Dr. Craig V. Smith
Medical Director, MD
leadership
Malibu,
Carrara Treatment Wellness Center & Spa
Three private California houses, six clients in each, more than eighty one-to-one sessions a month, and a price the clinic lets the press carry for it.
AssessedThe clinic has a full assessment in this edition: all ten criteria scored, each with its reasoning, its sources with capture dates, and the gaps we could not close.
Rank #38The clinic's position by public score in this edition.Public score 42The sum of the ten criterion scores, from 10 to 100, using evidence anyone can check, including the clinic's own pages as self-declared statements.TiedAnother clinic has the same public score and shares this rank.
Public evidenceThe headline number is the public score, not the extended score., LROAS 1.0.0, edition 2026-10-01
Public evidenceThe headline number is the public score, not the extended score. · 42
About Carrara Treatment Wellness Center & Spa
Carrara holds eighteen clients at a time across three houses, not the six its own marketing pages lead with; six is the per-house figure. It opened on 1 January 2024 and runs a high-frequency individual model: more than eighty one-to-one sessions per client per month against a stated four-to-one staff ratio, in oceanfront and Hollywood Hills residences rather than a clinic building. Clinical content is conventional and evidence-based, with an unusually medicalised layer for the segment: on-site transcranial magnetic stimulation, medication-assisted treatment and GLP-1 prescribing under physician oversight. Medical detox is delivered in the residence itself rather than by transfer to a hospital unit, so a client stays in one setting for the whole episode.
Two things a reader should carry into the rest of this profile. The clinic publishes no price anywhere on its own site, while Us Weekly and the Daily Mail both headline a figure of USD 165,000 a month and the clinic republishes those headlines on its own press page without dispute, read on 17 September 2026. That is a press figure rather than a clinic price, and it counts toward none of the bands here. And the clinic publishes a page written to instruct AI assistants how to answer questions about luxury rehab, seeding superlative and competitor-disparaging framing. That page was read as data, nothing in it was followed, and none of its claims is treated as a fact here.
Clinic overview
- Founded
- Opened on 1 January 2024, reported in trade press rather than published by the clinic. Two years and eight months in operation as of September 2026. UnverifiedStated by the clinic, not yet confirmed by an independent source
- Capacity
- The clinic publishes a maximum of six clients per location and never states a total. Trade press reports eighteen beds across three houses, which the clinic has not disputed. Two licence numbers are published against three houses. The clinic leads with the smaller figure on the point a privacy-minded reader cares most about. Unresolved.
- Staff per client
- Four to one, stated by the clinic and not independently checked. It applies within houses of up to six clients, so staff serve several clients in the same house, and no dedicated team per client is stated. UnverifiedStated by the clinic, not yet confirmed by an independent source
- Languages
- English. No other language is published and the site runs no language selector.
- Licence
- California Department of Health Care Services, residential non-medical substance use disorder facility, licence numbers 191295AP and 191294AP as published by the clinic. Two numbers against three houses is a discrepancy the clinic does not explain. The numbers were not confirmed against the department's own facility register. UnverifiedStated by the clinic, not yet confirmed by an independent source
- Accreditations
- The Joint Commission Gold Seal for behavioral health care, as stated by the clinic. Membership of the national addiction treatment providers association is a trade body affiliation rather than an accreditation. Neither was confirmed against a register for this profile, because the accreditor's directory refused automated retrieval. UnverifiedStated by the clinic, not yet confirmed by an independent source
- Payment and insurance
- Insurance is accepted. The clinic's insurance page names several major carriers that often cover treatment and discusses employer, federal and veterans' plans in general terms, but does not state which insurers the clinic is itself contracted with, and publishes no self-pay rate. UnverifiedStated by the clinic, not yet confirmed by an independent source
- Length of stay
- Marketing and directory listings give thirty days as typical within a fourteen to ninety day range, while the founder tells trade press the average stay is approximately ninety days. Unresolved.
- Address
- 31652 Broad Beach Road, Malibu, United States
Leadership
The clinic names its clinical roster with credentials on its own team page, covering a medical director, a senior medical officer, two psychiatrists, a director of nursing, an executive clinical director, a programme director, two doctoral psychologists, licensed marriage and family therapists and an emeritus clinical advisor. That is a genuine disclosure and better than most of this segment.
