Changes Treatment Center
Changes Treatment Center runs a partial hospitalization program Huntington Beach adults attend from our center in nearby Costa Mesa, a straight shot inland from the coast. PHP treatment Huntington Beach residents get here is the most intensive level of outpatient care: full treatment days, five days a week, with every evening back home near the beach. It’s the structure of a hospital day without an overnight stay, so recovery fits around the life you already have. We work with major insurance plans and verify benefits in about 15 minutes.
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The closest PHP through Changes is in Costa Mesa at 2787 Bristol Street, just inland from Huntington Beach near the 405. We treat adults from Huntington Beach and the surrounding coastal cities, and most people start within a few days of verifying benefits.
Our center sits in Costa Mesa’s South Coast Metro area, a short drive from Huntington Beach on the 405. You can call (949) 807-2008 or use the directions link on this page to map the exact route from your neighborhood.
Yes. Our PHP treats substance use together with co-occurring conditions like anxiety, depression, and trauma, rather than one at a time. Psychiatry and medication management are part of the program when your plan calls for them.
PHP is the higher level at about 20 to 30 hours a week, while IOP runs about 9 to 15. If you need daily structure, PHP fits; if you can stay steady with fewer hours and keep working, IOP may be the place to start. We help you decide on your first call.
Most major plans cover PHP, and we verify your specific benefits in about 15 minutes before you commit. What you owe depends on your deductible and coinsurance, and we walk you through it first. Private-pay options are available too.
Changes treat adults. Our PHP is built for adults 18 and older dealing with addiction and co-occurring mental health conditions.
Most people begin within a few days of verifying insurance. Call (949) 807-2008 or send the verification form and the team will build a schedule around your plan.
PHP is the right level of care for adults who need daily clinical structure but not a 24-hour residential stay. Huntington Beach residents usually arrive here one of three ways: stepping down from detox or residential care and still needing intensive support, discovering that weekly therapy or even IOP wasn’t enough to stay steady, or carrying a substance problem that’s wrapped up with anxiety, depression or trauma.
Huntington Beach is one of the communities we serve through our partial hospitalization program across Orange County, and at this level the decision usually isn’t whether you need help, it’s whether you need the full-day structure PHP provides or the lighter schedule of a step down. The PHP Huntington Beach adults choose here gives you a complete clinical team every weekday while you keep sleeping in your own bed.
A PHP day runs several hours, five days a week, built from an individualized plan your clinician sets at the first assessment. Each day combines three kinds of work. Group therapy carries most of the clinical progress and the peer support that research consistently ties to better outcomes. Individual therapy gives you private, focused time on what’s actually driving your use. Skills sessions handle the practical side, spotting triggers, regulating emotions, and building routines that survive contact with real life.
Over a full week, the work builds rather than repeating. Early days focus on stabilizing, getting through any lingering withdrawal, settling into the schedule, and naming what actually needs to change. As that steadies, the focus shifts to the drivers underneath the use and to concrete relapse-prevention planning: knowing your personal warning signs, mapping the situations that put you at risk, and rehearsing what you’ll do instead. By the time you’re ready to step down to a lighter level, you’re not just abstinent, you have a plan you’ve practiced. That progression is only possible because PHP gives your team five days a week to watch how you respond and adjust in real time.
Because you go home to Huntington Beach each evening, you also test what you learn where it matters, in your own environment, and bring real situations back the next morning. That loop is the engine of PHP: daily contact lets your team adjust the plan in days rather than waiting a week between sessions.
We treat the full range of substance use disorders at the PHP level, alcohol, opioids (including fentanyl and prescription painkillers), stimulants such as methamphetamine and cocaine, benzodiazepines, and dependence on marijuana, 7-OH and kratom products. Many clients are managing more than one substance, and the plan is built around the whole picture rather than a single drug.
Mental health is treated inside the same program. Our mental health PHP Huntington Beach care addresses anxiety, depression and trauma alongside the substance use, led by a board-certified psychiatrist, so you’re not referred elsewhere for the other half of what’s going on. The reason this matters is simple: the two feed each other. Treating the drinking or the drug use while ignoring the depression underneath it is how recovery slips, and treating both together, every day, is what makes it hold.
Our PHP leans on evidence-based therapies, each with a defined role. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is the foundation, identifying the thoughts and patterns behind use and replacing them with responses you can actually apply. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) builds emotional regulation and distress tolerance, the skills that stop a bad day from turning into a relapse. Motivational Interviewing works with the ambivalence that’s normal early on, strengthening your own reasons to change. Trauma-informed care runs beneath all of it, accounting for the experiences that so often sit under addiction. Relapse-prevention planning carries through the whole program and into your step-down.
For the fuller picture of how these come together across a week, see our main Partial Hospitalization Program overview.
PHP is full days, five days a week. IOP is 9 to 15 hours a week, for when you’re stable enough to add work and family back into the mix. Plenty of clients move from one to the other as they progress. See IOP in Huntington Beach for the step-down, or let the assessment settle which level fits.
The cost of PHP depends on your plan, your deductible, your copay for outpatient behavioral health, how many weeks your team recommends, and whether prior authorization is required, which we handle for you. We work with major insurance plans, verify your benefits free in about 15 minutes, and offer private pay if your coverage doesn’t work. See insurance and payment options.
Our center is at 2787 Bristol Street in Costa Mesa, a short inland drive from Huntington Beach, generally 15 to 20 minutes depending on where along the coast you start and how the 405 is moving. At the PHP level that proximity isn’t a detail, it’s the difference between finishing the program and quitting it, because a full-day schedule five days a week only works if the commute is manageable. Parking is on site.
Starting is three steps: verify insurance (free, about 15 minutes), speak with a specialist who confirms whether PHP is the right level, and begin, most clients start within a few days. If detox is needed first, we coordinate it through licensed partners. See the full admissions process.
For a lot of people, the fear isn’t treatment itself, it’s what treatment costs them: weeks away from work, from family, from the place they live. A full-day residential program means putting your life on hold. PHP at the Costa Mesa center is built to avoid exactly that for Huntington Beach residents. You get the most intensive level of care short of a residential stay, but you drive home each evening, sleep in your own bed, and stay connected to the people and routines that will still be there when the program ends. Recovery that happens inside your real life, rather than in a bubble you eventually have to leave, is recovery that’s far more likely to hold once the structure of PHP steps down. That’s the trade Huntington Beach residents are really weighing, and it’s the one this level of care is designed to win.
Eric Chaghouri, MD, is the Medical Director at Changes Treatment Center and reviews the clinical content on this page. Dr. Chaghouri is a board-certified psychiatrist who specializes in addiction and forensic psychiatry.
Ready when you are. Call (949) 807-2008 or verify your insurance in about 15 minutes, and our team will build a PHP schedule around your plan and the drive from Huntington Beach.
Recovery is more than stopping a behavior, it’s about rediscovering who you are. At Changes, we provide a supportive space where individuals can rebuild confidence, gain clarity, and move forward with purpose through personalized care.
We focus on strengthening identity, encouraging presence, and supporting overall well-being. By addressing self-sabotage and fostering community, we help turn intention into lasting change, walking with you every step of the way.
Our licensed professionals bring years of expertise in addiction and mental health treatment.
We customize treatment for every client to ensure long term success.
From detox to aftercare, Changes walks with you every step of the way.
Our Costa Mesa location offers a calming, bright, and rejuvenating atmosphere.
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