Sebring,

Tikvah Lake Recovery

A six-guest lakeside mansion in central Florida promising an all-individual programme, on a site that also advertises two group sessions a day.

Assessed

Rank #42Public score 41Tied

Public evidence, LROAS 1.0.0, edition 2026-10-01

Public evidence · 41

About Tikvah Lake Recovery

Tikvah Lake Recovery contradicts itself on the single most important structural fact about how it runs, and it does so on its own website. The programme page states that all therapy is delivered one to one and not in group settings; the campus page states that guests receive individual sessions with two group sessions available daily. Both are recorded here because a prospective client cannot resolve them. The clinic is a six-guest residential programme in a mansion on a private 200-acre lake in Highlands County, opened in 2017 as a kosher facility for the Jewish community and since repositioned as a general luxury offer for executives. Its clinical commitment is falsifiable and unusually specific: a minimum of 7.5 hours of individual therapy a week, rising to ten in extended residential care, with five individual sessions weekly on the campus page. The accreditation and the clinical licences behind it check out on public registers. Detox is off site. Unlike most clinics in its price band it accepts major commercial insurance, which has a direct consequence for confidentiality set out below, and no price is published anywhere on the site.

Assessed: The 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. It does not mean every fact is confirmed. How well the evidence holds up is shown by the confidence rating. What our labels mean

Clinic overview

Founded: Opened in 2017, covered at launch by the Jewish community press. The clinic states no founding year on its own site, and the accreditor's register records first accreditation in 2020. A directory gives 2016. Unverified
Capacity: A maximum of six guests at a time, stated consistently on the homepage, programme page, campus page and FAQ. No bed count is retrievable from any public register: the state substance-abuse provider search returns no citable result. The operator runs two further six-guest residential sites, both recorded on the accreditor's register, so the group census is larger than six. Unverified
Languages: English. No language offering is published. The kosher founding premise and the rabbinic co-founders make cultural competence credible, but nothing on the site evidences a language service. Unverified
Accreditations: CARF Three-Year Accreditation for Residential Treatment (Behavioral Health), Integrated substance use and mental health, adults, confirmed on the CARF provider directory on 15 September 2026 for the Sebring site, first accredited in 2020. The clinic does not display the accreditation anywhere on its own website.
Payment and insurance: Major commercial insurers are named on the clinic's own homepage, including Blue Cross Blue Shield, Cigna, Magellan Health, Optum, Anthem and Aetna, with inline benefit verification. The FAQ simultaneously describes the clinic as private pay, saying most guests have good insurance but do not use it.
Length of stay: The residential programme typically spans 30 to 90 days depending on individual needs, and the FAQ describes a standard programme of 30 days. A condensed 10-day executive programme is sold separately.
Address: 6549 Rajol Drive, Sebring, United States

Leadership

The clinic publishes a staff page of 25 named people with titles and individual bio pages, which is more than most facilities of this size publish. Fifteen of them hold a clinical, clinical-governance or leadership title.

Dr., MD Jose Toledo

Medical Director. Licence confirmed on the state register; the register records no specialty board certification. Also in private practice elsewhere

medicine

Alice Fletcher

Chief Clinical Officer, Licensed Mental Health Counselor. Licence confirmed on the state register

leadership

Katherine Fannin Wesley

Clinical Director, addiction counsellor certifications. The state register carries no addiction counsellor credential, so the certifications are not register-confirmed

leadership

Tallulah Pharaoh

Registered Nurse. Licence confirmed on the state register

nursing

Mary Valarie Lee

Mental Health Counselor, EMDR. Licence confirmed on the state register

psychology

Amanda Merkel

Mental Health Counselor. Licence confirmed on the state register

psychology

Aseelah Knighten

Mental Health Counselor. Licence confirmed on the state register

psychology

James Sclater

Therapist, registered mental health counselor intern. Registration confirmed on the state register

psychology

Byron Wickham

Therapist, MA. No registration is claimed on the clinic's page

psychology

Dr. Melody Clancy

Acupuncture physician, health and wellness coach. Licence confirmed on the state register

complementary therapies

Andrea Morrison

Craniosacral and sound therapist, licensed massage therapist. Licence confirmed on the state register

complementary therapies

Etan Pomerantz

Chief Operating Officer, LMSW. A non-clinical executive role by the clinic's own description

leadership

Dr. David Nesenoff

Co-Founder. The bio claims no clinical licence

leadership

No licence number is published for any of them. Nine claimed licences were confirmed on the Florida health professions register on 16 September 2026, every one clear and active. The psychiatrist the FAQ refers to is not named anywhere.

