Life Healing Center is a holistic program for those struggling to escape from the snares of trauma, addiction, mental illness and other co-occurring conditions. We take each person in as an individual, and help you to unravel the chains that hold you back, helping you to repair the damages of past events and to develop a better sense of emotional well being for the present and future.

Life Healing Center provides integrated and holistic care that seeks to heal the person as a whole, mind, body and soul, and that seeks to look deeply into resolving the legacy of trauma concurrently with bettering maladaptive behaviors, such as alcohol or drug abuse.

Life Healing Center is appropriately situated in a serene campus, in the mountains just outside of Santa Fe.

Who Can Benefit from a Stay at Life Healing Center?

Treatment at Life Healing Center is focused on individual need, offered in small groups sizes and closely directed by masters level therapists. Life Healing Center is uniquely able to assist patients in trauma recovery of all types, as well as in recovery from life problems that often accompany a legacy of trauma, such as addiction or eating disorders.

Some of the more typical issues clients at Life Healing Center grapple with include:

• PTSD
• Addiction or alcoholism
• Eating disorders (bulimia or anorexia nervosa)
• Self harm
• Mood disorders, such as depression or bipolar disorders
• Disassociative disorders
• Borderline personality disorder
• Codependency
• Shopping addiction
• Compulsive gambling
• Sexual addiction (men and women are treated in separate groups)
• Extreme grief issues
• Others

How Are We Different?

The Life Healing Center is one of America’s top programs for the integrated healing of trauma and mental health issues with behavioral manifestations, such as chemical dependency, sexual addiction or eating disorders. Our compassionate program is truly individualistic, holistic in every sense of the word, and importantly – integrated. We help each client proceed through an individualized program of recovery that seeks to mend the legacies of deep trauma as it also integrates treatments for behaviors largely caused by these traumas, such as alcohol or drug abuse, or sexual compulsion.

Program highlights include:

• Only small clinical group sizes, between 6 and 10 people only
• Therapeutic staff members are masters level clinicians (or higher)
• A complete psychiatric evaluation for every patient upon intake
• Individualized treatment plan
• Medication management and prescribing (as appropriate)
• Life skills building program which teaches anger management, coping, communication and relationship abilities
• Complementary therapies, such as acupuncture, massage and equine therapy
• Affordable non hospital care

The Serenity Program

For many clients, the first stage of recovery at Life Healing Center begins in The Serenity Program. The Serenity Program is a stage of care that is focused on stabilization of symptoms and on inducing readiness to work on deeper underlying trauma issues that cause maladaptive behaviors.

Clients who benefit from the Serenity Program include:

• Clients in a first stage of recovery from addiction or other disorders who need strong support and supervision
• Clients who may be at risk of self harm behaviors
• Clients who need assistance in renewing enthusiasm for the treatment journey
• Clients who have never before received behavioral health treatment

Graduation from the intensive first phase of care leads to a second, residential or day treatment phase, that delves into the legacy of traumatic events.

Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Program

Many in the LGBT community choose Life Healing Center for our expertise in issues affecting the gay community and for our compassionate delivery of effective therapeutics.

We understand that many GLB persons experience acute traumatic homophobia or heterosexism as well as a chronic undercurrent of low intensity traumas, from life in a not always accepting society.

The emotional and physical response to dramatic acute and chronic trauma can include:

• Difficulties in forming appropriate relationships (attachment problems)
• An increased risk of stress caused mood or anxiety disorders
• Disassociative states
• An increased susceptibility to other life stressors (from a weakened ego)
• Compromised physical health (from stress or mental health issues that co-occur)

  At Life Healing Center we teach each patient to take what has previously been a source of emotional strain and embrace it – make it a source of emotional and mental resiliency. All staff members receive training in GLB concerns.