Treatment Methods
Avalon Malibu’s Mental Health & Substance Abuse Treatment Modalities
For over 15 years, Avalon Malibu has helped 1,700+ individuals and families, guided by steady leadership for more than a decade.
Dr. Hillary Berens and her team are personally involved with every client, ensuring that the values we started with still define who we are today: truth, excellence, and individualized care.
Why Families Trust Us
At Avalon Malibu, families place their trust in us not only because of our clinical excellence, but because of our consistency. With the same leadership team guiding the program for over a decade, we offer what many treatment centers cannot: presence. You will never feel like a number here. From the moment a client arrives, our team works directly with them, not from a distance, not through layers of staff, but side by side.
Consistency, Safety, and Presence
- Over 77% of clients are referred by professionals & alumni
- 6:1 staff-to-client ratio (rare in residential treatment)
- CEO and Clinical Director personally involved with every client
- Family coaching and support starting on day 1
Mental Health and Addiction Treatment Methods We Offer Include:
Healing requires more than just stopping symptoms, it requires understanding why they exist. At Avalon Malibu, we use evidence-based, trauma-informed modalities paired with holistic therapies to support recovery of the mind, body, and nervous system. Our clinicians customize a treatment plan that integrates both clinical structure and experiential healing.
Click on each treatment method to learn more about how we use them to heal addiction and mental illness.
- 12-Step Support Groups
- Acupuncture
- Aftercare Planning
- Alumni Support Groups
- Aqua Activities (seasonal)
- Art Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Couples & Family Therapy
- Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT)
- Didactic Groups
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Gestalt
- Group Psychotherapy
- Holistic
- Journaling
- Massage Therapy
- Mental Health Diversion
- Motivational Enhancement Therapy (MET)
- Music Therapy
- Neurofeedback
- Non-12-Step Support Groups
- Nutritional Assessment and Guidance
- One-on-One Psychotherapy
- Pain Management
- Physical Fitness
- Psychodrama
- Relapse Prevention
- Ropes Course (seasonal)
- Stabilization
- Stages of Change
- Yoga
- Writing Therapy
What We Provide
Integrated, individualized care in a luxury, private and therapeutic environment
- 24/7 nursing and medical support
- 50+ individual session hours per month (above industry norms)
- Detox & stabilization
- Full psychiatric testing & medication management
- Concierge-level logistics and coordination
- Seamless collaboration with outside providers
Learn more about how we treat
Want to Learn More About Our Mental Health and Drug Addiction Treatment Methods? Call Today to Speak Confidentially to a Mental Health and Addiction Specialist.
Call 1-888-958-7511Reconnecting With Creativity, Passion & Purpose
Recovery is about more than addressing symptoms. It is also an opportunity to reconnect with the parts of yourself that may have been lost along the way. At Avalon Malibu, we encourage clients to explore their creativity, discover new interests, and develop a deeper sense of meaning and purpose in their lives.
Our Malibu setting offers opportunities to step outside of the traditional treatment environment, engage with nature, and experience the restorative benefits of being present and connected to the world around you. Through experiential activities and opportunities for exploration, clients can begin to rediscover what inspires them, build confidence in their abilities, and develop healthy passions that support long-term recovery. We believe these experiences are an important part of individualized addiction and mental health treatment, helping each person move beyond addiction and toward a life that feels meaningful, fulfilling, and uniquely their own.