Videos

Tikvah Lake Recovery - Luxury Rehab center in FloridaSource: Tikvah Lake RecoveryWatch on YouTube

Meet the Tikvah Lake FamilySource: Tikvah Lake RecoveryWatch on YouTube

Treatments

Residential Treatment

30 to 90 days depending on individual needs; the FAQ describes a standard 30-day programme

The core programme, in three phases: orientation and foundation, including assessments for co-occurring disorders and the first of the twelve steps; clinical work and skill building; and transition and aftercare with discharge planning. The headline clinical commitment is a minimum of 7.5 hours of individual therapy a week, with the campus page giving five individual sessions a week and two group sessions available daily, which the programme page contradicts.

Ten-Day Executive Programme

Ten days

A condensed intensive for people who cannot be absent for a month, described as many hours of individual therapy sessions alongside group therapy workshops. Extended residential care on the same page carries a minimum of ten hours of individual therapy a week. It is a reset and a stabilisation window rather than a full course of addiction treatment.

Dual Diagnosis Programme

Within the residential stay

Within the residential programme

Concurrent treatment of a substance or behavioural addiction alongside depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder, PTSD or OCD, on the argument that treating either condition alone drives relapse. Delivered in the same individual format rather than in a dual-diagnosis group track. The page describes no intake assessment, psychiatric evaluation, laboratory work or written report.

Detox, off site

Set by the external provider

Detoxification is not provided at the property. The clinic states plainly that its Florida treatment centre does not provide on-site medical detox and that it partners with accredited detox centres nearby, so a client needing withdrawal management transfers before or at the start of the stay. For a facility at this price point that is a real limitation and it should be settled before admission.

Future Care and Aftercare

First 30 days included in the tuition; total duration not published

First 30 days included in the tuition; price after that not published

An individual aftercare plan is created with the treatment team in the final phase of the stay, and the clinic runs its own continuing programme called Future Care whose first 30 days are included in the tuition. Sober living is by referral to outside homes with which the clinic has relationships. The total duration, format, clinicians and post-discharge psychiatric review are not published.

Prices

No public price found.

Our assessment

The review base reaches this file through a single underlying platform. An aggregate profile showed 4.4 from 163 reviews, of which 161 come from Google and two from the aggregator itself; the profile is unclaimed by the business, so its breakdown cannot be confirmed by the operator and no owner responses are visible. Two directory listings show 85 reviews at 4.5, which is the same corpus counted earlier and must not be added. Yelp was not retrievable and no Trustpilot profile exists. One platform is not two, so the review base does not corroborate in either direction. Worth stating plainly as a caveat rather than a finding: 161 reviews for a facility that treats a maximum of six guests at a time is a high review-to-client ratio for a cohort whose defining requirement is discretion. The content of the reviews is specific, mixed and plausible, including a critical one noting the absence of a group setting, which argues for a genuine corpus. One item belongs in the record. A commercial payment-processing company brought a federal civil action in 2025 against the operating entity and other defendants over unfunded card chargebacks and fees under a merchant agreement. Those are allegations in a commercial contract dispute, not a clinical or regulatory matter, the docket page was not retrievable, and the final outcome is not established. No regulator, licensing or client-harm finding against the facility was found.

Coverage is confined to the Jewish community press at the 2017 launch, which is older than five years, and one undated trade article linked from the clinic's press page whose byline and text could not be retrieved. No mainstream coverage and no first-hand bylined reporting from inside the facility was found. The press page also displays a "World's Top 10 Luxury Rehabs" item beside a publication logo with no link and no date, and no matching article was located.

