Colorado Mental Health & Trauma Treatment Center
Programs for Adults, Young Adults and Teens
Rites of Passage is open and accepting clients during the corona virus crisis.
Announcing: Rites of Passage, LLC is opening a Teen and Young Adult Residential Program component, for trauma and mental health at Gateways To Transformation in Delta County, Colorado.
Recovery is Possible
Rites of Passage is a luxury holistic trauma and mental health residential treatment facility. We are located at 7,000 ft in the Colorado mountains on a 40 acre farm. Our program encompasses many holistic treatment modalities and functional medicine psychiatry to help each person find and practice new ways to bring your mind, body and sprite to an optimal balance.
Mind, Body, Spirit Treatment
Nutritional support
Holistic guidance
Animal assisted therapy
Equine and horse-riding therapy
Whole body and life treatment
Mental Health Issues That We Work With
We specialize in working with clients to resolve complex mental health issues and co-occuring disorders including:
- Mood disorders - Depression, bipolar disorders, complicated grief issues.
- Anxiety Disorders - Anxiety disorders, OCD, Social Anxiety, panic disorders etc.
- Trauma Disorders - Post-Traumatic Stress disorder, dissociative disorders, childhood trauma.
- Personality Disorders - Borderline personality disorder, narcissistic personality disorder, histronic personality disorder, dependent personality disorder
Other Treatment Specialties:
- Attachment Issues
- Difficult transitions
- Disordered Eating Issues
- Failure to Launch Issues
- High Sensitivity Issues
- Nervous Breakdown
- Relaunching Your life
- Career Burnout
- Substance Abuse
- Suicidal Ideation
The Facility
Luxury Farm
Confidential and effective residential and non residential customized programs to help you with your issues. Tucked away on a beautiful 40 acre farm in the Colorado mountains at 7000 ft above sea level, you have the privacy you need to move through your issues in a peaceful and comfortable setting.
Private and Semi-Private Accommodations:
We have both private and semi-private rooms available, in both the mens and women’s areas.
Our facility is LGBT Friendly
Wellness Program
Our Wellness Program is an integrated, clinical/holistic/health/fitness program designed for those needing to step back from their lives, to relearn to take time to restore, rejuvenate and recharge.
Dining
Gourmet meals are prepared five evenings a week with clients cooking on their own or in groups one night a week. We also go out one afternoon a week to eat at local restaurants.
Healthy organic breakfast and lunch ingredients are provided so clients may decide what they want and fix it at that time. Clients go to the grocery store once a week and can choose healthy foods that they desire to make for the times that they are making their own meals as part of the wellness program.
We are happy to accommodate dietary restrictions as necessary.


Pets Emotional Support / Service Dog Program
We have an adjunct companion dog training program, which clients with socialized dogs, may apply for and have their dogs registered as companion dogs if they go all the way through the program. Clients who wish to have a companion dog may utilize one of our therapy dogs and then if successful with working with that dog, adopt a dog to complete the program with and have that animal registered as well. See the companion dog program page for more information.
Note. Clients who bring their dogs will need to be able to care for them entirely while they are at the facility. Feeding, cleaning up after them and making sure they have the time with you and enough exercise.

Our Programs

Residential Ecotherapy for Adults Treatment Program
Rites of Passage provides residential extended care for individuals facing mental health issues including dual diagnosis issues, trauma/PTSD, substance abuse, and eating disorders. This program is residential with clients living at the facility and combines the latest psychological methods with ecotherapy, mind/body/spirit transpersonal therapy, somatic therapy, animal therapy, equine assisted psychotherapy, riding therapy, art therapy, CBT, DBT, neuroscience therapy, nutrition and healthy community modeling to create a holistic and customizable program for each person who enters the facility.
Teen and young adult residential program for trauma and mental health
Our teen & young adult residential program is built on an ecotherapy model including specialized Equine Assisted Therapy sessions and wilderness therapy. The program is flexible and can be customized to meet each participant's needs. Psychiatric staff are available.
Four or more hours per day will be spent in personalized sessions. Our teen program shares most of the session components of the adult residential therapy program, but with some additional options.


Transitional Living with Full Therapy Program Option without a Psychiatrist
This is a Transitional Living (Semi Private) program with full therapy but without psychiatrist sessions . The monthly rate is $17,000.00. This option is only self pay.
Rites of Passage, LLC provides full (semi private) living and therapy. Clients participate in a program that is customized to fit their needs. This program does not involve a psychiatrist.
If a functional medicine psychiatrist is needed to monitor and prescribe medications or run labs to find out what vitamins can help your body come back into its optimum balance, please sign up for the Residential Program instead.
Contact Rites of Passage for more information.
Intensive Outpatient Treatment Program
The intensive outpatient program allows for both former residential clients and clients who have not been part of our residential program to continue or do their work in an intensive program that allows clients to work alongside the residential program from nine to two pm, four days a week. This allows individuals who no longer need 24-hour care or people who have children or need to work, to do the program in a slightly less intense fashion as long as they are in a safe and supportive environment when they are not at the facility.


Equine Therapy Treatment Program
Equine-assisted psychotherapy (EAP) is an emerging treatment modality that utilizes horse-handling activities to generate powerful therapeutic metaphors-metaphors, symbolic and that reflect how each individual relates to self and others. With the support of peers and Rites equine specialist and attending clinical therapist, students examine these metaphors to gain insight into their fears, habits, and unconscious ways of relating. As issues arise within the equine setting, students have en-vivo opportunities to work toward the understanding and healing of those issues.
Gateways To Transformation, LLC
Rites of Passage, LLC works hand in hand with Gateways to Transformation, LLC. Gateways to Transformation, LLC provides a variety of workshops with an emphasis on growth, health and sustainable living. These workshops are free to current clients but are not required. Each workshop is an opportunity to learn and practice new skills, meet people and enjoy different activities and experiences.
See website for Gateways at www.gatewaystotransformation.com.