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Elevate Addiction Services - Skylake Recovery CenterSouth Lake Tahoe, California, United States (275 Reviews)
South Lake Tahoe, California, United States
Elevate Addiction Services - Skylake Recovery Center
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Insurance AcceptedInsurance AcceptedProvider's Policy
Elevate Addiction Services is in-network with most major insurance providers and can accept many out-of-network plans as well. Insurance will cover 100% of costs after deductibles and out-of-pockets. Our team will verify your benefits prior to admission ensuring there are no surprises. Additionally, financing is available for any out-of-pocket fees.
Estimated Cash Pay Rate
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1-on-1 Counseling
Perfect for Professionals
Private Rooms Available
Non 12-Step Approach
About Elevate Addiction Services - Skylake Recovery Center
Elevate Addiction Services - Sky Lake Recovery Center is a retreat-like detox, residential, and outpatient treatment center set in the gorgeous pines of the Lake Tahoe region for individuals ages 18-65. This center specializes in holistic, non-12-step treatment that can range from 30-60 days, depending on the clients’ needs. With same-day admissions available, Elevate helps clients begin their recovery journey without delay. Their signature Elevate Method propels clients to live a purpose-driven life free from substances.
Create a Path to a Brighter Future
At Elevate, recovery isn’t just about sobriety—it’s about rediscovering oneself and creating a life filled with purpose and joy. Rather than believing that people are victims of the lifelong disease of addiction, their approach focuses on addressing root causes to help clients heal from within. The team prioritizes all-encompassing healing using both science-backed therapies and interactive ways of healing. They try not to prescribe medication as a first line of defense for mental health conditions, giving the body a chance to replenish what substances have depleted. Elevate is now the first treatment center in the country to introduce cutting-edge 9D breathing technology into their recovery program. Through this and their intensive individual and group therapy, clients come to their own conclusions and create their own path to a brighter future.
Experience Fresh Air, Fresh Food, and Friendship
Reminiscent of a summer camp, with its setting inside a grove of pine trees, their large lodge-style building sits on beautiful grounds to breathe fresh mountain air and enjoy watching beautiful wildlife. While this center does see several inches of snow each year, clients can still bundle up and take advantage of the great outdoors. To make arrival stress-free, Elevate offers airport transfers for incoming clients. After a day of therapy and outdoor activities, clients enjoy nutritious meals that often feature fresh, local food. During down time, clients can play a friendly game of volleyball or watch a movie with peers.
Begin a New Chapter of Life
The journey to recovery doesn’t end with graduation—it’s just the beginning of a lifelong commitment to sobriety. Residential graduates participate in a heartwarming ceremony with family and friends to celebrate their hard-earned success. Each client then leaves with a customized post-treatment plan. They get to meet one-on-one with a continuing-care counselor, have regular checkup calls, and attend virtual support groups. They also offer a safety net through their Graduate Assurance Plan which allows clients to return to treatment for up to 30 days within 6 months of leaving.
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Insurance Accepted
Provider's Policy:Elevate Addiction Services is in-network with most major insurance providers and can accept many out-of-network plans as well. Insurance will cover 100% of costs after deductibles and out-of-pockets. Our team will verify your benefits prior to admission ensuring there are no surprises. Additionally, financing is available for any out-of-pocket fees.
GEHA
Exclusively serving federal and postal employees with clinical and dental benefits for employees and their families. Benefits apply to retired military, too.
Optum
Part of UnitedHealth Group, providing care to over 165,000 people worldwide.
Tricare
Providing health care programs that reinforce, maintain, and sustain good health for uniformed service members, retirees, and their families globally.
Cigna
Cigna's unique history traces back to 1792, but today they offer services to 190 million customers in 30 different countries across the globe.
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Elevate Method: Live a Life of Honesty and Integrity
Elevate’s innovative non-12-step program offers a refreshing alternative for those seeking a different path to sobriety. Their approach emphasizes personal accountability, confronting life’s challenges head-on, and living with integrity. This method requires radical honesty to build a life based on authenticity. As current research evolves and best practices change, Elevate incorporates the latest methods into their approach as well.
Transition from Detox to Daily Life
The inpatient program at Elevate is strategically broken down into 4 phases. The journey begins with detox where clients undergo stabilization to rid the body of substances. The next phase focuses on physical and emotional healing including rebuilding strength through exercise, nutrition, and mindfulness. Phase 3 helps clients build life skills and prevent relapse. And phase 4 helps clients transition into daily life free from addiction. Each Friday, Elevate honors phase completion with a heartfelt graduation ceremony that often brings tears, applause, and opportunity for reflection.
