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Ascend Healthcare for Adolescents

Ascend Healthcare for Adolescents

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Substance Use

Treatment Focus

This center treats substance use disorders and co-occurring mental health conditions. Your treatment plan addresses each condition at once with personalized, compassionate care for comprehensive healing.

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Residential

Primary Level of Care

Offering intensive care with 24/7 monitoring, residential treatment is typically 30 days and can cover multiple levels of care. Length can range from 14 to 90 days typically.

4.7
(35)
Private Pay

Private Pay

You pay directly for treatment out of pocket. This approach can offer enhanced privacy and flexibility, without involving insurance. Exact costs vary based on program and length of stay. Contact the center for specific details.

Ascend Healthcare for Adolescents

4.7
•Substance Use•Residential
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Ascend Healthcare provides residential treatment to teens in a luxurious and comfortable environment, with a focus on evidence-based therapies. We stress the critical roles that family and empowerment play within one’s journey to recovery. We connect with teens, helping them with their self-esteem, offering comprehensive educational services and providing them with support systems to last them well beyond their tenure at our facility. We treat many disorders, including substance abuse, depression, anxiety and trauma.

AT A GLANCE

Center Overview

Location
4346 Empress Ave., Los Angeles, CA 91436 View Map
Primary Focus
This center treats substance use disorders and co-occurring mental healt...

Treatment Focus

This center treats substance use disorders and co-occurring mental health conditions. Your treatment plan addresses each condition at once with personalized, compassionate care for comprehensive healing.

Conditions We Treat
ADHD, ADD, Anger, Anxiety, Depression +3 More
Substance Use We Treat
Alcohol, Chronic Relapse, Co-Occurring Disorders, Drug Addiction +1 More

(800) 646-1202

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(800) 646-1202

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Staff

Meet Your Care Team

Jess Beck

Jess Beck

Clinical Director, LCSW

Rae Balmuth

Rae Balmuth

Educator

Linslee Egan

Linslee Egan

Psychiatrist

Effie Goldberg

Effie Goldberg

Managing Director/Co-Owner

Care Options

Levels of Care

Everyone's recovery journey is unique. Whether it looks like residential rehab for 30 days, an outpatient program, or virtual therapy, you can find a level of care that fits your needs.
Residential Rehab
Offering intensive care with 24/7 monitoring, residential substance use treatment is typically 30 days. Length can range from 14 to 90 days.
Sober Living
Not Offered at This Center
Transitional housing designed to support individuals recovering from substance use disorders offering a safe, supportive and structured environment for practicing long-term sobriety, while reintegrating back into daily living.
Outpatient
Not Offered at This Center
Outpatient treatment offers flexible therapeutic and medical care without the need to stay overnight in a hospital or inpatient facility. Outpatient care typically offers a range of therapies and medical interventions individuals can attend alongside daily life.
Virtual & In-Home Care
Not Offered at This Center
The delivery of therapeutic services utilizing technology such as video conferencing, online messaging or phone calls, allowing for flexibility, comfort and increased access to care.
Co-Occurring Mental Health
Treatment for co-occurring mental health disorders, which affect the majority of individuals diagnosed, integrates care for mental health conditions with primary substance use. Personalized care plans are crafted to effectively address each condition simultaneously, optimizing the healing process.
Treatment

Your Care Options

Who We Treat

Men
Women
Adolescents

Adolescents

Teens receive the treatment they need for mental health disorders and addiction, with the added support of educational and vocational services.

Children

Children

Treatment for children incorporates the psychiatric care they need and education, often led by on-site teachers to keep children on track with school.

Executives

Executives

Executive treatment programs typically directly support the needs of people who manage businesses and may provide flexible schedules and office space to allow work during treatment.

LGBTQ+

LGBTQ+

Addiction and mental illnesses in the LGBTQ+ community must be treated with an affirming, safe, and relevant approach, which many centers provide.

Men and Women

Men and Women

Men and women attend treatment for addiction in a co-ed setting, going to therapy groups together to share experiences, struggles, and successes.

Approaches

Twelve Step

Twelve Step

Incorporating spirituality, community, and responsibility, 12-Step philosophies prioritize the guidance of a Higher Power and a continuation of 12-Step practices.

Therapies

1-on-1 Counseling

1-on-1 Counseling

Patient and therapist meet 1-on-1 to work through difficult emotions and behavioral challenges in a personal, private setting.

Animal Therapy

Animal Therapy

Animals can inspire trust and self-worth. In this experiential therapy, guided interactions are used to improve social skills and emotion regulation.

Art Therapy

Art Therapy

Visual art invites patients to examine the emotions within their work, focusing on the process of creativity and its gentle therapeutic power.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Expressive Arts

Expressive Arts

Creative processes like art, writing, or dance use inner creative desires to help boost confidence, emotional growth, and initiate change.

