What Clients Can Expect: A Complete Transformation, Emotionally, Mentally, and Spiritually
Creating a Life of Excellence
For our clients and alumni, recovery is about more than simply abstaining from drugs or alcohol; it’s about achieving a sense of fulfillment, improving mental, emotional, and spiritual well-being, and developing a solid foundation for lifelong sobriety.
We believe that recovery is possible no matter how many attempts our clients have made at becoming sober.
This is our promise: to deliver life-changing clinical interventions to those suffering from the painful cycle of chronic relapse.
What Does it Mean to Undergo Long-Term Treatment?
Burning Tree is the Nation’s only authentic long-term treatment provider specializing in the treatment of chronic relapse. We address life and death matters as they relate to chronic addiction and mental health.
- Focus On Identifying Complex Emotional And Mental Health Disorders
- Emphasis On Treating Advanced Stages of Addiction And Relapse
- Multi-Phased Long-Term Continuum Aimed At Permanent Recovery
- Concentration On Dynamic Behavioral, Attitudinal, and Personality Change
- Treatment Duration Informed By Measurable, Provable Progress - Not Time
Progress-Based Treatment
Treatment at Burning Tree Ranch is based on an individual’s progress. The treatment team meets daily to determine how each client is engaging in the program. That means a client’s behavior, along with their clinical and therapeutic progress, are what determines the length of residential treatment.
We have found that someone who has engaged in multiple previous treatment episodes deserves the time and space they need to properly address their addiction, and any underlying mental health issues.
Clients who completely surrender themselves to the Burning Tree Ranch process can expect to undergo life-altering improvements in all areas of their lives: physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually.
As they progress through therapeutic milestones, advance in twelve step work, and address the underlying root cause of addiction, our clients discover the freedom, hope, and inspiration they need to create a life of excellence beyond sobriety.
“As an alumnus of Burning Tree Ranch myself, I want to welcome you on your journey to freedom. The life that awaits you is worth the work we will ask you to do.”
Brook McKenzie, LCDC, COO
Intensive Residential Programming
Clients are immersed in our progress-based clinical environment’s structure, routine, and disciplines for chronic relapse. Everything in Phase 1 is designed to support the client in sobriety outside of treatment.
- Location: Kaufman, TX
- Emphasis: To establish the foundation for permanent recovery outside of treatment.
What to Expect in Phase 1
- To engage in regular neurofeedback, counseling, and psychiatry sessions
- To participate in evening, weekend, and other scheduled outings & activities
- To be challenged towards a deeper relationship with new and effective behaviors
- To establish a foundation for renewed trust with family and loved ones
Supportive Residential Programming
Clients engage in a combination of continued residential treatment with overnight weekend passes to our aftercare programming & transitional living. This phase is designed to evaluate readiness for a full transition into aftercare.
- Location: Kaufman & Dallas, TX
- Emphasis: To establish the client’s preparedness to take on more responsibility in early sobriety.
What to Expect in Phase 2
- To resume cell phone use
- To be allowed access to a vehicle
- To engage in overnight passes to our transitional living
- To start attending aftercare groups in Dallas
Tailored Aftercare & Supportive Living
Clients reside in our gender-specific supportive housing while attending aftercare, gaining employment, continuing case management, participating in the AA community, making amends, and pursuing deeper engagements with the recovery community.
- Location: Dallas, TX
- Emphasis: For the client to become fully self-supporting while growing in sobriety, responsibility, & self awareness.
What to Expect in Phase 3
- To begin full-time employment
- To live in our gender-specific transitional living
- To attend aftercare and case management sessions weekly
- To embrace accountability for all aspects of daily living
Tailored Aftercare & Independent Living
Clients become eligible for independent living with an approved sober peer while continuing their aftercare commitment, growing in their recovery disciplines, and maintaining consistent, self-supporting employment.
- Location: Dallas, TX
- Emphasis: Preparing for complete independence financially, emotionally, & spiritually.
The Journey Begins
Clients graduate the entire Burning Tree continuum of care with a strong foundation of sobriety, a comprehensive set of life skills, and a renewed purpose in life.
What to Expect in Phase 4
- To move into independent living with a sober peer
- To continue attending case management and aftercare groups
- To become totally or nearly self-supporting
- To initiate the transition to complete, self-sustained independence
Dedicated to Treating Difficult, Advanced Stages of Addiction
Burning Tree specializes in helping individuals who have experienced chronic relapse and have struggled to maintain sobriety despite multiple treatment attempts.
Our program is long-term, progress-based, and highly intensive. It’s uniquely designed to address the challenges faced by those with advanced stages of addiction, providing the comprehensive care and support needed for lasting recovery.
“Time gives us the ability to treat all of the mental health components that are active, for all of the addicts and alcoholics that we treat.”
Meghan Bohlman, LPC, LCDC, Clinical Director
What Makes Burning Tree Different from Other Treatment Programs?