Online Recovery on Clients’ Terms
There’s no need to put everything on hold to pursue recovery. From the comfort of clients’ own spaces, they can join an online intensive outpatient program (IOP) that includes regular check-ins, educational sessions, mindfulness, and group therapy. Every counseling session is done via video conferencing. Flexible scheduling and acceptance of major insurance carriers allows clients to reclaim their lives on their own schedules.
Infuse Recovery with Genuine Positivity
Recovery at Elevate is transformed into a genuinely positive experience. Their focus on healing the mind, body, and spirit creates overall well-being and shifts clients away from a victim mentality and moves them toward empowerment. And their major emphasis on group therapy and activities provide opportunities to form lasting friendships with peers on similar journeys.
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Center Overview
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Older Adults
Addiction and mental health treatment caters to adults 55+ and the age-specific challenges that can come with recovery, wellness, and overall happiness.
Executives
Executive treatment programs typically directly support the needs of people who manage businesses and may provide flexible schedules and office space to allow work during treatment.
Young Adults
Emerging adults ages 18-25 receive treatment catered to the unique challenges of early adulthood, like college, risky behaviors, and vocational struggles.
LGBTQ+
Addiction and mental illnesses in the LGBTQ+ community must be treated with an affirming, safe, and relevant approach, which many centers provide.
Men and Women
Men and women attend treatment for addiction in a co-ed setting, going to therapy groups together to share experiences, struggles, and successes.
Midlife Adults
For adults ages 40+, treatment shifts to focus on the unique challenges, blocks, and risk factors of their age group, and unites peers in a similar community.
Mild Disabilities
Adults with mild physical or intellectual disabilities receive treatment catered to their specific needs in a safe and clinically supportive environment.
Professionals
Busy, high-ranking professionals get the personalized treatment they need with greater accommodations for work, privacy, and outside communication.
Veterans
Patients who completed active military duty receive specialized treatment focused on trauma, grief, loss, and finding a new work-life balance.
Treatment Focus
This center treats primary substance use disorders and co-occurring mental health conditions. Your treatment plan addresses each condition at once with personalized, compassionate care for comprehensive healing.
Treatment
Specializations
Alcohol
Using alcohol as a coping mechanism, or drinking excessively throughout the week, signals an alcohol use disorder.
Executives
Executive treatment programs typically directly support the needs of people who manage businesses and may provide flexible schedules and office space to allow work during treatment.
Holistic
A non-medicinal, wellness-focused approach that aims to align the mind, body, and spirit for deep and lasting healing.
Non 12 Step
Non-12-Step philosophies veer from the spiritual focus of the 12-Steps and instead treat the disease of addiction with holistic or secular modalities.
Treatment Services
Day Treatment
In a PHP, patients live at home but follow an intensive schedule of treatment. Most programs require you to be on-site for about 40 hours per week.
Recovery Coaching
A support service designed to help individuals identify and maintain their personal recovery goals, provide guidance and support, and connect them with recovery resources and community-based services.
Detox
Detox fully and safely removes toxic substances from the body, allowing the next steps in treatment to begin with a clean slate.
Intensive Outpatient Program
In an IOP, patients live at home or a sober living, but attend treatment typically 9-15 hours a week. Most programs include talk therapy, support groups, and other methods.
Outpatient
During outpatient rehab, patients attend a structured treatment program while continuing to live at home.
Residential
In a residential rehab program, patients live onsite, with access to daily treatment and 24-hour care. An average stay is 30-90 days.
Approaches
Evidence-Based
A combination of scientifically rooted therapies and treatments make up evidence-based care, defined by their measured and proven results.
Experiential
Expressive tools and therapies help patients process past situations, learn more about themselves, and find healing through action.
Family Involvement
Providers involve family in the treatment of their loved one through family therapy, visits, or both–because addiction is a family disease.
Holistic
A non-medicinal, wellness-focused approach that aims to align the mind, body, and spirit for deep and lasting healing.
Individual Treatment
Individual care meets the needs of each patient, using personalized treatment to provide them the most relevant care and greatest chance of success.
Non 12 Step
Non-12-Step philosophies veer from the spiritual focus of the 12-Steps and instead treat the disease of addiction with holistic or secular modalities.
Therapies
1-on-1 Counseling
Patient and therapist meet 1-on-1 to work through difficult emotions and behavioral challenges in a personal, private setting.
Meditation & Mindfulness
A practiced state of mind that brings patients to the present. It allows them to become fully aware of themselves, their feelings, and the present moment.
