Addiction Therapy Techniques in Beverly Hills, CA

Healing from addiction requires more than detox alone — it requires therapy that helps you understand the patterns behind your substance use and gives you the tools to build a healthier, more stable life. At Safe Haven Recovery in Beverly Hills, CA, we use a broad range of evidence-based addiction therapy techniques, modern clinical approaches, and supportive wellness practices to create customized treatment plans for each client.

Our goal is simple: to give you effective, research-supported therapy in a private, comfortable setting where you can focus on healing without distractions.

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What’s Included in the Addiction Therapy Program?

At Safe Haven Recovery Center, our program is built on proven addiction therapy techniques designed to support individuals on their journey to sustainable recovery.

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Duration of Stay

The program duration is flexible, allowing individuals to progress at their own pace to achieve lasting recovery.

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Who Is The Addiction Therapy Program For?

This program is for anyone ready to take the first steps toward breaking free from addiction. Whether it’s you or a loved one struggling, you’re not alone. People from all walks of life have been where you are now. Safe Haven provides a supportive environment with therapies tailored to each individual’s unique needs.

It’s also ideal for those seeking a structured approach to recovery, complete with education, therapy, and a focus on long-term wellbeing.

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Why Our Addiction Therapy Approach Is Different

Every person’s recovery journey is different, which is why we use multiple therapeutic approaches instead of relying on a single method. By combining evidence-based therapy, personalized treatment planning, and supportive recovery programs, we help clients develop skills that reduce cravings, improve emotional resilience, and support long-term sobriety.

Here’s what makes our therapy approach so effective:

✔ Personalized, Whole-Person Care: Your therapy plan is designed around your history, needs, and goals — not a one-size-fits-all model.

✔ Evidence-Based Clinical Modalities: We use proven therapies like CBT, DBT, EMDR, REBT, ACT, and more.

✔ Dual Diagnosis Expertise: Most clients struggle with underlying anxiety, depression, ADHD, PTSD, bipolar disorder, trauma, or other mental-health concerns. We treat these directly — not after addressing addiction.

✔ Trauma-Informed Care: Addiction often begins as a response to trauma. Our clinicians are trained to recognize and treat trauma without re-traumatizing clients.

✔ Holistic & Wellness Therapies: Yoga, meditation, sauna detox, nutrition support, breathwork, mindfulness training — each supports physical and emotional healing.

✔ Luxury Care in a Private Environment: Our boutique setting allows for deeper therapeutic focus, confidentiality, and comfort.

Core Addiction Therapy Modalities

No two clients heal the same way, so we offer a wide range of therapy techniques to address the emotional, behavioral, and psychological factors that drive addiction. These modalities help clients build insight, regulate emotions, manage stress, and strengthen coping skills.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)

CBT helps clients understand how thoughts and behaviors shape cravings, stress, and substance use.

Change Patterns, Change Life

Safe Haven uses CBT to break addictive thinking, build coping skills, and support long-term emotional stability. Start creating healthier habits today.
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Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)

DBT strengthens emotional regulation, distress tolerance, and impulse control—common challenges in addiction.

Stability Through Skills

Clients learn practical tools to manage triggers, reduce reactivity, and navigate high-emotion moments without turning to substances. Find balance and resilience.
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Eye Movement Desensitization & Reprocessing (EMDR)

EMDR helps process traumatic memories that often underlie substance use or co-occurring conditions like PTSD.

Heal Trauma at the Source

Our EMDR-trained clinicians guide clients through trauma resolution while supporting nervous system healing. Recover with clarity and safety.
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Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT)

REBT helps clients identify irrational beliefs, self-defeating thought patterns, and emotional reactions that contribute to substance use and mental-health struggles.

Shift Beliefs, Strengthen Recovery

REBT helps clients replace harmful beliefs with empowering, realistic ones—reducing shame, emotional distress, and relapse triggers.
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Acceptance & Commitment Therapy (ACT)

ACT helps clients accept difficult emotions instead of fighting them, reduce avoidance behaviors, and commit to actions aligned with their values—an important skill in overcoming addiction.