None published. The clinic's own blog carries a "Top 10 Best Rehabs in Florida" post that ranks the clinic first among ten Florida clinics with no statement that the clinic publishes the page, which this ranking records as a commercial-conduct violation rather than an award.

Facility

A 15,000 square foot mansion beside a private 200-acre lake at Sebring, in rural Highlands County. The clinic describes marble floors and columns, chandeliers and 30-foot ceilings. Accommodation comes at three levels: private rooms with a bed, lounge chair, desk, mini fridge, en-suite and oversized closets; a primary suite with its own bathroom; and a stand-alone villa on the property with a bedroom, living room and kitchen, whose bathroom is not stated. The villa is the only accommodation offering physical separation from the main house, and it shares the campus facilities. On site: a year-round pool and spa, a private dock and boat, private therapy spaces, a library, lounges, a games area, a gourmet kitchen and a family-style dining table. The setting is the strongest element of the offer and it is the clinic's own: the lake is private and the dock belongs to the property. One caution on the imagery and the copy. The same description of a 15,000 square foot mansion beside a 200-acre lake, with pool, spa, dock and boat, also appears on a sister brand's website for a site the accreditor's register places at a different address, and the operator's third site is described as a 15,000 square foot mansion on one domain and an 8,500 square foot facility on the clinic's own page. The premises shown cannot be tied to one register address on the published material.

Food

A named executive chef sits on the staff roster, which for six guests is a genuine strength, and menus are described as personalised to each guest's preferences and dietary restrictions, with breakfast, lunch, dinner and snacks provided. Kosher provision is credible given the founding premise and the rabbinic co-founders, though the current site does not foreground it. Against that, nutrition is catering rather than clinical work here. No dietitian and no nutritionist appears anywhere on the staff page. No nutrition assessment on admission, no method for building a plan from clinical data, no monitoring during the stay and no nutrition education is published, and no hygiene or food-safety certification was located. The clinic's claim about chefs who have cooked and taught in world-renowned venues names no venue and no chef.

Privacy

one to one therapy

What is established: a small shared house with an unusually individual therapy model. Six guests share the mansion, the pool, the spa, the dock and boat, the library, the lounges and a family-style dining table, and the clinic's own campus page advertises two group sessions available daily while its programme page states that no therapy happens in groups. Its own testimonials refer to the group the writer was there with. Guests meet. That is a real privacy advantage over a forty-bed campus and a real distance from a no-contact model. Nothing beyond statute is published: no separate arrivals, no dedicated team per client, no NDA policy, no phone or photography policy protecting other clients and no separate entrances. The published privacy notice is the statutory HIPAA notice, and it names an external complaints route but no record retention period. Phones and laptops are always permitted. The sharpest privacy point cuts against the clinic and it is not about the building. The clinic accepts major commercial insurance and verifies benefits on its own site. Every insurance-funded admission generates a payer claims trail: a claim, a diagnosis code, dates of service and a provider name passing through an insurer and, on an employer-sponsored plan, the administrative chain attached to it. That is the most common route by which a treatment episode becomes known to people the client never told, and the clinic does not address it anywhere in its published material.

Assessed 2026-10-01

Rank #42Public score 41Tied

Public evidence, LROAS 1.0.0, edition 2026-10-01

Public evidence · 41

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: 41

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.

Confidence: medium. Provisional: none.

C1 Client separation and occupancy · 4

All bedrooms are private, but guests are brought together daily: the campus page publishes two group sessions available daily alongside five individual sessions a week, and meals are served at a shared table, with shared pool, spa and lounges. Private bedrooms with daily shared activity place the clinic in band 4. No confidentiality measure beyond statute is published, so band 5 is not reached. The programme page's statement that therapy is not delivered in group settings conflicts with the campus page on group therapy, but this is not a statement about the occupancy model, so no deduction applied.

Confidence: high

Known gaps:

The clinic's own pages conflict on whether group therapy is offered.