Trauma-Specific Therapy
This form of talk therapy addresses any childhood trauma at the root of a patient's current diagnosis.
Online Therapy
Patients can connect with a therapist via videochat, messaging, email, or phone. Remote therapy makes treatment more accessible.
Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy
A type of cognitive therapy that identifies negative self-defeating thoughts and behaviors, rewriting beliefs to be positive, empowering, and present.
Mindfulness Therapy
This ancient practice can be mental, emotional, and even spiritual. In meditation, you focus your attention on the present moment without judgement.
Experiential Therapy
With this approach, patients heal by doing. Therapists help patients process difficult emotions to speak, using guided activities like art or dance.
Family Therapy
Family therapy addresses group dynamics within a family system, with a focus on improving communication and interrupting unhealthy relationship patterns.
Life Skills
Teaching life skills like cooking, cleaning, clear communication, and even basic math provides a strong foundation for continued recovery.
Conditions We Treat
Grief and Loss
Grief is a natural reaction to loss, but severe grief can interfere with your ability to function. You can get treatment for this condition.
Anger
Although anger itself isn't a disorder, it can get out of hand. If this feeling interferes with your relationships and daily functioning, treatment can help.
Anxiety
Anxiety is a common mental health condition that can include excessive worry, panic attacks, physical tension, and increased blood pressure.
Bipolar
This mental health condition is characterized by extreme mood swings between depression, mania, and remission.
Burnout
Burnout entails mental and physical exhaustion, and leads to a severe lack of fulfillment. This condition is often caused by overwork.
Codependency
Codependency is a pattern of emotional dependence and controlling behavior. It's most common among people with addicted loved ones.
Depression
Symptoms of depression may include fatigue, a sense of numbness, and loss of interest in activities. This condition can range from mild to severe.
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
PTSD is a long-term mental health issue caused by a disturbing event or events. Symptoms include anxiety, dissociation, flashbacks, and intrusive thoughts.
Stress
Stress is a natural reaction to challenges, and it can even help you adapt. However, chronic stress can cause physical and mental health issues.
Trauma
Some traumatic events are so disturbing that they cause long-term mental health problems. Those ongoing issues can also be referred to as "trauma."
Substances We Treat
Alcohol
Using alcohol as a coping mechanism, or drinking excessively throughout the week, signals an alcohol use disorder.
Benzodiazepines
Benzodiazepines are prescribed to treat anxiety and sleep issues. They are highly habit forming, and their abuse can cause mood changes and poor judgement.
Chronic Relapse
Consistent relapse occurs repeatedly, after partial recovery from addiction. This condition requires long-term treatment.
Co-Occurring Disorders
A person with multiple mental health diagnoses, such as addiction and depression, has co-occurring disorders also called dual diagnosis.
Cocaine
Cocaine is a stimulant with euphoric effects. Agitation, muscle ticks, psychosis, and heart issues are common symptoms of cocaine abuse.
Drug Addiction
Drug addiction is the excessive and repetitive use of substances, despite harmful consequences to a person's life, health, and relationships.
Ecstasy
Ecstasy is a stimulant that causes intense euphoria and heightened awareness. Abuse of this drug can trigger depression, insomnia, and memory problems.
Heroin
Heroin is a highly addictive and illegal opioid. It can cause insomnia, collapsed veins, heart issues, and additional mental health issues.
Psychedelics
Hallucinogenic drugs—like LSD—cause euphoria and increased sensory experiences. When abused, they can lead to depression and psychosis.
Aftercare
Experience
Personal Amenities
Amenities
Special Considerations
Center Pets
Addiction and mental health facilities with pets allow patients to interact with friendly dogs, cats, horses, and in some cases, even dolphins.
Flexible technology policies
Centers with flexible technology policies allow professionals to stay in touch with work and give patients a greater sense of connection and normalcy.
Gender-specific groups
Patients in gender-specific groups gain the opportunity to discuss challenges unique to their gender in a comfortable, safe setting conducive to healing.
Healthy Meals are provided
Great food meets great treatment, with providers serving healthy meals to restore nutrition, wellbeing, and health.
Activities
Yoga
Yoga is both a physical and spiritual practice. It includes a flow of movement, breathing techniques, and meditation.
Off-Site Activities
Professional Staff
Alok Krishna MD
Medical Director
Jesse Quaid
Director of Intake & Clinical Records
CADC-CAS
Michael G DiPalma
Lead Admissions Counselor
CADC-CAS
Carrie Grothendick
Lead Female One-on-One Counselor
CADC-CAS
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They build you up and help you to see your value and worth and that you can live a happy, wonderful life even after addiction.
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