Our approach

At Grace House, our goal is to be the best women’s residential treatment program by exceeding standards of care and striving to challenge and inspire our clients to build strength and personal power. Our clinical work is rooted in compassion, collaboration, and evidence-based practices. We are proud to partner with the Health Education and Training Institute to ensure our team receives ongoing clinical training and development. This collaboration reinforces our commitment to high-quality, culturally responsive care that evolves with the needs of our clients and community.

Our clinical care team utilizes a range of evidence-based practices proven effective for treating substance use and other behaviors. We take a person-centered approach that honors each individual’s unique strengths, needs, and values. 
MI, in particular, informs our client engagement strategies, helping to build trust, enhance motivation, and support lasting change through a nonjudgmental and collaborative approach.

We aim to activate each person’s own motivation for change. Our robust schedule consists of dynamic groups and activities intended to engage, inspire and promote growth. These immersive recovery experiences result in reduction of cravings, anxiety, and depression, replacing them with habituation to a solution-based, positive mindset and consistent practice of self-care and life skills.

Grace House offers a wide range of groups focused on relapse prevention, emotional regulation, self-esteem, cognitive restructuring, recovery planning, and peer support. Each group is designed to foster community, skill-building, and the opportunity for clients to reflect, connect, and grow.

We are a trauma-informed program, recognizing that many of our clients carry histories of complex trauma. Our staff are trained to create emotionally safe environments where clients can process experiences without fear of judgment or re-traumatization. This framework guides how we structure services, respond to behaviors, and build trust with those we serve.

At every level of care, we aim to meet people with dignity and empathy, honoring their individual paths while helping them build the skills, insight, and support networks needed for sustainable recovery.

  • Health and wellness: Everyone’s treatment plan includes regular exercise, healthy meals, and education to promote good health.
  • Spirit: spiritual support and opportunities give patients ways to strengthen their connections to themselves, others, nature, and their faith.
  • Social and community connection: Residents are instantly a member of a large and supportive recovery community of people wanting to get well and be helpful to each other, offering service, companionship, fun and lightness to their experience.
  • Healthy family relationships: For family members, we aim to incorporate education on substance use disorder and behavioral health, identify shared goals expectations, and provide access to a supportive community of other family patients.
  • Active recovery: Recovery is only successful for those who DO it. We teach, demonstrate, practice and require employment of recovery skills training including non-violent communication, relapse prevention, contemplative practice, 12 step work and CBT/DBT skills so women are in habit of applying them to their lives when they discharge.

Additional Resources

Meditation and spiritual practice are fundamental components of the Twelve Step process and we explore many different ways of connecting to our own inner peace. Daily practice is directly attributed to our success.

  • Harvard Study on How Meditation Can Rebuild Gray Matter in the Brain
  • Spirituality Symbolized by Native Americans


We practice Non-Violent Communication in our groups which coincides with IPNB and the need to develop healthy communication skills, stimulating neuroplasticity in the pre-frontal cortex, and healing the brain. For more information, please visit: 

  • The Center for Non-Violent Communication Research
  • Neurobiology Advances on Brain Disease Model of Addiction


Movement and breathing is practiced regularly to promote increased energy and stamina; improved muscle tone, digestion, and concentration; and enhanced relaxation and ability to deal with life’s daily stresses.

  • Amazing Story of Yoga Healing a Disabled Veteran


The Twelve Steps has been a time-tested and proven process for long-lasting recovery from addiction. The environment at the Soul Sanctuary is created to enhance the experience of recovery by focusing on step work while giving direct support on how to do it progressively.

  • The Twelve Steps May Be the Most Effective Path to Staying Abstinent
  • Alcoholics Anonymous vs. Other Programs