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Early recovery is undoubtedly the most difficult time in a person’s journey through sobriety.

Many become overwhelmed with emotions and cognitive function may be difficult. Racing thoughts, confusion, hopelessness and helplessness are all part of this process.

To help our clients through this tough period we offer process groups several times per week. Process group helps clients learn to regulate their emotions and receive feedback on current or past distorted thinking.

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Relationships can be strained with an addicted partner. The Hills Center offers couples groups to help repair relationships. These groups focus on:

• Communication
• How alcohol and drugs affect neurological training
• Individuals processing their feelings

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Relapse prevention is a cornerstone in the treatment process.

The Hills approach to relapse prevention focuses on neurological states rather than merely cognitive skills. Our approach gives clients a set of tools that will aid in preventing a relapse.

In addition, we cover medications that help reduce cravings or block receptor sites. Practical applications of equipment designed to help prevent a relapse is also discussed.

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Sex and love addiction are widespread problems greatly affecting the lives of many people. Neurotransmitters and hormones play a significant role in triggering these addictions.

The Hills offers optional groups that focus on the principles of the renowned author and lecturer Dr. Patrick Canes. This group focuses on Dr. Carnes’ text and workbook "Out of The Shadows." Participants who choose this group can explore how compulsive behavior can lower self-esteem and sabotage relationships. Clients are given the opportunity to learn the difference between risky and compulsive behaviors as well as develop coping mechanisms.


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The Hills staff facilitates special groups that are only available at The Hills. These groups are copyrighted and are not available at any other facility.

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This group focuses on education about trauma and the symptoms of PTSD .

It also covers how the brain is changed by trauma and developmental differences of experiencing trauma as child vs. an adolescent vs. adulthood.

Discussions about different therapies for trauma and how those therapies can be incorporated into individual sessions is discussed

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Another group offered at The Hills is Dr. Howard Samuel’s internationally acclaimed “Beast Group.”

This group is both dynamic and dramatic using metaphorical examples of the beast that lives within us all.

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Our family therapist, Jorja Robin Davis, believes that concrete thinking must be attained in early recovery before abstract concepts can be internalized.

Once the client understands the basics of neurological conditions, higher levels of learning, spirituality, and morality can be achieved.

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Especially important for young people who may have confused wants and needs and now have to accommodate lifestyles to the changing financial landscape.

Challenging western societies belief system that more is better and focusing on what lies within rather than without.



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In this group clients will develop stronger connections with others and a higher self.

Clients will examine moral values and beliefs through learning about different spiritual paths including meditation, guided imagery, The 4 Agreements and the Native American medicine wheel.

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This group's focus is on developing different forms of connectedness with others a higher self and re examining moral values and beliefs.

Different spiritual paths are examined including, meditation, guided imagery, the 4 agreements and Native American medicine wheel.



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For many, returning home after inpatient treatment is extremely difficult.

Some people find themselves back in the same setting and lifestyle that they were in before getting sober, and come into contact with many triggers and stressors.

Residential treatment is a safe, drug-free environment, and for some, their home or work environment is not.

Sober companions are trained professionals who can take each step of reintegration with you. They can accompany you at home, to work, or at stressful and triggering times.

The Hills offer a team of sober coaches that are available to aid the recovering addict in their daily life. The companion can accompany you as frequently as you wish, and may prove to be the difference between life or death.

As a recovering addict or alcoholic themselves, they understand what you are going through, and can play a crucial role in your sobriety.

Sober companions at The Hills are trained to be helpful tools in guiding the newly sober individual on their path to recovery.

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To ensure that every client achieve the optimum wellness experience we have created an environment that makes physical fitness fun and appealing. During the residential phase of the program all clients are encouraged to attend a daily fitness activity while accompanied by a staff member.

Fitness Activities include:

• Nature Walks
• Hiking
• Yoga
• Pilates
• Snowboarding
• Surfing
• Aquatic Thearpy
• Snorkeling

The Hills Treatment Center provides consultations and appointments with fitness trainers and acupuncturists, and also offers energy work and qi gong. All clients also receive a membership to Crunch Fitness.


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Our Health & Wellness Partner

The Hills Center has partnered with one of the country’s most well known health and wellness clinics, THE BODY WELL (TBW).

Located nearby to our compound, their professionals are dedicated to assisting our clients’ recovery; body, mind and spirit. TBW has specialists who work in with your team at The Hills to focus even more attention on your recovery during this important time in your life.

Often, as one regains a sense of clarity, especially in early recovery, long neglected personal needs surface.

Whether it’s an emerging need for physical well being through a professionally designed fitness plan, or the need to establish a personal healthy nutritional foundation -- The Body Well can help supplement the services provided by The Hills. This unique arrangement allows for a further customization of your experience here, should you choose to participate.

