Judy Crane
Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer, LMHC-QS, CAP, ICADC, CSAT
leadership
Silver Springs,
The Guest House Ocala
A founder-led trauma programme on 52 private Florida acres, treating addiction as a survival response rather than a diagnosis, in a small shared community.
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 #53The clinic's position by public score in this edition.Public score 39The 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. · 39
About The Guest House Ocala
The Guest House Ocala treats addiction, process addiction, disordered eating, anxiety and depression as survival responses to complex, developmental or attachment trauma rather than as primary conditions. It was founded in 2016 by two co-founders on a 52-acre private estate in Silver Springs, north-central Florida, and the work is deliberately experiential: psychodrama, somatic therapy, EMDR, Accelerated Resolution Therapy, core energetics, breathwork, equine and eco therapy, with a functional-medicine layer over the top. The medical bench is unusual for a small estate: a Medical Director who leads the medical staff, a Functional Medical Director, a Director of Psychiatric Services, a consulting psychiatrist, a Director of Nursing and two advanced practice nurses. Guests live across three converted buildings and share community space, dining and group work, which is a clinical choice rather than a compromise. Neither price nor capacity nor the insurance position is published.
Clinic overview
- Founded
- A third-party profile written for the clinic gives 2016 and ten years in operation. The clinic's own site states no founding year. UnverifiedStated by the clinic, not yet confirmed by an independent source
- Staff per client
- The homepage states that the clinic is fully staffed to ensure a three-to-one resident to clinician ratio. No headcount behind that figure is published and no independent source corroborates it.
- Languages
- English. No other language is published on any page captured. UnverifiedStated by the clinic, not yet confirmed by an independent source
- Licence
- No licence number appears on the clinic's own site, which shows regulator and accreditation logos only. Florida state facility registers could not be retrieved, so the state licence class is not register-verified. The accredited levels of care are the closer question for a reader, and those are on the accreditor's record. UnverifiedStated by the clinic, not yet confirmed by an independent source
- Accreditations
- The Joint Commission accredits the entity for Behavioral Health Care and Human Services, with levels of care recorded as medically managed inpatient services, clinically managed high-intensity residential services for adults and high intensity outpatient services. The record was read through a search index because the accreditor's page refused automated access, so it is partially verified.
- Length of stay
- The residential programme states a minimum 30-day stay with 90 days preferred, and the clinic argues on its own FAQ for longer stays, framing short stays as crisis stabilisation. A blog post describes length of stay as guided by clinical progress rather than a preset calendar.
- Address
- 3230 NE 55th Avenue, Silver Springs, United States
Leadership
The clinic publishes a named roster across executive, medical, clinical, residential, admissions and outpatient teams, with 29 people holding a clinical or clinical-governance title.
John West
Co-Founder and Managing Director
leadership
Michelle Quinton
Chief Operating Officer
leadership
Rick Fungaroli
Vice President of Operations and Chief Financial Officer
leadership
Nancy Jenkins
Compliance Director, MBA, MSW
leadership
Dr. Douglas Davies
Medical Director, MD, FASAM; leads the medical staff
medicine
Dr. Yousef Elyaman
Functional Medical Director, MD; oversees testing and personalised treatment
medicine
Dr. Pari A. Deshmukh
Director of Psychiatric Services, MD
medicine
Dr. Gaurav Kulkarni
Psychiatrist, MD; psychiatry and addiction medicine consultation
medicine
Catherine Duncan
Director of Nursing, RN
nursing
Tara Philcox
Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner, MSN, APRN, PMHNP-BC, CARN-NP
nursing
Robert D. Glore
Advanced Practice Registered Nurse, MSN, APRN, FNP-BC
nursing
Andrew Beyer
Clinical Director, LMHC, CTT
clinical
Marla Shaul
Clinical Lead, LMHC, CTT3
clinical
Deidra Lockhart
Lead Therapist, MA, LMHC, C-EAGALA, CSAT
clinical
Najia Kurdi
Therapist, MA, LMHC, LMFT, CTT, C-EAGALA, CSAT
clinical
Vanessa Hinklein
Therapist, LMHC, MCAP
clinical
Victoria Hughes
Therapist, LMHC, CTT
clinical
No professional registration number is published for any physician, nurse or therapist.
