Tarzana · Northridge · Encino · San Fernando Valley
Residential treatment is live-in care where you stay at a licensed home and attend six hours of clinical programming a day, seven days a week, with a clinical team on site. Most stays run as part of a 35-day course.
“New Spirit Recovery helped me when I was detoxing hard for about a week. The staff were kind to me the whole time. When I thought about leaving early, they helped me slow down and choose recovery instead. By discharge I was grateful I stayed — they even set up appointments for my leg issues, and I’m doing better now.”
“New Spirit Recovery has changed my whole life drastically — they gave me a second chance to rewire my life and live a new one. The staff is caring and genuine, and the director and operations director guided me through the program and gave me every opportunity to be a better person. They set me up for success and I can’t thank them enough for saving my life.”
“New Spirit Recovery was beneficial to my recovery. Here I learned tools to help me manage my emotions safely — journaling and breathing have been amazing tools I picked up while here. All the staff were incredible and patient. I am grateful to have come here and actually use the tools suggested.”
“This program teaches you how to set realistic goals and become a better version of yourself, with all the tools to start building a new foundation. The therapist and case manager give each client an individualized, tailor-made treatment plan. Serene surroundings, a private chef, daily groups, and weekend outings. If you’re looking for a way out of addiction, give New Spirit Recovery a call.”
“The staff is amazing. I was completely unable to detox on my own and find the right path. The food and facilities were amazing — and I found my way again. My mom and I go to church together again now. Thank you all so much.”
CA DHCS licensed residential treatment · most admissions within 24–48 hours
Six programming hours, seven days a week
Residential treatment means you live at the treatment site while receiving daily clinical care. At New Spirit Recovery that is six hours of programming a day, seven days a week, in a licensed home with staff on site around the clock. Here is the structure, hour by hour.
The day opens with morning meditation and a step work group. Starting with stillness is deliberate: most people arrive from detox with a nervous system that has not been quiet in years, and the skill of sitting with discomfort is the foundation everything else is built on.
The second block carries the clinical core: cognitive behavioral therapy, dialectical behavior therapy, and the Rewired curriculum, ten modules on emotional regulation, stress management, self-awareness, healthy boundaries and personal accountability. Rewired was built by our co-founder Erica Spiegelman and runs here and nowhere else.
An in-house chef cooks breakfast, lunch, dinner and snacks seven days a week. Dietary restrictions and allergies are accommodated with specialty preparation. Appetite is one of the first things to come back after withdrawal, and food that is worth eating matters more in the first month than people expect.
The afternoon goes to the harder material: trigger identification, relapse prevention, somatic work and distress tolerance training. Most people arriving at residential treatment carry trauma underneath the substance use, so trauma-focused therapy is standard rather than an add-on, with EMDR available through a specialist when it is indicated.
The last block is the part that makes the rest usable: life skills groups, physical wellness programming, expressive arts, and Rock to Recovery music sessions. Life skills covers the unglamorous basics, making your bed and managing personal hygiene included, because reintegration fails on small things far more often than large ones.
Evenings are for outside twelve-step and Dharma Recovery meetings, plus a recovery reflection group that sits on top of the six required programming hours rather than inside them. Building a meeting habit while you still have staff support is the difference between a discharge plan on paper and one you actually keep.
Weekends emphasise community integration, which follows the fourth dimension of the ASAM criteria: recovery environment. That means museums, bowling, miniature golf, pottery painting, food drives and community service, Santa Monica Pier and the Malibu beaches. The point is not entertainment. It is proof that a day can be enjoyable sober, tested in the same city you will live in afterward.
You also get a minimum of one individual therapy session a week, increased when acuity calls for it, and a minimum of weekly physician consultations for medication management.
Why people choose this one
Our largest residence holds twelve beds at licensed capacity. Two of the three hold six and three. At that scale nobody is a chart number, and the staff running your group already know what happened at breakfast.
Anxiety, bipolar disorder, PTSD, OCD, major depression and personality disorders are treated alongside the substance use, by the same team. Our clinical director holds a dual mental health and substance use background.
Custody hearings, probation officers, FMLA and short-term disability paperwork, a job to protect, a family three time zones away. We coordinate all of it as part of treatment, including family therapy and family education throughout your stay.
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Where you’ll actually be
Three licensed residences, all running identical programming, staffing and clinical protocols under one clinical director. Our Tarzana home holds six beds. Our Northridge compound is the largest at twelve licensed beds. Our Encino residence holds three.
Rooms are private or double occupancy, several with a bathroom inside the room. A chef cooks every meal, housekeeping runs multiple times a week, and laundry is on site at every property. Which home you are assigned to depends on census and clinical fit at the time you admit.
