The 12 Dimensions of Human Health and Wellness:
Red Door Life's Transformative Model of Care
At Red Door Life, luxury is just the beginning. What truly sets us apart is our innovative model of care. This framework addresses the deeper roots of addiction and mental health conditions, while supporting the full spectrum of our community members' health and well-being.​​
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Too often, treatment is designed like a revolving door, temporary progress followed by relapse. Many centers operate like “car washes,” where clients get clean, leave, and relapse, and return, stuck in a cycle of repeated visits.
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We break that cycle. By focusing on the 12 Dimensions and surrounding each client with a multidisciplinary team, Red Door Life creates a foundation for lifelong recovery. Whether in residential care, outpatient programs, or at home, our community members receive ongoing support to help them thrive.
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Here, recovery means more than sobriety. It means living fully, with health, connection, purpose, and joy. Don’t just take our word for it - hear directly from our clients about their transformation journeys.
How does The 12 Dimensions, Red Door Life's Signature Model of Care, work?
With our 12 Dimensions framework, every community member is paired with a dedicated Advocate, a trusted partner who walks alongside them throughout their recovery journey, and well beyond their time in residential care.
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At Red Door Life, recovery isn’t confined to weeks or months in a program; it’s a way of life. Lasting transformation requires ongoing, personalized support that adapts to each person’s evolving needs. We view recovery as a form of "mental fitness" in a similar way that exercise is a lifelong commitment to "physical fitness."
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Through the 12 Dimensions, clients and their Advocate assess every area of life and build a tailored, multidisciplinary team of top clinicians, coaches, and advisors. Together, this team provides coordinated support across 12 vital dimensions of health and wellness.
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Substance Use and Medications
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Emotional and Mental Health
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Medical Conditions & Physical Health
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Housing and Living Environment
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Finance, Education & Career
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Relationships (Familial, Romantic, Friendship)
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Legal: Criminal & Civil
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Exercise & Nutrition
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Spirituality & Religion
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Service & Purpose
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Hobbies, Fun, Leisure Time
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Community: Social Connection & Fellowship
As community members progress in their recovery, their multidisciplinary team evolves with them, adapting to new challenges and offering continuous, holistic support every step of the way. The 12 Dimensions framework ensures seamless collaboration between community members, clinicians, and their professional coaches and advisors. Together, they share insights and make real-time adjustments, reducing conflict or guesswork.
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Traditional treatment centers often take a rigid, one-size-fits-all approach, expecting people to fit their lives into 30-, 60-, or 90-day programs. But recovery doesn’t follow a calendar. The brain, profoundly shaped by substance use and trauma, requires time, flexibility, and personalized care to truly heal.
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At Red Door Life, our 12 Dimensions methodology shapes treatment with compassion and attunement to each community member’s unique journey. We go beyond sobriety to emphasize genuine life transformation, helping people not only heal, but also discover meaning, purpose, and the foundation for lasting wellness.
The Advocate's Role is to Empower, Not Control
At Red Door Life, our community members are at the heart of everything we do. True individualized care requires more than a program—it calls for a concierge approach to whole-person recovery.
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That’s where your Advocate comes in. Dedicated to your success, your Advocate partners with you to assess your needs and set meaningful goals using our signature 12 Dimensions of Human Health & Wellness framework.
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Together, you’ll build a personalized team of leading-edge clinicians and practitioners—a multidisciplinary support system designed specifically for you. This team maps out a clear path to recovery, helps you make the most of each week, and adapts as your journey evolves.
Your Advocate provides a customized weekly schedule, coordinates your care, and keeps your team aligned. As your needs change, you and your Advocate fine-tune your team, sessions, and activities so you always have the right support at the right time
Connection-Based
Recovery
Red Door Life: One of the World’s Only Connection-Based (Attachment-Focused) Treatment Centers
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Why is this approach so critical for healing and recovery?
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Attachment wounds, disruptions in our earliest bonds with caregivers, are often at the core of trauma, addiction, and mental health struggles. These wounds don’t always come from abuse. They can arise when caregivers are overwhelmed by their own challenges, health concerns, or life’s demands, resulting in inconsistent connections during critical developmental years.
Later in life, attachment wounds often show up as behaviors that can be misinterpreted as character flaws or psychiatric symptoms. In reality, they are survival strategies—adaptations formed to cope with early relational pain. Viewing these patterns through an attachment-focused lens shifts the perspective: beneath the behaviors lies a fundamental need for safety, security, and connection.
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At Red Door Life, connection is at the core of recovery, reshaping the treatment experience in powerful and lasting ways.
We invite each community member’s existing clinicians to join the multidisciplinary team, ensuring continuity of care from day one through the transition back home.