Sources (5 cited items):

Tikvah Lake Recovery: A small guest group for privacy and focused care, with all therapy stated as delivered one to one and not in group settings.
Tikvah Lake Recovery: The campus page states that treatment programmes include five individual therapy sessions a week with two group sessions available daily, that dishes are served around the dining table in a family-style atmosphere, and that the pool, spa, dock and boat are shared.
carf.org: The accreditor's register records the operating entity at the Sebring main address and two further residential locations of the same operator, with no capacity figure.
carf.org: Place of care named as: Park Manor Recovery, 5005 East Roberts Road, Avon Park, FL 33825
carf.org: Place of care named as: Sun Villas Recovery, 5731 Wolf Lake Road, Sebring, FL 33875

C2 Clinical governance and medical cover · 6

The operating entity, Center for Jewish Addiction Rehabilitation, LLC, holds a current CARF Three-Year Accreditation for residential treatment at the Sebring address, and the Sebring site appears on the Florida Department of Children and Families substance use provider register. A physician is published as Medical Director for the site. Licence, physician lead and verifiable accreditation give band 6. Band 7 would need three further elements, but detox is placed with partner centres off site by the clinic's own statement, 24-hour physician or psychiatrist cover is not established, and no escalation hospital is named.

Confidence: medium

Known gaps:

The DCF register offers no permalink, so the licence record cannot be linked directly.

Sources (5 cited items):

carf.org: The CARF provider directory records Center for Jewish Addiction Rehabilitation, LLC at 6549 Rajol Drive, Sebring, with Three-Year Accreditation for Residential Treatment (Behavioral Health), Integrated substance use and mental health, adults, first accredited in 2020.
Tikvah Lake Recovery: The staff page publishes a Medical Director with a medical degree, a Chief Clinical Officer, a Clinical Director and a registered nurse. No psychiatrist is named.
Tikvah Lake Recovery: The clinic states that its Florida treatment centre does not provide on-site medical detox and partners with accredited detox centres nearby. Elsewhere it states 24/7 support without saying who provides it.
sudprovidersearch.myflfamilies.com: Place of care named as: Tikvah Lake Recovery, 6549 Rajol Drive, Sebring, FL 33875
Tikvah Lake Recovery: Programme described by the clinic: Detox, off site

C3 Diagnostic depth on admission · 3

One assessment element is met: the FAQ states that the clinic's psychiatrist evaluates medication needs. Phase one includes assessments for co-occurring disorders but names no assessor, and the admissions page carries a contact form and insurance verification with no clinical screening before the client commits. No admission psychiatric or physical examination, laboratory panel or written formulation is published, which holds the clinic at band 3.

Confidence: medium

Sources (3 cited items):

Tikvah Lake Recovery: The FAQ states that one-to-one cognitive behavioural therapy is provided multiple times a day, along with the clinic's psychiatrist's evaluation concerning medication when needed.
Tikvah Lake Recovery: Phase one includes assessments for co-occurring disorders, education on healthy living and the start of the twelve-step work. The assessor is not named.
Tikvah Lake Recovery: The admissions page carries a contact form and insurance verification, and describes no clinical screening before the client commits.

C4 Clinical intensity · 5

The campus page publishes five individual therapy sessions a week, and the programme pages state weekly minimums of 7.5 hours of individual therapy in the standard programme and ten hours in extended residential care. Published weekly one-to-one therapy gives band 5. Both minimums fall below the 1.5 hours a day the next band needs, the clinical team is shared across all guests, and no 24-hour clinical presence is established.

Confidence: medium

Sources (3 cited items):

Tikvah Lake Recovery: Treatment programmes include five individual therapy sessions a week with two group sessions available daily.
Tikvah Lake Recovery: Guests receive a minimum of 7.5 hours of individual therapy each week; the programme typically spans 30 to 90 days depending on individual needs, with 24/7 support stated.
Tikvah Lake Recovery: Extended residential care includes a minimum of ten hours of individual therapy sessions a week, and the clinical director is described as working intimately with each guest on a daily basis.

