Trauma-informed, women-centered, and evidence-based. The clinical foundation rests on EMDR, DBT, and CBT (integrated with mindfulness practice and holistic adjuncts) delivered exclusively to women across three outpatient levels of care in Huntington Beach, California.
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For many women in addiction or mental health recovery, untreated trauma is the engine running underneath everything else. Substance use, disordered eating, anxiety, depression, and relational patterns are often expressions of unresolved traumatic experience. Trauma-informed care at Anchored Tides means EMDR as the primary processing modality, pacing that respects clinical readiness, and safety and choice as foundational principles, not as marketing language, but as clinical orientation applied across every session and every level of care.
Evidence-based therapy
Evidence-based therapy delivered in individual, group, and family formats across all three levels of care.
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing: the foundational trauma-processing modality at Anchored Tides. Endorsed by the APA, WHO, and VA. Processes traumatic memories that drive substance use, anxiety, and depression without requiring clients to describe trauma in detail.
Four skill modules (mindfulness, distress tolerance, emotion regulation, and interpersonal effectiveness) delivered in group and individual formats. Builds the emotional regulation capacity that makes recovery sustainable.
Addresses the thought patterns and behaviors that sustain addiction and mental health conditions. Concrete tools for interrupting cycles before they return to use.
Where clinically indicated, coordinated with prescribers and integrated with psychiatric care from our medical team, so MAT and outpatient programming work together effectively.
Holistic adjuncts
Holistic services at Anchored Tides are adjuncts to evidence-based care, not replacements. They address dimensions of recovery that clinical therapy alone doesn't fully reach: the nervous system, the body, nutrition, and movement.
Energy-based nervous system regulation that supports relaxation, reduces hypervigilance, and complements deeper trauma processing work.
Resonant frequencies that influence the nervous system, supporting the relaxation response, particularly accessible for women who find auditory approaches more effective than traditional meditation.
Outdoor and movement-based programming in Huntington Beach: beach proximity provides natural access to the Pacific environment that supports mood regulation and group cohesion.
Kelly Blasco, R.D. provides integrated nutritional guidance as part of each woman's treatment plan, essential for recovery and for women whose clinical picture includes disordered eating.
Why women-only
Anchored Tides treats only women: not as a demographic preference, but as a clinical model. Women's addiction has distinct drivers: trauma overlap, telescoping progression, relational patterns, and hormonal factors. Women's group therapy goes deeper when these specific clinical patterns can be addressed directly, without mixed-gender dynamics.
Research consistently shows higher treatment retention, better engagement, and improved long-term outcomes for women in gender-specific programs.
Not just addiction
You don't need an active substance use disorder to access Anchored Tides. The Mental Health track provides the same trauma-informed, evidence-based clinical model for women whose primary need is depression, anxiety, PTSD, trauma, or eating concerns. The same team, the same fidelity, the same women-only environment.
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Recovery coaching, life-skills development, and structured peer community give women practical support alongside clinical programming as they move through care.
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