Why Choose Passages Malibu
At Passages Malibu, treatment is built around you — your story, your needs, and what’s driving substance use beneath the surface. Our approach is personal, supportive, and designed to help you heal in a calm, private setting.
Why Choose Passages?
Over 20 years of leadership in addiction treatment — built on dignity, depth, and lasting transformation.
With more than two decades at the forefront of the addiction treatment industry, Passages has helped people rediscover a life free from addiction. Our revolutionary approach began when Co-Founders Chris Prentiss and Pax Prentiss developed a system that helped save Pax’s life after nearly ten years of struggling with heroin, cocaine, and alcohol.
Pax tried multiple 12 Step programs, but continued to relapse. It wasn’t until Chris created a customized treatment program—focused on resolving the underlying drivers of substance use—that Pax was able to heal and recover fully. That program became the foundation for Passages, and it has helped more than 20,000 people from around the world.
Unlike other treatment centers, Passages treats every client with dignity and respect. We do not label you an addict or anchor you to false beliefs about yourself. Instead, we help you reconnect with the strength within you—the strength you may not realize is there yet.
Therapy at Passages is world-class. We provide the equivalent of years of individual therapy within a 30-day program, allowing for intensive, focused work that gets to the core issues driving addiction—rather than concentrating only on the substance itself. This approach gives clients deeper insight and practical tools they can use to create meaningful, lasting change.
Choosing a Treatment Center
When choosing a treatment center, you only have to make the right choice—once.
If the treatment center you’re researching doesn’t make it their primary goal to discover what started your addiction—and what continues to keep it alive—how can they end it?
The reason you haven’t been able to quit drinking or using drugs is that what fuels addiction is still inside you, driving it forward. We refer to it as “Your Secret.” It is one or more of the Four Causes of Addiction.
To uncover and heal your secret, Passages provides intensive one-to-one therapy with a team of gifted therapists who work together to find the root cause that fuels addiction. When the cause is found and healed, stopping becomes natural—without the constant struggle to “stay sober.”
Everyone who is addicted and can’t quit has something locked inside. At Passages, we help you uncover it and heal it—so it stops driving addiction and keeping it active. If a center doesn’t do the above… keep looking.
When you participate fully in our holistic treatment program at Passages, the benefits are tremendous. We offer a balanced experience that combines intensive one-on-one therapy with restorative practices such as yoga, hiking, spiritual counseling, art therapy, sound therapy, massage, acupuncture, metaphysics groups, meditation, hypnotherapy, and tai chi.
Four main reasons cause all addictions. Our team of addiction specialists shares the most common examples collected anonymously from over 20 years of client experience at Passages. After you submit your evaluation, our admissions team will contact you to discuss customized program options.
Talk to Passages Malibu in Complete Confidence.
Since 2001, Passages Malibu has set the standard for holistic, Non-12 Step addiction treatment.
You deserve the best help available. Call Passages anytime or fill out the confidential form below to speak with an admissions specialist and explore your treatment options.
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