Videos
Treatments
Residential Treatment Program
Minimum 30 days, 90 days preferred
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The flagship programme, with full-time staff and 24-hour care. Guests move through orientation, an experiential trauma-processing phase using psychodrama, Accelerated Resolution Therapy, EMDR, somatic and equine work, and a consolidation phase with family work and continuing-care planning. Group work sits at the centre of the model alongside individual therapy, by design rather than by economics. No session count or weekly schedule is published.
Detox Program
Clinically determined, at the start of the stay
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Medically managed inpatient detoxification is an accredited level of care at this site, so withdrawal management happens on the estate rather than elsewhere. The clinic states that its detox facility is staffed with a medical and nursing team available 24 hours, and new arrivals spend the first night under medical observation before moving into the Main House or the cottages.
Chronic Relapse Treatment
Within the residential stay
Included in the residential programme
Not a separately priced product. It is positioned for people who have completed other programmes without durable change, on the clinic's argument that untreated trauma rather than insufficient abstinence work drove the relapse. The published description promises intensive one-to-one clinical sessions and a low client-to-clinician ratio without giving a count for either.
Functional Medicine
Throughout the stay
Included in the residential programme
A Functional Medical Director oversees advanced diagnostic testing for nutrient deficiencies, hormone shifts, gut health and inflammation, and root-cause plans with targeted supplements, nutrition strategies and prescriptions where needed. He is stated to meet weekly with psychiatry, therapy and addiction specialists to coordinate care. The clinic does not state when in the stay this testing happens.
Intensive Outpatient and Partial Hospitalization
Ongoing
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Both are accredited levels of care delivered at the same address by the clinic's own outpatient team, and the clinic states they may serve as a transitional step after residential treatment. The outpatient team page states that the clinic works with each client and their family to ensure home life supports a sober lifestyle.
Alumni Program
Ongoing after discharge
No fee published
Alumni and group meetings, online sessions for remote support and relapse prevention support, with participation described as flexible, plus an annual alumni weekend held on the estate at no charge for food or events. Duration and any written aftercare plan are not published.
Prices
No public price found.
Our assessment
The review base is modest and unremarkable in a way that reads as genuine. Two directory listings report the same Google profile at 4.2 from roughly 55 to 58 reviews, counted on different dates, so the two figures are one corpus and must not be added together. A listing on a second consumer platform shows 22 reviews and 72 photos, updated September 2026, but the page refused automated access so no rating is recorded. No Trustpilot listing was found. Roughly 55 reviews at 4.2 over ten years of small cohorts is a plausible volume with a plausible spread, and a good rather than glowing rating is itself a mark of authenticity. No pattern suggesting manipulation was found. The composite scores that directories attach to their own listings are index numbers built from listings and accreditations rather than client ratings, and are not quoted here.
The review base is modest and unremarkable in a way that reads as genuine. Two directory listings report the same Google profile at 4.2 from roughly 55 to 58 reviews, counted on different dates, so the two figures are one corpus and must not be added together. A listing on a second consumer platform shows 22 reviews and 72 photos, updated September 2026, but the page refused automated access so no rating is recorded. No Trustpilot listing was found. Roughly 55 reviews at 4.2 over ten years of small cohorts is a plausible volume with a plausible spread, and a good rather than glowing rating is itself a mark of authenticity. No pattern suggesting manipulation was found. The composite scores that directories attach to their own listings are index numbers built from listings and accreditations rather than client ratings, and are not quoted here.
A bylined regional magazine feature of 31 October 2019 describes the estate and carries no sponsorship label. No first-hand bylined reporting from inside the facility was found within the last five years.
The founders received a lifetime achievement award from a recovery-community gala, which the clinic presents as an honour rather than as accreditation. No clinical or accrediting authority has given an award, and none is claimed.
Facility
A 52-acre privately owned estate in Silver Springs, near the Ocala National Forest, with gardens, wooded nature paths and a pond. Three residential buildings: the Main House, the hub, holding shared living areas, the dining room and several of the therapy rooms; the Carriage House, restored, with additional guest rooms; and the Backhouse, described by the clinic as a retreat within a retreat with separate amenities and treatment space. Guest rooms are private. Amenities include a gym available year round, putting greens, a frisbee golf course, pickleball and basketball courts, a firepit gathering area, walking trails, and on-site massage and acupuncture. Horses and tree-covered equestrian trails support the equine programme. Housekeeping, transportation and supervised outside shopping are provided. The setting is inland Florida woodland: quiet and green, with no water or mountain views. Shared community space in the Main House is intrinsic to the model rather than a compromise on it. The clinic publishes a drive time of about an hour and a quarter to Orlando and names no hospital or emergency department.
