they want. By being with other women in treatment, female alcoholics and other addicts quickly identify with each other's life experiences, behavioral patterns, emotions and attitudes.
6. Significant Others Program: Significant others often have strong feelings of anger and resentment when their addict or alcoholic partner is actively involved with drugs or alcohol. Maxwell's family services are designed to help couples work through these feelings and behavioral patterns and to learn communication skills they will need to reestablish intimacy and to heal the tears in the fabric of their relationships.
7. Executive Professional Program: The Executive Professional Program has provided services to active and retired public school teachers, college professors, lawyers, nurses, musicians, writers and executives from area companies.
8. Adolescent Treatment Program: Group psychotherapy sessions educate adolescents about substance abuse while helping them learn the skills they need to deal with their difficulties in emotional and interpersonal relationships.
9. Psychiatric Services: For some persons with chemical dependency problems, sobriety alone does not lead to a resolution of psychiatric problems. Maxwell provides help for patients with co-occurring psychiatric disorders so they can achieve a stable recovery.
10. Community Education Program: Maxwell's community education services provide current thinking and information about adolescent binge drinking, bullying, social skills training and other topics for parents, teachers, clergy, social service agencies and other groups. The presentations are designed to meet the needs of each audience.

The Maxwell Institute also offers MAXTRAIN, a 350-hour certification program for individuals who wish to become a Credentialed Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Counselor (CASAC) in New York State. For more information, click here.

The Maxwell Institute is grateful for the support of The Community Fund of Bronxville, Eastchester and Tuckahoe.