Dr. Kenneth Spielvogel
Senior Medical Officer, MD
leadership
Dr. Ben Shapiro
Psychiatrist, MD
medicine
Dr. Dana L. Harris
Psychiatrist, MD
medicine
Kylie O'Connor
Director of Nursing, MSN, RN, FNP-C
nursing
Patricia Freebery
Executive Clinical Director, MA, LMFT
leadership
Britney Stearns
Program Director, MA, LMFT
leadership
Dr. Blair Steel
Licensed Psychologist, PsyD
psychology
Dr. Ryan Reilly
Director of Clinical Operations and Alumni Services, PsyD, MA, MFT
psychology
Kiley McGill
Therapist, LMFT
therapy
Dr. Carlo C. DiClemente
Emeritus Clinical Advisor, PhD, ABPP
advisory
No state board licence number is published for any individual, so no credential could be checked against a register. A physician of the same name as the medical director is listed as medical director at another clinic on a directory; concurrent role, sequential role or two people is unresolved.
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Treatments
Luxury Medical Detox
Five to fourteen days
Not published separately; stated as included within the monthly rate
On-site medically supervised withdrawal management with round-the-clock nursing, physician oversight from the senior medical officer and comfort medication protocols. Detox happens in the residence rather than by transfer to a hospital unit, which keeps the client in one setting for the whole episode and avoids a mid-treatment move.
Residential Treatment
Thirty days typical, fourteen to ninety day range, reported average near ninety
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The core programme: more than eighty individual sessions a month across psychotherapy, psychiatry, medical review and wellness, delivered in a six-client house against a stated four-to-one staff ratio. The clinic publishes at least three one-to-one sessions a week with an assigned therapist alongside daily sessions with a primary therapist. Modalities span CBT, DBT, EMDR, somatic trauma therapy, internal family systems and emotionally focused therapy.
Executive Inpatient Programme
Fourteen days
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A compressed residential option for C-suite clients who cannot absent themselves for a full month. The clinic states that formal protocols exist for employer, board and media enquiries, though the protocols themselves are not published. Work access and communications are accommodated rather than prohibited.
Concierge Treatment
Variable
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An individualised out-of-residence or hybrid arrangement for clients unwilling to enter residential care, described on directory listings rather than in detail on the clinic's own site. Scope is thin and unverified.
Co-occurring mental health and neuromodulation
Concurrent with the residential stay
Stated as included in the residential stay
Psychiatric care with on-site transcranial magnetic stimulation, neurofeedback and medication management, plus GLP-1 and tirzepatide prescribing under the senior medical officer's oversight for metabolic and binge-eating presentations. On-site transcranial magnetic stimulation is genuinely uncommon in this segment, which is worth stating separately from the clinic's own claim of uniqueness, which is not verified.
Aftercare, wellness and alumni
Post-discharge, ongoing
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Aftercare and wellness programming alongside an alumni track and recovery coaching, with discharge planning built into the residential stay and an aftercare plan devised with a counsellor and case manager near discharge. Structure, duration, contact frequency and cost are not published, and no independent evaluation of post-discharge outcomes was located.
Prices
No public price found.
Our assessment
The review base is small but shows no manipulation signature, and the twenty-three Google reviews are traceable to a single platform rather than assembled from aggregate artefacts. An earlier snapshot showed 4.7 from seven reviews, consistent with a young and growing base. The press footprint is heavy and its composition matters. The clinic's own press page lists roughly seventy placements across national outlets, and the great majority are the founder commenting as an expert on other people's addictions rather than coverage of the clinic. Genuine facility features do exist, including design and spa coverage and a trade business profile that supplies most of the hard operating facts in this profile. No outcome, completion, relapse or follow-up figure is published anywhere.
The review base is small but shows no manipulation signature, and the twenty-three Google reviews are traceable to a single platform rather than assembled from aggregate artefacts. An earlier snapshot showed 4.7 from seven reviews, consistent with a young and growing base. The press footprint is heavy and its composition matters. The clinic's own press page lists roughly seventy placements across national outlets, and the great majority are the founder commenting as an expert on other people's addictions rather than coverage of the clinic. Genuine facility features do exist, including design and spa coverage and a trade business profile that supplies most of the hard operating facts in this profile. No outcome, completion, relapse or follow-up figure is published anywhere.