Food
An in-house chef prepares organic meals made fresh on the estate from locally grown produce, and the menu caters to dietary needs including kosher, vegetarian and vegan. The chef is not named and no culinary credential is published. No dietitian or nutritionist appears anywhere on the staff pages. Nutritional work runs instead through the functional-medicine track, which publishes advanced diagnostic testing for nutrient deficiencies, hormone shifts, gut health and inflammation, and root-cause plans with targeted supplements and nutrition strategies. The clinic does not state that the meal plan is built from those results, does not describe how the kitchen receives a plan, and publishes no nutrition assessment on admission or monitoring during the stay. No food-hygiene inspection record was located.
Privacy
one to one therapy
The strongest separation established here is one-to-one therapy, and the clinic does not claim more. Guests occupy private rooms inside three shared buildings, group therapy is a core modality, and the Main House holds shared living areas and a shared dining room. Guests share the gym, the courts, the firepit, the equestrian programme and supervised outings, and meet each other by design: the trauma-community model depends on it. What is missing is not the model but the documentation around it. No confidentiality measure beyond statute is named: no staff non-disclosure policy, no separate-arrival protocol, no phone or photography policy that protects other guests and no dedicated team per guest is published, and the clinic's own FAQ does not address privacy. A blog post frames privacy as a clinical necessity and says guests decide who is told what and when, which is a principle rather than a mechanism, and the privacy policy rests on federal health-privacy law, which is statute. The unresolved insurance position compounds this. Because the clinic states nothing about whether it bills commercial insurance, a prospective client cannot establish from published sources whether a stay would generate a payer claims trail. That is worth settling in writing before admission.
Assessed 2026-10-01
Rank #53The clinic's position by public score in this edition.Public score 39The 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. · 39
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: 39
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.: low. 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 · 2
The Residential Treatment Program page lists shared and private rooms among the programme inclusions, so shared bedrooms are offered, and group therapy with shared living areas in the Main House is a core part of the programme, which meets band 2. Band 3 requires all bedrooms private, which the programme page contradicts, although the homepage lists private rooms as an amenity. The private-pay statement would count as a measure beyond statute only at band 4, which also requires all bedrooms private. No sole-occupancy tier is published, and no capacity deduction applies because the clinic publishes no capacity figure.
ConfidenceHow well the evidence supports the score.: low
Sources (4 cited items):- The Guest House Ocala: The homepage lists private rooms among the amenities and group therapy among the treatments, and states that the clinic is fully staffed to ensure a three-to-one resident to clinician ratio.
- The Guest House Ocala: The Main House is the hub with shared spaces and living areas and is also home to several of the therapy rooms; the Carriage House provides additional guest rooms and the Backhouse is described as a retreat within a retreat.
- The Guest House Ocala: A privacy blog post frames privacy as a clinical necessity and says guests decide who is told about their stay, naming no confidentiality mechanism beyond statute.
- The Guest House Ocala: The Residential Treatment Program page lists "Shared and private rooms" among the programme inclusions.
- C2 Clinical governance and medical cover · 7
The Florida DCF licensing search shows active Inpatient Detoxification and Residential Level 2 components at 3230 NE 55th Ave, expiring 19 December 2026, and the Joint Commission list records the operator as accredited for behavioural health care including medically managed inpatient and residential levels. A Medical Director leads the medical staff, a board-certified internist serves as Functional Medical Director, and detox is on site. The stated 24-hour cover names a medical and nursing team, not a physician or psychiatrist on site or on call at night, so night physician cover is not credited. Licence, medical lead and three further elements give band 7; band 8 would need a fourth, and no named hospital escalation route or programme for severe mental illness is published.
ConfidenceHow well the evidence supports the score.: high
Sources (4 cited items):- jointcommission.org: The Joint Commission list of accredited organisations records the operator, HCO ID 603569, Behavioral Health Care and Human Services, decision effective 2025-01-30, status Accredited, with levels of care including Medically Managed Inpatient Services and Clinically Managed High-Intensity Residential Services (Adult).
