The spa at Carrara belongs to a six-client treatment program on Broad Beach in Malibu, not the other way around: massage, facials, salon services and acupuncture, three sessions a week, fitted around therapy and medical care.
A rehab spa is an in-house spa that runs inside a licensed addiction treatment program, and that’s what the Carrara spa is. The spa team knows you’re in treatment, the clinical team checks every session against your medical plan before it’s confirmed, and the times are chosen so nothing collides with therapy or medication.
Spa and addiction treatment under one roof can sound like an odd pairing. The reason for it is practical. Detox is physically hard, therapy is tiring, and someone who is sore and short of sleep finds both harder to sit through. Being comfortable lowers your resistance to the clinical work, and that work is the point of being here.
Up to three services a week come with your stay. You book them through your Residential Advisor or through Spa Director Crystal Webb, who leads the spa team and can arrange anything that isn’t on the menu. To arrange a treatment before you arrive, call admissions at (888) 383-5207.
Explore spa services designed to help you slow down, reconnect with your body, and embrace moments of relaxation, renewal, and well-being throughout your recovery.
Massage at Carrara comes in five styles, chosen with the massage therapist. Aromatherapy Bliss uses long, flowing strokes at light to moderate pressure with essential oils picked for you. Deep Tissue Tranquility works myofascial release and pressure points where you’re tight. Lymphatic Stimulation pairs gentle strokes with dry body brushing. Sleep Renewal is slow, with magnesium and lavender oils, for the end of the day. More on massage therapy in substance abuse treatment and aromatherapy in recovery.
A practitioner guides you through joint and muscle movement on the table, taking each stretch further than you’d manage alone. It’s booked like a massage and suits a body that has been sitting still through long therapy days.
A facial here is skin care, not a detox treatment for the rest of you. Skin often looks tired in the first weeks of a stay, and this is a quiet hour that addresses that and nothing more. Five are on the menu, using the Vie de Mer and Epicutis lines: a deep cleansing facial, a vitamin C facial, a cold facial, an anti-aging facial and a slower holistic facial built around touch more than results. Brow threading, tinting and lamination and a lash lift are add-ons.
A stylist cuts, colors and does scalp and keratin treatments to what you ask for, not to a house look. Nails: natural or gel manicures and pedicures, and Gel X extensions, with removal included. Waxing is on the same list. The Invigorating Body Scrub exfoliates and finishes with a hydrating lotion.
Acupuncture at Carrara is given by a licensed practitioner, with fine sterile needles at points chosen for you. If you’d rather not have needles, acupressure and reflexology work through pressure instead. Each has its own page: acupuncture in recovery, acupressure as a touchpoint in recovery and reflexology.
Cupping sets small suction cups on tight areas for a short session. A private session with Carrara’s chiropractor is on the menu as well. Neither is a treatment for withdrawal; both are for a body that aches.
IV drips, Botox and fillers aren’t done in the house. When the medical team approves one, the appointment is made off-site and you go by car service. Our page on IV drip therapy in recovery covers what an infusion is and isn’t.
Hydrotherapy at the Malibu house means the spa tub on the deck, a few steps above the sand. Warm water is for sore muscles and for winding down in the evening, and you can use it between appointments. It isn’t a detox method. Our page on pools and warm water in recovery says what time in water does and doesn’t do.
Because the clinical program is demanding, and comfort makes it easier to keep at. That is the whole claim made for the spa here. Nothing on the menu treats withdrawal or cravings, and nothing is described that way. The spa sits with the house’s other comforts, the private chef’s balanced holistic diet among them, for the same reason.
The treatment itself is medical detox, monitored day and night, then psychiatric care, individual therapy, group work and dual diagnosis care for bipolar disorder, depression, anxiety and trauma, all in one house in Malibu, with aftercare planned before you leave rather than after. Spa time is fitted around that schedule, and the schedule is never fitted around spa time.
Carrara provides that care under DHCS license #191295AP, with Joint Commission accreditation.
These are rest sessions led by Carrara’s wellness practitioners in the house, and they run beside the clinical work, not instead of it. The work on trauma and emotion happens with your therapist, using CBT, DBT, EMDR and somatic experiencing. The wellness page describes how a week of yoga, meditation and these sessions is scheduled.
Breathwork in addiction recovery means guided, counted breathing with a practitioner, seated or lying down, in short sessions you can repeat on your own before a group or at bedtime.
You rest while singing bowls, gongs and chimes are played, eyes open or closed, seated or reclined.
Light or near touch while you rest. There’s more on our Reiki in addiction recovery page.
Guided breath, body awareness and sound in one session. It’s booked like any other spa session, so your clinical team knows about it.
Gentle touch and movement along the spine, with the practitioner following what your body does. Offered as rest, nothing more.
A pulsed electromagnetic field device used while you lie down, with no needles and no pressure. Ask the medical team whether it suits you.
Massage, facials, hair and nail services, waxing, body scrubs, acupuncture, acupressure, reflexology, cupping, a chiropractic session, Reiki, sound healing, breathwork, Emotional Release, Spinal Energetics and EMF therapy, all in the house, plus the spa tub on the deck. IV drips, Botox and fillers are off-site options arranged with approval. Three services a week are included, and anything not listed can be requested through the Spa Director.
Three, subject to availability and clinical approval. Ask your Residential Advisor once you’re here, or call admissions before you arrive, and each session is placed around your therapy and medical appointments rather than the other way round.
Not as a treatment for either. Withdrawal is managed medically, monitored day and night, with medication when it’s indicated, while cravings are worked on with your therapist. Spa sessions are offered because being comfortable makes that work easier to stay with, and that is the only claim made for them here.
No to both. The spa serves people staying at the house, so it isn’t a day spa or a medspa in Malibu, and admissions will say so plainly if that’s what you’re after. The medspa services people ask about, IV drips, Botox and fillers, are off-site appointments arranged with approval and car service.
Skip acupuncture and the off-site injectables (IV drips, Botox and fillers), and the rest of the menu involves no needles. Massage, facials, body scrubs, nail and hair services, waxing, acupressure, reflexology, cupping, Reiki, sound healing and breathwork involve no needles at all.
Three services a week are part of the residential stay. Insurance is a question about the treatment program itself: depending on the plan, it may help with a share of the cost; the insurers, not Carrara, decide which plans do, and their lists change without notice, so admissions will check the plan you have. See how insurance coverage for luxury rehab works.
Reiki, sound sessions and acupuncture sit on both the spa menu and the wellness schedule. Yoga, meditation and personal training are run by the wellness practitioners rather than the spa team, and our holistic wellness services page describes them.
Admissions can tell you how the clinical day runs, where the spa fits inside it, and whether Carrara is a fit for your situation. If not, they’ll tell you. The conversation stays confidential, and it’s Carrara’s own admissions staff on the line, not a call center.
If this is an emergency, call 911. For free confidential support 24 hours a day, call or text 988.
This page is general information, not medical advice.