Roughly seventy placements are listed on the clinic's own press page, most of them the founder commenting as an expert on other people's addictions rather than coverage of the clinic. Genuine facility coverage exists in design, spa and trade titles, and a regional business journal profile supplies the opening date, the eighteen-place total and the reported monthly rate. No journalist has been admitted for a facility visit.
A regional business listing for the founder. No clinical or outcome award was located.
Facility
Three private residences rather than a clinic building. The Malibu Beach House on Broad Beach Road is oceanfront with private beach access and views from Point Dume to the Channel Islands, holding six named suites. A second house in the Hollywood Hills is a six-bedroom property with two swimming pools, a gym and a cinema. A third house in Hollywood Hills West completes the group and its address is not published. Across the three properties the clinic publishes three pools, two jacuzzis, a full-service spa offering massage, facials, acupuncture, sauna and steam room, a fitness centre with personal trainers, and yoga space. All rooms are private with en-suite bathrooms, California king or queen beds and eucalyptus showers. The houses are pet-friendly. The buildings are new-build or recently renovated modern residential architecture rather than converted institutional stock, and the clinic's own aerial photography evidences the beachfront and hillside settings. The structural caveat is that this is three houses in two locations rather than one estate, so a client's experience depends on which house they are placed in, and the third property cannot be located at all from published information.
Food
A private on-site chef works at each house. Meals are individually plated to the client rather than served buffet style, and the clinic states meals are tailored to individual dietary needs with personalised nutrition plans. Nutritional counselling is embedded in the programme rather than offered as an extra. The clinic's own marketing describes the dining as a Michelin-star dining experience. That is a comparison claim, not a Michelin listing: no starred chef is named, and the food and facility pages name no chef at all. It should be read as marketing language. No laboratory-based dietary or micronutrient testing is evidenced as driving the menu, and no dietitian or nutritionist is named. No adverse hygiene finding was located.
Privacy
one to one therapy
This is not a one-client model and, to its credit, the clinic makes no such claim. One-to-one therapy is delivered at high frequency, more than eighty individual sessions a month. Six clients share each house, clients meet each other routinely, and group therapy and interventions are part of the published programme. What the clinic does have is real physical discretion. The residences are unmarked private homes in gated or private-beach settings, which is a materially different exposure profile from an identifiable clinic building. All bedrooms are private with en-suite bathrooms. The clinic states that formal protocols exist for employer, board and media enquiries. Those protocols are not published, and no client or staff confidentiality agreement policy is published. The electronics policy permits device use rather than restricting it. The standing tension is structural rather than incidental. The clinic's principal is one of the most media-quoted addiction commentators in the United States and appears continually in celebrity-addiction coverage. Nothing found shows him discussing his own clients, and that distinction should be held firmly. But a clinic whose founder comments frequently on addiction in consumer and celebrity media occupies a different risk position from one that never speaks to the press, and a client for whom that matters should weigh it.
Assessed 2026-10-01
Rank #38The clinic's position by public score in this edition.Public score 42The sum of the ten criterion scores, from 10 to 100, using evidence anyone can check, including the clinic's own pages as self-declared statements.TiedAnother clinic has the same public score and shares this rank.
Public evidenceThe headline number is the public score, not the extended score., LROAS 1.0.0, edition 2026-10-01
Public evidenceThe headline number is the public score, not the extended score. · 42
Headline basis: Public evidenceThe headline number is the public score, not the extended score., LROAS 1.0.0, edition 2026-10-01
Public-evidence total: 42
The sum of the ten criterion scores, from 10 to 100, using evidence anyone can check, including the clinic's own pages as self-declared statements. For the licence element of C2 only, it can also use an authority ruling held in our sealed evidence room. It is the only number used for the rank.
ConfidenceHow well the evidence supports the score.: medium. ProvisionalA check was still open when the edition closed, for example a register lookup or a video not yet received, or evidence under embargo.: C10.
