The Recovery Village Ridgefield

Best inpatient EVER!

I can’t thank this place enough for getting me sober and showing me why i should choose to live. The nurses are the best staff out of the entire team. Nurse Angie and Nurse Toni were amazing and my rocks throughout the whole stay. Most of the counselors are good, however, Ken, he is awful. He insists he’ll meet with you one day but pushes it back a few days every week. If you want to get a family session in, you have to hunt him down. He gives no guidance during family sessions and every client he’s had has said the same. I think he robs some people’s chance at actually talking to him about why they came there. He writes off a 2 minute family session as a family session even if all you got out of the convo was “hey”. Other than that, the BHTs were lovely, the nurses were amazing and the cooks and food was great. Cook Michelle deserves a raise because that lady puts love into her food, she is so wonderful, calm and caring. Tasha once you get to PHP 1 is one of the best teachers. She works deep with you and helps you get through some of the trauma. It’s amazing. That’s all i have. Thank you Recovery Village.

This place changed my life staff is great people were great made lots of new friends lots of new sober contacts and wanna give a special shout out to BHT’s Jay, Randy ,Lindsey ,Scott, Stephanie & teachers Tasha, Jeremy, Maddie, Ken, and special shout out to councilor Merideth they are all badass people and will get you all the answers you need in rehab great experience great teachings and it’s only a month long highly recommend 66 days and counting for me!

Please run far away from this place - poor care and under qualified staff. When my vital signs were taken every morning, my blood pressure was off the charts but none of the medical staff showed any concern or offered any remedy. There's really no direction at this place either and you never know who's in charge or who to turn to when you are really hurting. You basically need to look out for yourself and navigate the arbitrary rules at the facility in order to get certain privileges. For example, you need to attend a certain amount of their uninformative sessions in order to get your phone back and the group facilitators control whether you get a session "signed off" on. There were topics that we were told to read for homework and come back to group prepared to discuss, however instead of learning about such topics as PAWS in which I was very interested to learn more about, we watched our second movie on Bill W. while the group facilitator sat in the back and played games on her phone. It just really showed the inhumane nature of these places and that they don't really work - everyone in my group is back there again after relapsing so that right there shows how effective this place is - I basically came to the realization that this place was diet prison.

Really nice staff, good structure and groups. Great food. Relaxed atmosphere. Great recovery place!

Adam is the best teacher ever created by man. Power through Res 1 and then Res 2 will change your life . Kelly is the worst teacher. She puts her self before her students. She has OCD, someone will be telling and emotional story and crying and in the middle she will yell Feet off the table! She told us she stopped going to meetings because she is on a prescribed stimulant.(Bad advice) She told us she is bipolar, and lives separate from her husband. She can't read a room or individual people. You can deal with her after some sober time, but being forced to go to her class after/during withdrawals will make people want to AMA. She has good intent but is not qualified for her position. She told people to tell HR at their work that they are experiencing PAWS after going to Rehab. She yelled at the BHTs about closing the doors from cigarette break because SHE is trying to quit. Teaching addicts about recovery from a recovering addict should be selfless. She is doing it for selfish reasons. The place, staff, food, community and structure is great. Just power through her classes to get to the good stuff and you will live a sober life. Maddie, Adam, and Jeremy, as well as your counselors will change your life for the good.

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Don’t come here unless you like being treated like a child.