The team behind Longview
A new campus run by people who have done this before. Here's who they are and who you'll actually see every day.
Longview Behavioral Health is Rockland Recovery Group’s first inpatient campus, and the people running it have been doing this work on the South Shore for years. The founders built Rockland Recovery into a network of programs across Massachusetts, and the organization has been named a Boston Business Journal Best Place to Work three years running. That matters to you for a practical reason: a treatment team that stays is a treatment team that knows you. The four people below lead Longview. The sections after them describe the clinicians, nurses, and medical staff you’ll see every day.
Who you'll see every day
Leadership sets the standards. The people who carry them out are the ones you'll know by first name within a day. Every role below exists because one of the two levels of care on the Kingston campus needs it.
Medical director and nursing
Detox is a medical service, so it runs under a physician who sets the withdrawal protocols and a nursing team that monitors around the clock. Nurses score symptoms on a schedule, adjust comfort medications, and watch for the complications that make unsupervised withdrawal dangerous. They are the people you'll see most in the first week.
Licensed counselors and therapists
Groups and individual sessions are run by licensed clinicians, including Licensed Alcohol and Drug Counselors and master's-level therapists trained in cognitive behavioral therapy, dialectical behavior therapy, and trauma-focused work. Each person in residential care has a primary clinician who owns their case from admission to discharge, so you tell your story once.
Psychiatric care
About half the people who come to treatment for drugs or alcohol also have a mental health condition, so a psychiatric prescriber is part of the treatment team rather than a referral. Evaluation, medication management for anxiety, depression, PTSD, and bipolar disorder, and coordination with the detox and counseling staff all happen here.
Case management and family support
Case managers start discharge planning early and leave you with appointments made, not a phone list: outpatient care, prescribers, recovery supports near home, and the step-down programs in the Rockland Recovery Group network. Family therapy and family education run alongside, because the founders built this organization around the people closest to the person in treatment.
Admissions and support staff
Admissions coordinators are the first voices you hear. They verify insurance and answer the question you're afraid to ask. If Longview isn't the right fit, they say so and point you somewhere that is. Behind them are the recovery support staff, kitchen, and facilities team who keep a 23-acre campus running so that the only thing you have to manage is today.
How we hire
Rockland Recovery Group’s standard for the Longview team is the same one that earned three consecutive Best Place to Work awards: licensed where licensure applies and experienced in this specific work. The harder test is whether you can sit with someone in the worst week of their life without flinching or judging.
Many of our staff are in recovery themselves. We will treat that as a credential. If that describes you, our careers page lists open roles on the Kingston campus.
How we review what we publish
Every clinical page and article on this site is reviewed by a licensed member of the Longview team before it goes live, and each one carries that reviewer’s name. Corey Gamberg, LADC II, reviews addiction counseling content. Pages that make medical claims about withdrawal and medication will carry a second review from our medical director once that role is filled.
If you find something on this site that doesn’t match your experience of treatment, tell us. The site exists to help people make a good decision in a bad week, and it only does that if it’s accurate.
Talk to someone on the team
Call (781) 430-4090. An admissions coordinator answers, not a call center, and the conversation is confidential and free.
Call 781.430.4090