Ascend Recovery

About Ascend Recovery

Ascend Recovery is a residential addiction treatment program in American Fork, Utah, serving adult men and women with substance use disorders alongside co-occurring mental health conditions such as anxiety, depression, PTSD, and ADHD. Operating since 2008, they take an attachment-based, relationship-focused approach that treats substance use as frequently tied to unresolved trauma and self-medication. Care moves through three phases: residential treatment at their Lakehouse on Utah Lake, typically about 60 days; extended care that builds life skills like decision-making, time management, and career planning; and transitional sober living with continued outpatient support. They also offer free lifetime aftercare through their alumni program.

Clinically, clients receive individual therapy and case management up to three times a week, gender-specific and mixed group therapy, and weekly visits with a board-certified psychiatrist for medication management, with pharmacogenetic testing available to help guide prescribing. Trauma work draws on EMDR, psychodrama, somatic experiencing, and DBT-informed therapy, while CBT, DBT, and an introduction to 12-Step programs like AA round out the evidence-based core. Experiential therapy plays a large role, including equine therapy at least twice weekly, high ropes and challenge courses, expressive arts, and music therapy, supported by daily exercise, nutrition, and amino acid supplementation. Families take part through an intensive in-person program every two weeks that combines family therapy, multifamily groups, and experiential work, with virtual family sessions held in between.