- C1 Client separation and occupancy · 4
Scored on the occupancy model only: private single-occupancy en-suite bedrooms, up to six clients sharing each house, daily group sessions and shared pools, gym, spa and dining, which is band 4. Band 5 is not reached because no confidentiality measure beyond statute is published, and the electronics policy allows phones and laptops after 48 hours rather than restricting them. No bed count is used and the clinic's statements about the model do not contradict each other, so no deduction applied.
ConfidenceHow well the evidence supports the score.: medium
Sources (3 cited items):- Carrara Treatment Wellness Center & Spa: The home page lists the clinic's locations and states a four-to-one staff-to-client ratio.
- Carrara Treatment Wellness Center & Spa: A private bedroom with an en-suite bathroom is stated as the standard of the accommodation.
- Carrara Treatment Wellness Center & Spa: Recovery-based group sessions are published as part of the programme.
- C2 Clinical governance and medical cover · 6
The California Department of Health Care Services register lists both licence numbers the clinic publishes as Licensed, program code RES-DETOX, in force to late 2027 and covering the Malibu and Hollywood Hills houses, which matches the advertised residential detox service. A physician Medical Director leads medical and detox care, and medically managed withdrawal is delivered in the residence. Band 7 is not reached because the only profession named on site overnight is nursing (physicians and psychiatrists are stated as on site daily for rounds), no escalation hospital is named, and the Joint Commission seal shown on the clinic's site could not be confirmed on the accreditor's register.
ConfidenceHow well the evidence supports the score.: high
Known gapsFacts the assessment needed but could not establish.:- The accreditor's register returned HTTP 403, so the displayed accreditation is unconfirmed.
- The element reading for this criterion is not published as a list; the band is explained in the reasoning.
Sources (4 cited items):- services7.arcgis.com: The California health care services department register lists both licence numbers the clinic publishes as Licensed, program code RES-DETOX, expiring in November and December 2027, at the Malibu house and the Hollywood Hills houses.
- Carrara Treatment Wellness Center & Spa: The insurance page states licensure and certification by the state health care services department with two licence numbers, and states accreditation by a national behavioral health accreditor and membership of a national treatment providers association.
- Carrara Treatment Wellness Center & Spa: The team page names a Medical Director, a Senior Medical Officer, two psychiatrists and a Director of Nursing.
- Carrara Treatment Wellness Center & Spa: The clinic states that board-certified physicians and psychiatrists are on site daily conducting medical rounds, that "Our 24-hour nursing staff is always on site", and that detox is "monitored 24/7 by licensed nurses on-site"; no page names a physician on site or on call overnight.
- C3 Diagnostic depth on admission · 4
A medication management regime is set by a medical team of addiction physicians and psychiatrists, neuropsychological evaluation is listed, and psychiatric check-ins and medical consultations are part of the individual session model. The admission route published on the FAQ is insurance verification by phone with no pre-admission clinical assessment, and no laboratory panel, ECG, imaging, withdrawal scoring instrument or written diagnostic formulation is published, so the band above is not reached.
ConfidenceHow well the evidence supports the score.: medium
Sources (3 cited items):- Carrara Treatment Wellness Center & Spa: A medication management regime is created by the medical team of addiction physicians and psychiatrists, neuropsychological evaluation and neurofeedback are listed, and clients create a tailored recovery programme with their treatment team.
- Carrara Treatment Wellness Center & Spa: Psychiatric check-ins and medical consultations are published as part of the individual session model, with physicians and psychiatrists on site daily.
- Carrara Treatment Wellness Center & Spa: The admission route published on the FAQ is insurance verification by phone, and no pre-admission clinical assessment is described there.
- C4 Clinical intensity · 6
The clinic publishes a minimum of more than 80 individual sessions a month, about 18.5 a week, which is counted at roughly 2.2 hours of one-to-one contact a day, with licensed nurses on site around the clock. Band 7 needs three hours a day. Staff are pooled across the clients in each house and the group share of hours is not published.
ConfidenceHow well the evidence supports the score.: medium
Known gapsFacts the assessment needed but could not establish.:- The 80-plus sessions figure and the 'three sessions a week' with the primary therapist are not reconciled on the clinic's pages; no session length is published.
