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Life Healing Center Overview

Welcome to a place of personal transformation - a place of emotional safety, spiritual recovery, and positive change. A place where we are valued as individuals, respected for who we are as well as for what we can become. Welcome to Life Healing Center ~ Santa Fe.

Cradled in the Sangre de Cristo foothills above beautiful Santa Fe, New Mexico, Life Healing Center embodies the hope of recovery from emotional trauma, from addictions and mental health disorders, from the complex human problems that many of us face. The Life Healing Center specializes in a comprehensive, individualized approach to recovery and emotional healing. Groups are intimate and primary therapists meet with clients at least twice a week (more if needed). A celebrated Family Therapy Weekend program helps loved ones to understand and cope with the process of recovery. Consider Life Healing Center's holistic, person-centered program for extended, individualized treatment of any of the following:

Emotional and psychological effects of traumatic experiences, including Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
Drug or alcohol addictions
Eating disorders, including anorexia or bulimia
Grief and bereavement
Sexual Addiction and sexually compulsive behavior ~ Gender specific programming for men and women
Disorders of distressed mood, including depression, anxiety, panic or bipolar disorder
Compulsions with respect to overeating, overspending, gambling, or substance use
Self-harm or self-mutilating behavior related to emotional distress
Dissociative disorders, including Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID)
Impaired family and social relationships, isolation, and intense fear of abandonment
Personality disorders, including borderline and dependent types
Codependency

Advantages of the Life Healing Center approach

More concentrated therapy experience - two hour group each morning, focused on core issues.
Groups co-facilitated by two licensed practitioners, to permit increased attention and interaction with therapists.
Groups are small, usually 6-10 persons, with consistent leadership.
Non-hospital residential setting more affordable than other options.
Multiple levels of service including a Transitional Living Program component
Complete psychiatric evaluation on admission, including medication regimen designed to help control symptoms without interfering with therapy.
Availability of more intense supervision and monitoring for difficult clients.
Multiple approaches and eclectic, person-centered philosophy (somatic, psychodynamic, cognitive-behavioral, 12 Step, spiritual)
Unusually low patient to therapist ratio - therapists often working with only three to six primary clients
Integrated, person-centered treatment plan addressing all identified individual needs.
Specialized evaluation and management of medications by psychiatrists for complex cases
Motivational enhancement, helpful especially to patients with history of treatment failure or poor motivation for change.
Advanced skills-building program to improve coping ability, including anger management, conflict resolution, self-soothing, relationship-building.
Complementary therapies and integrative healing techniques available from trained practitioners.
Massage, acupuncture, equine therapy and other healing practices
Strong 12 Step community with both in-house and outside meetings

To speak with a skilled, compassionate Life Healing Center counselor, call 866.806.7214. All communications are completely confidential.