Residential Treatment

Residential treatment is inpatient care — you live on site and receive clinical services there, in a distraction-free environment built for people who need the space to focus fully on recovery and any co-occurring mental health issues.

The program aims for 35 hours of therapy per week: several group sessions daily, plus multiple one-on-one sessions each week, individualized around your substance use, mental health needs, and recovery goals.

The difference is where you sleep and how immersive the care is.

• Residential: you live at the treatment center with on-site clinical services and a full daily schedule.
• Partial Hospitalization (PHP): you live at home and come in for daytime therapy — typically five days a week, though it may be four or six depending on your needs and circumstances.
• Intensive Outpatient (IOP): a step down from PHP, flexible enough to fit around work and family.

Residential is the right fit when triggers at home make sobriety impossible, or when a less intensive level of care hasn’t been enough.

Most clients stay 40 to 60 days — the range our clinical team finds is usually needed for change that lasts. Within that, length of stay is a clinical decision rather than a fixed package: it’s shaped by your care team’s recommendation, by the progress you make once you’re here, and by what your circumstances outside treatment allow.

Often, yes. Detox isn’t a required first step for everyone — it depends on what you’ve been using, how recently, and whether withdrawal needs medical management. That call is made during your admissions assessment, so it’s not something you need to have figured out before you reach out.

If you don’t need withdrawal management, or you’ve already detoxed elsewhere, you can enter residential directly. If you do need it, medical detox is available on site at both our Wisconsin and Ohio locations and typically lasts four to seven days, with daily assessments by a doctor, psychiatric nurse practitioner, registered nurses, and certified addiction specialists. From there you move straight into residential — same campus, no second admission.

Yes — co-occurring mental and emotional health disorders are a specialty here, treated as part of the same picture rather than as a separate issue. Many people arrive suspecting that anxiety, depression, or trauma is tied to their substance use, and getting to those root causes is the point of the stay.

Available modalities include CBT, DBT and REBT; EMDR and trauma-informed therapy; ACT and motivational interviewing; IFS, EFT and attachment-based therapy; biofeedback and neurofeedback; and music, art, nature and yoga therapy.

We also offer Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS), a non-invasive treatment targeting the areas of the brain linked to depression. Sessions run 20 to 30 minutes with no recovery time and none of the systemic side effects of antidepressants — an option, under a licensed psychiatric provider, for people who haven’t found relief through medication alone.

Days are structured from morning to evening, and that consistency is deliberate — it builds routines you can carry out of treatment with you.

Mornings open with personal care and guided meditation before breakfast, then move into group therapy covering CBT and DBT, emotional regulation, communication, and identifying triggers. Afternoons pair a skills group — nutrition education, art therapy, music therapy — with a session on relapse prevention, then one-on-one time with your therapist, the medical team, or your case manager. Evenings bring dinner, a community support meeting or exercise group, and a review of the day’s goals.

A few afternoons each week are given over to outings. They’re meant to be genuinely enjoyable, and they do real clinical work: practicing having fun in situations that would once have involved substances, and surfacing triggers that can then be worked through properly.

Schedules vary between locations and shift as clinical staff adjust to each person’s treatment plan — this is the shape of a day, not a fixed timetable.

Yes. Family sessions are scheduled regularly through treatment, and family visits are arranged with your treatment team on designated days. These sessions work on the damage addiction does to relationships: rebuilding trust, improving communication, and helping families support recovery without enabling. Day to day, both locations allow access to personal devices as long as it isn’t interfering with recovery progress.

Our Wisconsin location also runs a free Family Education and Support Program, led by Dana Emold, MS, LPC, CSAC. Sessions are in person, capped at 16 attendees, and cover the disease model of addiction, codependency and enabling, family roles, boundaries and communication, and the stages of relapse. Each one stands alone, so families can attend whichever fit their schedule.

Planning for the step down starts while you’re still in the program. Your case manager coordinates practical goals around work, school, housing and continuing care, and your plan may include a move into PHP or IOP so clinical support continues as you reintegrate.

You leave with a personalized relapse-prevention plan and the daily rhythm you built here. Aftercare includes outpatient programs, ongoing individual and group therapy, community connections, and our alumni program: regular check-ins, monthly meetings, gatherings and outings, and an online alumni community.