Peninsula was built on a single observation. Most luxury rehab programs converge on the same set of amenities and the same set of marketing photographs. The brochures look interchangeable because the operators have invested in the wrong dimension. The dimension that changes outcomes is clinical depth — the credential level of the clinicians on staff, the rigor of the intake, the integration of evidence-based modalities with carefully chosen integrative supplements, and the privacy infrastructure that lets the work happen.
We are a small program, deliberately. The six-bed maximum is not a luxury indulgence. It is the structural choice that allows master's and doctoral clinicians to work at one-to-one or one-to-two ratios, allows two-day intakes to produce diagnostic depth that two-hour intakes cannot, and allows family communications and press protocols to be managed individually rather than processed industrially.
Most of our guests come to us after their substance use has become incompatible with their professional life. They are not in the literal crisis the brochures depict — most are still functioning, sometimes barely, sometimes more easily than they let themselves admit. The decision to enter treatment is a considered one. Our work is to meet that thinking with depth, not with theater.
Master's-level and doctoral clinicians at one-to-one and one-to-two ratios. A board-certified addiction medicine physician on site daily. Bachelor's-level counselors do not work at Peninsula. The economics constrain the residence size; the residence size protects the clinical depth.
Cognitive behavioral therapy, dialectical behavior therapy, motivational interviewing, EMDR, and medication-assisted treatment form the structural backbone. Somatic experiencing, equine-assisted psychotherapy, mindfulness-based relapse prevention, and nutrition psychiatry are added as supplements with their own research base — selected to match the guest's profile, not offered as a buffet.
Full psychiatric evaluation, complete bloodwork, ASAM Criteria across all six dimensions, validated trauma and mood screens, sleep evaluation, nutrition assessment, family-system assessment. Roughly forty percent of guests have an unrecognized co-occurring condition that standard intakes overlook. Catching it before treatment starts is the difference between recovery that lasts and recovery that fractures in the third week.
HIPAA and 42 CFR Part 2 are the floor. We add NDA-bound clinical and household staff, an undisclosed residence address, no-photography and social-media policies in writing, a press-handling protocol with chain-of-custody for any media inquiry, and family-communication boundaries with explicit consent for each communication.
If Peninsula is not the right fit for your clinical profile, location needs, or family circumstances, we will tell you so on the first call and recommend programs we believe are. The admissions conversation is conducted by a master's-level clinician, not a sales coordinator. We do not pay referral fees, accept patient brokering, or engage in any marketing practice that would compromise the clinical recommendation.
Peninsula intentionally does not publish clinician biographies on the public website. For our guests' protection, our clinicians are not findable by reverse-search from publicly indexed pages. Names and full credentials are provided directly during the admissions process under non-disclosure terms.
What we publish here are the credential standards we require for each role.
Board-certified by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology with subspecialty in addiction psychiatry, or by the American Board of Preventive Medicine with addiction medicine certification. Minimum ten years post-fellowship clinical practice. On site daily during operating hours.
Doctoral-level licensed psychologist (PhD or PsyD) with state board certification and a CADC or LAADC where available. Minimum eight years specialized SUD clinical experience. EMDRIA Approved Consultant level for trauma work. Oversees treatment plans, modality matching, and clinical supervision.
Master's-level licensed clinicians (LCSW, LMFT, LMHC) with state board licensure and CADC or LAADC where applicable. Minimum five years specialized SUD experience. Modality-specific certifications (EMDRIA Basic Training, Somatic Experiencing Practitioner where applicable, MBRP Teacher Training, EAGALA or PATH equine certification) verified per modality assignment.
RD credential through the Commission on Dietetic Registration with documented addiction medicine experience. Conducts initial nutrition assessment, personalized planning, and continuing nutrition counseling during treatment and into discharge planning.
Senior coach with substantive C-suite executive experience and structured executive-coaching credential. Separate from clinical staff. Works alongside the clinical team during weeks three through six on return-to-work planning, with a continuing engagement protocol available through the first ninety days post-discharge.
If you would like to verify the specific credentials and license status of the clinical team prior to admission, the admissions clinician will provide license numbers and state board contact information during the first call. State licensing boards publish free verification portals; verification before commitment is encouraged.
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Peninsula Recovery Group is a single private treatment programme, not a directory and not a referral service. That distinction decides everything else on this page: we describe one programme we are accountable for, rather than ranking facilities we are paid to send people to.
We treat adults whose lives are still running — people with a company, a licence, a practice or a family depending on them — and whose problem is therefore easy to postpone. The clinical spine is ordinary and evidence-based; what is unusual is the assessment, the ratios and the fact that a clinician answers the phone.
