What We Offer
We provide two levels of residential care, designed for people who need more than outpatient treatment but don't require an intense, hospital setting.
Our Program Includes:
You'll also learn how to manage triggers, build healthier relationships, and begin to reconnect with who you are without substances.
What We Treat
We provide support for a wide range of substance use and co-occurring issues, including:
If you're not sure whether you qualify, reach out, we'll help you figure out what level of care is right and whether our program is a good fit. And if it's not, we'll point you toward one that is.
Who We Help
Desert Oasis Recovery serves adults (age 18+) who are ready to make a change and begin a new chapter in recovery.
We welcome:
- Individuals struggling with drug or alcohol addiction
- People coming out of detox or another residential program
- Adults with co-occurring mental health needs (such as anxiety, depression, PTSD)
- People looking for structure, support, and accountability in early sobriety
- Individuals who have relapsed and want to get back on track
We proudly serve a diverse range of backgrounds and life experiences. You don’t have to fit a mold or meet some impossible standard to be here, you just have to be willing to try.
Day-to-Day Schedule
Your days will include a mix of individual therapy, group sessions, wellness activities, life skills training, and time for rest, reflection, and connection. Each part of your schedule is designed to support growth and healing-not just from substance use, but in all areas of life.
CHOOSING A LEVEL
The two levels, side by side
Most people do not arrive knowing which level they need, and you are not expected to. Your assessment determines where you start, and it is common to move between them as things change. What follows is what the difference actually feels like day to day rather than how it reads in a regulation.
Level 3.5, high intensity
Full days of structured programming with close clinical oversight, in a setting where nothing else is asked of you for a while. This is usually where people start when use has been heavy or long-standing, when earlier attempts at outpatient care did not hold, or when going home would make early recovery unrealistic.
Expect most of the day accounted for, frequent contact with staff, and limited independence at first. People often describe the structure as the thing they resented in week one and relied on by week three.
Level 3.1, low intensity
Still a 24-hour supportive living environment, with clinical services alongside considerably more room to practice independence. Work, appointments, and rebuilding an ordinary routine start to come back into the picture.
This is often where people step down after a period at 3.5, and it is the stage where the plan for going home stops being theoretical. Some people come in at this level directly if their assessment supports it.
There is no fixed length of stay. Clinical need sets it rather than a calendar, and your treatment team reviews progress with you throughout. Our licensed clinical staff determine level of care using ASAM criteria and DHCS regulations, based on a comprehensive assessment at intake.
HOW WE WORK
The approaches we use, and what each is for
- Cognitive behavioral tools, for the thinking that makes using look reasonable again
- Dialectical behavior skills, for tolerating distress and regulating emotion without acting on it
- Group-based recovery support, where being understood without explaining does work individual sessions cannot
- Family involvement and support, because substance use damages relationships in specific ways
- Life skills training, for the practical rebuilding that decides how the first months home go
- Relapse prevention, the work that decides what happens after you leave
- Peer support, and building a network that outlasts the program
WORTH KNOWING UP FRONT
What we do not do here
We do not provide acute medical detox or medically managed withdrawal onsite. If your assessment shows you need that first, we will help you find and coordinate it and hold your place, so there is no gap between finishing there and starting here. That handoff is where a great many people fall through, and it is the part we watch closest.
We are also not a hospital and not an emergency service. What we are is a licensed residential program with the structure, clinical staff, and time that recovery actually takes, which is a different thing and the right thing for most people.
Saying this plainly matters more than it costs us. A program that is vague about its limits tends to be vague about other things too.
WHERE TO GO NEXT
Useful next steps
- What we can help with, the conditions we treat and what each involves
- How admission works, step by step from first call to arrival
- Verify your insurance, a confidential benefits check with no obligation
- Family support, for the people carrying this alongside you
- What to expect, the first day, what to bring, and what an ordinary day looks like
- Insurance and paying for treatment
- For referring professionals, what to know before you place someone here
- Frequently asked questions about treatment
Desert Oasis Recovery is licensed by the California Department of Health Care Services (License #150080AP) and accredited by The Joint Commission. We serve co-ed adults at our Ridgecrest campus and accept Medi-Cal, Tricare, and most private PPO plans.
