How Healthy Living Supports Women in Recovery
A Private, Intimate Setting Where You Are Known
Our Santa Clarita facility has just 12 beds, a deliberate choice that shapes the entire experience of care we provide. When you arrive at Healthy Living, you are not a case file or an intake number. You are a person with a specific history, specific needs, and a specific life waiting for you on the other side of recovery. Our entire team from our board-certified physicians to our licensed therapists, counselors, LMFTs, and clinical support staff knows every client personally from day one.
For women who have spent their lives prioritizing everyone else’s needs over their own, being truly seen and individually cared for can itself be part of the healing. Our intimate residential setting, nestled in the hills of the Santa Clarita Valley, creates the kind of environment where that is possible. It feels more like a home than a facility and that is intentional.
Medical Detox That Is Safe, Supervised, and Compassionate
For many women, fear of the physical detox process is what delays entering treatment. Withdrawal from alcohol, opioids, benzodiazepines, or other substances can be uncomfortable and, without proper medical supervision, potentially dangerous. At Healthy Living, detox is medically managed around the clock by our physician-led team, with our Licensed Vocational Nurse overseeing Medication-Assisted Treatment (MAT) twice daily as part of a carefully structured protocol.
Our board-certified doctors are available 24 hours a day, seven days a week, and will manage every stage of your physical stabilization with precision and care. You will not go through this alone. You will not white-knuckle it. Our job is to make the physical process as safe and as manageable as possible so that your energy can go toward the deeper work that follows.
Clinical Programming Built to Address What Women Actually Face
Women heal differently. Effective treatment for women addresses not just the substance, but the full context of a woman’s life: the relationships, the trauma history, the emotional patterns, the roles she’s been filling, and the needs that have gone unmet for years, sometimes decades. Our clinical programming at Healthy Living is built with this in mind.
Every day includes purposeful group therapeutic sessions facilitated by our licensed therapists, LMFTs, and certified counselors. These include Process Groups, Recovery Maintenance, Anger Management, Health in Recovery, Psychodrama, Breathwork, Rock to Recovery, Faith in Recovery, and Rotating Groups that shift focus week to week to cover the full breadth of recovery work. Afternoons bring Mindfulness, Yoga, Art Therapy, Disease Concept education, and Psychoeducation all designed to engage the mind, regulate the nervous system, and rebuild the relationship women have with themselves and their bodies.
Evening programming includes AA/NA Meetings and a nightly Wrap-Up a grounding practice that closes each day with reflection and intention. Every hour of the day has purpose. Nothing is filler.
Healing Trauma Alongside Addiction
For a significant percentage of women entering residential treatment, trauma is not a background detail it is at the center of the story. Sexual trauma, domestic violence, childhood abuse, relationship trauma, and cumulative emotional wounds are among the most common underlying drivers of addiction in women. Substances become a way of managing pain that has never been properly processed or treated.
At Healthy Living, our clinical team approaches every client’s care with a trauma-informed lens. That means our therapists, counselors, and group facilitators are trained to create spaces where women can begin to explore and process what has happened to them safely, at their own pace, and without retraumatization. Addressing trauma is not a bonus feature of our program. It is core to how we believe lasting recovery happens.