- sudprovidersearch.myflfamilies.com: The Florida DCF substance use disorder licensing search shows one site at 3230 NE 55th Ave with two active components, Inpatient Detoxification and Residential Level 2, status Regular, effective 12/20/2025 and expiring 12/19/2026.
- The Guest House Ocala: The detox facility is staffed with a medical and nursing team available 24 hours and adept at managing withdrawal symptoms, with licensed and trained medical staff available 24 hours.
- The Guest House Ocala: A Functional Medical Director, a board-certified internist, oversees comprehensive testing and personalised treatment and meets weekly with psychiatry, therapy and addiction specialists to coordinate care.
- C3 Diagnostic depth on admission · 2
The only screening published before a client commits is a 30 to 45 minute call with the admissions team, whose named staff hold non-clinical qualifications, and the detox page describes an arrival assessment without naming an assessor. No psychiatric assessment by a psychiatrist, no physician examination, no dated admission laboratory panel and no written formulation delivered to the client is published, which keeps the clinic below band 3.
ConfidenceHow well the evidence supports the score.: medium
Sources (3 cited items):- The Guest House Ocala: Step one is an initial phone call and pre-treatment assessment by the admissions team, for which callers are asked to set aside 30 to 45 minutes; arrivals spend the first night under medical observation.
- The Guest House Ocala: The Director of Admissions holds an associate's degree in business and the Admissions Coordinator a bachelor's in clinical psychology; no clinician is named as conducting the pre-admission assessment.
- The Guest House Ocala: The detox page states that each arrival is assessed for substance use history, symptoms, mental health concerns and treatment goals, naming no assessor.
- C4 Clinical intensity · 3
Individual therapy is published with no session count, length or frequency, and group therapy with no frequency or share of the schedule. The team is pooled at a stated three-to-one resident to clinician ratio, and 24-hour cover is scoped to the detox facility, so no clinician is stated to stay overnight in the residence. Length of stay is clinically extendable, with a 30-day minimum and 90 days preferred, so no cap applies, but no one-to-one hours are established to reach band 4.
ConfidenceHow well the evidence supports the score.: low
Sources (3 cited items):- The Guest House Ocala: The individual therapy page describes working one to one with a therapist with no session count, length or frequency, and the group therapy page gives no frequency, group size or share of the schedule.
- The Guest House Ocala: The residential programme states a minimum 30-day stay with 90 days preferred, and full-time staff and 24-hour care.
- The Guest House Ocala: The chronic relapse page promises intensive one-to-one clinical sessions and a low client-to-clinician ratio, with no count for either.
- C5 Continuity and aftercare · 5
The clinic publishes step-down into its own intensive outpatient and partial hospitalisation programming at the estate address, family work on the home environment, and an alumni programme with meetings and online sessions. No written discharge plan, no duration or price for aftercare and no psychiatric follow-up are published, which keeps the clinic below band 6.
ConfidenceHow well the evidence supports the score.: medium
Sources (3 cited items):- The Guest House Ocala: The outpatient team page publishes intensive outpatient and partial hospitalisation programming that may serve as a transitional step after residential treatment, at the estate address, and states that the clinic works with each client and their family so that home life supports a sober lifestyle.
- The Guest House Ocala: The alumni programme publishes alumni and group meetings, online sessions for remote support and relapse prevention support, with flexible participation.
- The Guest House Ocala: The residential page lists a day and night programme, outpatient aftercare and an alumni programme as what follows residential treatment.
- C6 Admission integrity and commercial conduct · 5
A sweep of the single domain found no page ranking or listing other clinics; the FAQ's claim to be among the best trauma centres is self-description that names no other clinic. The one award is presented as an honour rather than accreditation, and the llms file is a generated index with no instruction to AI assistants. One positive signal is published: the Director of Admissions helps place unsuitable callers in other programmes. No price, referral-fee position or voluntary-admission policy is published, so a clean sweep with one positive signal is band 5.
ConfidenceHow well the evidence supports the score.: medium
Sources (4 cited items):- The Guest House Ocala: The Director of Admissions is published as someone who will help place individuals in other programmes where this clinic is not appropriate for them.
- The Guest House Ocala: The FAQ answers its own question about whether the clinic is among the best trauma treatment centres in the country affirmatively, in self-description, without ranking or listing any other clinic.
