Empower Recovery
Realize Your Power
Comprehensive, compassionate, and accessible telehealth addiction and behavioral health care from anywhere in Wisconsin.
Over 70%
Sustained Opioid Sobriety Rate
Substance Use Patients Treated
Years of Founder Experience
Supportive, Non-Judgmental Care
Sustained Opioid Sobriety
Who is Empower Recovery?
We are an outpatient mental health and addiction recovery clinic that provides comprehensive telehealth therapy services and medication management for patients in Wisconsin. We offer the highest quality evidence-based care, with a focus on personal empowerment.
"We are also experts at treating patients with co-occurring disorders."
Excellence in care guided by our founder, Aaron Hoffnung, MD — a renowned addiction specialist with over 24 years of experience. Our team of advanced-level providers and expert therapists offer personalized and supportive recovery services for lasting wellness.
How Telehealth Treatment
Empowers Your Recovery
At Empower Recovery, it's our mission to help Wisconsin patients access our
program from anywhere in the state. Our support comes in all shapes and sizes.
Mental Health Treatment
Our experienced mental health therapists treat depression, anxiety, PTSD, and ADD/ADHD with evidence-based methods.
Substance Use Disorder Treatment
We specialize in treating addiction to opioids, methamphetamine, cocaine, and alcohol with proven clinical approaches.
Medication-Assisted Treatment
For opioid addiction, we offer buprenorphine-based medications like Suboxone®, as well a mental health management medication.
Flexible Scheduling
All appointments via telehealth — enhancing access, flexibility, and privacy for patients anywhere in Wisconsin.
How We Empower You
Getting started is simple. We've designed every step to be accessible, private, and compassionate.
Contact Us
Click "Get Started" or call 608-571-3866 to enroll. We accept most insurances.
Program Orientation & Care Assessment
30-min orientation + 60-min care assessment to match you with the right services.
Medication Management
Create your individualized treatment plan. Same-day prescription sent to your pharmacy.
Begin Telehealth Therapy
Weekly individual, family, or group therapy with our licensed master's level therapists.
Virtual Substance Testing
Mail-in tests completed privately from your own home no clinic visit required.
We Treat Everyone with Dignity & Respect
At Empower Recovery, people are at the heart of everything we do. Every patient's story of addiction or mental illness is unique, but the pain and stigma they experience is often very similar.
We are non-judgmental and treat everyone with compassion, dignity, and respect. Addiction and mental illness don't discriminate against financial class, location, race, legal history, gender, sexuality, or religion — and neither do we.
Empower Recovery's Mission
To empower all of Wisconsin with access to comprehensive, affordable, and compassionate substance use disorder and mental health recovery services.
Affordable Care
We accept most private insurances, Medicaid, Medicare, and Indian Health. Self-pay options available.
Accessible Treatment
All appointments via telemedicine. Home and telehealth substance testing options if needed.
Dual Diagnosis Specialty
We use evidence-based care with a focus on personal empowerment — experts at treating co-occurring disorders.
Respect & Dignity
We treat everyone — patients, providers, and staff — with dignity and respect, without judgment.
Empower Recovery Values Your Privacy
At Empower Recovery, we understand the importance of privacy during recovery. We are deeply committed to protecting your personal and medical information at every step of your journey.
Our telehealth communications and records are all protected with the highest standards of confidentiality and security. Your safe space for healing is here, guarded with integrity and care.
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What People Say About Us
Posted on Google Samantha ChapmanTrustindex verifies that the original source of the review is Google. Very understanding and professional!! Employees at Empower are absolutely there when u need them, whether it be medication, support or just someone to talk with. So satisfied to b a patient of Empower!Posted on Google Shawna StamperTrustindex verifies that the original source of the review is Google. Very helpful this place has saved many lives and I couldn't be more thankful for them! I'm almost 3 years sober off of fentanyl and they work very well with my schedule I couldn’t be any happier with this program..Posted on Google Josh FoxTrustindex verifies that the original source of the review is Google. Compared to where I recently had my medical provider and practice's, where they here you out in are quick about the problems at hand, here they are like family, asking the right questions, having the right answers, or at least an explanation of hand than we will get right back to you after the consult ecetera, they say so and make you feel at home, allowing you to be also at ease, honest and comfortable, thus making both parties more compatible with the situation at hand depending on the patient with the provider/Doctor allowing growth on both sides, I am Greatful for switching providers when I did as I was going through a tough time, now I am finally getting the right help, in not treated as an outsider, as long as u be true honest and sincere, the rest will be clear, Empower of Recovery Empowered my Mobility, Mind, and Health, to the right path in My Recovery! Thanks for your Practice's and Being Professional with your Diagnosis! Chii Miigwetch, Thank YouPosted on Google RonaldTrustindex verifies that the original source of the review is Google. I had a wonderful experience and Timara was very helpful. I am very thankful to be your patientPosted on Google Peter RossmeisslTrustindex verifies that the original source of the review is Google. My NP, Dan, thinks hard about every move he makes, but manages to deliver his thoughts in a way that appears that he is figuring out for the first time…very smooth and therapeutically effective.Posted on Google J MTrustindex verifies that the original source of the review is Google. Awesome
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We accept most insurances including Medicare, Medicaid & personal payment options