Flashbacks, night terrors, and a constant sense of hypervigilance can make the world feel like an unsafe place long after a traumatic event has passed. At Foundations Recovery Center, we provide a clinical sanctuary for trauma recovery. Located in Encino, our center offers evidence-based PTSD treatment designed to help adults deconstruct traumatic memories and reclaim emotional stability.
PTSD can continue disrupting daily life long after a traumatic event occurs. Foundations Recovery Center offers PTSD treatment in Encino through outpatient programs designed specifically for adults living with trauma-related symptoms.
Our team uses trauma-focused therapy to address intrusive thoughts, avoidance behaviors, anxiety, and ongoing emotional distress.
You need treatment that truly matches your symptoms, history, and appropriate level of care. At our center, cognitive-behavioral therapy and EMDR help you gain greater control over distressing memories, with each session focused on the core symptoms affecting your daily functioning.
Getting help close to home can make treatment significantly easier when PTSD symptoms begin disrupting daily life. Foundations Recovery Center provides outpatient PTSD treatment for people in Encino and nearby San Fernando Valley communities.
Our center is conveniently located for regular visits without adding more stress to your week. A nearby location makes it easier to keep appointments, stay engaged in care, and continue treatment with consistency over time.
Address: 17555 Ventura Blvd, Ste 201, Encino, CA 91316
Phone: (805) 902-4578
Post-traumatic stress disorder can develop after exposure to death, serious injury, sexual violence, or other traumatic events. PTSD symptoms typically fall into four main categories: re-experiencing, avoidance, negative changes in mood and cognition, and heightened arousal. When these symptoms persist for more than a month and begin disrupting daily life, a clinical assessment may be needed.
Traumatic memories can affect the brain quite differently from everyday experiences. The brain’s fear centers can remain highly active, which can lead to flashbacks, nightmares, and intense reactions even in completely safe settings. This is one reason PTSD can so profoundly affect sleep, emotional control, relationships, and overall daily functioning.
PTSD symptoms can look quite different from one person to the next. You might experience intrusive memories during the day or wake from nightmares after severely disrupted sleep. Some people develop avoidance symptoms that make it difficult to return to certain places or be around certain people.
Your body can continue reacting to trauma even when you consciously try to move past it. Sleep problems, irritability, and sudden anger can become unwelcome parts of daily life, and these symptoms can significantly affect relationships, work performance, and emotional control.
Watch for these signs across the four main symptom categories:
PTSD treatment helps people struggling with persistent symptoms after a traumatic event. Our professional treatment can support combat veterans, sexual assault survivors, and accident survivors alike, regardless of when the trauma occurred.
Co-occurring conditions can make treatment even more important, since depression, anxiety, and substance use often appear alongside PTSD symptoms, and talk therapy combined with psychiatric support can help address these overlapping mental health concerns effectively.
People who benefit from PTSD treatment include:
Different types of trauma can affect people in profoundly different ways. Our clinicians shape treatment around your specific trauma history, current symptoms, and appropriate level of care. Some people are coping with the effects of a single traumatic event, while others are living with the impact of repeated harm over many years.
Trauma-focused treatment can support a wide range of trauma-related symptoms, so your treatment plan is tailored to the type of trauma you experienced and how it continues to affect your daily life.
Foundations Recovery Center provides three outpatient levels of care for PTSD treatment. Each level supports different symptom severity, support needs, and daily responsibilities, and your program level depends on how much structure and clinical support you need during recovery.
PHP meets five to six days per week with six hours of treatment each day. You participate in intensive trauma-focused therapy while returning home each evening. This level can help people with moderate to severe PTSD symptoms who need structured daily support without requiring inpatient care.
IOP meets three to five days per week for about three hours per session, as you practice coping skills between sessions and apply them in real-world daily life. This level offers strong clinical support while giving you more flexibility to manage work, home, or other responsibilities.
