Drug Rehab For Healthcare Professionals
At Cirque Lodge, we offer specialized addiction treatment for healthcare professionals that meets the highest standards of the FSPHP and ASAM. With over 30 years of experience, our expert team provides confidential, comprehensive care tailored to the unique challenges healthcare professionals face, helping them heal and return to their careers with confidence.
OUR APPROACH
Emotional sobriety through mindful communication
Our program teaches healthcare professionals to develop deeper emotional sobriety by:
- Transforming anxiety-driven communication into meaningful connection
- Building authentic relationships through appropriate vulnerability
- Developing essential listening skills and emotional awareness
Personalized Treatment
At Cirque Lodge, we build treatment around substance use history, mental health needs, privacy concerns, family responsibilities, and return-to-work planning. You may need support in several areas at once, so your treatment plan can address substance use, stress, mental health symptoms, family strain, and the pressure of maintaining responsibilities while struggling privately.
The treatment plan reflects what the person needs during residential care. For some professionals, the first priority is withdrawal risk or emotional stability. For others, treatment may need to focus on co-occurring mental health concerns, trauma, family involvement, work-related patterns, or recovery planning after discharge.
Program Highlights
- Comprehensive Services: Specialized assessments, therapies, medication management, and continuous care planning tailored to individual needs.
- Expert Medical Team: Board-certified addiction specialists use evidence-based methods, meeting weekly to monitor progress and adjust treatment.
- Coordinated Care: Our multidisciplinary team delivers personalized treatment while managing all recovery details.
- Dual Diagnosis Treatment: Integrated care addresses addiction alongside co-occurring mental health conditions.
- Professional Collaboration: We work with employers and licensing agencies to ensure compliance with return-to-work regulations while maintaining confidentiality
Medical Services
- Medical provider (Physician, Nurse Practitioner, or Physician’s Assistant) on-site daily with on-call coverage 24/7
- Nursing on-site coverage 24/7
- Physician appointments available as needed.
- Psychiatry consultations available as needed. Individual and Group Therapy
- Minimum of one individual counseling session per week with licensed counselor
- Minimum of one individual case-management session weekly
- Minimum of three process groups per week facilitated by licensed counselor
Experiential Program
- Equine Therapy (Indoor and Outdoor Arenas)
- Nation’s Largest Indoor Challenge Course
- “Ropes”
- Art Therapy
- Meditation
- Yoga
- Hiking
- Gardening / Greenhouse
- Snowshoeing
- Labyrinth
- Fishing
- Fitness Center
- Recording Studio
- Indoor and Outdoor Pickleball, Basketball and Volleyball
- 12-Step Path (½ Mile)
- Indigenous Sweat Lodge
- 12-Hole Chipping and Putting Green
- 3rd Step Flight Experience
Family Program
- Four-day family program available every three weeks
- Interactive educational lectures
- Multi-systemic process groups
- Family therapy sessions as needed
12-Step Program
- AA, CA and NA
- On-Off-site 12 Step meetings
- On-site Al-Anon meetings
- Step study
- Big Book study
- Sponsor
Continuing Care
- Comprehensive Discharge Plan
- Weekly Alumni and Aftercare Support Groups
- Lifetime Guesting Privileges
- Lifetime Family Program Privileges
- Active Alumni Association
Treatment That Accounts for the Pressures Professionals Face
Professionals often enter treatment after maintaining work, family, or public responsibilities while substance use continues privately. Cirque Lodge builds treatment around that reality by addressing addiction in the context of stress, privacy, responsibility, and recovery planning.
High-Functioning Patterns
Substance use can stay hidden when you are still meeting deadlines, managing clients, caring for patients, leading teams, or supporting a family. That outward stability can delay treatment because the problem may look manageable from the outside. Residential care gives you space to examine what substance use has been used to manage, avoid, or conceal.
Pressure, Stress, and Recovery Triggers
Alcohol or drug use may become tied to long workdays, conflict, travel, isolation, sleep problems, anxiety, burnout, or the pressure to stay in control. Treatment at Cirque Lodge helps identify these links so therapy and relapse prevention reflect the situations you may face after rehab.
Privacy and Professional Identity
Privacy can affect whether you feel able to start treatment. Concerns about reputation, workplace visibility, family impact, licensing, credentialing, or reliability may keep you from seeking help sooner. Cirque Lodge provides private residential care where you can focus on treatment without daily pressure to perform, respond, or explain.
Preparing for Responsibilities After Rehab
Residential treatment creates distance from daily demands such as meetings, travel, client obligations, patient-care duties, family expectations, and constant availability. Continuing care planning prepares you to return to those responsibilities with boundaries and support. Planning can address work boundaries, travel, privacy, family expectations, high-stress situations, and ongoing support before discharge.
Private Residential Care for Professionals in the Rocky Mountains
Cirque Lodge provides residential addiction treatment in the Rocky Mountains of Utah, giving professionals distance from work demands, public visibility, and daily triggers. The mountain setting gives professionals a quieter place to rest away from work, calls, and public visibility.
The Lodge
The Lodge is a private and luxury mountain retreat at the base of Mount Timpanogos. It combines comfort with authenticity and elegance.
The Lodge accommodates 16 residents, with an additional 3 residents in The Lookout facility adjacent to the Lodge. The smaller resident count creates a more exclusive and intimate setting than The Studio.
Each room provides personal heating and a private bath with slate tile and a jetted tub. The Lodge also features stone and timber interiors, meticulously appointed rooms, a log spiral staircase, and the Cirque Meditation Room.
