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Treatment Focus
This center primarily treats substance use disorders, helping you stabilize, create relapse-prevention plans, and connect to compassionate support.
Primary Level of Care
Offering intensive care with 24/7 monitoring, residential treatment is typically 30 days and can cover multiple levels of care. Length can range from 14 to 90 days typically.
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Treatment Focus
This center primarily treats substance use disorders, helping you stabilize, create relapse-prevention plans, and connect to compassionate support.
Primary Level of Care
Offering intensive care with 24/7 monitoring, residential treatment is typically 30 days and can cover multiple levels of care. Length can range from 14 to 90 days typically.
Private Pay
You pay directly for treatment out of pocket. This approach can offer enhanced privacy and flexibility, without involving insurance. Exact costs vary based on program and length of stay. Contact the center for specific details.
About Orca Lelum
Drawing from the snuw'uy'ulh teachings of the Coast Salish Peoples, this residential center blends land-based healing with clinical support for Indigenous youth in British Columbia. They serve BC residents ages 12 to 18 facing substance use challenges, with or without co-occurring mental health concerns, through voluntary live-in programming.
Live-In Wellness Program
The flagship offering is a 10-week live-in wellness program capped at 10 participants. Staff develop individualized wellness plans covering counselling, life skills, and relapse prevention. Residents receive healthcare access, mental health services, nutritious meals, and nutritional education. Yoga and structured time within nature are added into the program.
Cultural Care and Accommodations
The program incorporates equine therapy, circle work, ceremonies, and land-based outdoor activities as part of the treatment structure. Elders and Knowledge Keepers provide cultural teachings on-site with aftercare planning that addresses relapse prevention and goal setting. They offer two wheelchair-accessible rooms and accept co-ed youth, including LGBTQIA+ individuals.

Center Overview
Treatment Focus
This center primarily treats substance use disorders, helping you stabilize, create relapse-prevention plans, and connect to compassionate support.

Pricing and Program Length
Estimated Center Costs
Center pricing can vary based on program and length of stay. Contact the center for more information. Recovery.com strives for price transparency so you can make an informed decision.
Levels of Care
Your Care Options
Specializations
Adolescents
Teens receive the treatment they need for mental health disorders and addiction, with the added support of educational and vocational services.
Alcohol
Using alcohol as a coping mechanism, or drinking excessively throughout the week, signals an alcohol use disorder.
Drug Addiction
Drug addiction is the excessive and repetitive use of substances, despite harmful consequences to a person's life, health, and relationships.
Indigenous / Native American Program
Patients who identify as Indigenous or Native American receive culturally responsive treatment that may incorporate traditional healing practices, community connection, intergenerational trauma support, and respect for cultural values and identity.
Who We Treat
Adolescents
Teens receive the treatment they need for mental health disorders and addiction, with the added support of educational and vocational services.
Indigenous / Native American Program
Patients who identify as Indigenous or Native American receive culturally responsive treatment that may incorporate traditional healing practices, community connection, intergenerational trauma support, and respect for cultural values and identity.
Approaches
Holistic
A non-medicinal, wellness-focused approach that aims to align the mind, body, and spirit for deep and lasting healing.
Wellness
Wellness philosophies focus on the physical, mental, and spiritual wellness of each patient, helping them restore purpose with natural remedies.
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.
Animal Therapy
Animals can inspire trust and self-worth. In this experiential therapy, guided interactions are used to improve social skills and emotion regulation.
Art Therapy
Visual art invites patients to examine the emotions within their work, focusing on the process of creativity and its gentle therapeutic power.
Equine Therapy
Guided interactions with trained horses, their handler, and a therapist can help patients improve their self-esteem, trust, empathy, and social skills.
Group Therapy
Group therapy brings people together in a supportive setting to share experiences, develop skills, and work toward common goals.
Life Skills
Teaching life skills like cooking, cleaning, clear communication, and even basic math provides a strong foundation for continued recovery.
Music Therapy
Singing, performing, and even listening to music can be therapeutic. Music therapy sessions are facilitated by certified counselors.
Nature Therapy
Nature therapy uses time in natural environments to promote relaxation, emotional well-being, and connection with the outdoors.
Relapse Prevention Counseling
Relapse prevention counselors teach patients to recognize the signs of relapse and reduce their risk.
Languages
Conditions We Treat
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.
Drug Addiction
Drug addiction is the excessive and repetitive use of substances, despite harmful consequences to a person's life, health, and relationships.