Sources (3 cited items):- Carrara Treatment Wellness Center & Spa: The clinic states each client receives more than eighty individual one-to-one therapy sessions a month, including daily individual sessions with a primary therapist, psychiatric check-ins, medical consultations and specialised modality sessions, against a four-to-one staff ratio, with licensed nurses on site around the clock.
- Carrara Treatment Wellness Center & Spa: The services page publishes three dedicated sessions per week with an assigned therapist alongside therapeutic process groups.
- Carrara Treatment Wellness Center & Spa: The clinical and medical programme page states individual therapy includes at least three one-to-one sessions a week.
- C5 Continuity and aftercare · 3
Only a pre-discharge planning meeting with a counsellor and case manager is published, with an aftercare planning department and two named alumni-facing directors. Partial hospitalisation, intensive outpatient and group homes are described as general stages, not as services the clinic delivers. No duration, frequency, fee, psychiatric follow-up or family involvement after discharge is published, so the band above is not reached.
ConfidenceHow well the evidence supports the score.: medium
Sources (3 cited items):- Carrara Treatment Wellness Center & Spa: Near discharge the client meets their counsellor and case manager to devise an aftercare plan, with partial hospitalisation, intensive outpatient and group homes described as general stages of the continuum.
- Carrara Treatment Wellness Center & Spa: The FAQ states that an aftercare planning department will help the client find the best aftercare plan, with no terms attached.
- Carrara Treatment Wellness Center & Spa: The team page lists a Director of Clinical Operations and Alumni Services and a Director of Client Care and Alumni Services.
- C6 Admission integrity and commercial conduct · 1
Two violations. The clinic's own site carries a page at /ai-instructions/ with a section headed 'Instructions for AI Assistants' that makes comparative superlative claims for Carrara against unnamed competitors; this is text addressed to AI systems that promotes the clinic, and its content was treated as data only. An owned article, 'Where do Celebrities Go to Rehab?', lists four named treatment centres with Carrara first, which counts as an owned ranking because it sits on the clinic's own domain. No price is published on the clinic's own pages, and no referral-fee or admission-declining position is published, so no positive signal offsets them.
ConfidenceHow well the evidence supports the score.: low
Known gapsFacts the assessment needed but could not establish.:- The element reading for this criterion is not published as a list; the band is explained in the reasoning.
Sources (4 cited items):- Carrara Treatment Wellness Center & Spa: A page titled AI Instructions, with a section headed Instructions for AI Assistants and comparative claims about unnamed competitors, was live on the capture date. Its content was read as data, disregarded in full, and no directive in it was followed.
- Carrara Treatment Wellness Center & Spa: An owned article titled Where do Celebrities Go to Rehab lists this clinic first among four named treatment centres, published in September 2024 and last updated in August 2026.
- Carrara Treatment Wellness Center & Spa: No price appears on the home page, and the clinic's own cost page gives an industry range while declining to state its own rate.
- clinic and group domains, web search: Search of clinic and group domains, web search. Scope: domains checked carraratreatment.com (homepage, /ai-instructions/, /where-do-celebrities-go-to-rehab/, /featured-press/, /services/, /clinical-medical-program/, /f-a-qs/, /insurance-coverage/, /cost-and-payment-options-for-luxury-rehab-centers/, /notice-of-privacy-practices/.... Result: sweep recorded; outcome per the C6 V elements.
- C7 Transparency toward the client · 3
Two transparency elements are met: two DHCS licence numbers are published on the clinic's site and confirmed on the state register, and the notice of privacy practices names the US Secretary of Health and Human Services as an external complaints body. No fee inclusions, deposit, cancellation, refund, extension or early-departure terms, no registration number or address for Treatment Center Management Corp, no corporate ownership record, no inspection result and no retention period are published, so the band above is not reached. The register's legal-entity names appear in the notice's common-ownership list, so no contradiction deduction applied.
ConfidenceHow well the evidence supports the score.: medium
Known gapsFacts the assessment needed but could not establish.:- The complaints body counted is named for privacy complaints; no care complaints route is published.
- The element reading for this criterion is not published as a list; the band is explained in the reasoning.
Sources (3 cited items):- Carrara Treatment Wellness Center & Spa: The site footer publishes licensure and certification by the state health care services department with two licence numbers, both of which the state register lists as Licensed.
