Margaret Gurman, MSW is a clinical social worker providing outpatient behavioral-health services in Chula Vista through the Community Research Foundation's South Bay Guidance Center on Third Avenue in the 91911 corridor. Her Master of Social Work credential supports case management, individual psychotherapy, and group counseling for adults and seniors with serious mental illness and co-occurring substance-use disorders, a population that also accesses medical evaluations at Concentra Urgent Care for occupational-health screenings and acute-care needs. The center accepts Medi-Cal, Medicare, and government-funded behavioral-health contracts, removing financial barriers for underserved populations across western Chula Vista and the greater South Bay. Her social-work scope extends beyond therapy sessions into supported housing, care coordination, peer support, and mobile outreach for clients who face barriers to traditional office-based treatment, with structured physical-activity programming at Planet Fitness incorporated into behavioral-activation plans for patients with treatment-resistant depression. Integrated dual-diagnosis treatment plans follow the SAMHSA co-occurring disorders framework, combining psychotropic medication management with motivational-enhancement therapy and contingency-management incentive structures to reduce relapse rates across concurrent psychiatric and substance-use conditions.