About
About Bridge Back to Life Center Inc
Bridge Back to Life Center’s Brooklyn office occupies the 10th floor at 175 Remsen Street in Brooklyn Heights, placing the clinic near the Borough Hall transit hub and within reach of clients across Kings County’s diverse neighborhoods. The Brooklyn site is the borough’s anchor in Bridge Back to Life’s metropolitan outpatient network, which has operated continuously since 1988 under the leadership of President and CEO Gary Butchen, LCSW-R, CASAC, SAP.
Clinical services at the Brooklyn location focus on outpatient and intensive outpatient substance use treatment for adolescents, young adults, and adults. New clients begin with a confidential, intensive diagnostic evaluation that determines their individual clinical needs and the appropriate level of care. From there, the team designs a treatment pathway that may include individual counseling, group programming, family education, and connection into the organization’s specialty services for veterans, employee assistance referrals, justice-involved clients, and professionals.
A notable feature of the Brooklyn clinic — and the broader Bridge Back to Life network — is its multilingual clinical capacity. SAMHSA records confirm services in English, Spanish, Italian, Hmong, and Vietnamese, an unusual language portfolio for a substance use outpatient provider. In a borough as linguistically diverse as Brooklyn, where clinical addiction services in less-common languages are particularly scarce, that capacity translates directly into improved access for clients whose primary language is not English.
Payment options accepted at the Brooklyn office include Medicaid, Medicare, TRICARE, private insurance, and self-pay. Alumni testimonials on the organization’s site describe Brooklyn-specific positive experiences, and the broader Bridge Back to Life culture is one in which leadership has historically prioritized continuing treatment for clients who hit financial obstacles. For Brooklyn intake, the direct line is (718) 852-5552; the main organizational line is 1-844-896-2285.
- 35+ years of medical detox experience serving Brooklyn and Kings County since 1988
- 10th-floor Brooklyn Heights location with extended weekday hours until 8 PM
- Multilingual detox services in 5 languages including Hmong and Vietnamese
- Financial hardship programs allow continuation of medical detox regardless of ability to pay
- Telehealth-enabled withdrawal management for flexible access to supervised care