After one year in business, Rogersville-based Synergy Recovery Center LLC is expanding its reach for treating alcohol and substance abuse in the Springfield area.
The company, which operates a privately owned residential treatment center for women on a
20-acre property in Rogersville, is scheduled to open an outpatient clinic and counseling center Sept. 6 at 1717 E. Republic Road, Ste. D.
Executive Director Paige Tuck said two-thirds of women who stay in the Rogersville facility – which has a capacity of eight and has treated 54 since opening in August 2015 – are not from southwest Missouri. The new center would help local patients keep up with their recovery programs.
“We knew that would be our growing pain, that we’d need another center for them to continue therapy and counseling,” she said.
Tuck estimated startup costs for the new center at $15,000. She said the 2,000-square-foot space – formerly the office of accounting firm Bohl & House LLC and subsidiary Affordable Payroll Co. LLC – is leased from Reed Properties Inc. for undisclosed terms. The building contains two rooms for group therapy sessions and four counselor’s offices, according to Tuck, and the outpatient clinic and counseling center has a staff of nine, including contracted licensed professional counselors.
In addition to serving former Synergy inpatients, Tuck said the Springfield clinic would aid those who either don’t qualify for residential care or who want to undergo treatment, but are still working and don’t have caretakers for children at home. Programs include those for substance abuse as well as grief, trauma, depression and anxiety counseling.
“In recovery, you don’t go through a program and then you’re done - you have to take care of it just like diabetes or high blood pressure,” Tuck said. “That looks different for each person - doing more education, finding a support group, finding a sponsor and having some connection with the recovery community - but you have to continue in some manner to work on your recovery.”
Synergy also plans to open a men’s residential treatment center in late 2017. Tuck said the company has not purchased land for the men’s center, but Tuck it would be similar in size to the Rogersville campus.
