First Dawn Recovery
About First Dawn Recovery
Insurances
Aetna
Anthem
Cigna
HealthNet
MHN
Tricare
Amenities
Allow Cell Phones
Some centers allow cell phones during treatment, while others limit phone use during certain phases of care. Users should confirm the facility’s phone policy before admission.
Internet Access
Internet access may help clients communicate with family, manage work obligations, or use approved digital resources. Some programs limit internet use during treatment.
Pool
A pool may support recreation, light exercise, relaxation, or wellness activities during treatment. Users should confirm supervision, schedule, accessibility, and safety rules.
Access to Nature
Centers with access to nature may offer outdoor areas, natural surroundings, or nearby green spaces that support reflection, movement, and a calmer treatment environment.
Fitness Center
A fitness center may support exercise, routine, stress reduction, and overall wellness during treatment. Users should confirm available equipment, supervision, and any medical restrictions.
Chef-prepared Meals
Chef-prepared meals may support nutrition, comfort, and daily routine during residential treatment. Users should ask about dietary accommodations, allergies, and nutrition support if needed.
Outdoor Dining
Outdoor dining may offer a more relaxed meal setting and access to fresh air during treatment. Availability may depend on weather, facility layout, and program schedule.
Recreation Room
A recreation room may provide space for games, social activities, relaxation, or structured downtime. It can support routine and peer connection outside clinical sessions.
Airport Transfers
Airport transfer services may help clients travel from a nearby airport to the treatment center. Availability, cost, scheduling, and distance should be confirmed directly with the facility.
Outdoor Lounge
An outdoor lounge provides a designated area for rest, conversation, or supervised downtime outside. Users should confirm access rules and whether it is available year-round.
TV
TV access may be available in rooms or shared areas, depending on the program’s schedule and technology policy. Some centers limit entertainment access during treatment.
Lounge
A lounge provides shared space for rest, peer connection, reading, or supervised downtime. The setting and rules may vary by program structure and level of care.
Transportation Assistance
Transportation assistance may help clients get to appointments, admissions, airports, or local services. Users should confirm what transportation is included and whether fees apply.
Air-Conditioned Rooms
Air-conditioned rooms help support comfort during residential or longer-stay treatment, especially in warm climates or facilities where temperature control affects sleep and daily routine.
Outdoor Space
Outdoor space may include patios, courtyards, lawns, or open-air areas that support movement, reflection, and breaks from indoor programming.
Private or Shared Rooms
Facilities may offer private rooms, shared rooms, or both. Room type can affect privacy, cost, comfort, and availability, so users should confirm options before admission.
Highlights
1-on-1 Counseling
Tech Friendly
Trauma-Informed Care
Certified Professionals
Who We Treat
Professionals
Veterans
Young Adults
Midlife Adults
Men and Women
Men
Women
Mild Disabilities
Treatments
1-on-1 Counseling
One-on-one counseling gives clients private time with a counselor or therapist to discuss substance use, mental health symptoms, goals, triggers, and recovery planning. It is commonly used throughout treatment to create a more personalized care plan.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
ACT helps clients notice difficult thoughts and emotions without being controlled by them. It may support people working on substance use, anxiety, depression, trauma, or major life changes by helping them act in line with personal values.
Art Therapy
Art therapy uses creative activities to help clients express emotions, process experiences, and explore thoughts that may be difficult to discuss directly. It is often used as a supportive approach in mental health, trauma, and substance use treatment settings.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
CBT helps people identify thought and behavior patterns that may contribute to substance use, anxiety, depression, or relapse risk. Programs may use it to build coping skills and practical recovery strategies.
Couples Counseling
Couples counseling helps partners address communication, trust, boundaries, conflict, and the effect of substance use or mental health symptoms on the relationship. It may be used when recovery involves relationship repair or partner support.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy
DBT teaches skills for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, mindfulness, and communication. It may support people with intense emotions, trauma symptoms, self-destructive patterns, or co-occurring mental health concerns.
Expressive Arts
Expressive arts therapy uses creative methods such as art, writing, music, movement, or drama to help clients explore emotions and experiences. It is often used as a supportive approach for trauma, grief, depression, anxiety, or recovery work.