Every recommendation we make names an ASAM dimension, and we say so out loud because it is the fastest way to tell an assessment from a sales call. The ASAM Criteria is the standard most US clinicians and insurers use to decide level of care, and it works across six dimensions that move the answer independently.
When the assessment indicates a level of care we do not provide, when the medical picture needs a hospital rather than a residence, or when someone is better served by a programme closer to their family. A programme that fits everyone has decided nothing about what it does. We would rather lose an admission than take one we cannot serve well.
Nothing. The assessment call is free, takes about twenty-five minutes, and ends with a written recommendation whether or not it points at us.
The evidence-based core is unremarkable, and that is deliberate. Cognitive behavioural therapy, dialectical behaviour therapy, motivational interviewing, EMDR where trauma is present, and medication where it is indicated. Anything unusual is added around that spine, never instead of it.
For opioid use disorder there are three FDA-approved medications, and the evidence on survival for two of them is stronger than for anything else in this field. Approved medications exist for alcohol use disorder too and are widely under-used. For stimulants and sedatives none exists — there the answer is behavioural work or a supervised taper, and we say which applies rather than implying a medication is being withheld.
Most people arrive with something the substance was solving: pain, insomnia, trauma, ADHD, depression. Treating the substance and none of the reasons is how a second attempt gets scheduled.
Somatic work, mindfulness-based relapse prevention, nutrition psychiatry and structured physical work are offered where they suit the person. They are adjuncts with varying evidence, we describe them that way, and none of them substitutes for the clinical spine.
Every clinical claim on this site is traceable to a named source, and every page carries the date it was last reviewed. This section exists so you can hold us to that.
Government agencies, professional societies and peer-reviewed literature — SAMHSA, NIDA, CDC, the FDA, the American Society of Addiction Medicine, and primary research through PubMed and the NCBI Bookshelf. Where a source is a press release or an advocacy body, we say so.
Each page shows a review date. Where a guideline changes — as the ASAM benzodiazepine tapering guidance did in 2025 — the affected pages are revised rather than left with a fresher date stamped on stale text.
Tell us and we will correct it and say that we did. The contact page has the route.
Substance use treatment records carry federal protection beyond ordinary medical privacy under 42 CFR Part 2, a rule written specifically for this category of care that restricts disclosure in ways HIPAA alone does not.
Your records cannot be disclosed without your written consent in most circumstances, including to family, employers and courts, with narrow defined exceptions. Self-insured employers receive aggregate claims data, not a list of who used behavioural benefits.
No photographs of guests, no social media, no published discharge dates, unmarked transport, and a single named contact rather than a rota of coordinators. Where a licensing body or counterparty genuinely must be told something, we help plan what is said rather than discovering afterwards what was assumed.
No programme can promise that nobody will ever know. What it can do is remove the avoidable exposure and be specific about the rest — which is what we would want to be told in your position.
A provider. We run one programme and are accountable for it. We are not paid to refer people elsewhere, and nobody is paid to send people to us — paying for patient referrals is a felony in several states and a conflict of interest everywhere. If our assessment points somewhere other than us, we say so and give you the reasoning.
A master’s-level clinician during admissions hours, 9am to 9pm ET, seven days a week. Not a call centre and not a salesperson with an admissions target. Outside those hours you can leave a number and a clinician calls back; in an emergency, 911 or 988 is the right call rather than us.
No, and we would be cautious about any programme that does. A success rate means nothing without the population, the follow-up period and the definition of success — and those three variables can move a figure from 20% to 90% without anything clinical changing. We would rather describe what we do and let you compare it to the evidence.
It depends on the level of care the assessment indicates, and the assessment is free. The number that usually matters more than our rate is your out-of-pocket maximum for the plan year — for in-network care it caps what you can be charged. The insurance page sets out what plans typically cover at each level.
For structured outpatient, usually yes — schedules are built around working hours for exactly this reason. Residential is not compatible with working, which is why the level should be settled clinically rather than defensively. Many people who assume they must disappear for a month do not need to.
Every page lists its sources and shows a review date. Follow the links — they go to SAMHSA, NIDA, CDC, ASAM and peer-reviewed literature rather than to other pages of ours. If a claim on this site does not have a source you can check, treat that as a defect and tell us.
Written by the Peninsula clinical editorial team · Reviewed by our clinical leadership · Last reviewed September 2026
Facility data, where cited, comes from SAMHSA’s National Directory and state licensing boards. Statistics are cross-referenced against CDC WONDER, NIDA, and peer-reviewed research. Every medical claim is checked against primary sources before publication. Corrections are processed within 48 hours.