New Spirit Recovery · 17856 Cathedral Place, Encino, CA
New Spirit Recovery operates a licensed medical detox and residential addiction treatment house in Encino, California. The Cathedral Place residence treats adults aged 18 and over who have a substance use disorder, including those who also live with a co-occurring mental health condition.
Admissions answer 24 hours a day. Same-day admission is available when it is clinically appropriate.
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Addiction treatment in Encino
New Spirit Recovery holds a California DHCS license to deliver substance abuse treatment and dual diagnosis care at its Encino house. Treatment at Cathedral Place combines medically supervised detox with residential addiction treatment, and it addresses a co-occurring mental health condition inside the same plan.
The Encino program treats alcohol use disorder, opioid use disorder, stimulant use disorder, benzodiazepine dependence and polysubstance use. Each client receives an individual treatment plan, daily group therapy and case management across a residential day that runs six hours, seven days a week. Read more about residential addiction treatment.
Dr. Patrick Lockwood, PsyD, a Licensed Clinical Psychologist, consults on treatment planning and crisis management. Sean O’Neill, MS, LMFT, directs the clinical program across all three houses. Cynthia Prieto, LVN, leads nursing. With three bedrooms at Cathedral Place, that team knows each client rather than each chart.
Dual diagnosis care covers post-traumatic stress disorder, major depressive disorder, anxiety disorders, panic disorder, bipolar disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder and personality disorders, treated at the same time as the substance use disorder rather than after it. New Spirit Recovery does not provide primary psychiatric treatment, and refers a person without a substance use disorder to a provider whose license covers that care.
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The first stage of care
As a licensed detox center in Encino, the Cathedral Place house runs medical detox under physician oversight with 24-hour medical and nursing supervision. A detox admission lasts 7 to 10 days for most clients and extends to between 10 and 21 days where medical necessity requires it.
Nursing staff monitor withdrawal throughout. Medication-assisted treatment protocols manage withdrawal symptoms where a physician prescribes them. Individual therapy, group therapy and case management begin during detox rather than waiting for residential treatment to start.
Fentanyl changes the clinical picture. Withdrawal onset, duration and medication response differ from other opioids, and the Encino nursing team adjusts monitoring accordingly.
What sits underneath
Trauma drives a substantial share of the substance use the Encino house treats. A person who drinks to quiet intrusive memories is managing a symptom, and detox alone removes the management strategy without addressing what it was managing.
The clinical team screens every Encino client for post-traumatic stress disorder, major depressive disorder and anxiety disorders at intake. Screening results shape the treatment plan from the first week rather than surfacing later as a complication. Trauma-focused programming runs with therapists trained specifically in trauma resolution.
Veterans receive programming from therapists with military experience, including specialists who hold Green Beret backgrounds and who run additional weekly sessions covering military trauma and service-specific experience. Read more about the veterans program.
The Encino residence
The Cathedral Place house holds three bedrooms and every room is shared. That is a deliberate limit rather than a constraint the building imposed, and it sets the ceiling on how many people live in the Encino house at once.
A small census changes the clinical work in specific ways. Nursing staff know each client’s withdrawal pattern without consulting a chart. Group therapy runs with enough people to challenge a client and few enough that nobody disappears into the back row. Residential programming runs six hours a day, seven days a week, and weekends carry community integration work rather than empty time.
The local picture
Los Angeles County recorded 2,298 accidental drug overdose and poisoning deaths in 2025, a 6 percent decrease on 2024 and a substantial fall from the county’s all-time high of 3,220 deaths in 2022.
Two patterns inside that decline matter for the people the Encino house admits. Adults aged 40 to 64 accounted for 53 percent of overdose deaths, which makes middle age, not adolescence, the highest-risk period in this county. And while deaths fell overall, the number among residents aged 65 and over rose by 14 percent.
Fentanyl-related deaths fell 10 percent and methamphetamine-related deaths fell 7 percent across the county in the same period. The decline is real, and the risk has not moved evenly across age groups. Encino sits inside Service Planning Area 2, the San Fernando Valley, alongside Tarzana, Sherman Oaks, Van Nuys and Reseda.
Source: Los Angeles County Department of Public Health, published 25 June 2026.
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Paying for treatment
New Spirit Recovery bills PPO health plans as an out-of-network provider. Admissions verify your benefits on the first call, before anyone commits to an Encino admission.
Out-of-network is a billing category, not a barrier. Your plan still pays toward treatment. How much it pays comes down to three numbers written into your own policy.
Medicaid, Medi-Cal and Medicare cannot be billed. An HMO or EPO plan is taken to single case agreement review. Cash pay is quoted directly. More on insurance.
