WHAT FORMER CLIENTS SAY

“How do I thank you for saving my son’s life? Alan was completely out of control doing heroin every day…We were at the end of the road until we finally made a decision to try an intervention. Bob educated us about addiction, treatment, and our options…The intervention brought our family back together. Alan went to treatment and has been clean for 6 months…”

- Edward J., Ft. Lauderdale, FL.

See the Client Testimonials page to read more client comments

Meditation for
November 22, 2008

"It's the most precious thing...to know absolutely where you belong. There's a whole emotional wrapping-around-of-you here. You see the same rock, tree, road, clouds, sun -- you develop a nice kind of intimacy with the world around you. To be intimate is to grow, to learn...[it] is absolutely fulfilling. Intimacy, that's my magic word for why I live here."

Tessie Maranjo, SANTA CLARA PUEBLO

Every human being, to be mentally healthy, must have the feeling of belonging. When we have a sense of belonging we can be intimate. We can feel. We can connect. If we cannot develop this feeling of belonging, then we will feel lost of disconnected. To be disconnected from life is like walking around during the day not knowing the Sun exists. To have the feelings of intimacy is warm, glowy, joyful, loving and connected. The feeling this Elder is talking about is available to everyone.

Great Spirit, let me be intimate.

Meditation graciously provided by www.whiteBison.org

GSBH will perform a free Family Intervention for families who choose to use our GSBH treatment center. Please call for details.

Welcome to
Gentle Spirit Behavioral Health

Interventions, Treatment and Transitional Living for:
- ALCOHOL - DRUGS - GAMBLING and OTHER ADDICTIONS -

PHILOSOPHY OF GENTLE SPIRIT BEHAVIORAL HEALTH

Gentle Spirit Behavioral Health (GSBH) believes that if you treat people with honesty and respect and help them feel safe and understood, they will be more willing to look at, face, and change the consequences of their behavior. We have learned through 30 year of experience that the disease of addiction not only cripples the addict, but it leads to total devastation of the family. We have also learned that because the disease of addiction is so encompassing that 30 days of treatment very rarely works. We believe that a long-term, low cost program is the most effective way to get clients clean and sober.

Gentle Spirit Behavioral Health offers a wide range of services to help you, a family member, friend or co-worker to shed the destructive influence of addictions. You can find information in the programs section on some of the services we offer. Watching someone suffering from addiction self destruct is extremely painful, especially since they do not understand the severity of their disease. Often they think they can handle the problem and arena’t aware of their impact on others. If you or someone you know has a problem, find out by using our online assessment.