Eye Movement Therapy (EMDR)
EMDR is a structured therapy often used for trauma-related symptoms and distressing memories. In treatment settings, it may support clients whose substance use or mental health symptoms are connected to traumatic experiences.
Family Therapy
Family therapy helps clients and loved ones address communication, boundaries, conflict, support systems, and the impact of substance use or mental health concerns on the household. It is an important treatment option when recovery involves family relationships.
Group Therapy
Group therapy brings clients together in a structured setting to discuss recovery, coping skills, accountability, relationships, and shared challenges. It is commonly used in addiction and mental health treatment at many levels of care.
Life Skills
Life skills programming helps clients build practical routines for daily stability, communication, employment readiness, budgeting, time management, and recovery planning. It is often used in residential, PHP, IOP, sober living, and transitional care.
Medication-Assisted Treatment
MAT uses approved medications with counseling or recovery support when clinically appropriate. It is especially important for opioid use disorder and may also be used for alcohol use disorder.
Meditation & Mindfulness
Meditation and mindfulness practices help clients build present-moment awareness, manage stress, and respond to cravings or emotions with more intention. They are usually supportive practices used alongside clinical treatment.
Mindfulness Therapy
Mindfulness therapy uses attention, breathing, and awareness practices to help clients notice thoughts, cravings, and emotions without reacting automatically. It may support anxiety, depression, stress, trauma symptoms, and relapse prevention.
Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy
MBCT combines mindfulness practices with cognitive therapy skills. It may help clients recognize negative thought patterns, reduce emotional reactivity, and support recovery from depression, anxiety, or relapse risk.
Motivational Interviewing
MI helps clients explore ambivalence and strengthen their own reasons for change. It is commonly used when someone is uncertain, resistant, or still building readiness for treatment or recovery.
Music Therapy
Music therapy uses music-based activities such as listening, songwriting, rhythm, or discussion to support emotional expression, coping, and connection. It may be helpful as a supportive service for trauma, mood symptoms, stress, or recovery engagement.
Nutrition Counseling
Nutrition counseling helps clients address eating patterns, physical recovery, energy, and health habits that may be affected by substance use, stress, or mental health symptoms. It is often supportive within broader medical or behavioral health care.
Recreation Therapy
Recreation therapy uses structured recreational activities to support social connection, stress reduction, confidence, and healthy routines. It is often used as a supportive service in residential or extended-care programs.
Relapse Prevention Counseling
Relapse prevention counseling helps clients identify triggers, warning signs, high-risk situations, and coping strategies. It is commonly used to support ongoing recovery after detox, residential treatment, PHP, IOP, or outpatient care.
Tai Chi
Tai Chi is a gentle movement practice that combines balance, breathing, and focused attention. It may be offered as supportive wellness care for stress reduction, body awareness, and general emotional regulation.
Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation
TMS is a noninvasive brain stimulation treatment used in some mental health settings, especially for depression when appropriate. Users should confirm diagnosis requirements, medical oversight, safety screening, and insurance coverage.
Trauma-Specific Therapy
Trauma-specific therapy focuses directly on the effects of trauma, including triggers, avoidance, emotional distress, and safety. It may be important when trauma history is connected to substance use, anxiety, depression, or other mental health concerns.
Yoga
Yoga combines movement, breathing, and mindfulness practices that may support stress reduction, emotional regulation, sleep, and general wellness. It is best presented as a complementary recovery support rather than a standalone treatment.
Psychoeducation
Psychoeducation helps clients understand addiction, mental health symptoms, medications, coping skills, relapse warning signs, and treatment expectations. It is commonly used across many levels of care to support informed participation in treatment.
Twelve Step Facilitation
TSF helps clients understand and participate in Twelve Step recovery support. It may be used alongside counseling, medication, relapse prevention, and other treatment services.
Introduction to the 12 Step Program
An introduction to the Twelve Step model helps clients understand peer-support programs, meetings, sponsorship, accountability, and recovery principles. It may be offered as one part of a broader treatment plan, especially in addiction recovery programs.
Seeking Safety
Seeking Safety is a structured counseling model designed for people with trauma and substance use concerns. It focuses on coping skills, safety, grounding, boundaries, and stabilization rather than detailed trauma exposure work.
