La Ventana Treatment Programs

California’s Most Trusted Eating Disorder Treatment Center

As one of the most experienced and trusted eating disorder treatment centers in California, La Ventana has three convenient locations (Thousand Oaks, San Francisco, Santa Rosa) that can help you get yourself on the road to recovery. We work with you to develop a customized treatment plan that focuses on the underlying causes of the illness while establishing new and healthy behaviors and building confidence for long term health living.

The goal of our treatment is to help you with the underlying issues as well as with the behaviors.  La Ventana is an eating disorder treatment center that offers many options for achieving these goals. Clients can choose from our partial hospitalization program, intensive outpatient program or a full admission. Our experienced staff can help you make this difficult decision and make sure that the plan works for your life.

Let Us Help Your Loved One Suffering From Anorexia Nervosa

Anorexia Nervosa is defined as an eating disorder characterized by food restriction and is often accompanied by an irrational fear of gaining weight and disordered body self perception. It usually involves a very excessive and noticeable weight loss and occurs more often in women than men. Often, people with this disorder are fearful of gaining weight.

If you think that someone you love suffers from anorexia nervosa, consider contacting us for help. La Ventana offers comprehensive treatment for eating disorders, including anorexia nervosa. We will work with your loved one on achieving a healthy body weight, or to eliminate compulsive overeating habits including bingeing, purging and starvation. In addition, we help our clients look inward to address the underlying causes of their eating disorders and provide support to help them make strides toward long term healthy living. Treatment for eating disorders is available at La Ventana Treatment Centers. Call 1-800-560-8518 now to speak with one of our trained specialists.

La Ventana Offers a Comprehensive Eating Disorders Treatment Program To Help You!

Currently, 1 in every 20 young women have some type of eating disorder. Anorexia Nervosa has one of the highest mortality rates of all psychiatric disorders. Bulimia Nervosa has been on the rise in the last 30 years and is said to affect up to 1-3% of all young women. There is no question that eating disorders are very tough for individuals and families to manage. At La Ventana, we can help you reclaim your life and begin the road to long term recovery. Our comprehensive eating disorders treatment programs offer a wide variety of treatment options including: :

• Partial Hospitalization Program

• Intensive Outpatient Program

• Nutrition and Food Supported Therapy

• Treatment for Adolescents

• Admission Program

Our experienced and highly trained specialists can help you determine which eating disorders treatment program will meet your individual needs and have the best chance for long-term health and recovery. A happy and healthy life is right at your fingertips. Call 1-800-560-8518 to begin your journey today!

Ways to help your loved one suffering from drug or alcohol addiction

Do you have a family member or close friend who you suspect is battling alcohol or drug addiction? There are many complex reasons behind why someone might turn to alcohol or drugs. Identifying these reasons can be key in the recovery process. Whether it’s genetic, environmental, a response to trauma, pain or grief, or stress, an individualized treatment program is critical to a healthy recovery. There are many ways that you can provide support and help your loved one with the difficulties of addition:

• Do not judge the user

• Consistently offer the option of treatment

• Maintain strong communication with the person by demonstrating understanding and empathy

• Maintain boundaries so that you can protect your own mental health and well being

• Resist the temptation to help the user with money, shelter, food or clothing

• Consider enlisting the help of a therapist or interventionalist to serve as a mediator if needed

• Get therapy yourself to better understand the impact of this addiction on your own life

La Ventana specializes in drug and alcohol rehabilitation and can help your loved one take that difficult first step toward recovery. Call us at 1-800-560-8518 and speak with one of our experienced and knowledgeable drug and alcohol rehabilitation specialists.

Support is the primary tenet of La Ventana’s drug addiction treatment program

La Ventana is an experienced leader in drug addiction treatment in the California area. You can conquer and reflect on your addiction in our comfortable and homelike facility. Our program includes addiction management, twelve step recovery concepts, family involvement, group therapy, nutritional counseling and experiential treatment. We believe that people have the ability to change themselves for the better. One of the main tenets of our program is support. From the moment you arrive, you are surrounded by a new family that is made up of staff and others who are struggling with addiction. Support is a powerful tool to empower our clients to long term health and recovery. We believe that no one should go through this journey alone.

Our comprehensive and individualized drug addiction treatment program provides support, coping skills, cognitive behavioral therapy to empower our clients to return to their lives ready and able to be happy and healthy. Call our experienced addiction specialists at 1-800-560-8518 today for help and a free assessment.