Verify your coverage to get startedWhere residential sits
Consider residential treatment when outpatient care has not held, when a co-occurring mental health condition and substance use feed each other, or when your home environment makes recovery unworkable. It suits adults 18 and over who are medically stable but need structure.
| Level of care | Medical oversight | Typical length | Best when |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medical Detox | 24-hour nursing, physician oversight | 7–10 days (up to 21 by medical necessity) | Active withdrawal needs medical management |
| Residential TreatmentThis page | On-site clinical staff, 24-hour nursing, physician oversight | Often part of a ~35-day course | Medically stable, needs a structured live-in environment |
| Step-down (PHP / IOP / OP) | Scheduled clinical contact | Varies by plan | Stable and returning to daily life with support |
We treat adults 18 and over with substance use disorders, co-occurring mental health conditions and trauma histories. That includes alcohol, benzodiazepines, opioids, heroin, fentanyl, methamphetamine, cocaine, prescription medication and process addictions where a substance use component is present. We are veteran-friendly and LGBTQ+ friendly, and specialised needs are assessed case by case.
We are not the right placement for clients with severe physical limitations requiring specialised medical care, or with active feeding tube requirements. Eating disorders are accepted after a clinical assessment confirms this is the appropriate level of care. If we are not the right fit, we will tell you and help you find who is.
If you are thinking about harming yourself, you do not have to wait for a bed. Call or text 988 any time, or call 911 if you are in immediate danger.
We deliver detox and residential treatment at our own homes. Step-down care is arranged through a vetted network we coordinate on your behalf, and alumni support continues after discharge. See every level of care and condition we treat at New Spirit Recovery.
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Co-Founder
Author and recovery specialist. Created the Rewired curriculum, ten modules that run here and nowhere else.
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Clinical Director
Licensed since 2018, dual mental-health and substance-use background. Oversees clinical programming across all properties. Twenty-four years in recovery himself.
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Director of Nursing
A Licensed Vocational Nurse since 2020 with extensive behavioral health and substance use experience across detox and residential settings
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Clinical Psychologist
Clinical supervisor and a professor at California Lutheran University. Works across sites on crisis management and treatment planning.
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Program Director
Directs day-to-day operations and client care. Seven-plus years in the industry, five in management.
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Operations Director
Handles the logistics that make admission possible, including travel and transport from LAX or Burbank.
Read full bioThe question everyone asks first
What you pay for residential treatment depends on your plan: your benefits, deductible, copay and coinsurance. Most PPO plans cover residential treatment when it is medically necessary. Anyone quoting a price before reading your policy is guessing.
We accept all standard private insurance, and we hold a VACCN and TriWest contract for veterans. Coverage is routinely better than people assume. We check your benefits free and tell you exactly what we find, whether or not you come here.
We do not accept Medicaid, Medi-Cal or Medicare. Cash pay is available: ask an admissions counselor what that looks like. Residential treatment is one level of care inside the full continuum at our Los Angeles addiction treatment center, so the number we quote covers the stay we actually recommend, not a package you do not need.
Veterans: we hold a VACCN/TriWest contract. Mention it when you call, or read more about insurance verification and the admissions process.
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Looking for residential treatment near you?
Our residential homes sit in Tarzana, Northridge and Encino, minutes apart off the 101 and 118. We admit from across the Valley, the wider metro and nationwide, with transport arranged from LAX or Burbank.
Common questions
Residential treatment means living at the treatment site while receiving daily clinical care. You sleep in a licensed home, attend six hours of programming a day for seven days a week, and have staff on site around the clock, including 24-hour nursing coverage.
Residential rehab is the same thing as residential treatment: a live-in level of care for substance use and co-occurring mental health conditions. Insurers and clinicians usually say residential treatment. The public usually says rehab or inpatient rehab. The care is identical.
Consider it when outpatient therapy has not held, when a mental health condition and substance use keep reinforcing each other, when your home environment undermines recovery, or after detox when you are medically stable but not ready to manage a full day alone.
Call or text 988 for immediate free support, and the SAMHSA national helpline at 1-800-662-4357 for free, confidential treatment referrals. The Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health also operates a 24-hour access line for publicly funded care. We do not accept Medicaid, Medi-Cal or Medicare.
Most major PPO plans cover residential treatment when it is medically necessary. Cost depends on your benefits, deductible, copay and coinsurance. We verify your coverage free and give you the real number before you travel. We do not accept Medicaid, Medi-Cal or Medicare; cash pay is available.
Length is set by medical necessity, and most stays run as part of a 35-day course that begins with detox. Your discharge plan is drafted at intake and revised as you progress, so the timeline is a clinical decision rather than a fixed package.
If you are still in withdrawal, yes. Most people step into residential treatment straight from our medical detox program with the same clinical team, so there is no re-explaining yourself to a stranger. If you are already stable, you can admit directly.
In everyday use they mean the same live-in care. Clinically, inpatient can imply a hospital setting with acute medical services, while residential treatment happens in a licensed home with 24-hour staffing. Ours are homes in residential neighborhoods, not wards.
Life does not stop while you are in treatment. We assist with FMLA and short-term disability paperwork, communicate directly with legal representatives, judges and probation officers as needed, and involve immediate family through ongoing sessions across your stay.
Discharge planning begins at intake. Most people step down through PHP, IOP and outpatient care with sober living coordination, locally where possible or referred to your home state. Alumni support continues after that.
Ten minutes, a few questions, and a real answer about your coverage. Someone picks up at any hour, including this one.