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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
At Monarch Shores, we want to make your recovery process as smooth as possible and part of this process is working together with your insurance to ease your financial burden. We will gladly work with your insurance company to ensure that you receive your maximum benefit with no hidden costs. Our on-site insurance specialists are available 24 hours a day, seven days a week to assist you with any questions that you may have and to determine your coverage and benefits.
Monarch Shores
Monarch Shores
About Monarch Shores
Monarch Shores is a private, 6-bed, executive-style rehab facility located on the cliff side of Dana Point, California. Monarch Shores offers a peaceful and serene environment, allowing clients to stay on top of work and school responsibilities while pursuing recovery. Their house is intentionally designed, with high-end amenities, comfortable rooms, flat-screen TVs in every bedroom, fine bed linens, gourmet-style meals prepared by professional kitchen staff, fitness center, and a gorgeous ocean view to enjoy all day.
Personalized Treatment Plans
Monarch Shores incorporates a wide range of traditional and integrative therapies into the custom treatment plans they use to meet the unique needs of each client. They aim to restore balance in every area of life by treating the mind, body, and spirit. Monarch Shores offers faith-based, 12-step, non-12-step, SMART Recovery, dual-diagnosis, and holistic treatment options. They also use cognitive behavior therapy, dialectical behavior therapy, trauma therapy, grief counseling, group therapies, and relapse prevention methods. Their holistic modalities include various meditation and mindfulness practices, acupuncture, nutritional counseling, aromatherapy, and art therapy.
Caring Staff
Monarch Shores knows that clients will likely be experiencing some of the most difficult moments of their life during the recovery process. They have a caring, diligent, and nonjudgmental team at Monarch Shores to make the process as comfortable and manageable as possible. Monarch Shores’ client-centered philosophy makes each member of their team attentive to client needs at all points of their recovery. They strive to support and guide clients during their recovery process, helping them achieve personal goals. Monarch Shores’ oceanside location provides an atmosphere of tranquility and luxury, wherever clients may be in their recovery process and wherever they are in Monarch Shores’ home.
Safe And Professional Detox
Monarch Shores offers a comprehensive, on-site detox program and a variety of customized detox options. They adjust clients’ detox program according to their substance abuse history, medical history, and medical preferences. Monarch Shores provides around-the-clock care from compassionate and supportive staff members who have the expertise to ensure safety and comfort during this sensitive phase of treatment.
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Customized Treatment Plans
Private Rooms Available
Beach Access
Tech Friendly
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.
Joint Commission Accredited
The Joint Commission accreditation is a voluntary, objective process that evaluates and accredits healthcare organizations (like treatment centers) based on performance standards designed to improve quality and safety for patients. To be accredited means the treatment center has been found to meet the Commission's standards for quality and safety in patient care.

Insurance Accepted
Cash Pay Rates
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Meet Your Care Team

Chad Daugherty
CEO

Christian Small
Medical Director

Jenny Knowles
LV Charge Nurse

Manuel Perez
Executive Director

Teresa Aragona
Director of Operations




Levels of Care
Your Care Options
Specializations
Co-Occurring Disorders
A person with multiple mental health diagnoses, such as addiction and depression, has co-occurring disorders also called dual diagnosis.
Cocaine
Cocaine is a stimulant with euphoric effects. Agitation, muscle ticks, psychosis, and heart issues are common symptoms of cocaine abuse.
Drug Addiction
Drug addiction is the excessive and repetitive use of substances, despite harmful consequences to a person's life, health, and relationships.
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.
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.
Who We Treat
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.
Men and Women
Men and women attend treatment for addiction in a co-ed setting, going to therapy groups together to share experiences, struggles, and successes.
Professionals
Busy, high-ranking professionals get the personalized treatment they need with greater accommodations for work, privacy, and outside communication.
Approaches
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.
Non 12 Step
Non-12-Step philosophies veer from the spiritual focus of the 12-Steps and instead treat the disease of addiction with holistic or secular modalities.
Personalized Treatment
The specific needs, histories, and conditions of individual patients receive personalized, highly relevant care throughout their recovery journey.
Twelve Step
Incorporating spirituality, community, and responsibility, 12-Step philosophies prioritize the guidance of a Higher Power and a continuation of 12-Step practices.
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.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
This cognitive behavioral therapy teaches patients to accept challenging feelings and make the appropriate changes to reach personal goals.
Aromatherapy
Inhaling or topically applying essential oils can help relieve stress, soothe pains, and relieve emotional distress.
Art Therapy
Visual art invites patients to examine the emotions within their work, focusing on the process of creativity and its gentle therapeutic power.
Experiential Therapy
With this approach, patients heal by doing. Therapists help patients process difficult emotions to speak, using guided activities like art or dance.
Languages
Conditions We Treat
Anxiety
Anxiety is a common mental health condition that can include excessive worry, panic attacks, physical tension, and increased blood pressure.
Bipolar
This mental health condition is characterized by extreme mood swings between depression, mania, and remission.
Chronic Pain Management
Long-term physical pain can have an affect on mental health. Without support, it can also impact your daily life and even lead to addiction.
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.
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.
Personality Disorders
Personality disorders destabilize the way a person thinks, feels, and behaves. If untreated, they can undermine relationships and lead to severe distress.
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.
Suicidality
With suicidality, a person fantasizes about suicide, or makes a plan to carry it out. This is a serious mental health symptom.
Trauma
Some traumatic events are so disturbing that they cause long-term mental health problems. Those ongoing issues can also be referred to as "trauma."
Substances We Treat
Alcohol
Using alcohol as a coping mechanism, or drinking excessively throughout the week, signals an alcohol use disorder.
Benzodiazepines
Benzodiazepines are prescribed to treat anxiety and sleep issues. They are highly habit forming, and their abuse can cause mood changes and poor judgement.
Chronic Relapse
Consistent relapse occurs repeatedly, after partial recovery from addiction. This condition requires long-term treatment.
Co-Occurring Disorders
A person with multiple mental health diagnoses, such as addiction and depression, has co-occurring disorders also called dual diagnosis.
Cocaine
Cocaine is a stimulant with euphoric effects. Agitation, muscle ticks, psychosis, and heart issues are common symptoms of cocaine abuse.
Drug Addiction
Drug addiction is the excessive and repetitive use of substances, despite harmful consequences to a person's life, health, and relationships.
Heroin
Heroin is a highly addictive and illegal opioid. It can cause insomnia, collapsed veins, heart issues, and additional mental health issues.
Methamphetamine
Methamphetamine, or meth, increases energy, agitation, and paranoia. Long-term use can result in severe physical and mental health issues.
Aftercare
Care Designed for Your Needs
Personal Amenities
Amenities
Special Considerations
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.
Religion-Based Track
Patients can join faith-based recovery tracks to approach recovery with others in their faith, healing in a like-minded group with similar goals.
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.