Live in Alignment Again

Safe Haven Recovery uses ACT to help clients build psychological flexibility, reduce relapse-linked avoidance, and reconnect with purpose. Create a life guided by values, not cravings.
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Motivational Interviewing & MET

Therapies that help clients explore ambivalence, build confidence, and strengthen the motivation to change.

Empowering Internal Motivation

MI and MET guide clients toward their own reasons for recovery, helping them move from uncertainty to commitment. These approaches are especially effective for early recovery, resistance, and clients who feel unsure about change.
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Trauma-Informed Therapy & Somatic Work

Addresses trauma stored in the body, helping reduce hypervigilance, dissociation, and stress-driven relapse.

Calm the Nervous System

Through grounding, somatic tools, and trauma-informed care, clients rebuild safety and emotional regulation. Begin healing from the inside out.
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Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR)

MBSR uses meditation, breathwork, and body awareness practices to reduce stress, regulate emotions, and strengthen resilience—all crucial in addiction recovery.

Calm the Mind, Steady the Body

Integrate mindfulness techniques to help manage cravings, reduce anxiety, improve sleep, and reconnect with presence. Experience recovery with clarity and calm.
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Internal Family Systems Therapy (IFS)

IFS explores the “parts” within us—protective, wounded, reactive—and how they influence substance use, emotional overwhelm, and trauma responses.

Heal All Parts of You

Our IFS-informed approach helps clients understand internal conflicts, soothe wounded parts, and reduce the pull toward self-destructive behaviors. Find inner harmony and safer coping strategies.
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Experiential Therapy

Hands-on activities—art, movement, role play—help process emotions beyond traditional talk therapy.

Express, Release, Heal

Clients uncover insights, release shame, and move stuck emotions through guided experiential work. Transform feelings into breakthroughs.
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Psychodynamic Therapy

Explores unconscious patterns and early experiences that influence substance use.

Understand Your Story

By identifying deep-rooted triggers, clients gain insight and change long-standing self-defeating behaviors. Create new patterns with awareness.
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Holistic & Wellness Therapies

Holistic therapies restore balance, improve sleep, reduce anxiety, and support physical healing after addiction.

Whole-Person Wellness

Clients receive personalized wellness plans blending movement, breath work, nutrition, massage, and Reiki. Experience healing that supports mind and body.
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Addiction Therapy Approaches

Therapy is most effective when delivered in the right setting. We use a variety of therapy formats to support clients at every stage of recovery — from early stabilization to long-term skill-building. Each format plays a unique role in helping clients build understanding, connection, and practical tools for lasting change.

Individual Therapy

One-on-one therapy provides a confidential space to explore emotions, trauma, triggers, and personal goals at your own pace.

Personalized Healing

Safe Haven Recovery offers individualized sessions tailored to your history, diagnosis, and recovery needs using evidence-based modalities. Grow, heal, and rebuild with focused support.
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Group Therapy

Group therapy brings clients together to share experiences, develop coping skills, and learn from peers in a structured therapeutic setting.

Community That Supports You

Safe Haven Recovery’s groups build connection, accountability, and confidence while reducing isolation. Recover with others who understand your journey.
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Family Therapy

Family therapy helps repair communication, strengthen boundaries, and address patterns that may contribute to substance use or emotional conflict.

Heal Together

Safe Haven Recovery works with families to rebuild trust, improve connection, and support healthier dynamics that sustain long-term recovery. Stronger families lead to stronger outcomes.
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Couples Therapy

Couples therapy focuses on communication, trust, emotional safety, and rebuilding partnership after the impacts of addiction.

Rebuild Connection and Trust

Safe Haven Recovery helps couples understand triggers, break unhealthy patterns, and grow together during the recovery process. Repair the relationship while healing individually.
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Psychoeducation Sessions

Psychoeducation teaches clients about addiction, mental health, trauma, and skills needed to maintain stability and long-term recovery.