Family Therapy

Family Therapy

Family therapy addresses group dynamics within a family system, with a focus on improving communication and interrupting unhealthy relationship patterns.

Group Therapy
Life Skills

Life Skills

Teaching life skills like cooking, cleaning, clear communication, and even basic math provides a strong foundation for continued recovery.

Medication-Assisted Treatment

Medication-Assisted Treatment

Combined with behavioral therapy, prescribed medications can enhance treatment by relieving withdrawal symptoms and focus patients on their recovery.

Conditions We Treat

ADHD, ADD

ADHD, ADD

ADHD is a common mental health condition caused by dopamine imbalance. Common symptoms include inattention, hyperactivitiy, and impulsivity.

Anger

Anger

Although anger itself isn't a disorder, it can get out of hand. If this feeling interferes with your relationships and daily functioning, treatment can help.

Anxiety

Anxiety

Anxiety is a common mental health condition that can include excessive worry, panic attacks, physical tension, and increased blood pressure.

Depression

Depression

Symptoms of depression may include fatigue, a sense of numbness, and loss of interest in activities. This condition can range from mild to severe.

Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)

Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)

OCD is characterized by intrusive and distressing thoughts that drive repetitive behaviors. This pattern disrupts daily life and relationships.

Post Traumatic Stress Disorder

Post Traumatic Stress Disorder

PTSD is a long-term mental health issue caused by a disturbing event or events. Symptoms include anxiety, dissociation, flashbacks, and intrusive thoughts.

Trauma

Trauma

Some traumatic events are so disturbing that they cause long-term mental health problems. Those ongoing issues can also be referred to as "trauma."

Substances We Treat

Alcohol

Alcohol

Using alcohol as a coping mechanism, or drinking excessively throughout the week, signals an alcohol use disorder.

Chronic Relapse

Chronic Relapse

Consistent relapse occurs repeatedly, after partial recovery from addiction. This condition requires long-term treatment.

Co-Occurring Disorders

Co-Occurring Disorders

A person with multiple mental health diagnoses, such as addiction and depression, has co-occurring disorders also called dual diagnosis.

Drug Addiction

Drug Addiction

Drug addiction is the excessive and repetitive use of substances, despite harmful consequences to a person's life, health, and relationships.

Smoking Cessation

Smoking Cessation

Quitting smoking—i.e., ceasing to smoke—means giving up smoking nicotine and tobacco products. This process has very important health benefits.

Aftercare

Relapse Prevention Planning
Experience

Care Designed for Your Needs

Personal Amenities

Private Rooms

Amenities

Fitness Center
Luxury

Special Considerations

Pet Friendly

Pet Friendly

For greater comfort and healing, pet-friendly treatment centers welcome dogs and animal companions to stay with their owners while they attend treatment.

Clients Who Have Experienced Sexual Abuse

Activities

Physical Fitness
Reviews

What people are saying

4.7
Average of 35 reviews

Treatment

4.6

Accommodations

4.7

Food & Nutrition

4.4

Value

4.5

MG

Mom of Ascend Graduate

Treatment in 2022 • Reviewed 01/17/22

3.0
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Review from Rehabs.com

As mentioned earlier, Ascend was excellent at involving and educating the whole family. It was a serious commitment for all and we are so thankful to have a shared vocabulary we can use with each other and a better understanding of how we can support our child. Most importantly, our child has hope - hope for a future that she can manage with a variety of tools. The mentors were loving and approachable and reinforced the skills and language the clients were learning in their groups. As part of the program, our child connected with a 12-step program that she wants to continue attending. Our daughter’s therapist was EXCELLENT and we know those who had the other therapist felt the same.
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Ben

Treatment in 2021 • Reviewed 04/05/21

5.0
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Review from Rehabs.com

Ascend was astoundingly good - not only for our child, but for what they call our \"family system\". From the very beginning, they made it clear that their goal was to not only help our kid get out of crisis, but also to help the family develop an environment and communication patterns that would help keep them out. We miss Madison (our kid\'s and our family therapist) SO MUCH, and only hope that we continue to find such good and comprehensive care going forward.
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Pamela

Treatment in 2022 • Reviewed 08/22/22

4.0
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Review from Rehabs.com

I couldn't be more happy with the recovery my son made while at Ascend. Being extremely oppositional and in denial of his poor mental health, I was not sure that he would ever open up and accept treatment and transformation, but about 2.5 weeks in, he did. The result can only be called miraculous. He gained a lot of insight into the roots of his anxiety and depression, and, in his words, "got to know [him]self again." The combination of skills classes, group therapy, individual therapy, animal therapy and family therapy was what he needed. His and my communication has also radically changed for the better, thanks to family therapy and the DBT and other parent classes I took while my son was in residence. I would highly recommend Ascend Healthcare for a comprehensive and highly competent residential program.
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Rachel