Evening outpatient sessions meet three to four nights per week for two to three hours. This option works particularly well for professionals, parents, and others who need treatment outside regular daytime hours. Our evening care makes it easier to continue PTSD treatment while keeping up with daily responsibilities.
Evidence-based therapies support PTSD treatment by helping people process trauma, manage symptoms, and regain stability in daily life. Foundations Recovery Center uses several therapy approaches based on your symptoms, trauma history, and level of care.
One-on-one sessions give you private space to process your traumatic experience. Your therapist shapes treatment around your specific symptoms, triggers, and recovery goals. Individual therapy also gives you time to work through difficult emotions at a pace that feels manageable. You meet with one clinician who follows your progress over time and helps you build practical coping skills for daily life.
Group therapy gives you a chance to connect with others who genuinely understand trauma-related struggles. These sessions can reduce isolation and help you talk through experiences in a supportive, confidential setting. Hearing others describe similar symptoms can normalize what you are going through and support recovery over time.
Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing uses bilateral stimulation while traumatic memories are brought into focus. This process can help the brain reprocess memories that continue to cause distress. EMDR can be particularly helpful for people who have trouble putting trauma into words or who prefer a structured trauma treatment approach.
Cognitive behavioral therapy helps identify thoughts linked to trauma and emotional distress. You work on challenging beliefs such as guilt, fear, and helplessness, learning to replace them with more accurate, balanced thinking. Skills practice between sessions helps reinforce progress and apply those changes in daily life.
Trauma-focused care uses structured therapy approaches to address the lasting effects of traumatic experiences. These approaches may include memory processing, cognitive restructuring, and working through trauma-related fear and avoidance. Over time, treatment can help reduce the intensity of trauma reminders and support a stronger sense of safety in daily life.
Trauma and substance use often occur together. Some people turn to alcohol or drugs while trying to cope with flashbacks, hypervigilance, anxiety, or overwhelming emotional distress.
Integrated dual diagnosis treatment helps address both conditions simultaneously. Our Encino programs support trauma recovery and substance use treatment within the same coordinated level of care. When PTSD symptoms and substance use continue affecting each other, treatment needs to address both. This is why a team with experience in both trauma and addiction care can help support safer, more stable recovery.
Weekly schedules can include several forms of support during trauma recovery. You meet with different clinicians and group members throughout the week, and this structure and consistency can help support steady treatment progress.
Each week builds on earlier work while introducing new coping skills, while your treatment team adjusts the schedule based on symptom changes and your evolving needs.
Foundations Recovery Center provides PTSD treatment in Encino through structured, comprehensive outpatient care. Our program addresses trauma symptoms and any co-occurring mental health or substance use conditions within the same integrated treatment setting.
Our therapists use EMDR, cognitive processing therapy, and other trauma-focused methods in PTSD treatment. You work with clinicians who understand how trauma-related symptoms affect sleep, mood, relationships, and daily functioning.
PTSD can occur alongside depression, anxiety, and substance use disorders. Our program addresses these conditions together so care stays connected and coordinated across all services.
Our outpatient programs include regular therapy, group sessions, and clinical support based on your appropriate level of care. This structure helps you continue treatment effectively while managing daily responsibilities.
Foundations Recovery Center provides PTSD treatment in Encino for adults across the San Fernando Valley and nearby Los Angeles communities. Our Encino location serves clients from:
Yes, in many cases. Tell us the medication name, dose, and reason for use. We also review early refills, dose increases, and loss of control to determine the appropriate level of care.
Some programs include toxicology testing as part of clinical monitoring. Testing helps confirm substance exposure and supports treatment planning. Your team will explain when testing applies and how results are used.
If you have chest pain, breathing trouble, fainting, severe confusion, or overdose concerns, call emergency services immediately. For non-emergency symptoms, contact your care team so we can review risk and update your plan.
Yes, if you want support. You may also request private time with the clinical team. We follow confidentiality and privacy guidelines.
Tell your team right away. We will review what happened, assess safety risks, and adjust your care plan. The goal is harm reduction and stronger prevention planning for future high-risk moments.