Knowledge That Empowers

Our team ensures clients understand their symptoms and treatment, building confidence and self-awareness that protects sobriety. Education becomes part of your recovery toolkit.
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Skills-Based Therapy Groups

Skills groups teach practical tools like emotional regulation, distress tolerance, coping strategies, and relapse prevention techniques.

Tools for Real Life

Safe Haven Recovery incorporates DBT skills, grounding techniques, cognitive tools, and relapse-prevention practices clients can use immediately. Build a toolkit that lasts.
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Process Groups

Process groups allow clients to explore feelings, relational patterns, and experiences in real time with the support of a clinician and peers.

Grow Through Awareness

These groups help clients understand themselves, improve communication, and deepen emotional insight — essential for dual-diagnosis recovery. Learn, reflect, and evolve with support.
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Crisis Intervention & Safety Planning

Provides immediate emotional support and actionable strategies when clients feel overwhelmed, unsafe, or at risk of relapse.

Support When It Matters Most

Safe Haven Recovery's clinical team creates personalized safety plans to stabilize emotions and prevent relapse during difficult moments. You’re never alone in your recovery.
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Aftercare Therapy

Aftercare therapy supports clients as they transition back into daily life, helping them maintain stability and prevent relapse.

Stay Supported Beyond Treatment

Safe Haven Recovery provides ongoing therapeutic support, referrals, alumni programs, and structured aftercare plans. Recovery continues long after discharge.
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How Therapy Supports Addiction Recovery

Addiction therapy helps clients:

  • Identify triggers and reduce cravings

  • Build healthier behavioural patterns

  • Improve emotional regulation

  • Develop better communication and relationship skills

  • Strengthen coping strategies

  • Increase self-awareness and confidence

  • Break old habits and create new, healthier routines

  • Build resilience for life after treatment

These skills are essential for maintaining sobriety and rebuilding a meaningful, stable life.

12-Step Programs VS Non-12-Step Programs

Ongoing support is an essential part of long-term sobriety. We introduce clients to several proven recovery pathways so they can choose what best aligns with their beliefs and goals. Whether you prefer a spiritual, community-based model or a secular, skills-focused approach, you’ll have access to programs that help you stay grounded and connected.

12-Step Programs

12-Step programs use a structured, spiritual-based approach to help individuals achieve sobriety through accountability, honesty, and community support.

A Proven Path to Lasting Recovery

Safe Haven introduces clients to 12-Step principles and connects them with local meetings for ongoing support after treatment. Build connection, accountability, and long-term sobriety.
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Non-12-Step Programs

Non-12-Step treatment focuses on evidence-based methods, self-empowerment, and individualized strategies for recovery without a spiritual or step-based framework.

Recovery, Your Way

Safe Haven offers personalized alternatives such as CBT, REBT, IFS-informed therapy, and holistic care for clients seeking a flexible, secular approach. Choose a recovery path aligned with your needs.
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Proven Addiction Recovery Programs

Recovery doesn’t end when clinical treatment does. Many people benefit from ongoing community support, accountability, and structure — especially in the early stages of sobriety. That’s why we introduce clients to several proven addiction recovery programs, allowing each person to explore the approach that feels most supportive and sustainable.

Alcoholics Anonymous (AA)

AA is a global community offering peer-led support for people recovering from alcohol addiction, using the widely recognized 12-Step model.

A Support Network for Life

While Safe Haven focuses on clinical treatment, we encourage AA as part of long-term aftercare and help clients integrate meetings into their post-residential plan. Stay connected beyond treatment.
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Narcotics Anonymous (NA)

NA provides support for individuals recovering from drug addiction through fellowship, shared experience, and the 12-Step framework.

Community Through Shared Experience

Safe Haven Recovery connects clients with NA meetings in Los Angeles, helping them access community support and peer accountability after discharge. Add strength to your recovery circle.
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Self-Management and Recovery Training (SMART Recovery)

SMART Recovery teaches science-based skills for managing cravings, challenging destructive thoughts, and developing long-term behavioral change.

