Find a Long-Term Addiction Treatment Center in Colorado
Colorado families have trusted Burning Tree Ranch with their loved ones since 1999. We are America’s only authentic long-term addiction treatment program.
This time, it can be different.
- Long-Term, Milestone-Based Care
- Experts in Chronic Relapse and Co-occurring Mental Health Disorders
- Structured 4-Phase System for Real Recovery
Colorado Families: You've Tried Everything
Burning Tree Ranch serves clients and families from all over Colorado – from Denver to Durango. Our program is uniquely designed to address the complex nature of advanced stages of addiction. We specialize in helping individuals who have struggled to maintain sobriety despite multiple treatment attempts.
Long-Term Treatment at Burning Tree Ranch is:
- 100% Progress-Based
- Exclusive To Chronic Relapse Clients
- Life Skills Intensive, Accountability Driven
- Emphasis On Behavioral & Attitudinal Well-Being
- Long-Term, 4-Phase Continuum Of Care
Does Your Loved One Struggle With Mental Health?
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration estimates that 45 percent of individuals who suffer from addiction share a co-occurring mental health disorder.
- Extreme mood swings and risky behavior
- Self-medicating or drinking just to sleep or stay awake
- Emotional outbursts followed immediately by drinking or drug use
- Binge eating or not eating for extended periods
- Manipulating family members to continue substance use
Burning Tree Ranch addresses the underlying mental health conditions that keep the addicted person trapped in the cycle of relapse.
Why Hasn’t Short-Term Treatment Worked?
Because your loved one’s problem isn’t surface-level—and short-term solutions don’t reach the root.
- Accurate diagnosis takes time—especially with layered psychiatric issues
- Resistance runs deep, and they’ve learned how to manipulate the system
- Repeated stays have only made them better at playing the part
- Sobriety isn’t enough—they need to rebuild how they live, think, and relate to others
Short-term programs can interrupt a crisis temporarily, but they can’t transform a life. That’s what we’re here for.
What Makes Long-Term Treatment Work for Them?
Chronic addiction is more than a habit—it’s a deeply entrenched way of living. The unique structure of our program is built to ignite fundamental, lasting changes.
- Time to uncover and treat complex mental health and emotional disorders
- A multi-phase continuum of care designed for lasting, not temporary, change
- Focus on deep shifts in behavior, attitude, and core belief systems
- Length of stay based on progress—not a calendar date
We don’t count days. We track behavioral transformation through progress-based milestones.
What If They’re Not Willing to Start Long-Term Treatment?
When someone has been through multiple programs with no lasting change, resistance is part of the pattern. We know the path forward.
- We guide families out of enabling roles and into firm, loving boundaries
- We collaborate with legal, medical, and financial systems to encourage change
- We ask the question that matters: What are they actually willing to do to change?
- We customize a path forward, holding them accountable from day one
Long-term treatment isn’t for the ready. It’s for the willing—and the willing are often made, not found.
We Treat Families All Over Colorado
Distance can be powerful. Many families tell us that sending their loved one out of state gave them the space and clarity they needed for lasting recovery, and creates the space needed for real change.
We have treated clients from:
What Do Burning Tree Families Say About Our Program?
“We tried everything. Multiple rehabs, therapists, outpatient, you name it. Burning Tree Ranch was the one place that truly changed her life.”
– Spouse of a Burning Tree Alumni
This Time Has to Be Different
Tried everything—and nothing’s worked?
Still watching them fall apart?
Ready for truth instead of promises?
Or send a message to our team to request more information about our program.