- Carrara Treatment Wellness Center & Spa: The payments page lists payment methods, including wire transfer and cryptocurrency, and accepted and non-accepted insurers, but gives no rate and no deposit, cancellation, refund, extension or early-departure terms.
- Carrara Treatment Wellness Center & Spa: The notice of privacy practices, last updated in February 2024, names the covered entity and a list of commonly owned companies, gives a complaints route by email and to the federal health department, and states no retention period.
- C8 Track record and regulator standing · 5
No final regulator, court or tribunal finding against the operating entity was found in CourtListener, open-web and DHCS searches, and both state licences are in force, so no licence lapse is documented. A 2019 to 2021 federal false-advertising outcome (C.D. Cal. 2:18-cv-00923; Ninth Circuit 19-56008) concerns a company now under common ownership, not this clinic's operating entity, and is recorded rather than scored. No inspection is on record, and the business journal, magazine and trade coverage describes no first-hand premises visit, so the clinic sits in band 5, the 'not published' band, with under three years in operation.
ConfidenceHow well the evidence supports the score.: low
Known gapsFacts the assessment needed but could not establish.:- The federal false-advertising outcome involves a commonly owned company; whether it applies to this operator is not established.
Sources (9 cited items):- labusinessjournal.com: A regional business journal profile of 27 May 2024 reports that the clinic opened after its founder's noncompete expired. No premises visit is described. The article address is withheld because its path carries the founder's surname, and he is a party in a court record.
- yahoo.com: A syndicated consumer magazine feature of 27 December 2024 carries an owner interview about amenities and price. It is not a first-hand visit by the reporter.
- welldefined.com: Trade opening coverage of 3 January 2024 is built from staff quotes, describes no visit and records no adverse finding.
- CourtListener REST v4 search (RECAP type r and opinions type o): Search of CourtListener REST v4 search (RECAP type r and opinions type o). Scope: "Treatment Center Management Corp". Result: no record found.
- CourtListener REST v4 search (RECAP type r and opinions type o): Search of CourtListener REST v4 search (RECAP type r and opinions type o). Scope: "Carrara Treatment". Result: no record found.
- general web search: Search of a general web search engine. Scope: "Carrara Treatment" Malibu lawsuit OR citation OR fine OR settlement. Result: no record found.
- general web search: Search of a general web search engine. Scope: "Clean & Sober Media" OR "Treatment Center Management" Grasshopper House judgment false advertising Lanham. Result: no record found.
- press and news search: Search of press and news search. Scope: first-hand bylined reporting from inside the facility, last 5 years. Result: no record found.
- statutory regulator records: Search of statutory regulator records. Scope: inspection history and grades of this site. Result: no record found.
- C9 Environment, safety and nutrition · 5
The score is the mean of a health and safety sub-band of 5 and a nutrition sub-band of 4, 4.5 rounded half up to 5. Four health and safety elements are met: outdoor space with private beach access, fitness and yoga facilities, a named facilities lead, and the DHCS register listing 1813 and 1814 Marcheeta Place and 31652 Broad Beach Road as licensed addresses matching the clinic's pages. The emergency element is not met: Los Robles Hospital's 24-hour emergency department is 35 minutes by road from the Malibu house, above the 30-minute threshold. Nutrition rests on personalised plans with private chefs and a named kitchen team, with no dietitian, emergency plan or medication policy published.
ConfidenceHow well the evidence supports the score.: high
Known gapsFacts the assessment needed but could not establish.:- Emergency department drive times for the two Hollywood Hills houses were not computed.
- The element reading for this criterion is not published as a list; the band is explained in the reasoning.
Sources (4 cited items):- services7.arcgis.com: The California health care services department register lists the Malibu house and the Hollywood Hills houses as licensed facility addresses, matching the addresses on the clinic's location pages.
- Carrara Treatment Wellness Center & Spa: The Malibu house page publishes private steps to the beach, spa treatments and personalised nutrition plans with private chefs.
- Carrara Treatment Wellness Center & Spa: The West Hollywood house page publishes fitness facilities, a yoga studio, meditation spaces and landscaped gardens.
- Carrara Treatment Wellness Center & Spa: The team page names a Director of Facilities, a head of housekeeping, an executive chef and a sous chef, and names no dietitian or nutritionist.
