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Rippling Waters Men’s Retreat and Recovery Center
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Treatment Focus
This center treats substance use disorders and co-occurring mental health conditions. Your treatment plan addresses each condition at once with personalized, compassionate care for comprehensive healing.
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.
Treatment Focus
This center treats substance use disorders and co-occurring mental health conditions. Your treatment plan addresses each condition at once with personalized, compassionate care for comprehensive healing.
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.
Provider's Policy
Rippling Waters works with out-of-network benefits with commercial insurance. We have worked with Aetna, United, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Cigna, and UMR.
Rippling Waters Men’s Retreat and Recovery Center
Rippling Waters Men’s Retreat and Recovery Center
About Rippling Waters Men’s Retreat and Recovery Center
Rippling Waters Men’s Retreat is a 400-acre private sanctuary where a 12-acre lake, miles of forested trails, a serene lookout point, and equine-therapy horses invite stillness. Treatment goes beyond stopping behaviors: it helps men uncover negative coping mechanisms—trauma, anger, guilt, and shame—so lasting change can occur. Through presence, purpose, and connection with up to 9 men, healing becomes embodied, sustainable, and deeply personal over time.
Actively Participate in the Path Forward
Rippling Waters is for men willing to face themselves fully and commit to meaningful, lasting change. The approach is not a quick fix, and it is not for men who want someone else to manage their recovery or stop a behavior without understanding its underlying causes. Each personalized program requires honest reflection and personal accountability through licensed individual therapy sessions multiple times per week, group sessions, equine-assisted therapy, experiential work, SMART Recovery, and more.
Slow Down & Reflect at a Secluded Retreat
Rippling Waters’ half-mile driveway intentionally marks the threshold between the life a man has been living and the one he is about to face. Miles of trails invite walking and reflection, not as an escape, but as preparation. In the main house, men stay in shared bedrooms and benefit from access to fitness equipment, a rec room, a sauna, and massage therapy. A chef provides homecooked meals three times daily.
Leave with Support and a Sense of Purpose
As men prepare to leave treatment, they walk away with a sense of brotherhood and a clear path forward. The team helps each man line up next-step support, including referrals to trusted outpatient providers, therapists, and groups near home, so he isn’t left trying to figure it out alone. Rippling Waters remains a steady point of connection after discharge, offering ongoing check-ins and telehealth support when additional guidance is needed.
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Therapeutic Location
Customized Treatment Plans
Men Only
Center Overview
Treatment Focus
This center treats substance use disorders and co-occurring mental health conditions. Your treatment plan addresses each condition at once with personalized, compassionate care for comprehensive healing.
Rippling Waters Men’s Retreat and Recovery Center
Insurance Accepted
Pricing and Program Length
Estimated Center Costs
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Meet Your Care Team
Dr. Thomas Jefferys
Founder and Program Director
MHC/MFT/PhD, EFT Certified, Certified Equine Therapist, CASAC-T
Dr. Laura Maneates
Founder and Clinical Supervisor
MFT/Licensed Mental Health Counselor, PhD, EFT certified, certified Equine Therapist, CASAC-T
Your Care Options
Specializations
Cocaine
Cocaine is a stimulant with euphoric effects. Agitation, muscle ticks, psychosis, and heart issues are common symptoms of cocaine abuse.
Prescription Drugs
It's possible to abuse any drug, even prescribed ones. If you crave a medication, or regularly take it more than directed, you may have an addiction.
Equine Therapy
Guided interactions with trained horses, their handler, and a therapist can help patients improve their self-esteem, trust, empathy, and social skills.
Chronic Relapse
Consistent relapse occurs repeatedly, after partial recovery from addiction. This condition requires long-term treatment.
Wilderness Program
Wilderness programs focus on using nature and the outdoors environment to facilitate one’s self-reflective and therapeutic journey.
Opioids
Opioids produce pain-relief and euphoria, which can lead to addiction. This class of drugs includes prescribed medication and the illegal drug heroin.
Alcohol
Using alcohol as a coping mechanism, or drinking excessively throughout the week, signals an alcohol use disorder.