C5 Continuity and aftercare · 4

Three aftercare elements are met: a personalised aftercare plan made with the treatment team in the final phase, the clinic's own continuing programme called Future Care, and its first 30 days included in the tuition. The aftercare page also describes relationships with sober living homes. No total aftercare duration, psychiatric follow-up or structured contact over six months is published, which holds the clinic at band 4.

Confidence: medium

Sources (4 cited items):

Tikvah Lake Recovery: In the final phase, guests work closely with their treatment team to create a personalised aftercare plan.
Tikvah Lake Recovery: The FAQ states that the clinic provides an exclusive programme called Future Care, and that its first 30 days are included in the tuition.
Tikvah Lake Recovery: The aftercare page describes individual aftercare plans for each guest and relationships with multiple sober living homes that let the clinic recommend a fitting facility, with no duration, team or price.
Tikvah Lake Recovery: Programme described by the clinic: Future Care and Aftercare

C6 Admission integrity and commercial conduct · 3

A blog post on the clinic's own domain titled 'Top 10 Best Rehabs in Florida', published 14 May 2026, ranks the clinic first among ten Florida clinics with no statement that the clinic publishes the ranking; it was live at capture on 15 September 2026, so it counts as current conduct. The press page shows a 'World's Top 10 Luxury Rehabs' item beside a publication logo with no link or date, but no matching article was located and that alone is not proof of paid recognition. No price, referral-fee position or admissions decline policy is published, so no positive signal offsets the violation. One violation with no positive signal gives band 3.

Confidence: low

Known gaps:

The origin of the press-page 'Top 10' item is unresolved.

Sources (4 cited items):

Tikvah Lake Recovery: A blog post titled "Top 10 Best Rehabs in Florida", published 14 May 2026 under a staff author, ranks the clinic first among ten Florida clinics with no publisher disclosure.
Tikvah Lake Recovery: The press page shows a "World's Top 10 Luxury Rehabs" item beside a publication logo with no link and no date; no matching article was located, which is not proof that none exists.
Tikvah Lake Recovery: No price appears on the financial policy page, the FAQ, the programme page or the admissions page, and no referral-fee position or policy on declining unsuitable admissions is published on any group domain.
clinic and group domains, web search: Search of clinic and group domains, web search. Scope: domains checked tikvahlake.com (homepage, our-program, campus, staff, faqs, admissions, financial-policy, detox, aftercare, executive-treatment, park-manor, testimonials, press-media, tikvah-lake-recovery-center, dual-diagnosis page, notice-of-privacy-practices, robots.txt, /llms.txt HTTP 404.... Result: sweep recorded; outcome per the C6 V elements.

C7 Transparency toward the client · 4

Three transparency elements are met: payment and refund terms on the financial policy page, an external complaints route to the federal Office for Civil Rights in the Notice of Privacy Practices, and a plain statement of limits that detox is not provided on site. The legal name, Center for Jewish Addiction Rehabilitation, LLC, appears on the accreditor register but nowhere on the clinic's own site, and no ownership statement, licence reference, fee schedule with exclusions, inspection result or record retention period is published. Three elements give band 4; no contradiction deduction applied.

Confidence: high

Sources (3 cited items):

Tikvah Lake Recovery: Once payment is remitted by wire transfer the accommodation is reserved for 30 days from the agreed admission date, and no refunds are made if someone never arrives, is clinically discharged for breaking the rules or leaves early against medical advice.
Tikvah Lake Recovery: The Notice of Privacy Practices, effective 13 August 2020, names the clinic and its address and gives the federal Office for Civil Rights as the external complaints route, with no record retention period.
carf.org: The accreditor's register gives the legal name Center for Jewish Addiction Rehabilitation, LLC at the Sebring address. That name appears nowhere on the clinic's own site, and no registration number or ownership statement is published.

C8 Track record and regulator standing · 5

No final regulator, court or tribunal finding against the facility was found within 10 years. A 2025 federal civil action by a payment-processing company against the operating entity over a merchant processing agreement is unresolved and stayed, so it is an allegation only and scores nothing. The only survey on record is the accreditor's, which is not a statutory inspection. An aggregate review profile rating of 4.4 largely mirrors Google reviews, so only one independent review platform exists, and there is no first-hand bylined reporting from inside the facility. This is the 'not published' band 5.