Solution-Focused, Goal-Oriented Therapy
Solution-focused therapy helps clients identify strengths, set practical goals, and build on what is already working. It may be useful for clients who need short-term, structured support around recovery, relationships, or life stability.
Stress Management
Stress management teaches clients practical tools to reduce emotional and physical stress, including breathing, planning, coping skills, sleep routines, and boundary-setting. It is often used to support relapse prevention and mental health stability.
Level Of Cares
Concierge Treatment
Intensive Inpatient Treatment
Intensive Outpatient Program (IOP)
Outpatient Treatment
Sober Living
Residential Treatment
Co-Occurring Disorder Treatment
Day Treatment / Partial Hospitalization Program (PHP)
Licensed Primary Mental Health
Conditions
ADHD / ADD
ADHD is a neurodevelopmental condition involving patterns of inattention, impulsivity, hyperactivity, organization difficulties, or time-management challenges. It may affect school, work, relationships, daily routines, and emotional regulation. Related support may include counseling, behavioral strategies, skills-based support, medication management when appropriate, outpatient care, or structured mental health treatment.
Anger
Anger is a normal emotion that becomes a concern when it is intense, frequent, hard to control, or linked with conflict, aggression, unsafe behavior, or relationship problems. Related support may include counseling, CBT, DBT-informed skills, group therapy, family therapy, outpatient care, or structured mental health treatment when anger occurs with trauma, mood concerns, or substance use.
Anxiety
Anxiety involves excessive worry, fear, nervousness, or physical tension that can affect sleep, concentration, relationships, work, school, and daily responsibilities. Related support may include therapy, counseling, medication management when appropriate, outpatient care, intensive outpatient care, or structured mental health treatment depending on symptoms and needs.
Bipolar
Bipolar disorder is a mood disorder involving episodes of elevated or irritable mood and increased energy, along with episodes of depression. It may affect sleep, judgment, activity level, relationships, work, school, and safety. Related support may include psychiatric care, medication management, therapy, outpatient care, intensive outpatient care, day treatment, residential treatment, or inpatient stabilization when needed.
Depression
Depression is a mood condition involving persistent sadness, loss of interest, low energy, hopelessness, or changes in sleep, appetite, and concentration. It may affect daily functioning, relationships, school, work, and safety. Related support may include therapy, counseling, medication management when appropriate, crisis support when needed, outpatient care, intensive outpatient care, or structured mental health treatment.
Grief and Loss
Grief and loss describe emotional, physical, social, and mental reactions after losing someone or something important. Grief may affect mood, sleep, appetite, concentration, relationships, and daily routines. Related support may include grief counseling, therapy, support groups, outpatient care, or structured mental health treatment when grief is prolonged, traumatic, or connected with depression, trauma, or substance use.
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
OCD involves recurring unwanted thoughts, urges, or images and repetitive behaviors or mental acts that can become distressing or time-consuming. It may affect school, work, relationships, sleep, and daily routines. Related support may include specialized therapy, counseling, medication management when appropriate, outpatient care, intensive outpatient care, or structured mental health treatment.
Personality Disorders
Personality disorders involve long-term patterns in thoughts, emotions, behavior, identity, or relationships that cause distress or problems in functioning. They may affect relationships, work, boundaries, emotion regulation, and safety. Related support may include therapy, DBT-informed care, counseling, group therapy, outpatient care, intensive outpatient care, or residential treatment depending on severity and co-occurring needs.
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
PTSD is a trauma-related condition that may involve intrusive memories, nightmares, avoidance, mood changes, sleep problems, and feeling constantly on edge. It can affect relationships, work, school, safety, and daily routines. Related support may include trauma-focused therapy, EMDR, counseling, medication management when appropriate, and structured mental health or co-occurring treatment.
Schizophrenia
Schizophrenia is a serious mental health condition that can affect perception, thinking, communication, emotions, and functioning. Symptoms may include hallucinations, delusions, disorganized thoughts, or reduced motivation. Related support may include psychiatric care, medication management, therapy, case management, outpatient care, intensive outpatient care, residential treatment, or inpatient stabilization when needed.