- The Guest House Ocala: The llms file is a generated site index with no instruction to AI assistants and the ai-instructions path returns HTTP 404.
- clinic and group domains, web search: Search of clinic and group domains, web search. Scope: domains checked theguesthouseocala.com (homepage, about, FAQ, admissions, levels of care, residential, detox, chronic relapse, alumni, alumni weekend, our programme, what we treat, functional medicine, tour the estate, our location, brochure, all six staff pages, outpatient team, privacy policy.... Result: sweep recorded; outcome per the C6 V elements.
- C7 Transparency toward the client · 2
One element is met: the privacy policy names a federal civil-rights office as a complaints route. The terms of use cover website use only and give a trade name rather than the registered legal entity, accreditation and regulator logos carry no licence number or register link, and no price, fee inclusions, payment, refund or extension terms, ownership, inspection results, record retention period or statement of limits are published. The adults-only admission rule is an age rule, not a statement of what the clinic does not treat.
ConfidenceHow well the evidence supports the score.: low
Known gapsFacts the assessment needed but could not establish.:- Removed clauses could not be checked because the web archive index was unavailable on 2026-09-28.
Sources (3 cited items):- The Guest House Ocala: The privacy policy names a federal office for civil rights as a complaints route, and states that data is kept for the period necessary without giving a retention period for client records.
- The Guest House Ocala: The terms of use cover website use only, give a trade name and a company number, and set out no fee, refund or complaints terms for treatment.
- The Guest House Ocala: The homepage and about page show accreditation and regulator logos with alt text only, with no licence number and no register link.
- C8 Track record and regulator standing · 5
No final regulator, court or tribunal finding against the operator was found; court searches returned only non-party mentions. A surrendered licence on the DCF register was replaced by two active licences from the same date and is not a regulator finding of breach. No statutory inspection record within five years was retrievable, the only bylined feature dates from 2019 and is not a first-hand account, and the review platform page returned no readable rating, so no positive safety element lifts the band above 5.
ConfidenceHow well the evidence supports the score.: low
Sources (9 cited items):- ocalamagazine.com: A bylined regional magazine feature of 31 October 2019 describes the estate and carries no adverse information; it is outside the five-year window and is not a first-hand account of a visit to the programme.
- yelp.com: A consumer review platform listing shows 22 reviews and 72 photos, updated September 2026; the page returned HTTP 403, so no rating or owner response is visible.
- psychologytoday.com: A third-party profile written for the clinic gives ten years in operation and a founding year of 2016; the clinic's own site publishes no founding year.
- CourtListener opinions and RECAP API (v4 search): Search of CourtListener opinions and RECAP API (v4 search). Scope: "Guest House Ocala" (type r, 2 results, non-party mentions). Result: no record found.
- CourtListener opinions and RECAP API (v4 search): Search of CourtListener opinions and RECAP API (v4 search). Scope: "Guest House Ocala" (type o). Result: no record found.
- general web search: Search of a general web search engine. Scope: "Guest House Ocala" lawsuit OR fine OR AHCA. Result: no record found.
- general web search: Search of a general web search engine. Scope: "Guest House" Silver Springs Florida rehab lawsuit OR sued OR "Marion County" court. 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: source unreachable at time of search. Florida AHCA and DCF records returned HTTP 403 or offer no citable result. Joint Commission accreditation scores in C2, not as an inspection..
- C9 Environment, safety and nutrition · 5
The hospitality score is band 6 on five elements including emergency access: therapy rooms in the Main House, an on-site medical facility, a year-round gym on a 52-acre estate, a state licensed-address record for the site, and HCA Florida Ocala Hospital's 24-hour emergency department 14 minutes and 10.4 km away by road on a Leading Rehabs route check. No emergency equipment or medication storage rules are published. The nutrition score is band 3: an in-house chef caters to dietary needs, but no nutrition professional is named. The mean of 6 and 3 is 4.5, rounded half up to 5.
ConfidenceHow well the evidence supports the score.: medium
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):- The Guest House Ocala: The Main House is home to several of the therapy rooms, a gym is on site and available year round, and the 52-acre estate carries nature paths, putting greens, frisbee golf, pickleball and basketball courts.
