Anchored Tides Recovery

Personality Disorder Treatment for Women in Huntington Beach, CA

Medically reviewed by Dr. Venice Sanchez, M.D., Medical Director, and Zoe Tambling, LMFT

Anchored Tides Recovery offers women-only personality disorder treatment in Huntington Beach through partial hospitalization (PHP), intensive outpatient (IOP), and outpatient (OP) care. Each level pairs skills-based therapy, including Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), with trauma-informed, dual diagnosis support, so long-standing emotional patterns are treated alongside any substance use.

If intense emotions, unsteady relationships, or a shifting sense of self have been quietly shaping your days, you deserve care that holds the whole picture. Here, that care is calm, structured, and designed specifically for women.

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Key Takeaways

  • Women-only care for personality disorder patterns. Anchored Tides treats long-standing emotional and relational patterns, including borderline personality disorder, in a women-only outpatient setting.
  • Three levels of outpatient care. Treatment is offered in PHP, IOP, and OP, and residential care or detox, when needed first, is arranged through trusted partners.
  • One team for mental health and substance use. DBT skills groups, individual therapy, psychiatric care, and trauma-informed work are coordinated with any substance use treatment in one plan.
  • A confidential first step. A free insurance check usually returns within 24 hours on business days, and verifying never commits you to enroll.

What Is a Personality Disorder?

A personality disorder is a long-standing pattern in how a person thinks, feels, and relates to others that causes real distress or makes daily life harder. The pattern usually shows up across many settings, from close relationships to work, and has often been present since early adulthood.

The word "personality" can sound like a judgment of who you are. It isn't. Clinicians use the term to describe patterns, and patterns can be understood, worked with, and gently reshaped over time.

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How These Patterns Can Show Up for Women

Every woman's experience is her own, and no list can tell you whether a personality disorder is part of your story. Women who reach out to us often describe experiences like these:

  • Emotions that rise quickly and intensely, then take a long time to settle
  • Relationships that feel close one moment and unsafe the next, often with a deep fear of being left
  • A sense of self, goals, or values that seems to shift depending on who you're with
  • Impulsive choices, including substance use, that bring short relief and longer regret
  • Exhaustion from holding it together at work or at home while feeling unsteady inside

Only a licensed clinician can assess for a personality disorder, through a full conversation about your history and present life. At Anchored Tides, that conversation happens during a confidential clinical assessment, never through a checklist.

How Personality Disorders and Substance Use Overlap

For many women, alcohol or pills offer brief relief from intense emotions, rejection, or emptiness. Over time, substance use can make emotions harder to regulate and relationships more strained, creating a cycle that needs care on both sides.

These overlapping patterns often have roots in earlier experiences, including trauma. Our trauma-informed care for women prioritizes emotional safety and a steady pace, so you're never asked to revisit more than you're ready for.

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Integrated Dual Diagnosis Care

When personality patterns and substance use show up together, we treat them as one picture. Through our dual diagnosis program for women, you work with one clinical team and one integrated treatment plan rather than parallel programs that rarely meet.

  • Therapists, psychiatric providers, and counselors share the same plan and adjust it together as you progress.
  • Psychiatric medication management is available when clinically appropriate, with attention to interactions and addiction-related considerations.
  • Co-occurring concerns such as depression, anxiety, PTSD, and bipolar disorder are addressed within the same plan.
  • Medically supervised detox, when needed first, is arranged through trusted partner facilities, with our admissions team coordinating the handoff.

Our Approach to Personality Disorder Treatment

Our approach blends skills you can practice today with deeper therapeutic work that unfolds over weeks. Care is women-only, trauma-informed, and relational, because the patterns at the heart of personality disorders tend to live in relationships, and healing them happens best in a setting that feels safe.

Personality disorder care is delivered within our women's mental health program, and your plan is built around your history, your goals, and the responsibilities you carry outside treatment.

Therapies Used in Treatment

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    Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) teaches emotion regulation, distress tolerance, mindfulness, and interpersonal effectiveness, and it's central to our work with emotional dysregulation and borderline personality disorder.

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    Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps you notice the thoughts behind painful reactions and practice steadier responses.

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    Individual therapy gives you private, consistent time with your primary clinician to explore relationship cycles and core beliefs.

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    EMDR and trauma-focused therapy may be woven in when your clinician feels you're ready, helping painful memories carry less emotional weight.

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    Family therapy, with your consent, helps loved ones understand what you're working on and rebuild healthier communication.

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    Psychiatric care and medication management are coordinated with your therapy so the full picture is considered.

