About Us
Long-term recovery requires a personality change, as well as clinical intervention and spiritual experiences. These things take several months to achieve. Our philosophy is to provide a safe, therapeutic and exceedingly fun environment for patients to achieve these personality changes and find joy in the fellowship of recovery, which will allow for long-term sobriety.
We believe that recovery extends beyond treatment and meetings and into real life. At Fellowship House, we provide a design for living that focuses on education and service. We have strong relationships with the twelve universities and vocational schools in the area and ensure that our fellows pursue their personal goals while entering sobriety. We also stress independence and responsibility, making sure each individual is financially solid in self and helping to make their community a better place.
What We Do
As a treatment center, Fellowship House offers both residential and outpatient treatment services to individuals and families affected by addiction and alcoholism. We are a DDAP-licensed provider of general outpatient, intensive outpatient, and partial hospitalization program treatment services, as well as Level of Care Assessments.
We offer residential housing for up to forty (40) men between the ages of 18-35, and these patients are then blended with up to seventy (70) ambulatory patients (men and women of all age groups) who reside in Northeast Pennsylvania, for treatment purposes. Each of the residents begins his course of treatment as a PHP patient, next steps down to become an IOP patient, then steps down to become an OP patient, and may finally elect to reside on property for continued sober living. The non-residential patients are enrolled in our PHP, IOP or OP programs, depending on his or her prior treatment and a level of care assessment by our clinical staff.
PHP patients experience 38 weekly hours of treatment, which occur largely in group and individual counseling sessions, as well as adventure trek and recreational therapies. IOP patients experience 17 weekly hours of treatment, which also include group counseling and individual counseling, individual counseling and recreational/adventure trek therapies. OP patients experience 10 weekly hours of group and individual counseling.
Group sessions are offered three times a day from Monday – Friday. Individual sessions are scheduled and conducted, weekly, according to the schedules of the respective clinicians and patients. Saturdays (and some evenings) are reserved for the recreational therapies and adventure trek components of our program(s). Sundays are reserved for family visits, sessions and closed groups limited only to residential patients.
Fellowship Houses is the location of choice for the following reasons:
Relaxing Environment
Worried that being close to home will make it difficult to overcome addiction to drugs or alcohol? Fellowship Houses are located in quiet, peaceful, and relaxing locations that will allow anyone the chance to get away and focus on their recovery.
Experienced Staff Members
Our staff consists of an experienced group of doctors, therapists, nurses, and so much more. We can provide you the tools to treat substance abuse and create a long-term recovery.
Customized Treatment
Here at Fellowship Houses we understand that every form of addiction and substance abuse is different.>That is why we create specialized treatment plans to place clients in the best position to recover from addiction.
Large Insurance Network
Getting the treatment you need to fight addiction should never come down to finances, but it is sometimes a challenge. That is why we make a point to accept most health insurance plans, which can help reduce or eliminate the cost of treatment.
Our Staff
Joe Van Wie
CEO/Founder
Larry Moran Esq.
Executive Director/Founder
Jonathan Blake, LSW
Clinical Director
Dr. Matthew Haley
Medical Director
Frank Tunis Esq.
Director of Operations
Timothy Calpin
Chief Technology Officer
Megan Refice
Primary Counselor
Marissa Ivanko
Primary Counselor
Amanda Scatton
Admissions Specialist
Gerard Perfetto
Behavioral Health Technician
Kevin Roginski
Behavioral Health Technician
Nasim Mahdavi
Holistic Director
Russell Preno
Director of Health & Nutrition
Dr. Nick Colangelo
Business Development
Fellowship Board of Directors
Dr. Nick Colangelo
Business Development
Jack Omalley PhD
Sports Ethics Fellow by Institute for International Sport for his research in sportsmanship
Aileen Van Wie PsyD
Co-Morbidities Director
Pat Sandone MBA
MBA (Colombia) Ba ( Wharton) CEO, GUIDE APP
Dr. GiGi Langer
Stanford University Pysch Dept & Author
Dr. Joe Reichman
USNAVY Va Mental Health Director DC
Dr. Anthony Quinn
Author of “Observations from a Recovering Alcoholic”