Burning Tree is the Nation’s only authentic long-term treatment provider specializing in the treatment of chronic relapse. We address life and death matters as they relate to chronic addiction and mental health.
- 100% Progress-Based
- Exclusive To Chronic Relapse Clients
- Life Skills Intensive, Accountability Driven
- Emphasis On Behavioral & Attitudinal Well-Being
- Long-Term, Multi-Phase Continuum Of Care
Highly Rated and Reviewed
Written Testimonials from Program Alumni
Letters to Families: Read First-Hand Accounts Of Recovery
A Letter for Families from Lisa M., Mother of an Alumnus
Dear Families, When I started this letter for Burning Tree families I thought about what I would have wanted to hear when I was at the point you are at now. What words of wisdom could someone give me? It wasn’t more addiction horror stories; you’ve experienced that firsthand.
A Letter for Families from Alumna Caroline D
Dear Families, My name is Caroline, and I am a recovering alcoholic. My sobriety date is May 21, 2015. Here is my story.
Our Advanced Treatment Plans
Clinical teams at shorter-term facilities must quickly diagnose their clients and rely on previous medical records to determine the best course of action for treatment.
This rarely produces a sustainable outcome for the chronic relapser.
In contrast, our treatment team focuses on the unique needs of the chronic relapser. We possess the expertise, knowledge, and passion to finally discover what may have interfered with past treatment attempts.
We utilize advanced forms of evaluation and assessment to help us accurately diagnose our clients and identify needs that may have previously gone untreated.
With a proper diagnosis, clients receive a personalized treatment plan that is unique to them and the issues they are faced with as individuals.
Integrating addiction medicine, evidence-based therapies, and twelves step immersion, our program offerings highlight the hope we share for the chronically addicted person who has not been able to achieve the sobriety they crave.
Our Focus on Life skills
By prioritizing life skills, we help our clients discover an emotionally balanced center that allows for a deeper experience with self-awareness, thinking skills, interpersonal skills.Â
Burning Tree Ranch maintains a strong focus on life skills so that our clients can enjoy a life of usefulness, wonder, and joy.
We believe that recovery is possible no matter how many previous attempts our clients have made at becoming sober.
As a specialty program focused on the treatment of chronic relapsers, we welcome every challenge as an opportunity, and every victory as a testament to the hope we hold for those previously unable to recover.
More than anything else, we seek to help our clients create a life of excellence beyond sobriety.
What Does it Mean to Build Life Skills?
1. Self-Awareness:
Coming to know oneself deeply and intimately. This life skill helps our clients to grow in the understanding of their feelings, thoughts, and behaviors.
2. Thinking Skills
Learning to make effective decisions that promote personal growth. This skill set allows our clients to better connect their decisions and belief system with the probable consequence or benefit.
3. Interpersonal Skills
Coming to know others deeply and intimately. This life skill helps our clients learn how to manifest respectful, healthy relationships with the use of assertive, bond-building forms of communication.
Family of Graduates
Our families come to us skeptical and uncertain – even hopeless. Upon completion of the program, here’s what to expect from a Burning Tree Graduate’s Family:
- Renewed Trust: A rebuilt sense of trust in their loved one and the recovery process, grounded in the tangible progress they've witnessed.
- Deepened Connections: Stronger family bonds forged through shared challenges and victories, leading to more meaningful relationships.
- Greater Understanding of Addiction: An enhanced comprehension of the complexities of addiction, enabling a more compassionate and supportive approach to recovery.
- Commitment to Ongoing Support: A dedication to maintaining the supportive structures and practices that have facilitated their loved one’s sobriety and overall well-being.
- Appreciation for the Present: An increased ability to live in the moment, valuing the time spent together and the peace that comes with recovery.
- Optimism for the Future: A hopeful outlook towards the future, believing in the possibilities that sobriety can bring to their loved one and the family.
- Adaptability and Resilience: A newfound resilience and adaptability, equipped to face life's uncertainties with strength and grace, thanks to their shared journey through recovery.
Feel unattainable? Burning Tree clients undergo a long process of transformation. Our families do, too.
Mental Health Disorders Common in a Dual Diagnosis
Dual diagnosis generally refers to the existence of multiple mental health conditions in an individual. Such a diagnosis may also include substance use disorder or a related chemical dependency.
Properly treating dual diagnosis – mainly when substance use is involved – necessitates an integrative approach that comprehensively addresses the intricate interplay between mental illness and the substance abuse issue.
We Specialize in the Treatment of Underlying Mental Health Conditions
Learn More About the Ranch
Burning Tree Ranch is a highly sophisticated, progress-based residential treatment and aftercare program located outside of Dallas, TX, on a beautiful, 2,000-acre ranch.
With a special emphasis on treating the chronic relapser, our program is designed to measure the progress of the individual, not the progress of the calendar.
At program completion our clients are fully self-supporting, firmly established in their sobriety, and well on their way to mending the important relationships that mean so much to them.
This is what we mean by creating a life of excellence beyond sobriety.
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