Bridges to Recovery
Bridges to Recovery is a residential psychological facility located in the Pacific Palisades area of Los Angeles, in the state of California. No other facility treats individuals diagnosed with psychological and psychiatric disorders in a private setting of this nature. We utilize a cutting edge clinical approach within a safe and secure residential environment. This allows adults seeking help with depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder, personality disorders, phobias, mood disorders, chronic pain, fibromyalgia, and psychological trauma a safe place to understand the underlying reason of and utilize the tools necessary to live with psychological issues. Many times medical issues such as chronic pain and fibromyalgia occur with psychological trauma.
Bridges to Recovery is an exclusive private facility that serves as an effective alternative to an inpatient psychiatric hospital setting. Many people associate negative experiences with psychiatric hospitals and have found them to be ineffective, only quieting the patient's symptoms on a short term basis. At Bridges to Recovery, we aim to provide a long term solution in which the patient does not discharge from our program without a carefully constructed "road map" for a more productive and healthy life. We carefully assess all potential patients to ensure that they would benefit clinically and integrate well with the current patient community. When Bridges to Recovery receives a call for help, we understand how hard it was to make that call. We understand that many people needlessly endure unnecessary emotional pain for extended periods of time before making a commitment to heal. Our facility is designed to treat individuals in crisis, whether the person is highly stressed or overworked and spinning out of control, or depressed and anxious and wants to take the time to heal, we can help.
In order for Bridges To Recovery to offer an effective treatment experience, patients must allow themselves a reasonable amount of time to complete their treatment. Therefore, Bridges to Recovery does not admit patients requiring a short-term stay. The goal of any good psychological intervention is to help a person reach a place where they can be successful in achieving their desired outcome. We recognize that every person is an individual with separate issues and needs. Our multidisciplinary treatment team provides an individualized focus to help all of our patients achieve their desired goals.
Finding the right place to address a problem such as post traumatic stress disorder, severe depression, bipolar disorder or agoraphobia can feel like a treatment wild goose chase. Many will often find drug rehab facilities that claim to treat depression or other psychological problems, but in fact demand that the patient sit through 12 step treatment approaches that do not address the underlying psychological disorders. Chemical dependency and psychiatric disorders are two separate issues and treating psychiatric disorders in a rehab facility will not address the root of the problem. A licensed drug rehab treatment program can only admit a patient if they have a substance abuse or alcohol dependency problem as the primary diagnosis. If this type of patient also suffers from depression or another type of psychiatric disorder, at times a drug treatment program can admit them, but the drug problem or alcholol must be the key factor, causing the emotional issues to be pushed aside. The key factor is that the drug problem or alcohol problem is the primary problem.
Bridges to Recovery can and will help anyone with a substance abuse problem but what separates Bridges to Recovery are several factors:
- Bridges to Recovery is a residential treatment facility which addresses psychiatric and psychological issues
- Bridges to Recovery treats primary psychiatric disorders and personality disorders
- Bridges to Recovery has each patient attend at least four individual therapy sessions per week
- Bridges to Recovery each patient see a psychiatrist weekly
Bridges to Recovery's multi-disciplinary clinical and adjunctive teams are comprised of:
- Psychologists
- Psychiatrist
- Family Therapists
- EMDR Therapists
- Somatic Experience Therapists
- Art Therapist
- Equine Therapist
Bridges to Recovery ancillary services include:
- Massage Therapy
- Acupuncture Therapy
- Music Therapy
- Yoga
- Deep Relaxation Exercise
- Private chef
- Nutritional counseling
- Hot tub and small gym onsite
Bridges to Recovery has been treating patients in a private home setting for over 6 years. Our residential facilities are exquisitely designed for providing comfort and privacy. Bridges to Recovery believes that treating a small number of patients in a home environment offers the most realistic and therapeutic setting. Our main property has a separate building where all residents gather for clinical services. All meals are prepared at the main house and all patient usually dine together. This small psychiatric residential community has a greater staff to patient ratio than any other treatment facility of this kind. Bridges to Recovery is proud to say we have staff twenty-four hours a day seven days a week.
Bridges to Recovery provides cutting-edge therapeutic approaches as well as expertise derived from the latest in research. Many of our doctors have trained and are affiliated with the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA). They work from the most up-to-date and effective psychological theories and methodologies available. Our treatment approaches include, individual psychotherapy, EMDR, somatic experiencing, dialectic behavior therapy (DBT), equine therapy, music therapy, art therapy, yoga, physical fitness, nutritional counseling, and others. Many times treating a psychiatric issue involves medication including the possibility of switching medications or getting off medication altogether. Bridges to Recovery will assess the patient from a clinical, holistic, and medical approach to determine not only the best way to treat the identified problem while staying with us but to guide the patient and their loved ones on a specific, effective, and agreed upon plan to implement when leaving our community. Bridges to Recovery provides the ideal setting to begin to turn one's life around and create new beginnings.
