Oceanside Malibu Rehab

Malibu is known far and wide for its beautiful sandy beaches and stunning sea views. Yet just off the beachfront is a well-kept secret paradise – a paradise of recovery rehabilitation and connection with the self that is.

Oceanside Malibu is a rehabilitation and treatment center like few others, helping those struggling with addiction and mental health issues to regain control of their lives while relaxing against a backdrop of sun, sand, and gently rolling blue waves. Staffed with highly trained professionals, and with an IMS certification to allow Doctors to treat medically on-site, the center is truly designed to be a haven that allows patients to focus on themselves, their wellbeing, and the difficulties of overcoming addiction while knowing they are being safely taken care of.

Oceanside Malibu Addiction Treatment

Oceanside Malibu offers treatment for dual diagnoses, for addiction and mental health issues such as anxiety, depression, trauma, and personality disorders that can lead someone to turn to drug or alcohol addiction as a way of escaping their problems. The staff are also trained to handle process addictions too such as video game addiction, gambling, eating disorders, and non-suicidal self-harm.

Patients arriving for drug and alcohol addiction treatment are supported in a way that is best for them – while the plans at Oceanside are based around the 12 Step Program, this is not fixed but merely a guide and some patients need therapy when they arrive for treatment whereas others will need both Medically Assisted Treatment to help with addiction and withdrawal symptoms alongside a tailored therapy program.

Each patient has a uniquely tailored program designed to best help their needs and supports them in their recovery, which always acknowledges the fact that addiction is not ever an isolated issue. Everyone at Oceanside sees addiction as a self-medication tool to help combat deep emotional pain, and so treat the addiction and the patient with this as one of the facility’s guiding principles.

With a full complement of psychiatrists, psychologists, nurses, nutritionists, physiologists, therapists, and sober coaches working alongside medical doctors, there is a higher staff-to-patient ratio found at Oceanside than at many other similar facilities. All staff are very hands-on with treatment and care throughout a patient’s stay, whether that is for 1 month or 12, and as an inpatient or as an outpatient in one of the center’s Partial Hospitalisation or Intensive Outpatient Programs.

Oceanside Malibu Facilities

The inpatient facilities themselves are relaxing and comfortable, with private or semi-private rooms that face out towards the Malibu beach and the ocean beyond. Meals are prepared fresh 3 times a day by a private on-site chef, who provides healthy food and caters to all possible dietary requirements.

Snacks, sweets, tea, and coffee are available at all times for patients to help themselves. There are also many activities offered as part of the therapeutic program at Oceanside, which includes kayaking, fishing, surfing, horseback riding, dolphin watching trips, yoga, meditation, and breathwork sessions, and occasional group visits to the movies.

There are group and solo therapy sessions offered throughout, and patients’ loved ones are frequently invited to join a patient’s therapy session via skype, phone, or in-person, to help get to the root cause of many issues and also to begin to introduce those in patient’s day to day lives to the recovery experience, to help set expectations and support systems for once the patient finishes rehab.

Oceanside Malibu Aftercare

Oceanside provides a dedicated aftercare service for as long as required after a patient has been checked out, with therapists organizing regular phone or skype sessions with patients, which are especially frequent in the first few weeks of returning to their daily lives after treatment.

In reviews of Malibu Oceanside, many patients have commented how caring, empathetic, and supportive staff members were to their needs, including those on one of the outpatient programs and those who had finished treatment and were still undergoing continuous aftercare.

Oceanside Malibu Sober Living

As part of their services, Oceanside offers a separate sober living facility as well as the above programs, a halfway house for those who need a gentler transition back to daily life, or who have been inpatients at Oceanside for a long time. Whereas inpatients at the main facility do not have any responsibilities placed on them during their stay other than focusing on themselves and their healing journey, once in the halfway house, sober living patients are expected to take care of themselves day-to-day with basic household tasks and chores.

Those in the halfway house still have regular contact and therapy sessions with the center, helping them to see how a life of sobriety might function within their normal lives while being fully supported in that adjustment following a long period of inpatient treatment. As a result of this gradual reintroduction to a sober life, patients are far more likely to succeed in continuing sobriety after they have left Oceanside.

Overall, Oceanside Malibu has much to offer as a rehabilitation and treatment facility – offering plans for a wide range of addiction and mental health issues in dual diagnoses, with Medically Assisted Treatment alongside counseling and different forms of therapy and a fully rounded package of care, whether for inpatients, outpatients, those in sober living or those who have completed an Oceanside program and are receiving ongoing aftercare.

The high ratio of staff to patients and the unique tailoring of each treatment plan to the patient’s individual needs mean that a high-quality, highly effective standard of treatment is held and maintained. In an independent survey, almost all the participants who had been treated at Oceanside reported long-standing sobriety following completion of all of their treatment, and would highly recommend the facility.

With a staff that aims to lead with compassion and empathy, plans that take the individual patient, dual diagnoses, and specific drug history into account, and a treatment facility on the Malibu beachfront with luxurious amenities and fresh, healthy food prepared daily, it is little wonder why Oceanside Malibu comes so highly commended and recommended, both by professionals within the industry and by patient alumni themselves.