Harbour Pointe offers 4-6 weeks of intensive residential treament for the compulsive gambler.  Some clients may require more or less time, but that recommendation will be made by our clinical team as treatment progresses.

Should the client meet the criteria for residential treatment the following shall occur. Immediately following the evaluation/ assessment the client will begin to go through our admission process and shall be admitted into the treatment program immediatley.

After being admitted into the program, the client will be scheduled for an urgent assessment appointment with our psychiatrist. This appointment will determine if any medication would be needed to help with the level of depression. Often clients come to us already being diagnosed as bi-polar or ADHD and in fact,  an active compulsive gambling  addiction could create symptoms that would mirror these other disorders. We don't want someone being misdiagnosed and being put on medication for the rest of their life if indeed it is simply mirroring affects of the gambling addiction.

Following that appointment the client will partake in a battery of psychological testing. This testing includes MMPI, MCMI, Beck Inventory, Burns Depression and Anxiety. This will allow the clinical team to develop an individual treatment plan for the client.