Confidence: high

Known gaps:

The civil action is pending; a final outcome could affect this criterion.
The DCF register extract does not show whether licence cover was continuous between February 2025 and August 2026.

Sources (9 cited items):

reviews.birdeye.com: An aggregate review profile shows 4.4 from 163 reviews, 161 of them from Google and two from the aggregator, with the profile unclaimed by the business and no owner responses visible.
dockets.justia.com: A 2025 federal civil action by a payment-processing company against the operating entity and other defendants alleges unfunded card chargebacks and fees under a merchant agreement. It is a commercial contract dispute, not a clinical or regulatory matter; the docket page was not retrievable and the final outcome is not established.
carf.org: The accreditor's register records first accreditation in 2020 and a current Three-Year Accreditation. An accreditation survey is not a statutory inspection.
CourtListener RECAP: Search of CourtListener RECAP. Scope: "Jewish Addiction Rehabilitation" OR "Tikvah Lake". Result: record found: Open federal contract action: First Data Merchant Services LLC v. Center For Jewish Addiction Rehabilitation, LLC (d/b/a Tikvah Lake Recovery), US District Court for the Eastern District of New....
CourtListener RECAP docket entries: Search of CourtListener RECAP docket entries. Scope: docket_id 70386896, docket_id 70382481. Result: record found: Open federal contract action: First Data Merchant Services LLC v. Center For Jewish Addiction Rehabilitation, LLC (d/b/a Tikvah Lake Recovery), US District Court for the Eastern District of New....
general web search: Search of a general web search engine. Scope: "Tikvah Lake" OR "Center for Jewish Addiction Rehabilitation" lawsuit OR judgment OR "Department of Children and Families". Result: record found: Open federal contract action: First Data Merchant Services LLC v. Center For Jewish Addiction Rehabilitation, LLC (d/b/a Tikvah Lake Recovery), US District Court for the Eastern District of New....
general web search: Search of a general web search engine. Scope: Tikvah Lake Recovery Sebring license OR violation OR complaint OR lawsuit news. Result: record found: Open federal contract action: First Data Merchant Services LLC v. Center For Jewish Addiction Rehabilitation, LLC (d/b/a Tikvah Lake Recovery), US District Court for the Eastern District of New....
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 · 4

C9 is the mean of a housing sub-band of 4 and a nutrition sub-band of 3, rounded half up to 4. Housing meets three elements: private therapy spaces, grounds on a private lake and named residence staff (concierges, property manager, trainer and chef). The emergency department element is not met because the operator has three evidenced residential places, Sebring, Park Manor in Avon Park and Sun Villas, and a distance is established only for the Sebring house; meeting it would not change the criterion band. No emergency equipment, medication policy or risk assessment is published. Nutrition rests on dietary accommodation alone, with no nutrition professional, assessment or monitoring.

Confidence: medium

Known gaps:

A related site repeats the same mansion description for a different register address, so the pictured premises cannot be tied to one licensed address.

Sources (6 cited items):

Tikvah Lake Recovery: The campus is described as a 15,000 square foot mansion beside a 200-acre lake with private therapy spaces, recreational rooms and large bedrooms, a pool, spa, dock and boat, and yoga and meditation practices.
Tikvah Lake Recovery: The staff page names three executive concierges, a property manager, a personal trainer and a chef, and no dietitian or nutritionist.
Tikvah Lake Recovery: Breakfast, lunch and dinner are provided along with snacks, and the clinic states that it can address dietary needs. No clinical nutrition plan is described.
carf.org: Place of care named as: Park Manor Recovery, 5005 East Roberts Road, Avon Park, FL 33825
carf.org: Place of care named as: Sun Villas Recovery, 5731 Wolf Lake Road, Sebring, FL 33875
sudprovidersearch.myflfamilies.com: Place of care named as: Tikvah Lake Recovery, 6549 Rajol Drive, Sebring, FL 33875

C10 Clinical seniority and academic standing · 3

Florida health professions register lookups on 16 September 2026 confirmed nine claimed licences as clear and active, including the medical director, four licensed mental health counsellors, an intern and a registered nurse, giving a small verifiable clinical core. The medical director's profile records postgraduate psychiatry training but no specialty board certification, so no relevant specialist is verified. The staff page lists 25 names with no licence numbers or verification links, and the FAQ refers to a psychiatrist without naming anyone. This gives band 3.