Large windows throughout The Lodge open onto views of the surrounding mountains, Cascade Cirque, glacier-fed waterfalls, year-round snowfields, and Sundance Ski Resort. Deer, elk, and moose often wander the property.
The Studio
The Studio is located at the gateway to Provo Canyon and framed by the Cascade Mountains, with views of Mount Timpanogos. The facility offers accommodations with oil paintings and expansive floor-to-ceiling windows that frame the surrounding landscape.
Residents can enjoy a state-of-the-art fitness center, pickleball courts, a 12-step walking path, a labyrinth, an organic garden, a hair salon, and massage rooms.
The facility sits on twelve acres of manicured gardens and arenas. A private, gated entrance offers confidentiality for residents and visiting family and friends.
The resident wing provides comfortable and inviting accommodations for those in the treatment program. The residential wing also includes common areas where residents can socialize, enjoy the fireplace, or take part in the activities provided.
Cirque Lodge offers shared or private detox accommodations, including private detox in a serene and discreet environment with dedicated medical support.
Detox and Stabilization When Needed
Some professionals need supervised detox before starting the full residential treatment program. Not everyone needs detox, so the decision depends on the substance used, withdrawal history, medical conditions, medications, polysubstance use, and current symptoms.
Cirque Lodge provides detox at The Studio, a private treatment facility with a medical examination room, residential rooms, a lounge, nearby nursing support, monitoring systems, and call systems for staff access. This setting allows medical professionals to monitor withdrawal symptoms, respond to changes, and use medication when clinically appropriate.
Family Support During Residential Treatment
Cirque Lodge involves family or trusted loved ones when their participation supports the treatment plan.
Family support includes clinically guided options that help loved ones understand addiction, reduce enabling patterns, improve communication, and support recovery after treatment. Family Week is a four-day family program offered every three weeks.
- Discharge preparation: support for the home environment after residential treatment.support.
- Family Week: structured family education and therapy at Cirque Lodge.
- Family or marital sessions: guided support for communication, trust, and relationship strain.
- Boundary work: guidance for clarifying expectations and reducing enabling patterns.
Evidence-Based Therapy and Dual Diagnosis Care
At Cirque Lodge, therapy for professionals addresses substance use and co-occurring mental health concerns within the same treatment plan. Assessment and psychological testing help the clinical team identify co-occurring mental health concerns.
After assessment, your treatment plan may include services that reflect your clinical needs, dual diagnosis needs, and experiential recovery goals:
- Cognitive behavioral therapy
- Individual therapy
- Group therapy and recovery education
- Dual diagnosis care
- Trauma-informed therapy and EMDR
- Experiential therapy
Experiential Therapy, Wellness, and Recovery Skills
Equine Therapy
Working with horses helps residents practice honesty, communication, trust, and emotional awareness. For professionals who are used to controlling outcomes or managing pressure privately, equine work creates a different kind of feedback through body language, presence, and relationship-building.
High Ropes and Team Challenges
The high ropes course and low ropes activities help residents practice support-seeking, problem-solving, confidence, and sober challenge response. These activities are used to reinforce recovery skills in a setting where asking for help, trusting others, and tolerating discomfort become part of the work.
Mountain Hikes and Outdoor Therapy
Scenic hikes in the Rocky Mountains give professionals space for movement, reflection, and grounding away from daily demands. Outdoor experiential work supports recovery by helping the body and mind engage with treatment outside a traditional therapy room.
Fitness, Movement, and Daily Routine
Fitness facilities, CrossFit-informed programming, and movement-based activities help rebuild routine, physical strength, and stress regulation. This matters in residential treatment because recovery involves the body as well as the mind.
Nutrition and Physical Recovery
Cirque Lodge supports physical recovery with balanced meals, fresh ingredients, healthy snacks, fruit, vegetables, and individualized meals on request. Consistent nourishment helps restore daily rhythm during treatment and supports the physical side of recovery.
Art, Music, and Creative Expression
Art therapy and music resources give residents another way to process emotion, stress, and self-awareness. For professionals who have learned to suppress distress or stay composed, expressive work can support recovery without relying only on verbal discussion.
Start Treatment at Cirque Lodge With a Confidential Admissions Call
Starting treatment can feel difficult when privacy, work, family, and timing all matter. Cirque Lodge’s admissions team is available 24/7 to answer questions and help you understand the next step with clarity and discretion.
The call is confidential. You can explain what has been happening and what needs to be handled before treatment begins. Admissions can help determine whether the next step should involve detox, residential treatment, dual diagnosis care, or another clinically appropriate recommendation.
The admissions team verifies insurance, explains private pay options, and guides pre-arrival steps, including admission guidelines, travel planning, and the pre-arrival checklist.
Drug rehab for professionals varies in length based on clinical assessment, substance use history, treatment progress, co-occurring mental health concerns, and continuing care needs. Admissions can explain available residential treatment options and help you understand what length of care may fit your situation.
Not everyone needs detox before residential treatment. Cirque Lodge’s clinical team considers withdrawal risk, medical history, current symptoms, medications, and substance use patterns before recommending detox or stabilization at The Studio.
Insurance may cover drug rehab for professionals depending on your benefits, medical necessity, and the recommended level of care. Cirque Lodge can verify insurance benefits and explain private pay options during the admissions process.
Family members or trusted loved ones can be involved when their participation supports the treatment plan. Cirque Lodge offers family therapy, marital support, discharge preparation, and Family Week, a four-day family program offered every three weeks.