Balboa Horizons

ABOUT BALBOA HORIZONS

Located in Newport Beach, California, Balboa Horizons offers residential and intensive outpatient (IOP) treatment for adults struggling with addiction or co-occurring disorders. It's one of 197 non-hospital substance abuse treatment facilities in California (just 15 percent of all facilities in the state) to provide on-site medical detox.

TREATMENT & ASSESSMENT

All clients undergo a comprehensive assessment upon intake to help staff form an individualized treatment plan. Programs are gender-specific, offering men and women opportunity to freely and openly discuss topics and life issues specific to each of them. Groups also cover a wide area of gender-indifferent topics, such as trauma, grief and loss, and living with co-occurring disorders.

Though treatment takes place in separate facilities, both men and women follow a curriculum that’s built around group and individual therapy, cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), 12-step meetings and education, and relapse prevention workshops. The facility also utilizes dialectical behavior therapy (DBT), a modality used by a little more than half of all treatment facilities in California.

Residents benefit from holistic and recreational activities including yoga, meditation, art therapy and music therapy. Balboa Horizons also holds a four-day family program which offers on-site recovery meetings, education on the various effects of addiction, self-care, and more.

Balboa Horizons is among the 34 percent of rehabs in California that provide long-term treatment, offering residential programs that last up to 90 days. Program graduates may progress into Strive, Balboa Horizon’s IOP, which provides outpatient counseling, life skills training, assistance with educational or vocational goals, and more.

STAFF CREDENTIALS

The treatment team includes a board-certified psychiatrist and medical director, as well as licensed marriage and family therapists, licensed clinical social workers, therapists, certified addiction counselors, and case managers.

ACCOMMODATIONS & AMENITIES

Pictures posted on the rehab's website depict beachside accommodations with bright and airy bedrooms that sleep two and common areas that have large couches and flat-screen TVs.

WHAT ALUMNI SAY

The two alumni surveyed by Rehabs.com at the time of this writing gave Balboa Horizons positive feedback. Devon awarded the facility four or five out of five stars for its cleanliness, its holistic offerings, its leisure activities, and its treatment of co-occurring disorders. The alum also praised the rehab for its caring, individualized treatment and noted: "I loved the gender specific aspect, loved the location, loved the family vibe."

Hosea agreed and told Rehabs.com that the program was "really useful & it helped me out much."

The facility also fared well on secondary sites, earning average ratings of 4.1 out of five stars based on seven Google reviews^[1] and 4.5 out of five stars based on 26 Yelp reviews^[2] (14 of which were unrecommended). The rehab also received a 4.4 out of five star rating based on the opinions of 112 individuals on Facebook^[2]. Across all three sites, alumni who left comments described Balboa Horizons as a warm and welcoming treatment facility with caring staff, nice amenities, and effective treatment.

"I learned how to be a friend, to have fun in sobriety, and most importantly, how to love myself," Caroline told Yelp in a representative review. "I owe my life to Balboa Horizons."

FINANCING

According to its website, Balboa Horizons accepts many major health insurance plans, including Aetna, Humana, and BlueCross BlueShield.

^[1] GoogleReviews
^[2] https://www.yelp.com/biz/balboa-horizons-costa-mesa
^[3] https://www.facebook.com/pg/BalboaHorizons/reviews/