Addiction doesn’t live only in your thoughts. It shows up in your body as tension, restlessness, exhaustion, and cravings. It shows up in your emotions as anxiety, grief, and shame. And it shows up in your sense of self, in the quiet belief that you’re broken or alone.

Healing all of that takes more than one approach. At Amar Recovery, holistic addiction treatment is a core part of every client’s care, not an optional extra. Alongside proven therapies like CBT and DBT, you’ll take part in yoga, art therapy, breathwork, Reiki, qigong, and tapping, guided by practitioners who are part of our team.

Our outpatient programs in San Francisco, California, are designed to help you reconnect with your body, express what’s hard to say, and build daily practices that support a calmer, more grounded life in recovery.

Holistic addiction treatment is an approach that treats the whole person: mind, body, and spirit. Instead of focusing only on stopping substance use, it looks at how stress, trauma, physical health, emotions, and connection all play a role in addiction and recovery.

Holistic care does not replace clinical treatment. At Amar Recovery, holistic practices work alongside evidence-based therapy in both our partial hospitalization program (PHP) and intensive outpatient program (IOP). Together, they give you a fuller set of tools than either could offer alone.

Many people drink or use to change how they feel in their bodies, whether that’s to relax, to feel energized, or to escape physical or emotional pain. When the substance is gone, those needs remain. Holistic practices offer healthier ways to meet them.

Holistic care can help you:

• Calm your nervous system and manage anxiety without substances
• Notice cravings and difficult emotions and move through them
• Release tension that builds up from stress or trauma
• Express feelings that are hard to put into words
• Improve sleep, energy, and overall sense of wellbeing
• Build daily routines that support recovery after treatment ends

For people working through trauma, holistic practices can be especially helpful. Trauma is often held in the body, and gentle, body-based approaches can help you feel safe enough to begin processing it.

Our holistic program is led by practitioners who are part of our team, including an on-staff yoga instructor and an on-staff art therapist.

Evidence-based therapies like cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) help you understand your thoughts, emotions, and behaviors, and build practical skills to change them. Holistic practices help you feel those changes in your body and give you tools to calm down when stress runs high.

For example, in DBT you might learn mindfulness and distress tolerance skills. In yoga or breathwork, you practice those same skills with your body. In individual therapy, you might talk through a painful loss. In art therapy, you might express the parts of that loss that words can’t reach.

Your treatment plan at Amar Recovery blends both approaches based on your needs, your preferences, and what helps you most in your recovery.

Holistic addiction treatment can be a good fit for almost anyone, especially if you:

• Have tried talk therapy alone and felt something was missing
• Carry a lot of stress, tension, or anxiety in your body
• Are working through trauma or grief
• Want tools you can use on your own after treatment
• Are curious about mind-body practices but haven’t known where to start

You don’t need any prior experience with yoga, meditation, or art. Every practice is introduced gently, and you’re always welcome to go at your own pace.