Treatment in 2022 • Reviewed 03/11/22

5.0
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Review from Rehabs.com

After a tremendous amount of research and working with an educational consultant, I chose Canyons House at Ascend for my 15-year-old daughter. I believe Ascend is one of the best programs in the country and I was extremely happy with my daughter's progress during her six-week stay. She had an excellent therapist in Carla, who was patient and caring but honest and no-nonsense with my daughter which was exactly what she needed. I especially appreciated the ability to talk with my daughter regularly, practice what we were learning in family sessions and parallel her journey with my own involvement in the rigorous parent education program. I give Ascend Healthcare my highest recommendation.
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Julie

Treatment in 2020 • Reviewed 06/15/20

2.0
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Review from Rehabs.com

💛Ascend changed our lives- my son’s life. Our family is beyond blessed. If you are looking for the best treatment for your child, I truly believe that one could not do better than Ascend. Below is my letter to the owner/team. Effie, It is not a mystery that you have an incredible team at Ascend. I could not be more grateful than I am. When Grant went into Ascend the first time, he was in a very dark place- his energy was heavy so much that it weighed not only him down, it weighed down those around him. He didn’t believe in himself, nor anyone or anything else. The Grant who came out of treatment was as light as a feather. He was childlike again and it was the most beautiful thing I have truly ever seen. It was as though a miracle had occurred. And it did. I truly believe that it would not have happened without the incredible team you have and primarily, I owe it to Cynthia and Noah. Cynthia was an angel for my Grant. She was loving and nurturing; able to hold him accountable while providing him with truths that he was not able or willing to see prior to treatment. She did it in a manner in which he didn’t become combative or hostile. She gave him a freedom from himself and helped to remove that weight he walked in the doors of Ascend with. And she put up with my lengthy, random, overly detailed, and overly explained emails. That in itself deserves an award. J And then there was Noah... From the very moment I met him, I felt assured beyond what any parent could possibly feel. His words and his positivity took any fears I had and threw them to the curb. I drove up that first day, heavy with concern and pain, to bring Grant his belongings. When I left, I flew down the 405 with the biggest smile and the greatest sense of calm than I’d had in nearly two years. In speaking with a dear friend, I was describing the means in which Noah affects the lives of those around him so profoundly. I would like to add that I speak of him to many because he has touched my life and Grant’s life so profoundly. What he has done for Grant is unparalleled. As I spoke with this friend, an analogy came to me, bringing tears to my eyes and I felt compelled to elaborate and share it with you. Noah is a gift to the world. What he does and what he gives posses so much beauty. A beauty that cannot be taught. It is innate. And beauty breeds beauty. Noah’s gift is like a piece of art or a piece of music; a favorite song. When I think about the way that da Vinci’s Mona Lisa or Van Gogh’s Starry Night or even Shepard Fairey’s work (for me it’s Gustav Klimt’s The Kiss, Dali, and Fairey) have transcended generations and the manner in which they provoke emotion and perspective; awe and inspiration; the way they precipitate and propel change... and when I think of the way that I feel and the way my body and soul respond when I hear Michael Jackson’s Off the Wall, The Beatles’ Let it Be, The Stones’ Paint it Black, Beethoven’s Piano Sonata #14, Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five’s The Message, Adele’s Hello, Johnny Cash’s Boy Named Sue... the list goes on. The art; the music. It changes us. It permeates our being. And where would we be without these gifts? THIS. This is what Noah does for others. This is the gift that he gives. And he doesn’t even have to try. It’s just who he is... It would be unjust if I did not mention the impact that the rest of the team had on our lives. They are a godsend.. From the moment I heard your voice on the other end of the phone, trying to give me all of the information regarding Ascend while simultaneously caring for your seven children at 8:30 at night, my heart was stolen and I knew that this is exactly where Grant needed to be. And then I met Alicia over the phone. What an amazing woman! I tear up simply talking about her. She is a keeper... My brief conversations with Dr. Acosta communicated to me that she is a compassionate and trustworthy person. The kiddos are blessed to have her on their team. Brittany is kind, thorough, and direct. As someone who always has more questions, I did not find that I needed to seek additional information. She is a great asset to the team, as you know. Grant really connected with Alex. Connections for Grant are priceless. I’m grateful for that. I thank each and every staff member at Ascend for all that they do and for the parts of them that they give away each day so that these beautiful children can have a life beyond their wildest dreams- whether that life be years away or simply around the corner. Thank you to you and your team for planting the seeds that you do and for changing and saving the lives of these precious kiddos. Especially my Grant. Blessings.

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