SOS Recovery is the only known program designed from the bottom up just for legal professionals. There are other programs which advertise that they are designed for lawyers. We encourage you to examine these programs because we believe that SOS Recovery is unlike any other treatment program in the world. The costs of these programs vary from $22,000 for one month to $30,000 for one month and the difference between these programs and other “professionals” programs is usually not significant. Only SOS Recovery has been designed completely around the lawyer, judge, law student and legal professional for what she or he specifically needs – and at a reasonable cost.
One program for legal professionals is part of one of the oldest and most respected names in treatment. However, its cost, at $30,000 per month, is prohibitive to many and the program itself offers only additional counseling and group sessions from counseling staff that also have law degrees or are also lawyers. SOS Recovery is designed to be a cost effective, focus treatment for lawyers, judges, and legal professionals to reclaim their lives, their families, their careers and reputations, and their sense of self-identity before hitting bottom and allows them to recover in body, mind, and spirit as well as renew the moral and ethical compass.
A comparison of SOS Recovery’s Addiction and Mental Health Treatment for Legal Professionals and its leading competition is as follows:
SOS RecoveryLocated in Treasure Island, Florida on the Gulf of Mexico at Footprints Beachside Recovery Center |
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Clients are housed in luxury waterfront condominiums and have access to the beach, shopping, gym, office center, law library, and treatment facilities. |
Clients are housed in the treatment center campus. |
Clients’ treatment protocol is customized for legal professionals as a group and then each individual receives a completely unique treatment plan, course of study, and protocol based on numerous assessments, including MCMI III, ASAM, Bio-Psych-Social and others. |
The Center has a standard assessment protocols for all of its clients. |
Laptops and cell phones are permitted so long as client remains focused on treatment. |
Laptops and cell phones are not permitted. |
Clients receive a minimum of four 1:1 Counseling sessions per week. |
1:1 Counseling Sessions twice a week |
Legal professionals group by attorney-clinician three times a week |
Legal professionals group by attorney-clinician once a week |
Private personal fitness trainer sessions three times a week with daily fitness session scheduled including yoga minimum twice a week, Tai-Chi, Qigong, Kayaking, SUP paddle-boarding, beach walks, boot camps and morning walk/runs. |
Fitness programs and Facilities available but it is not known if it is an integral part of the program. |
Client : Counselor Ratio is 2:1. |
Client Counselor Ration is unknown. |
Off-site Lawyer only 12 Step Meetings twice a week mandatory. |
Off-site Lawyer only 12 Step Meetings once a week as an option. |
Career Off-site Lawyer only 12 Step Meetings twice a week reintegration planning and optional co-ordination with state bar association or attorney registration and discipline agency. |
Career reintegration planning and optional co-ordination with state bar association or attorney registration and discipline agency |
Core treatment program is holistic with in-depth psychotherapies, CBT, DBT, EMDR, and many other treatment modalities including 12 Step recovery and other major evidenced based treatment modalities – including Rational Recovery, SMART Recovery and holistic Treatments. |
Core treatment program is 12 Step based and gender specific results, but does not work for everyone. |
Client learns to stay sober without being “Locked In” anywhere by using techniques such as “5 Alive”, “Four Steps”, reliance on outside support, practice in going to meetings and meetings with other lawyers, male and female, who have been through the same circumstances. |
Clients reside in an Inpatient Program at one of the best facilities in the USA, but level of care not necessary for everyone and unaffordable for many. |
Each client meets with personal fitness trainer three times/week. |
Not part of the program and unknown whether such services are available. |
Family Program for family members every other weekend at no charge. |
Four day Family Program for one family member at no charge. |
Psychologists and psychiatrists are involved as needed. |
Psychologists and psychiatrists are involved as needed. |
Physicians and nurses involved as needed – All clients receive a complete physical examination if none in the last 12 months. |
Physicians and nurses involved as needed. |
Family specialists involved. |
Family specialists involved. |
Spiritual care professionals involved. |
Spiritual care professionals involved. |
Nutritionists and wellness specialists involved. |
Nutritionists and wellness specialists involved. |
Duration – four weeks to 12 to 16 weeks – more depending on circumstances and clinical recommendation. |
Duration – 28 days. Thereafter, client is evaluated and can be transferred to other facilities depending on clinical recommendation. |
COST $18,500/30 days | COST $30,000/28 days |
Insurance accepted | Insurance accepted |