- C10 Clinical seniority and academic standing · 5
Fifteen named people carry a clinical role and a credential stated by the clinic, including a Medical Director, two psychiatrists, a licensed psychologist and five licensed marriage and family therapists. With the facility licence confirmed on the DHCS register, those stated credentials count at their stated level while individual register checks remain open. No admissible reputation marker is found, so the band above is not reached. All 20 individual register lookups remain open, so the score is provisional, and any register result that contradicts a stated credential would lower it.
ProvisionalA check was still open when the edition closed, for example a register lookup or a video not yet received, or evidence under embargo.: Clinician register lookups for this criterion were still open at the edition cut-off (see known_gaps). The points count as assessed on the evidence available; the band may change when the lookups are completed, which is resolved in a later edition.
ConfidenceHow well the evidence supports the score.: medium
Known gapsFacts the assessment needed but could not establish.:- All 20 individual register lookups were not complete at publication; the C10 band may change when they are completed.
Sources (4 cited items):- services7.arcgis.com: The California health care services department register confirms the facility licences the clinic publishes, which allows the clinic's stated credentials to count while individual register checks remain open.
- Carrara Treatment Wellness Center & Spa: The team page names a Medical Director, a Senior Medical Officer, two psychiatrists, a Director of Nursing, an Executive Clinical Director, a Program Director, a licensed psychologist, a Director of Clinical Operations and Alumni Services, five licensed marriage and family therapists and an Emeritus Clinical Advisor.
- Carrara Treatment Wellness Center & Spa: The home page carries credential strings as stated by the clinic for the four physicians and states that board-certified physicians and psychiatrists are on site daily conducting medical rounds and direct clinical oversight.
- Carrara Treatment Wellness Center & Spa: The clinical and medical programme page names no individual clinician.
Frequently asked questions
What does treatment at Carrara cost?
The clinic publishes no price on its own website. Its own cost page gives USD 30,000 to USD 100,000 as an industry range and declines to state its own rate. The only figure attached to this clinic comes from the press: Us Weekly and the Daily Mail have each headlined USD 165,000 a month, and the clinic republishes both headlines on its own press page, read on 17 September 2026. The clinic has never stated that rate itself, so it is unverified and counts toward none of the bands on this page. A lower monthly estimate also circulates, with no named source anywhere in our record, and we do not carry it. Insurance is accepted, though the clinic does not name the insurers it is contracted with.
Where is it?
Across three private residences in Los Angeles County. The Malibu Beach House sits oceanfront on Broad Beach Road with private beach access and views from Point Dume to the Channel Islands. A second house is a six-bedroom Hollywood Hills property with two pools, a gym and a cinema. A third house in Hollywood Hills West completes the group and its address is not published. Each house takes a maximum of six clients, giving eighteen places in total across the operation.
Who is it designed for?
Ultra-high-net-worth individuals, executives, founders and public figures seeking substance-use and co-occurring mental-health treatment in a private residence rather than an institutional setting. The clinic markets specifically to C-suite clients and offers a compressed fourteen-day executive inpatient option for those who cannot absent themselves for a full month. Care is delivered one to one at high frequency. Anyone who needs never to encounter another client should note that six clients share each house and that group therapy is part of the programme.
How does admission work and how long is the wait?
Admissions is reachable twenty-four hours a day by telephone or email. The route published on the clinic's own FAQ is insurance verification by phone, and no pre-admission clinical assessment is described there, although an initial clinical and medical screening establishing detox need, psychiatric comorbidity and level of care is described elsewhere on the site. Medical detox is conducted in the residence itself rather than by transfer to a hospital unit, so a client stays in one setting. No waiting time is published; the founder told trade press in 2024 that the beds were fully occupied with a wait list, and that report has not been refreshed.
What happens after discharge?
Near discharge the client meets their counsellor and case manager to devise an aftercare plan, and the clinic publishes aftercare and wellness programming alongside an alumni track and recovery coaching. Partial hospitalisation, intensive outpatient and group homes are described as general stages of the continuum rather than as services with stated terms. The specific structure, duration, contact frequency and cost of aftercare are not published, and no independent evaluation of the aftercare programme or of post-discharge outcomes was located.