Who We Treat
Veterans
Patients who completed active military duty receive specialized treatment focused on trauma, grief, loss, and finding a new work-life balance.
Young Adults
Emerging adults ages 18-25 receive treatment catered to the unique challenges of early adulthood, like college, risky behaviors, and vocational struggles.
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.
Professionals
Busy, high-ranking professionals get the personalized treatment they need with greater accommodations for work, privacy, and outside communication.
Treatment Services
Private Therapy
This is an individual therapy that's often available at private therapy clinics. Clients may be able to choose a therapist who best fits their unique needs.
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
Experiential
Expressive tools and therapies help patients process past situations, learn more about themselves, and find healing through action.
Gender-Specific
Separate treatment for men or women can create strong peer connections and remove barriers related to trauma, shame, and gender-specific nuances.
Wilderness Program
Wilderness programs focus on using nature and the outdoors environment to facilitate one’s self-reflective and therapeutic journey.
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.
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.
Family Therapy
Family therapy addresses group dynamics within a family system, with a focus on improving communication and interrupting unhealthy relationship patterns.
Equine Therapy
Guided interactions with trained horses, their handler, and a therapist can help patients improve their self-esteem, trust, empathy, and social skills.
Adventure Therapy
This experiential approach uses the physical and emotional challenges of outdoor activities as tools for personal growth.
Psychoeducation
This method combines treatment with education, teaching patients about different paths toward recovery. This empowers them to make more effective decisions.
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.
Conditions We Treat
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.
Anxiety
Anxiety is a common mental health condition that can include excessive worry, panic attacks, physical tension, and increased blood pressure.
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.
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.
Codependency
Codependency is a pattern of emotional dependence and controlling behavior. It's most common among people with addicted loved ones.
Pornography Addiction
A person with a porn addiction is emotionally dependent on pornography to the point that it interferes with their daily life and relationships.
Gambling
Excessive, repetitive gambling causes financial and interpersonal problems. This addiction can interfere with work, friendships, and familial relationships.
Internet Addiction
Internet addiction is common among children teens. This compulsive disorder can damage relationships, school performance, sleep habits, and physical health.
Personality Disorders
Personality disorders destabilize the way a person thinks, feels, and behaves. If untreated, they can undermine relationships and lead to severe distress.
Substances We Treat
Prescription Drugs
It's possible to abuse any drug, even prescribed ones. If you crave a medication, or regularly take it more than directed, you may have an addiction.
Co-Occurring Disorders
A person with multiple mental health diagnoses, such as addiction and depression, has co-occurring disorders also called dual diagnosis.
Psychedelics
Hallucinogenic drugs—like LSD—cause euphoria and increased sensory experiences. When abused, they can lead to depression and psychosis.
Drug Addiction
Drug addiction is the excessive and repetitive use of substances, despite harmful consequences to a person's life, health, and relationships.
Chronic Relapse
Consistent relapse occurs repeatedly, after partial recovery from addiction. This condition requires long-term treatment.
Heroin
Heroin is a highly addictive and illegal opioid. It can cause insomnia, collapsed veins, heart issues, and additional mental health issues.
Opioids
Opioids produce pain-relief and euphoria, which can lead to addiction. This class of drugs includes prescribed medication and the illegal drug heroin.
Languages
Aftercare
Care Designed for Your Needs
Personal Amenities
Amenities
Special Considerations
Young Adults Program
Programs for young adults bring teens 18+ together to discuss age-specific challenges, vocational and educational progress, and successes in treatment.
Center Pets
Addiction and mental health facilities with pets allow patients to interact with friendly dogs, cats, horses, and in some cases, even dolphins.
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.
First Responders Program
Paramedics, police officers, firefighters, and others join in a specific First Responders program, usually focused on trauma, grief, and work-life balance.
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.
Executive Program
Addiction and mental health treatment for executives typically involves high discretion, greater technology access, and more private, 1-on-1 care.
Activities
Smoking and Vaping Policy
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Why Rippling Waters?
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