Our clients have access to these services through an exclusive arrangement and receive preferential treatment with respect to pricing and scheduling.

Professionals from both The Hills and The Body Well will share progress notes so that you are getting the collective best efforts of both organizations.




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Age Management Medicine is a proactive, preventative approach to healthcare focused on preservation of optimum human function and quality of life.

The basic tenets of Age Management Medicine are patient evaluation through extensive medical history, lifestyle assessment, physical examination and laboratory evaluation.

This helps to establish personalized proactive treatment plans consisting of proper diet, exercise, stress management and appropriate medical interventions, including hormonal optimization.

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This segment of our treatment program will help guide and support clients through the overwhelming amount of information surrounding "good" and "bad" foods, supplements, and fad diets.

This will help clients create a relationship to eating that allows them to appreciate food and nutrition in a whole new way.

Good nutrition can be an important ingredient in anyone's life, but especially so in early recovery!

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Lee uses a group format to teach specific meditation exercises that a client can use immediately to cultivate happiness, emotional regulation, and self-worth.

His Groups are relaxed, educational and interactive with questions and conversations.

His emphasis is on cultivating a Mindful Meditation Practice that clients will take with them and continue as they progress in their lives beyond our Treatment Program!

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This Group provides an overview of the history of acupuncture which was developed in China, thousands of years ago.

Today, acupuncture can be used in conjunction with other protocols to reduce cravings, gain additional relief from the symptoms of withdrawal and increase the client's overall sense of well-being.

Dr Belesis discusses the fourteen energy pathways in our bodies and the discovery of techniques to stimulate specific points on these pathways and often uses hands-on demonstrations.


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Well known aesthetician, Ashley Brierton helps clients understand how to reduce and reverse the impact of addiction on the bodies' largest organ; our skin.

From healthy tips for daily care to more exotic ways of making sure the client's "outsides are as healthy as their insides," Ashley provides a foundation on the importance of self-care in recovery.


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Many in the recovery field have said for years that addiction is a family disease. However, most families were confused about that statement and saw it as a way for the addict to rationalize their behaviors.

We are now able to understand that there are very clear neurological changes going on in the brain when any kind of addict (be it gambling or substances or food) is in their active addiction.

Education regarding neurotransmitters and brain function is crucial to family members who are trying to understand what changes the brain is making in response to the addicts use and recovery.

In addition, The Family Education program covers the role of support groups (Such as 12 step programs)for the addict and their loved ones.

Other lectures include family roles and rules and expectations in the alcoholic family.

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At The Hills we are 100 percent invested in the family growing and recovering as a whole.

We provide in depth parenting classes focusing on:

• Age appropriate disclosure
• Balancing family and recovery
• Addressing anxiety
• Developing coping skills for frustration and feeling overwhelmed

An addicted family member affects everyone disrupting the emotional stability of the family. Many families with histories of substance use, addiction, alcoholism, pain management and/or psychiatric issues struggle to balance individual needs and set healthy boundaries.


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Gabrielle Samuels believes that composting and gardening are an analogy for recovery.

When we compost, we take our kitchen waste, mix it with our household, office and yard waste, put in a little effort and attention, and a few weeks later we have a rich fertilizer for our garden.

In treatment, we uncover the “garbage” beneath our addictive behaviors and use it to understand where we come from and why we act out the way we do. Our garbage becomes our valuable asset.

By composting the kitchen and yard waste at The Hills, the client learns to take responsibility for themselves. They have the hands-on experience of watching “nothing” (carrot peels and coffee grinds, for example), turn into “something” (luscious, rich fertilizer).

Our garden is continuously growing, step by step; again, much like recovery.

Our goal is to be sustainable, using materials found on the property and doing the work ourselves. This gets us out in the sunshine, allows us to get our hands dirty, and inevitably brings us back to a more fun, carefree time of childhood.

Our goal is that the client can carry this experience into their post-treatment life and by continuing to compost and garden, not only have a therapeutic outlet, but also take a role in making the earth a more sustainable place.


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Art therapy is used as a non-verbal form of communication that activates the limbic area of the brain. Stimulating brain areas not easily accessed by traditional verbal therapies, art therapy can quickly enhance and open sensitive dialogues through this non-threatening intervention. Utilizing art media, images, the creative process along with the client’s responses to the created product, provides reflection on an individual’s development, personality, conflicts and concerns.

Art therapy allows for the externalization of problems, creating a safe environment for the client to process painful memories and experiences. This intervention cab be used in both groups and individually, with people of all ages and can be implemented in modalities of assessment and treatment.

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