Practical Tools for Real Change

Safe Haven Recovery offers SMART Recovery resources for clients seeking structure without a spiritual component, reinforcing self-control and mindfulness. Empower your recovery with evidence-based tools.
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What To Expect During Addiction Therapy

Entering treatment can feel uncertain, so we focus on making the experience clear, supportive, and predictable. Our clinical team works with you daily, adjusting your therapy plan as you grow and helping you build healthy habits that last far beyond residential care.

✔ A Supportive, Structured, and Personalized Experience: At Safe Haven Recovery, we ensure every client feels informed, safe, and supported from day one. Your care team will guide you through each phase, adjusting your plan as you grow.

Comprehensive Clinical Assessment: Your therapist and clinical team evaluate your mental health history, trauma background, substance use, medical needs, and personal goals to design a customized plan.

Personalized Treatment Plan: Your care integrates the most effective modalities and formats for your needs, and evolves as your symptoms change and your strengths emerge.

Daily Therapeutic Schedule: A structured, balanced day that may include:

  • Individual therapy

  • Group therapy

  • Trauma-focused treatments (EMDR, somatic work)

  • Skills-based sessions (DBT, relapse prevention, coping skills)

  • Holistic therapies (yoga, meditation, breathwork, sauna detox)

  • Mindfulness, grounding, or expressive activities

This rhythm promotes healing while avoiding overwhelm.

Trauma-Informed, Compassionate Care: Our team is trained to support clients with trauma histories. We avoid re-traumatization and create a safe, predictable, empowering environment.

Medical & Psychiatric Support: We treat addiction and co-occurring mental health symptoms together— anxiety, depression, PTSD, bipolar disorder, ADHD, OCD, panic disorder, and more.

Holistic Healing Practices: Clients receive wellness support that strengthens the body and calms the nervous system through:

  • Yoga

  • Meditation

  • Nutritional support

  • Breathwork

  • Sleep hygiene

  • Sauna-assisted detox

Community & Peer Connection: Group therapy and shared experiences help clients feel seen, understood, and supported through recovery.

Family Involvement (When Appropriate): We help loved ones rebuild trust, strengthen boundaries, and create healthier relational patterns that support long-term recovery.

Continuous Progress Evaluation: Your clinical team reviews your progress often and adjusts your treatment plan as needed, ensuring therapy remains effective and personalized.

Relapse Prevention Planning: Before completing treatment, clients work with their therapist to build a step-by-step plan for long-term sobriety, including:

  • Trigger mapping

  • Personalized coping strategies

  • Safety planning

  • Support system building

  • Aftercare scheduling

Guided Transition Into Aftercare: We coordinate IOP, outpatient therapy, sober living, alumni support, and ongoing resources to ensure clients maintain stability after leaving residential care.

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Addiction Therapy FAQs

What therapy techniques does Safe Haven Recovery use?

We use a wide range of evidence-based techniques — including CBT, DBT, EMDR, REBT, ACT, somatic therapy, mindfulness-based approaches, and experiential therapy — to help clients build insight, manage stress, and support lasting recovery.

Your plan is created after a comprehensive assessment of your history, stress patterns, and goals. We select techniques that best support your personal needs.

Therapy modalities are the techniques (like CBT or EMDR).

Therapy formats are the settings (individual, group, family, etc.).

We use both to create a balanced, effective treatment experience.

Yes — clients can explore AA, NA, SMART Recovery, or other options. We help you choose the pathway that feels right for you.

Clients typically engage in multiple therapy sessions each week, including individual and group work, along with skills-based sessions and wellness practices.

Yes. A calm, private, comfortable environment allows clients to feel safe, open up more easily, and stay focused on healing.

They can. Your clinical team adjusts your therapy plan as you grow, ensuring support always matches your needs.

We provide personalized aftercare planning, including therapy referrals, support group recommendations, and coping strategies for life after treatment.

Call our admissions team or submit an insurance verification form online. We’ll verify insurance, answer your questions, and help you enter treatment smoothly.

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