DUI Counseling

Outpatient Substance Abuse Counseling
If you’re Significant Risk, along with 10 hours of Risk Education, you need to complete 20 hours of counseling. If you’re High Risk, you need to complete 75 hours of counseling. We primarily do counseling in a group setting as it’s more efficient, economical, and because you can learn from other clients’ experiences. For your convenience, each office has groups in the mornings and evenings, and most offices have groups on the weekends. However, if you choose, our counselors can work with you individually.

During counseling, our staff will embrace an empathetic and non-judgmental approach to help you examine your issues, concerns, and problems that may have led to your arrest. Then, we’ll help you adopt new skills to develop alternative lifestyles which could significantly reduce your chances you’ll face another DUI arrest in the future.

For those of you who’re participating in counseling to fulfill a court-order, you can expect to be assigned a social worker or probation officer. We’ll work closely with your court contact to make sure they’re updated about your progress; therefore, it’s important that you complete your court requirements in a timely manner. Upon successfully completing your counseling, you’ll receive a formal letter of completion on DUI Counseling Centers’ letterhead that we’ll also fax to your court contact. For those of you participating in counseling for a Secretary of State hearing, you’ll receive a Secretary of State Treatment Verification Report to take to your hearing.