What You Can Expect from Detox at La Ventana

Drug addiction is a painful enough scenario to experience. The only thing that is more frightening to an addict is the detox process. We can’t sugar coat it and tell you that this process is going to be pleasant. It’s going to be uncomfortable and in some cases painful. The details of your detox depend on the details of your drug addiction. For instance, detox from alcohol is going to be different than detox from opiates.

What we can tell you is that you need to get the drugs out of your system in order to begin the healing process. As painful as that may be, the light at the end of the tunnel is that you get to start over. You get to forgive yourself so that you can heal mentally as well as physically. During the detox process, we will be there to make you as comfortable as we can because there is no need for you to suffer any more. The professionals at La Ventana Treatment Centers will be with you throughout the entire rehabilitation process and will be able to answer any questions of you or your family along the way. Visit their web site today at www.laventanatreatment.com to begin the process of conquering addiction!

Is Drug Rehab Really the Answer

One of the hardest things to do is to admit that you or a loved one has a problem with drugs. As soon as this step is made, you then have to ask what you can do about it. Drug rehab may just be the best alternative for several reasons.

There is always an underlying reason that people use drugs. Rather than deal with that reason, they distract themselves with drug use or other things in their environment. Drug rehab takes them out of that environment and creates a schedule that allows them minimal opportunities to have to make any kind of choices outside of dealing with their addiction. From the detox to the completion of the program, nothing is more important than dealing with the addiction and the underlying cause for it. As scary as it may be to put yourself or a loved one in an unfamiliar environment, it is even scarier to imagine a world in which the addiction gets worse until the end result is death or a quality of life that is intolerable. La Ventana is committed to providing rehabilitation services that will offer both compassion and care to your loved one. Visit www.laventanatreatment.com to learn more about the wide array of services offered at La Ventana.

Does Your Loved One Suffer from Bulimia?

Bulimia is a serious condition that may call for eating disorder treatment. It involves binging, or eating mass quantities of food, and purging, or removing the food from the system.  There are various ways that someone who suffers from bulimia can attempt to purge including laxatives, diuretics, excessive exercise, or self-induced vomiting. 

Many people who suffer from bulimia might not admit it, but there will be clues. Signs to look for include weight gain, a change in eating habits, inability to control eating (consuming a lot at once), hiding food in strange places, high blood pressure and/or cholesterol. leg and joint pain or insomnia.

If you suspect that your loved one has bulimia, seek eating disorder treatment before this disorder had a long term impact on the health of your loved one.

 

Free Yourself From Drug Addiction

Are you struggling with drug addiction? If so, it is important that you get help by working with a rehabilitation center that is committed to helping you conquer your addiction as well as the underlying issues. Many individuals in recovery face multiple problems at the same time, including both substance use and mental health disorders. 
Often there are co-occurring issues such as depression, anxiety, obsessive-compulsive disorder or mood disorders that need to be addressed. Finding a rehab center that focuses on the addiction as well as the underlying issue can lead to much better recovery outcomes.  While at La Ventana, clients work with a clinical team that specializes in these underlying issues, as well as the addiction.

If you or someone you know is struggling with drug or alcohol addiction it is important to contact a professional rehab center such as La Ventana as soon as possible. Sometimes the most difficult part of dealing with drug or alcohol addiction is to take the first step to sobriety.  The staff at La Ventana is trained in helping patients who have battled drug abuse for far too long.  La Ventana is fully staffed with compassionate individuals who understand the personal struggles caused by addiction.  Many of them are in recovery and have dedicated their life to helping others who struggle with addiction. If you have questions about our program, and how it relates to you or your loved one call La Ventana today at 1-800-560-8518 or visit us online at www.laventanatreatment.com. 

Social Drinker or Alcoholic?

Have you ever known someone who considers themselves to be social drinkers while others speculate that they may have a drinking problem? Alcohol addiction is one of those things that doesn’t necessarily mean that the drinker is intoxicated all day every day. People who use alcohol to feel at ease in social situations, people who become the life of the party after a few drinks and those who turn to alcohol in times of stress or anger are all potentially addicted to alcohol.

It is possible to be addicted to alcohol and still manage to not drink until after work or when others are around. These are the people who make it to happy hour after work every day without fail, who have more than one or two drinks during a couple hours and who notice that they begin to feel a bit twitchy and irritable if they have to miss their regularly scheduled drinking time.  While they attend work, and may not get falling down drunk every evening, they are still dependent upon alcohol to keep themselves on what they feel is an even keel.

This is still a form of alcohol addiction that many refer to as being a functioning drunk. There are outpatient alcohol treatment programs which can help with this sort of alcoholism without interfering with work.