- The Guest House Ocala: Meals are organic and prepared fresh by an in-house chef, with a menu catering to dietary needs including kosher, vegetarian and vegan options, and no nutrition professional is named anywhere on the staff pages.
- The Guest House Ocala: The location page gives a drive time to Orlando only and names no hospital or emergency department; the admissions page publishes a prohibited-items list covering drugs and alcohol, laxatives and diet pills, weapons and other items.
- hcafloridahealthcare.com: Leading Rehabs road routing from 3230 NE 55th Avenue to HCA Florida Ocala Hospital: 14 minutes, 10.4 km; the hospital page confirms a general acute 24-hour emergency department.
- C10 Clinical seniority and academic standing · 3
The Director of Psychiatric Services is confirmed on the specialty board's register as board certified in general psychiatry and on the state register as a licensed physician, and the Medical Director and two advanced practice nurses are confirmed on the Florida licence register. With the facility licence proven on the DCF register, the Medical Director's stated addiction-medicine certification also counts as provisionally verified. Non-physician credentials outside the cited physician provisions stay unverified, and no university appointment or publication record is verified, which keeps the index in band 3. 13 browser lookups and 3 further lookups remain open, so the band is provisional.
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.:- 16 register lookups were not complete at publication; the C10 band may change when they are completed.
Sources (3 cited items):- abpn.com: The specialty board's verification service, read on 2026-09-16, confirms the Director of Psychiatric Services as currently board certified in general psychiatry, and the state licence register confirms him as a licensed physician.
- mqa-internet.doh.state.fl.us: The state licence register, read on 2026-09-16, confirms the Medical Director as a licensed physician and the psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner and a second advanced practice nurse as registered advanced practice nurses.
- The Guest House Ocala: The medical team page names a Medical Director, a Functional Medical Director, a Director of Psychiatric Services, a consulting psychiatrist, a Director of Nursing and two advanced practice nurses, and publishes no licence number for any of them.
Frequently asked questions
What does treatment at The Guest House Ocala cost?
Not published, at any level of care. The clinic's own FAQ omits cost entirely, and no per-programme price appears anywhere on its site. A cost is quoted only after the admissions assessment call. The insurance position is not published either: the clinic says nothing about whether it bills commercial insurance, and third-party listings contradict each other on the point. Ask for the fee, what it includes, the terms on extension and early departure, and the insurance position in writing before committing, because none of that is published.
Where is the clinic and what is the setting?
On a 52-acre private estate at 3230 NE 55th Avenue, Silver Springs, Florida, in Marion County next to Ocala and near the Ocala National Forest. The address is corroborated on the accreditor's own record. The clinic publishes a distance of about 75 miles to Orlando with an average drive of an hour and a quarter. It names no hospital or emergency department and publishes no travel time to one, stating only a partnership with nearby medical centres for emergency or specialty care.
Who is the clinic designed for?
Adults whose addiction, process addiction, disordered eating, anxiety or depression sits on top of complex, developmental or attachment trauma, including people who have completed other programmes without durable change. The programme is experiential and community-based, so it suits someone prepared to work in groups and to share living and dining space. It is not a single-client environment and does not suit anyone who requires no contact with other clients. The clinic states it treats adults over 18 and publishes no statement of conditions it will not take.
How does admission work?
Admission opens with a phone call and pre-treatment assessment run by the admissions team, for which the clinic asks callers to set aside 30 to 45 minutes, covering substance use, mental health, trauma, medical conditions, medications and family dynamics. The admissions staff named on the site hold non-clinical qualifications, and no clinician is named as conducting that assessment. Paperwork, including the privacy policy, follows. New arrivals spend the first night in the medical facility for observation before moving to the Main House or the cottages, and each arrival is assessed for substance use history, symptoms, mental health concerns and goals, with no assessor named. The Director of Admissions states that she will help place callers in other programmes where this one is not appropriate.
What happens after discharge?
The clinic runs its own intensive outpatient and partial hospitalisation programming at the same address, presented as a transitional step after residential treatment and staffed in part by the residential clinical team, which gives it a continuum most facilities of this size have to outsource. An alumni programme offers alumni and group meetings, online sessions for remote support and relapse prevention support, with participation described as flexible, plus an alumni weekend held on the estate. No written discharge plan, no aftercare duration, no price or inclusion, and no post-discharge psychiatric review or medication management is published.