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    Experiential practices, including Surf Therapy and mindfulness, help translate new skills into the body and into everyday life.

Levels of Care for Personality Disorder Treatment

Anchored Tides offers personality disorder treatment at three outpatient levels of care: PHP, IOP, and OP. Every level is day-based, so you return home each evening. Your clinical assessment guides which level is the safest, most supportive place to begin, and many women step down from one level to the next as they steady.

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Partial Hospitalization Program (PHP)

Our partial hospitalization program for women offers full clinical days, about six hours a day, five days a week. PHP fits women who need significant daytime structure and have a safe, sober place to return to each evening.

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Intensive Outpatient Program (IOP)

Our intensive outpatient program in Huntington Beach runs in three-hour blocks, adding up to roughly 9 to 15 hours a week. Morning and afternoon tracks help women keep working, parenting, or attending school while treatment continues.

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Outpatient Program (OP)

For women who are steadier and want ongoing support, our outpatient program for women typically includes one to two clinical sessions a week. OP is where new skills meet real life, from your relationships to your workweek.

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Care We Refer Out

  • Residential treatment and medically supervised detox are not provided at Anchored Tides, and our admissions team refers to trusted partner facilities when either is the safer first step.
  • Sober living and supportive housing are offered through separate, trusted housing partners, not by Anchored Tides.
  • Emergency or overnight medical care is coordinated with appropriate outside providers whenever your safety calls for it.

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What Treatment Looks Like Week to Week

Treatment moves in stages, from settling in and building safety to deeper work and, eventually, a gentler schedule. The timeline below is typical, not fixed. Your pace follows your clinical progress and your treatment plan, and it can change as your needs do.

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    Before your first day: Our admissions process begins with one confidential call, followed by a clinical assessment, an insurance check, and a level-of-care recommendation.

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    Week one: You meet your primary clinician, create a personal safety plan, review medications with psychiatric care, and begin DBT skills groups alongside women who understand.

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    The first few weeks: Days center on learning emotion regulation and distress tolerance skills, then practicing them between sessions. In PHP, most women spend about two to six weeks before stepping down.

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    The middle weeks: Individual sessions go deeper into relationship cycles, core beliefs, and, when you're ready, trauma. Family sessions may begin with your consent. IOP commonly runs about 9 to 15 weeks.

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    Stepping down: As you steady, sessions become fewer and more focused, often moving to OP. Your team helps you build an aftercare plan with referrals for ongoing support.

Insurance coverage for personality disorder treatment

A free, confidential benefits check is the simplest first step.

Our team contacts your plan, confirms what it covers for the level of care your assessment recommends, and walks you through any out-of-pocket costs or pre-authorization requirements in plain language. Coverage varies by plan; we do not accept Medi-Cal or Medicaid.

In-Network

PPO, HMO, and EPO accepted

Major PPOs Accepted

Other insurance carriers accepted, verify insurance to find out if you’re covered. We do not accept Medi-Cal or Medicare.

Admissions and Accreditation

You can start online through our secure insurance verification form, and most verifications return within 24 hours on business days. Verifying doesn't affect your coverage, and it never commits you to enroll.

Anchored Tides is in-network with many major HMO, EPO, and PPO plans, and coverage always depends on your specific plan. For a closer look at plans and networks, our guide to insurance coverage for treatment explains the details.

Accreditation and Licensure

  • Anchored Tides Recovery is accredited by The Joint Commission
  • Anchored Tides Recovery is licensed and certified by the California Department of Health Care Services, DHCS License #300386AP
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Our Huntington Beach Location

Every level of care takes place at our single outpatient center at 19126 Magnolia Street, Suite 101, Huntington Beach, CA 92646. The building sits in central Huntington Beach, inland from the coast and close to the main roads connecting Orange County with Long Beach.

Women join us from Huntington Beach, Westminster, Fountain Valley, Costa Mesa, Long Beach, and communities across Orange County. Admissions can help you choose a schedule that fits your commute, and our Huntington Beach treatment center location page shares more about the area we serve.

Anchored Tides Recovery
19126 Magnolia Street, Suite 101
Huntington Beach, CA 92646
(866) 329-6639

Frequently Asked Questions

  • No. Many women call without a diagnosis, or with one they're unsure about. Our clinical assessment looks at your mental health, substance use, and trauma history together, and our team explains its recommendation clearly before you decide anything.

Start Personality Disorder Treatment at Anchored Tides

You don't have to sort through these patterns alone. When you're ready, a confidential conversation is all it takes to begin.

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