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The Farley Center at Williamsburg Place
Established in 1991, The Farley Center at Williamsburg Place provides affordable, individualized care in a relaxing therapeutic environment. Serving over 5,000 patients and their families for almost 20 years, the Farley Center is known nationally, regionally and locally for helping people live a life in recovery from drugs and alcohol.
“Addiction is a chronic, progressive illness and left untreated is terminal. The best time to get help is in the early stages of the disease when the prognosis is at its best,” says Stephanie Loebs, Executive Director.
Grounded in 12-step recovery principles, the Farley Center utilizes accomplished and professional staff to create a safe environment helping individuals face those issues that perpetuate the disease of addiction.
Farley offers a highly specialized extended care treatment program for impaired professionals. The type of people helped in this program are high-functioning professionals unexpectedly in trouble with drugs or alcohol, who may be depressed, anxious, stressed or suffering from chronic pain.
Respected nationally by the healthcare community, 25 percent of patients are referred to Farley by noted physicians. Unlike most centers, Farley offers full-time, on-site physicians whose patient roster is small, allowing for effective, one-on-one care and commitment to healing body, mind and spirit.
Discretion and confidentiality are important and valued components to the program, particularly for the physician or attorney concerned about professional licensure.
"My experience at the Farley Center was life-changing,” says Thayne Flora, Farley Alumni. “The staff members were knowledgeable, compassionate and supportive. Having an opportunity to be in treatment with other healthcare professionals took away my 'terminal uniqueness' and allowed me to find a path to recovery. I was given my life back and I will always be grateful to the folks at the Farley Center."
Patients in our 90-day program live on-campus in residential apartments with other recovering peers. This environment promotes a therapeutic community helping patients see that their struggles with addiction are not unique and that by working with peers they learn how honesty and openness contribute to a successful life in recovery.
Dr. Melissa Lee Warner, Medical Director of the Farley Center points out that not everyone develops an addiction because they were “looking to have a good time or party,” sometimes people develop addiction as the result of a medical or psychiatric condition. If addiction develops people can lose the ability to adequately treat the underlying condition and the medicines themselves become part of the problem.
In addition to helping individuals with pain-related issues, Farley also realizes that in many instances this disease does not exist in isolation. “People come to Farley overwhelmed, confused and often with a variety of diagnosis, often conflicting,” says Dr. Omar S. Manejwala, Associate Medical Director. “They may be experiencing anxiety, insomnia, depression and don’t know if these symptoms are a result of their psychiatric condition or from their addiction to drugs and alcohol.”
Patients who come to Farley with a substance use disorder resulting from significant pain or psychiatric-related issues now have hope to manage their co-occurring condition while learning to live an active and full life in recovery.
Ultimately, the extraordinary care at the Farley Center might be summed up this way. “We help good people get well,” says Loebs. “This is not about bad people being bad, nor about moral weakness. This is a brain disease that affects the entire family, and we believe we can help.”
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