Philosophy
Avalon Malibu: Our Philosophy for Your Recovery
Avalon Malibu’s recovery tools help clients build a foundation for healing and self-discovery. Our approach restores balance and choice, adapting to each individual’s unique needs. Developed by our expert clinical staff, this flexible practice is a key part of our world-renowned mind, body, and spirit recovery treatment.
Avalon Malibu seeks to soothe the psychological suffering of clients living with daily traumatic responses, anxiety disorders, and various addictions. At its core, our philosophy is simple: to provide cutting-edge clinical recovery treatment through the mindful practice of experiential therapy and psychotherapy. We aim to build conscious living through mindful interactions and create a stepping stone for joy and the freedom that emerges with awareness and engagement in the present moment. Led by staff members who model healthy, mindful and positive lives, our group activities and natural excursions allow clients to explore themselves, engage with peers, and reaffirm the healing process.
Avalon Malibu Presents Tools for Recovery:
Integrative therapies: Nutrition, neurofeedback, Ayurveda, amino acid nutraceutical therapies, and nutritional support.
Mindfulness practices: Mindful meditation, yoga, qi gong and breathing techniques.
Trauma resolution therapies: Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR), expressive and somatic therapies, and holotropic breath work.
Experiential therapies: Psychodrama, ocean activities, ropes courses, art therapy, and other forms of experiential therapy.
Family therapy: Patient-family interaction, an evolving legacy.
Cognitive behavioral and dialectic behavioral therapies: Individual and group settings.
Psychoeducational skills: Psychoeducational training groups.
Spiritual practices and principles: 12-step programs, world contemplative traditions, teachings from “The Four Agreements,” and Self Management and Recovery Training (SMART Recovery).
Healing environment: Understanding of nature versus nurture.
Narrative Medicine: Integrates brain function in finding new meaning in the story of life.