Self-Harm
Self-harm involves intentionally injuring one’s own body, often as a way of coping with emotional pain, numbness, stress, or overwhelming feelings. It may affect safety, relationships, school, work, and emotional wellbeing. Related support may include therapy, DBT-informed care, counseling, family support, crisis support, outpatient care, intensive outpatient care, residential treatment, or inpatient stabilization when safety risk is high.
Stress
Stress is the body and mind’s response to pressure, demands, or life changes. Ongoing stress may affect sleep, mood, concentration, physical comfort, relationships, work, and daily responsibilities. Related support may include counseling, stress-management therapy, mindfulness-based support, outpatient care, virtual care, or higher levels of care when stress occurs with other mental health or substance use concerns.
Suicidality
Suicidality refers to thoughts, plans, or behaviors related to wanting to die or end one’s life. It may be connected with depression, trauma, substance use, grief, chronic pain, or other serious distress. Related support may include crisis support, safety planning, therapy, medication management when appropriate, intensive outpatient care, day treatment, residential treatment, or inpatient stabilization when immediate safety is a concern.
Trauma
Trauma refers to emotional or psychological distress after a harmful, frightening, or overwhelming experience. It may affect mood, sleep, trust, relationships, physical comfort, and a person’s sense of safety. Related support may include trauma-informed therapy, counseling, EMDR, outpatient care, intensive outpatient care, residential treatment, or co-occurring substance use support when relevant.
Substances We Treat
Alcohol
Alcohol use disorder can affect health, relationships, work, safety, and mental health. Treatment may include counseling, behavioral therapies, recovery support, and FDA-approved medications when clinically appropriate.
Benzodiazepines
Benzodiazepines are prescription sedatives sometimes used for anxiety, sleep, or seizure-related conditions. Treatment may involve careful assessment, medical supervision, and support for dependence or withdrawal risk, especially when other substances are involved.
Co-Occurring Disorders
Co-occurring disorders involve both a substance use disorder and a mental health disorder. Treatment may coordinate addiction care, mental health therapy, medication management, and recovery support so both concerns are addressed together.
Cocaine
Cocaine is a stimulant that can affect the brain, heart, mood, sleep, and decision-making. Treatment commonly focuses on behavioral therapy, relapse prevention, coping skills, and support for cravings or co-occurring mental health symptoms.
Ecstasy / MDMA
MDMA, often called ecstasy or molly, is a psychoactive stimulant and hallucinogen. Treatment may address mood changes, sleep problems, cravings, risky use patterns, and co-occurring mental health concerns.
Heroin
Heroin is an opioid with a high risk of dependence, withdrawal, and overdose. Treatment often includes medications for opioid use disorder, counseling, harm-reduction education, relapse prevention, and ongoing recovery support.
Methamphetamine
Methamphetamine is a powerful stimulant that can affect sleep, mood, thinking, heart health, and behavior. Treatment commonly focuses on behavioral therapies, contingency management where available, relapse prevention, recovery support, and co-occurring mental health care.
Opioids
Opioids include heroin, fentanyl, and prescription pain medications such as oxycodone or hydrocodone. Treatment for opioid use disorder may include FDA-approved medications such as buprenorphine, methadone, or naltrexone, along with counseling and recovery support.
Prescription Drugs
Prescription drug misuse may involve opioids, benzodiazepines, stimulants, or other medications used differently than prescribed. Treatment may include medical assessment, withdrawal support when needed, counseling, medication management, and relapse prevention planning.
Synthetic Drugs / New Psychoactive Substances
Synthetic drugs can include lab-made cannabinoids, stimulants, opioids, or hallucinogens with unpredictable strength and effects. Treatment may focus on medical stabilization, substance use counseling, relapse prevention, and mental health support when symptoms are severe or persistent.
Chronic Relapse
Chronic relapse refers to repeated returns to substance use after periods of recovery or treatment. Programs may focus on relapse prevention, triggers, co-occurring mental health needs, medication support, recovery planning, and long-term accountability.
Drug Addiction / Substance Use Disorder
Drug addiction, or substance use disorder, involves continued substance use despite harmful consequences. Treatment may include assessment, counseling, behavioral therapies, medications for some substance use disorders, relapse prevention, and recovery support.
