Table of Contents
Medical Reviewer
Marjorie Gies, M.D. Psychiatrist & Medical Director
Start treatment today
Las Cruces Drug and Alcohol Rehab Center For Women
Taking the first step toward recovery can feel intimidating, especially when you’ve spent a long time holding everything together on your own. If you’re searching for a La Cruces rehab center that understands women’s experiences, you’re in the right place. Many women in Las Cruces, California, reach this point after navigating chronic stress, trauma, mental health challenges, or caregiving roles that left little space for their own healing.
Casa Serena is a women-only, nonprofit drug and alcohol rehab program rooted in compassion, safety, and community. For more than 65 years, we have supported women through recovery by offering trauma-informed care in an environment built on trust and connection. Our approach is never about judgment. It’s about understanding your story, honoring your resilience, and walking alongside you as you begin building a more grounded, supported life.
Here to Help
Why Women in Las Cruces, CA, Seek Drug and Alcohol Rehab
Across Santa Barbara County, overdose deaths related to alcohol and other drugs are a real concern. Local coroner-sourced reporting compiled by the Santa Barbara Opioid Safety Coalition notes that opioid deaths were 46% of alcohol and drug-related overdose deaths in 2024, and that opioid-involved deaths decreased compared to the prior year, with fentanyl involved in most opioid deaths.
At the state level, the California Department of Public Health reports that in 2023, there were 11,359 drug-related overdose deaths in California, and 7,847 were opioid-related.
And nationally, SAMHSA’s NSDUH reporting shows that many women experience mental health symptoms and substance use patterns that overlap. This is one reason treatment often needs to address both emotional health and substance use together.
Request a Confidential Callback
What Sets Us Apart
Why Women Choose Casa Serena Over Other La Cruces Rehab Centers
When women in Las Cruces begin comparing rehab options, many are looking for more than a treatment plan; they want to feel safe, respected, and understood. Casa Serena has earned trust over decades by offering women-only care rooted in dignity, ethics, and community rather than urgency or pressure.
Treatment for women, by women
Casa Serena is intentionally women-only. This model creates emotional safety and allows women to heal without having to explain or minimize their experiences. Recovery happens through shared understanding, peer support, and women supporting women.
Trauma-informed, community-based healing
Every aspect of Casa Serena’s program is trauma-informed. Staff are trained to reduce re-traumatization and to understand substance use in the context of lived experience. Daily life includes shared responsibilities, structure, and connection; helping women rebuild trust in themselves and in community.
For many women seeking a La Cruces rehab center, Casa Serena offers something rare: a place where healing is unhurried, relational, and deeply human.
Request a Confidential Callback
Learn More
Levels of Care Available Through Our La Cruces Rehab Center Program
Healing is not a one-size-fits-all process. Women arrive at treatment with different histories, needs, and levels of support, and effective care must be flexible enough to meet them where they are. Casa Serena offers a full continuum of care designed to provide the right level of structure at each stage of recovery, while honoring each woman’s pace and capacity for change.
Sub-acute detox for women
For women who need support withdrawing from substances, sub-acute detox provides a medically informed, compassionate environment focused on comfort, safety, and stabilization. Emotional support is emphasized alongside physical care, helping women feel grounded during an often vulnerable transition.
Residential inpatient treatment
Residential treatment takes place in Casa Serena’s historic Santa Barbara home, where women live and heal together in a structured, community-centered setting. Daily routines, shared responsibilities, and therapeutic programming help rebuild stability, trust, and connection while creating space for deeper healing work.
Partial hospitalization, intensive outpatient, and outpatient care
As women progress, outpatient levels of care provide continued support as they increase their independence. Our partial hospitalization program (PHP) provides intensive daytime structure, our intensive outpatient program (IOP) offers flexibility with consistent therapeutic engagement, and traditional outpatient care supports long-term stability and connection.
Sober living and transitional housing
Transitional living offers a supportive bridge between treatment and independent living, helping women practice life skills, accountability, and peer support while strengthening confidence and recovery foundations.
Recovery and Treatment
Therapies and Healing Modalities That Support Whole-Person Recovery
At Casa Serena, therapy is not about fitting women into a preset model. It’s about creating enough safety and trust for real healing to unfold. Many women arrive having spent years surviving, managing symptoms, pushing through pain, or being told what they should do. Our approach is intentionally different. We focus on helping women understand their internal experiences, build self-trust, and develop tools that feel usable in real life.
Some women begin by learning practical skills to manage emotions and stress through structured therapies such as cognitive-behavioral therapy and dialectical behavior therapy. Others need space to process trauma that has lived in the body for years, supported by Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing or Somatic Experiencing. Family therapy is available when healing relationships is part of recovery.
Healing at Casa Serena also happens outside the therapy room. Time in the garden, connection with animals through equine-assisted therapy, movement practices like Tai Chi, and creative expression allow women to reconnect with themselves in ways that feel grounding rather than overwhelming. These experiences help regulate the nervous system, restore curiosity, and remind women that recovery can include moments of peace and joy.
Together, these approaches give women multiple pathways into healing — honoring individuality rather than prescribing a single way forward.
Support
Supporting Women With Complex and Overlapping Needs
Many women who seek a La Cruces rehab center are not dealing with a single challenge. Substance use often exists alongside mental health concerns, trauma histories, disordered eating, or the lasting impact of service-related experiences. At Casa Serena, we recognize that recovery must make room for the full complexity of a woman’s life.
Integrated dual diagnosis care
Casa Serena provides dual diagnosis treatment for women navigating both substance use and mental health conditions such as anxiety, depression, trauma-related symptoms, or mood disorders. Rather than treating these issues separately, care is integrated and trauma-informed, helping women understand how emotional health and substance use influence one another. This approach supports deeper insight, greater stability, and more sustainable healing.
Eating disorder treatment within a compassionate framework
For women whose relationship with food, body image, or control has been shaped by trauma or emotional pain, Casa Serena offers eating disorder treatment woven into the broader recovery process. Care focuses on restoring safety, trust, and balance, not shame or rigid rules, while supporting both physical and emotional healing.
Support for women veterans
Casa Serena also welcomes women veterans, many of whom carry unique experiences related to service, identity, and trauma. Our women-only, community-based environment offers space to heal without having to explain or minimize those experiences, while honoring resilience and strength built through service.