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After residential care
New Spirit Recovery delivers medical detox and residential treatment at its own licensed houses. It does not operate a partial hospitalization, intensive outpatient, or outpatient program. It coordinates placement into those levels with vetted partner programs across Los Angeles.
Discharge planning begins on day one, not at discharge. The Encino clinical team establishes a trajectory and a timeline in the first days, so the step down is designed by the people who have treated the client.
A clinician determines whether partial hospitalization, intensive outpatient or outpatient care fits next. Because New Spirit Recovery refers rather than provides, the assessment has no incentive attached to it.
Placement runs with partner programs across the San Fernando Valley where that suits the client, or in their home state when they are returning. Sober living coordination runs alongside it.
Support does not end at discharge or at the county line. Alumni services continue after a client leaves Encino, including for those who return to another state.
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Getting here
The Encino house sits at 17856 Cathedral Place, Encino, CA 91316, just off the 101 at Balboa Boulevard.
The location places it within a short drive of Tarzana, Sherman Oaks, Woodland Hills, Van Nuys, Studio City and Reseda, and roughly 20 miles from Los Angeles International Airport.
New Spirit Recovery admits clients from across California and from other states. Admissions staff coordinate flights and ground transport from Los Angeles International Airport and Hollywood Burbank Airport. Two further residences operate nearby, at Tarzana and Northridge. See all New Spirit Recovery locations.
Common questions
A medical detox program manages withdrawal under physician oversight with nursing supervision. At the Encino house on Cathedral Place, nursing staff monitor vital signs and withdrawal symptoms around the clock, and a physician prescribes medication where it is clinically indicated. Detox is the first stage of treatment rather than the whole of it.
Most clients at the Encino facility complete detox in 7 to 10 days. Detox extends to between 10 and 21 days when medical necessity requires it. The substance involved, the length of use, prior detox history, and co-occurring medical conditions all affect the timeline.
Physical withdrawal symptoms when you stop using, such as tremor, sweating, nausea or agitation, indicate physical dependence. Needing more of a substance to reach the same effect indicates tolerance. Failed attempts to stop on your own indicate that supervised withdrawal is the safer route. Alcohol and benzodiazepine withdrawal can be medically dangerous and should not be attempted without supervision.
Cost depends on the length of stay and on what a health plan covers. New Spirit Recovery bills PPO plans as an out-of-network provider, and admissions staff verify benefits during the first call and explain the specific figures for that plan before an Encino admission is booked. Cash pay rates are quoted directly.
Medi-Cal covers substance use treatment at contracted providers. New Spirit Recovery does not accept Medi-Cal or Medicare. Callers with Medi-Cal coverage are pointed toward the Los Angeles County Substance Abuse Service Helpline, which can identify a contracted provider in the San Fernando Valley.
Cost varies with level of care, length of stay, and insurance. What a PPO plan pays toward out-of-network treatment depends on that plan’s deductible, coinsurance and out-of-pocket maximum. Admissions staff read those terms with the caller and give the figures for their specific plan rather than quoting a California average.
The Encino house sits at 17856 Cathedral Place, Encino, CA 91316, a residential street just off the 101 at Balboa Boulevard. It is a short drive from Tarzana, Sherman Oaks, Woodland Hills, Van Nuys, Studio City and Reseda, and roughly 20 miles from Los Angeles International Airport.
At the Encino house, detox and residential treatment together typically form a 35-day program. Length of stay is set by medical necessity and clinical progress rather than by a fixed number, and the clinical team reviews it throughout.
Opioids, alcohol, benzodiazepines and stimulants each carry their own difficulty. Alcohol and benzodiazepine withdrawal can be medically dangerous and require supervision. Opioid withdrawal is rarely dangerous but is severe enough that many people relapse to stop it, which is why medication-assisted treatment exists. The Encino detox program manages all four.
Most people use health insurance. The Encino house accepts PPO plans and bills them as an out-of-network provider, with benefits verified on the first call. Medicaid, Medi-Cal and Medicare cannot be billed. An HMO or EPO plan is reviewed for a single case agreement. Veterans coverage is checked case by case. Cash pay is available and quoted directly.
Family members can call admissions and talk through the situation before anyone approaches the person. New Spirit Recovery runs family services and its clinical consultant supports families with intervention planning. Pressure rarely works on its own. A prepared, specific conversation, with a treatment option already arranged, works more often.
Yes, when the mental health condition co-occurs with a substance use disorder. New Spirit Recovery holds a California DHCS license as a substance abuse and dual diagnosis treatment center. It does not provide primary psychiatric treatment for someone who does not have a substance use disorder.
Same-day admission to the Encino house is available when it is clinically appropriate and a bed is open. Admissions answer 24 hours a day. If Cathedral Place is full, admissions staff can look at the Tarzana and Northridge houses, both within a short drive.