“I want to feel like myself again.”
There is a wide space between weekly outpatient therapy and hospital-level care. Mental Health Residential offers women a residential mental health treatment option within that space, with consistent clinical support, daily structure, and room to step away from everyday demands before life becomes unmanageable.
Two of the people whose work shapes what happens here.
Therapy and Somatic Experiencing
Cindy is a licensed marriage and family therapist and a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner, based here in Idyllwild. She works with the body and nervous system to reduce symptoms of traumatic stress. Cindy brings together somatic experiencing, expressive arts and mindfulness, and she starts from acceptance: you are met as you are, and the work builds from there.
Acupuncture and Asian medicine
Miles has spent twenty five years in the study and practice of Asian medicine, meditation and bodywork. He runs a community acupuncture clinic here in Idyllwild, and before that spent eight years as an acupuncturist with Sharp HealthCare, working across inpatient and outpatient care and helping build programs. His practice blends Chinese and functional medicine.
Dr. Alva completed his psychiatric residency at the University of California, Irvine, and has practiced psychiatry for more than thirty-five years. He is the founder of Pacific Neuropsychiatric Specialists, and he supervises the psychiatric care at Mental Health Residential rather than seeing clients directly.
Licensed and certified
Six beds · Women welcomed from across the country
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