Confidence: high

Known gaps:

The psychiatrist referred to in the FAQ is not named, so no specialist credential can be checked.

Sources (3 cited items):

mqa-internet.doh.state.fl.us: Florida health professions register lookups on 16 September 2026 confirmed nine claimed licences, every one clear and active: a medical doctor, four licensed mental health counselors, a registered mental health counselor intern, a registered nurse, an acupuncturist and a massage therapist.
mqa-internet.doh.state.fl.us: The medical director's register profile records postgraduate training in psychiatry and neurology and no certification from a recognised specialty board, so no specialist title is established.
Tikvah Lake Recovery: The staff page publishes 25 names with titles and individual bio pages, with no licence numbers and no verification links, and the FAQ refers to the clinic's psychiatrist without naming anyone.

Frequently asked questions

What does treatment at Tikvah Lake Recovery cost?

Not published. No price appears anywhere on the clinic's website, at any level of care, and none is published on the financial policy page, the FAQ, the programme page or the admissions page. What the financial policy does state is that a wire transfer reserves the accommodation for 30 days from the agreed admission date, and that no refund is made if a guest never arrives, is clinically discharged for breaking the rules or leaves early against medical advice. Unusually for this price bracket the clinic accepts major commercial insurance and verifies benefits on the site, while its own FAQ describes it as private pay. Establish the fee, its exclusions and any extension terms in writing before admission.

Where is it and how do you get there?

At 6549 Rajol Drive, Sebring, in Highlands County, rural inland central Florida, on a private 200-acre lake. The setting is genuinely remote: the nearest major international airports are well over an hour and a half away by road, and Sebring is a small inland town with limited amenity. Medically supervised detox is not provided on site and takes place at a partner centre before or at the start of the stay. The clinic does not publish the nearest emergency department or its travel time. The operator runs a second residential site nearby in Avon Park and a third at another Sebring address.

Who is the clinic designed for?

Executives, professionals and high-net-worth adults who want an individual rather than a group programme and prefer a small house to a campus. The clinic treats substance dependence, behavioural addictions including gambling, sex and work, and primary mental health presentations including depression, anxiety, PTSD, bipolar disorder and OCD, with a strong dual-diagnosis emphasis. Its founding premise was a kosher rehab for the Jewish community and rabbinic co-founders remain in the ownership, so cultural and religious accommodation is credible. A condensed ten-day executive programme targets people who cannot be absent for a month. Anyone needing medically supervised withdrawal must be detoxed elsewhere first.

How does admission work and how long is the wait?

Admission runs through the clinic's own admissions team, with insurance verification offered on the site. The admissions page itself describes no clinical screening: it carries a contact form and the verification form. The programme then opens with phase one, orientation and foundation, which includes assessments for co-occurring disorders and the first step of the twelve-step work. Whether a psychiatric or physical examination happens on admission, and who conducts it, is not published. No waiting time is published, and with six places availability depends entirely on whether a place has just come free, so timing is unpredictable rather than reliably immediate.

What happens after discharge?

Discharge planning sits inside the final phase of the programme rather than being bolted on at the end: guests work with their treatment team to create a personalised aftercare plan. The clinic runs its own continuing programme, Future Care, and states that its first 30 days are included in the tuition. Sober living is by referral to outside homes with which the clinic has relationships, and the operator's second property is presented as a companion location. Against that, the total duration and format of Future Care, who delivers it, what it costs after the first 30 days, and whether any psychiatric review or medication management continues are all unpublished. Settle those points before admission.

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