CLARE | MATRIX Healing House

Clare is tough, you won’t get a private room and you might not go to too many outisde meetings but you will learn to communicate with a wide range of people, you will get time and info to enroll in many govement programs and learn about all services available to addicts and you will stay sober and watch many great movies, you will have time to workout get healthy and have health services and be able to heal your body and mind and have home cooked healthy meals and great alkaline purified water available

Excellent program..would recommend it to anyone with addiction problems seeking recovery.

This place was okay with how you have outside freedom, most of the staff actually care about your well being. Erika the counselor was a blessing and she really cared about where we ended up if we ended up getting discharged and making sure we're on top of our case managment as well as multi-tasking and being respectful. Taylor also has compassion and helps to her best ability to make sure your taken care of. Sometimes the lack of low staffing can affect the counselors ability to get to everyone but they really do try their best. Unfortunately, since i've been there two counselors quit right off rips because of the way they are treated by the director Mary. She doesn't care if she sends you to the streets and will discharge you immediately for things clients are trying to work on like emotional sobriety. Seeing how we didn't get individual therapy it was a struggle maintaining emotions, loneliness, and working on factors that will actually help our recovery. Johnny's groups were a hit or miss sometimes but he definelty cares as a counselor. He encourages attending outside meetings and taking us to the beach which was a plus and meditation therapy. Cici's groups were fun most of the time with art therapy and allowing us to get up and move around to keep us entertained for the ADHD clients. They are silly about store runs and get on you as the night counselor Evelina creating problems when or if your store run doesn't go as expected because of lack of my food card working. And then when I apologized to her she responded negatively and unprofessionally knocking me down by saying "I know how you are and the way you act so I think you meant it. I dint accept your apology. Instead of giving positive feedback like hey, I know your working on it, we make mistakes and its part of emotional sobriety so thank you for acknowledging that and continue to better yourself and respect others, no matter the consequences would of been an professional response. But she said I was bugging her and she didn't accept my apology. when I just was having a bad day and asked my official counselor if I could go to the store again which she agreed to. Miscommunication on the staff but my wrong of having an emotional outburst, ill admit. I didn't expect to be discharged for it because thats what i'm there for, to work on changing. So stay clear of Mary and emotionally breaking down. Otherwise, they try to get you through your days. The place can be kinda dirty so I would scrub the walls and clean the offices to stay busy. They gym is sub-par and they're food can be also. Red gate is a decent program where I attended after clare kicked me to the streets. They work on trauma therapy, individual therapy and outdoor activities with a fun unjudgmental environment unlike clare. The woman treated each other with jealousy and stealing from clients with no consequences. The place could use a paint job. And new doors. Other wise I give it three stars. Good program and groups.