A and D Counseling

Located in Aurora, CO, A and D Counseling operates in CO's broader addiction-treatment market. The facility's programming is outpatient (Outpatient), not residential. What this page tries to do is frame the specific questions worth asking, which are rarely the ones that get asked first.

Care levels at A and D Counseling

A and D Counseling is an outpatient-focused program (Outpatient) — patients live at home or in sober living and attend treatment sessions. This level of care is clinically appropriate for mild-to-moderate substance use disorder, or for patients stepping down from residential. The level-of-care question is where a lot of misaligned placements happen — a patient who needs residential ends up in IOP, or vice versa. The protection is a clinical assessment outside the facility's admissions team.

Insurance and payment

Payment and insurance specifics for A and D Counseling are not fully documented in the SAMHSA registry — a direct admissions conversation is the reliable way to confirm what forms of payment are accepted and at what network-contract level. The insurance problem is almost never that treatment is uncovered — it is that the specific admission was authorized under different terms than the ones in the benefit summary. Get the Verification of Benefits in writing; everything else follows from that one move.

Specialty programming

The facility's documented specialty programming includes: Adolescents, Young adults, Adult women. The gap between specialty-branding and specialty-programming is where a lot of families end up disappointed. Specific questions — who, how many hours, what credentials — close the gap before admission.

Before you call

Questions that matter before admitting to A and D Counseling: ASAM level of care (not the facility's category, the clinical level); written VOB; MAT policy. If the clinical situation involves opioid use disorder, confirm explicitly whether A and D Counseling offers medication-assisted treatment — buprenorphine, methadone, or naltrexone. Programs that do not are operating outside the current standard of care. The ones who answer those quickly are usually the ones worth considering. The ones who dodge are almost always worth skipping.