Sierra tucson Reviews

I have never been in a treatment center before, and have no other reference. I had a very positive experience at Sierra Tucson. I chose to make the experience positive. I asked to be in classes, like the Mother's Sanctuary, that I knew would benefit me. I participated in everything that was available, and in my therapy groups. You can always find things to complain about, teachers reading from papers, insurance problems, or restrictions.... don't let those things prohibit you from healing. I decided I was there for me. I wanted to be better for me. If you have that desire you will succeed. The therapy staff (therapist, psychiatrist, EMDR, somatic experience, brain mapping, and massage therapists) I met with were all amazing. I felt they had my best interest in mind. They treated me with respect, listened to me, validated my experience, and encouraged me in my journey. Definitely liked the meditation that was available at night. The RT's were wonderful, and easy to talk to. The food was good... fantastic salad bar always available. The rooms could use some updating. Sierra Tucson is what you will make of it. Make it a new start for your life!

I would recommend this facility to anyone in need of treatment, it truly changed and saved my life. The level of care is spectacular, the staff is extremely helpful and will work with you to individualize your treatment, the therapists and doctors were fantastic, and the food was really great. The community feeling there was so positive and uplifting, the facility grounds are beautiful as well. I went there in 2017 and still look back at my experience there with nothing but gratitude and joy.

I have never attended a 30 day treatment center and so I had no idea what to expect. I arrived at Copper Sky and was welcomed by amazing staff members. I met so many great staff members and made a ton of great friends. It was a great experience! The only downside was my insurance that did not code things right. So I was refused treatment and had to leave after 8 days.

All the staff at Dancing Star were awesome.

Thank you!
John Worden

If I could put zero stars I would. RUN far away from this facility. They do not care about someone s loved one getting better or even getting back to a family member. My husband has come out ten times worst and this has completely destroyed his mental health. The professionals do not listen to family members and indulge in delusional behaviors and let inappropriate relationships happen in this facility. Do not entrust your loved one in this facility. This facility has single handedly destroyed my husband from the person he was to a completely different worst off person. Please don t even consider this facility. It has destroyed our family.

This place. These people. The process. Worth every penny. The difference with Sierra Tucson and other places is the incredible information and treatment for TRAUMA, which is the history that brings folx to the same boat from different histories. My deepest thanks to the staff and to the warriors who spent time together doing their work. I support you

Initially it is difficult for anyone to ask for help. There is such a stigma with mental health. Over all Sierra Tucson and staff taught me so much about myself. Awareness. Meditation, thoughts are just thoughts, they are not facts. I had a phenomenal therapist who taught me how to have a voice. I miss process group and most the one on one s. You have to put in the work to receive a beginning of healing. I am finding it is a day by day opportunity. The Equine therapy Was one of many experiences that stand out to me. I will forever be indebted to the process. It was beautiful. I am thankful on this side of my stay for all the support and love that goes into mental health! All my love, me

I got everything I needed from this place. If you are looking to heal and do the work for yourself, I highly recommend Sierra Tucson. The staff genuinely care about the patients. There is a lot of love and support to lean into while you go through the process of treatment.

This is one of the worst places I have ever been. 8 weeks into treatment here I hurt myself to the point my eyes were swollen shut and I needed help to walk. They told me they were sending me away for medical evaluation, but actually I was sent to another psych facility and not allowed to return. A similar thing happened to someone else I was going through treatment with at Sierra Tucson and she had to buy a same-day ticket back to Alaska, while someone that left, got drunk, and then arrested was allowed to return. It s all about money here. The first 6 weeks I was in their intensive Chrysalis program and there were no skills groups. When I was transferred to residential, skills groups were basic to the point of spending an hour talking about what a boundary is, but no guidance on how to implement them or what healthy boundaries look like. The classes are taught by people either without degrees or certification to save money while it s easily over 30 grand to get treated here. Where does the money go? The eating disorder tract had zero skills groups, just talk process groups and some meetings with a nutritionist and therapist. How does that invoke change? The only reason they re ranked so highly is because they serve better food then you d get at a traditional psych ward and if you got money, they ll pamper you, but if you actually want to get better, this is not the place. I ve since been discharged from the VA, who initially referred me there, unable to return to treatment and with no support. If you want help look elsewhere. I m posting a very candid photo of myself when they transferred me so you can see the reality of what this place drives you too. May you find help and healing elsewhere.

Last year I had a series of medical events that pushed me into the darkest most difficult place of my entire life. I was in incredible pain, both physically and emotionally with my situation diminishing rapidly. I did not know where to turn to try to stabilize my condition and doctors in my home state of Alaska just kept recommending hospitalizations, medications, and therapy to no end. I met with my family and told them I needed to end my life, I just couldn't take the suffering any longer from my (at the time) undiagnosed medical condition and they started reaching out to places they though could help save me.

Sierra Tucson answered the literal calls for help and within 24 hours had a team of doctors ready to take me in and help figure our what the heck was going on with me. I previous to 2020 had never had issues with mental illness, depression, or anything like the madness I was going through and when I arrived the care and understanding I received was incredible and focused on my own personal, unique, situation. I stayed there for 45 days and they provided an innumerable amount of therapies and evaluations in a caring and non-judgmental fashion that was life changing.

I would, in no uncertain terms, not be alive today if it were not for the people at Sierra Tucson, the services they provided, and the work they did to get me into a research hospital that would eventually help me figure out why my health was failing. I think that no matter what you are suffering from, no matter how long you have been suffering, no matter how hopeless you might feel, if you are reading this now, please just do whatever it takes to get into these peoples hands.

I WRITE AT LENGTH FOR A REASON. I have been to Sierra Tucson seven times. Each visit for different time periods, and each involving life-long, alcohol abuse and later mood and emotional stabilization, "retraining" and renewed focus. SEVEN TIMES - FAILURE OR SUCCESS? The fact is that neither of those extremes can be measured in writing, no matter how poetic the writer might be. These extremes can only be described by action and result - different for everyone on that continuum.

I have heard plenty of negatives during all of my time at ST - mostly while on campus - about ST policies, insurance, not enough sugar-free beverages or coffee, etc. These negatives exist. I find them largely external to actual people and ST treatment, and seem closer to subjective reactions to a system that also happens to exist at ST, as so many systems surround all of our lives, managed by mere human beings. Those are facts.

More facts are, that I am alive, though at previous times, quite literally, near dead. My family, though separated, remains living, growing, with healthy, onward changing and adapting, sometimes difficult and frustrating, but so many more as wonderful. I tried other programs, but it was not until experiencing the ST program that my changes were made possible - the whole program. So I ask once more - SEVEN TIMES - HERE AND BACK AGAIN - FAILURE OR SUCCESS?

Let the fact that I HAVE returned SEVEN times, be MY simple testimony to the ST program. That number, and this message, say it all for me. Please consider the changes in my life, when you read this, and then consider the possibilities for your own. My love, wishes and hope.