WHO WE ARE

Our Mission

State-of-the-art outpatient treatment and recovery center.

A non-profit organization founded in 1976, Freedom Institute is a state-of-the-art outpatient treatment and recovery center.  Our mission is to provide clinical assessments and innovative, evidence-based treatment services, as well as referral services when necessary, in a caring, compassionate and confidential environment, for individuals suffering from alcoholism, substance misuse, abuse, addiction, and related underlying mental health issues. We provide in-person and Telehealth services and our programs offer the highest caliber of outpatient care tailored to the specific needs of our clients.

Our history

Unique in its involvement of family members in the client’s treatment and recovery process.

Freedom Institute was founded in 1976 by Mona Mansell, a recovering alcoholic. Having seen the effects of her alcoholism on her own family and motivated by a desire to help others become sober, Mona formed one of the country’s first intervention programs, unique in its involvement of family members in the client’s treatment and recovery process. In the early years of Freedom Institute, substance abuse treatment consisted primarily of inpatient programs, and Mona helped hundreds of people find appropriate treatment after intervention, while providing ongoing support to their families.

From the outset, she was determined that Freedom Institute address the needs of the whole family, not just the identified patient. The first family groups started at Freedom Institute in 1999. To this day, healing families is central to our mission and we are recognized as the leader at the intersection of family therapy and substance abuse treatment.

Today, Freedom Institute is a state-of-the art not-for-profit outpatient treatment and recovery center that provides a range of innovative, evidenced-based treatment services for adults, young adults and their families.

Remaining dedicated to our founder’s vision, we are the only center in the country to combine Intensive Outpatient Programming with a family systems approach, offering an integration of Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) and Relational Family Therapy. Freedom Institute provides a higher quality of outpatient care tailored to the specific needs of our clients than any other outpatient provider in the New York metropolitan area.