Rather than isolating members from their lives, we integrate treatment into the fabric of work, family, and relationships whenever it is safe to do so. With this wraparound support, community members practice new, sustainable skills and habits in real time—preparing them to maintain stability long after residential care.
This approach strengthens the nervous system, builds resilience to stress, and eases the transition out of treatment—avoiding the “shock to the system” too often seen when care is cut off abruptly in traditional programs.
Mainstream treatment approaches can inadvertently activate attachment wounds in several ways:​
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By separating clients from the clinicians with whom they have built rapport, creating ruptures both upon entering treatment and upon exiting residential care.
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By isolating clients from their loved ones and the broader world, rather than helping them navigate these relationships.
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By punishing or expelling clients during times of relapse or dysregulation, which are moments of heightened vulnerability.
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By limiting support to the time a client spends in treatment, without a focus on lifelong connection.
At Red Door Life, relapse or emotional dysregulation is not met with punishment or rejection—it’s met with deeper connection and support. We know that isolation at these vulnerable moments can increase risk, even leading to overdose. Instead, we remain steadfast in seeing every client as a whole person with unique gifts and potential, no matter their behaviors, symptoms, or diagnoses.
This commitment to connection extends beyond residential care. When clients transition out, they continue to have access to their treatment team and our 12 Dimensions model of care, ensuring ongoing guidance and support throughout their lifelong journey of recovery as new challenges emerge.
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Trauma-Informed Care
Trauma-informed care is essential to true recovery from addiction, trauma, and mental health challenges. At Red Door Life, it means:
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Recognizing the signs and symptoms of trauma, and understanding how often they lie at the root of addiction and mental health issues.
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Leading with innovation, integrating the latest advancements and evidence-based modalities into every individualized care plan.
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Healing through multidimensional approaches, combining somatic work, cognitive and behavioral skills, psychoeducation, nervous system regulation, and other holistic methods in a top-down, bottom-up model.
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Supporting families and loved ones, helping reduce the trauma that addiction and mental health struggles can create within relationships.
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Actively preventing re-traumatization, ensuring treatment is always compassionate, safe, and attuned.
At Red Door Life, trauma-informed care is not a buzzword—it’s a guiding principle that shapes every step of our work with clients and families.
Harm Reduction
Harm reduction is often misunderstood. It isn’t about enabling, and it isn’t limited to substance use. At its core, harm reduction means meeting people exactly where they are and supporting them in making small, meaningful changes that build toward lasting transformation.
At Red Door Life, we apply harm reduction principles across all areas of a community member’s life. This approach fosters self-determination, strengthens engagement, and helps prevent the isolation and attachment wounds that can surface during moments of greatest vulnerability.
Community
At Red Door Life, we’ve intentionally created a healing environment where a vibrant, diverse, and inclusive community can truly thrive. Addiction and mental health struggles often create deep disconnection—from self, from others, from life. Here, clients are guided back into a state of connection.
Living in this kind of community is like being part of a living ecosystem. Much like the mycelium networks that connect trees in a forest—sharing nutrients, fostering growth, and strengthening resilience, our members share wisdom, compassion, and encouragement.
This shared environment also nurtures nervous system co-regulation: the steady presence of others helps soothe and stabilize, making challenges easier to face. Over time, these safe and supportive experiences begin to recondition attachment wounds, build flexible nervous systems, and foster resilience that carries beyond our residences into the wider world.
Instead of repeating cycles of relapse, clients learn new ways to handle stress and experience what it feels like to be supported. Alongside 24/7 professional guidance, peer support plays a powerful role—offering connection through shared struggles and victories.
In this way, the Red Door Life community not only nurtures each individual’s healing but also amplifies the collective strength and well-being of all.
If you really want to know how impactful Red Door Life recovery is, read what our clients have to say...
I'm sober and have experienced the longest period of sobriety in my adult life. I found a job I enjoy and people that I call community. Addiction is a fight we can't manage on our own. Red Door Life gave me tools to fight that fight every day and I'm forever grateful. I also built a community there and that's something I plan to stay plugged in with for a long time....
My experience at Red Door Life was life-changing and exactly the spiritual healing that I needed. It gave me a safe place to come down from a destructive episode of addiction and allowed me to learn the tools for lasting sobriety. Today, I have more than half a year sober which is the longest length of time I've had in decades. I continue to stay connected with Red Door Life and have built a community there....
From the moment I arrived, I was embraced by a community that truly understands and cares. The visionary owners, Alex Shohet and Berni Fried, have created an environment that is both welcoming and healing. Their dedication to fostering a safe space for all individuals is evident in every aspect of the facility. They have crafted a haven where everyone, especially those from the LGBTQIA+ community like myself, can feel understood, respected, and represented. The compassionate staff at Red Door Life are second to none...