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Physician-Owned, Culturally Grounded

Treatment designed with clinical understanding and cultural fluency.

South Asian Recovery Center is a physician-owned residential substance use disorder treatment facility in Encino, Los Angeles, created to serve South Asian individuals and families, including Indian, Pakistani, Bangladeshi, Sri Lankan, and Nepali, and other communities, who need a comprehensive and structured addiction treatment in a private setting that understands their world.

Because South Asian Recovery Center is physician-owned, the program was designed with a clinical understanding of addiction as a treatable medical condition, and with cultural understanding of the pressures that shape how South Asian families experience it, including stigma, family honor, community perception, intergenerational expectations, and the silence that often surrounds mental health.

Physician Ownership

A program shaped by physician leadership.

Our ownership and program design reflect both: evidence-based residential treatment, delivered with cultural fluency and discretion. Our staffing model includes clinical and support staff such as a physician medical director, psychiatrist, alcohol and other drug (AOD)-certified counselors, licensed therapists, registered nurses, and a private chef.

Dyas Kardinal

Therapist

Elsa Verina

Therapist

Our Treatment Philosophy

Recovery built around the whole person.

South Asian Recovery Center’s approach is based on several principles:
  • Substance use disorders are treatable medical conditions
  • Culture and family are part of recovery, not obstacles to it
  • Privacy and dignity are essential to treatment
  • Compassion and accountability can coexist
  • Respected faith, food, and language deserve are integral to the recovery atmosphere
  • Residential treatment should prepare clients, and their families, for continuing care and life after discharge
  • Optimal recovery requires a thorough evaluation of each person’s unique upbringing, situation, and environment and a unique treatment plan that encompasses the values and goals of that person
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