Beachside Extended Care Residential Treatment

Sober Living by the Sea's signature program for the last 25 years is our Beachside Extended Care Program.  This extended care program has been the preferred destination for men and women who have established a period of sobriety and are ready to continue their care in a structured "real world" environment.

Surf, Sand, Sun, and a New Outlook on Life

Recovering individuals in our long term program integrate back into society with plenty of supervision and support.  The program is for women and men who are of adult age and many teens take advantage of the college continuation program we offer called the T.E.A.C.H. Program.

Clients in our extended care program live in gender specific houses and will be drug/alcohol tested every 72 hours. The men and women enjoy the freedom of being able to ride their beach cruiser to participate in the recovery program that our clinical staff has designed for them.

Read "Dear Fellow Parent:" A Letter from a Mother to Another about Having a Child in Treatment

Read About some of the Groups and Lectures the Clients Participate In

All treatment happens within our campus on the Newport Beach peninsula (Coastal Orange County, CA). Our campus is one of the most popular destinations for treatment and recovery in the world and the best doctors, therapists, and addiction professionals have gathered to practice with us in Newport Beach. See a sample daily schedule.

Extended Length of Care Provides Most Effective Addiction Treatment

The greatest indicator of long-term sobriety is time spent living in a supportive and structured environment. Some of our clients need to be in a highly structured primary care program for the first 30 to 60 days of treatment, and Sober Living by the Sea has several gender specific treatment options (you can see an overview of all our treatment programs here).

We have found that individuals have the greatest opportunity to transition back into society without slipping back into substance abuse when they participate in our long term extended care program and are given a personalized treatment curriculum based on our assessment.

A Healthy and Esteem Building Lifestyle of Recovery and Growth

Our extended care clients are housed in our safe and clean apartments in Newport Beach and are highly supervised by their house "parent." They will literally be working toward recovery around the clock with constant:

• recovery lectures
• addiction workshops
• one-on-one counseling sessions
• group therapy
• 12-Step Recovery Meetings
• family groups (weekly and monthly)

Activities With Heather Sulfaro - Our Masters Level Recreational Therapist

There is only so much information and therapeutic processing a person can do while they are in recovery. We have had much success by also providing opportunities every day for the clients to have fun and be active to balance the stress that comes form working on the underlying issues with our clinicians. 

Our location right on the beach in Southern California allows us to offer a wide variety of fun activities for both fitness and also to help our clients build fellowship and learn how to "have fun in sobriety."

Heather Sulfaro is our Masters Level Recreational Therapist who designs our activity calendar and facilitates the activities.  She has been helping men and women in treatment for many years and says the positive activities help our clients in a wide variety of ways:

• Help the client to find healthy means to satisfy the needs previously met through the use of drugs/alcohol
• Increase the chance to experience fun, pleasure and to feel in control of their lives
• Teach new ways to relieve stress and anxiety
• Offer an avenue for developing stress management, social skills, leisure education, assertiveness and coping skills
• Facilitate new learning related to social and free time choices
• Expose clients to leisure alternatives in the community
• Provide increased structure, allowing choice within restrictions
• Increase social functioning and self-confidence
• Develop social support network
• Enhance basic communication skills
• Alleviate boredom (#1 trigger for relapse)
• Increase problem solving and decision making skills
• Practice self-care and self-acceptance
• Develop communication, self control and trusting relationships
• Enhance independent functioning and physical well-being
• Focus on detoxification and client’s physical needs

Some examples of the types of activities we offer include physical fitness activities such as:

• Daily 24 Hour Fitness visits
• Rock climbing   
  
• Canoeing   
  
• Yoga        
  
• Stand-up paddle board   
  
• Volleyball   
  
• Bowling    
  
• Basketball
• Softball
• 5K Run
• Yoga
• Golfing

We also offer outdoors activities for our clients to enjoy our Southern California location and build fellowship with other recovering men and women:

• Universal Studios
• Palm Springs Excursion
• Beachfront Barbeques
• Sailing off of the Newport Coast
• Sports Fishing (weekly) off of the Newport Coast
• Sand Castle Competitions

There are also education and esteem building activities to help our clients understand how rewarding it is to enrich themselves with knowledge rather than use drugs or alcohol:

• Art Museums
• Botanical Gardens Trip
• Sawdust Festival
• Movies
• San Diego Zoo
• Long Beach Aquarium
• Church Visit (optional)
• Harp (Music) Therapy

Click here to read more about our rehab activities
Click here to tour our residences or see a daily schedule
Click here to watch an introductory video

Testimonial Video:

Beyond Extended Care - Resuming Careers and Education

As our clients progress further in their recovery in the extended care program, they will be ready to go back to school or resume working. Sober Living by the Sea has created the T.E.A.C.H. Sober College Program for recovering students that provides:

• Transcript Assistance
• Career Assessment Testing 
• Individual Academic Advisor and Counselor
• Academic Tutoring
• Monitored Study Sessions
• Transportation Provided to Campus
• Accredited/Transferable Units

Sober Living by the Sea also has a transitional work program which allows our clients to resume their careers while still continuing their treatment and residing in a structured and supportive environment.

Contact Our Intake Admissions Team to Ask Questions

Please call us at 866-323-5609 so that we can answer your questions and begin the assessment process for you and your loved one to get help with alcoholism or drug addiction. We have twenty three years of experience helping people get sober and stay sober but there is nothing we can do if we are not contacted first by the person who needs treatment (or a loved one). You can also fill out a confidential form to get more information and start the assessment process.

If you are reading this on behalf of a loved one you may want to read our website page that is written to the family or loved ones of an alcoholic or an addict. We also have a page with advice about what to say to a loved one who is addicted to drugs or alcohol.

Should Detox or Primary Care for Chemical Dependency be Necessary

Sober Living by the Sea has twenty three years of experience building relationships with the premiere addictions providers in the world. If someone comes to us in need of alcohol or drug detox or primary care, we have those facilities at our disposal. We have gender specific primary drug rehabs for men and women. You can see an overview of all our treatment programs here.

Contact us immediately if you are not sure if the detoxification process if necessary. We can help you decide if this is required. We also can provide suboxone detoxification to minimize discomfort.

Caring and Respectful Treatment Center in Orange County, CA

Sober Living by the Sea is committed to guiding the recovery of you or your loved one with utmost respect and dedicated expertise. There is simply no substitute for our twenty three years of experience helping men and women stop drinking and abusing drugs (or overcome an eating disorder). Also, there is no better place to begin a new life than right here on the beach in Newport Beach, California.

We know that the recovering individual will fall in love with the surroundings just as they embrace a new life free of alcoholism, drug abuse, or an eating disorder. During the recovering client's stay, the entire family can also enjoy the beauty of Newport Beach because the family has the option of attending our state of the art family program which is comprised of 3 very powerful and healing days filled with educational workshops and process groups which will make the family aware of how to address the alcoholism, addiction, or eating disorder in the future when the recovering man or woman visits or returns home.

Welcome Video Guide For Families:

Once you or your loved one arrives in Newport Beach (or at Sunrise Recovery Ranch in the California Foothills) there will be an initial drug/alcohol abuse screening. After this, the individual will be taken to their living quarters, introduced to their case managers, and guided on how to begin the individual program of healing recovery that our clinical team has deemed appropriate. Be sure to check out the Sober Living by the Sea Welcome Video for Clients and Families because it will explain a lot about how the process will work.