Our Healing Philosophy

At The Beach Cottage at Seasons in Malibu, we believe your mental health is best treated through the biological, physiological, cognitive and spiritual lens, addressed cooperatively with you. Your family, your job and your daily stressors all contribute to your emotional wellbeing, so they are all part of the work.

At our Malibu mental health treatment facility, we hold ourselves accountable to our results. We are constantly working to ensure your symptoms are addressed by the most successful treatment modalities available, delivered by a team of highly skilled professionals.

1. A team that never stops improving. Our goal is a treatment staff and community that continually strives to learn and improve at our craft. We hire only the most experienced and talented professionals from across the country, giving us a team more efficient and competent than almost anyone else in the world.
2. Ethical, consumer-friendly pricing. We treat clients and their families with respect through multi-tiered pricing. Many treatment centers use the crisis of behavioral health to take advantage of families in their time of greatest need. We consider that practice unethical.
3. Accountability through outcomes. Tracking and publishing treatment outcomes lets us hold ourselves, and other treatment providers, accountable.
4. Crisis can become lasting change. During the crisis of mental illness, clients and families may be able to embrace positive changes with a lasting impact on their lives. We have a limited amount of time with you, and it must be used as efficiently as possible.
5. Continuous education. Mental health is complex, shaped by genetics, environment and individual experience. We invest in ongoing learning, reading, publishing and contributing to the state-of-the-art knowledge in the field.
6. Empathy, dignity, no judgement. Treatment must focus on serious commitment, a personalized plan, ongoing support and follow-up care.
7. Respect, not shame. Mental illness is a serious condition, not an inconsistent character. To break the shame cycle, we address the health of the systems surrounding you rather than focusing on the behavior.
8. Aftercare is the critical phase. The most important time is once you leave treatment. Every client receives a comprehensive, well-thought-out aftercare plan with short-term and long-term goals that can be successfully achieved.