For nearly 60 years, Casa has been a place where women are met with dignity, compassion, and care.
For nearly 60 years, Casa has been a place where women are met with dignity, compassion, and care.
Casa Treatment Center for Women opened in 1967 as Pasadena’s first 24-hour, non-medical substance use treatment program created specifically for women.
Today, Casa continues to provide a compassionate, non-judgmental, home-like environment where women can begin healing from addiction, trauma, co-occurring mental health needs, and the pain that often lives beneath substance use.
Women of all ages, backgrounds, and life experiences are welcomed into a therapeutic community that honors the whole person. At Casa, recovery is not only about abstinence. It is also about safety, self-worth, emotional healing, healthy connection, and learning to believe in a future again.
Individualized Care
Every woman who comes to Casa brings a unique story, history, and vision for her future. Our individualized approach recognizes that recovery is not one-size-fits-all. Treatment is tailored to support each woman’s needs, including substance use, trauma, co-occurring mental health concerns, relationships, family dynamics, and personal goals.
Through compassionate care and evidence-based treatment, women learn to understand their experiences, develop coping tools, establish healthy boundaries, and build new ways of navigating life’s challenges. The goal is not only freedom from substance use—it is helping each woman create a life that feels grounded, meaningful, and truly her own.
Treatment Approach—Counseling & Therapy
One-on-one counseling is an important part of the Casa experience. Counselors work with each client to identify goals, create an individualized treatment plan, and support progress with compassion and accountability.
Therapeutic approaches may include:
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), which helps women recognize patterns in thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and practice healthier ways of responding.
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) and mindfulness, which support emotional regulation, distress tolerance, and day-to-day stress reduction.
- Art therapy, which offers a creative way to express feelings, process experiences, and reconnect with oneself.
- Motivational interviewing, which helps women explore ambivalence, strengthen personal motivation, and move toward meaningful change.
Treatment Programs—Groups
At Casa, therapeutic groups are designed to support every aspect of a woman’s recovery—emotional, mental, physical, relational, and spiritual well-being. Through meaningful connection and shared experiences, women have the opportunity to be heard, develop new skills, and build a supportive community with others who understand the path of recovery.
Process groups help women reconnect with their own voices, express feelings and needs, challenge shame-based beliefs, and build relationships rooted in trust and honesty.
Many women experience substance use alongside mental health concerns such as anxiety, depression, trauma, or other diagnoses. This group helps women understand those connections and the role treatment, medication compliance when appropriate, and support can play in recovery.
Addiction education helps women understand substance use through a biopsychosocial lens, reducing shame and increasing self-understanding. Women learn how addiction affects the brain, body, relationships, and decision-making.
Relapse prevention groups help women identify triggers, understand cravings and obsessive thinking, build coping strategies, and practice healthier choices earlier in the process.
Family systems groups explore communication, conflict, boundaries, listening, and the patterns that can shape family life. When families begin to heal, recovery can be more strongly supported.
This group provides a safe place to explore the effects of domestic violence, emotional abuse, manipulation, bullying, and other harmful dynamics. Women are supported as they recognize unsafe patterns and consider alternatives rooted in safety and dignity.
DBT and mindfulness support emotional regulation, present-moment awareness, and healthier responses to daily stressors. These skills can become important tools for recovery and relapse prevention.
This group explores boundaries, self-care, assertion, and responsibility. Women learn how to identify what belongs to them, what does not, and how healthier relationships can begin to take shape.
Unresolved grief can be deeply connected to substance use. This group gives women space to explore loss, process pain, and begin holding memories with more compassion and less shame.
Recovery includes caring for the body. Casa supports women in rebuilding routines around movement, nutrition, rest, and medical care so they can feel stronger and more grounded in early recovery.
This group helps women understand boundaries, relationship patterns, family involvement, and the supportive connections that can strengthen recovery.
Many women carry sexual, emotional, or physical trauma that they have never felt safe to share. Casa creates a compassionate environment where women can begin processing those experiences and release misplaced shame and guilt.