Therapies

Invicta Recovery Center is a compassionate outpatient treatment facility in Altadena, CA, dedicated to helping individuals overcome addiction through personalized, evidence-based, and culturally responsive care. We offer multi-lingual tracks supporting English, Spanish, and Armenian.

Invicta Recovery Center treatment includes:

  • Genuine staff support
  • Physical and Mental Health support
  • Licensed Mental Health Therapists
  • Highly Credentialed Staff
  • Active Military/Veteran Programs
  • Medication Assisted Treatment
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Range of Therapies Offered at Invicta Recovery Center

At Invicta Recovery Center, we offer a wide range of evidence-based therapies designed to support lasting recovery and emotional well-being. Each approach is tailored to meet your unique needs, helping you build resilience, strengthen relationships, and develop the tools to thrive in every stage of recovery.

Individual Therapy

Individual therapy provides one-on-one sessions between a therapist and client to explore personal challenges, emotions, and behaviors. This private setting allows clients to receive tailored guidance and build trust with their therapist. It’s a safe space to develop healthy coping strategies, gain self-awareness, and work toward lasting recovery.

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Group Therapy

Group therapy brings individuals together to share experiences, build connections, and practice communication skills in a supportive setting. Led by a trained therapist, these sessions create a sense of community and reduce feelings of isolation. Participants benefit from mutual feedback, motivation, and learning from others’ recovery journeys.

Best for:

  • Addiction recovery
  • Social anxiety
  • Emotional regulation
  • Low self-esteem
  • Relapse prevention

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps individuals identify and challenge negative thought patterns that influence harmful behaviors. By reframing these thoughts, clients can make healthier choices and develop more balanced perspectives. It’s one of the most research-supported therapies for breaking cycles of addiction and negative thinking.

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Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT)

Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) combines mindfulness with emotional regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness skills. It teaches clients how to manage intense emotions without turning to self-destructive behaviors. DBT can be especially effective for people struggling with impulsivity or frequent mood changes.

Best for:

  • Borderline personality disorder
  • Emotional dysregulation
  • Self-harm tendencies
  • Substance use relapse prevention
  • Anxiety disorder treatment

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps individuals build psychological flexibility by learning to accept difficult emotions instead of avoiding them. Through mindfulness exercises, cognitive defusion techniques, and values-based work, clients learn to take meaningful action even when painful thoughts arise. ACT has been shown to support long-term healing for anxiety, depression, and substance use.

Best for:

  • Chronic anxiety and worry
  • Substance use disorders
  • Avoidance behaviors
  • Emotional reactivity
  • Values clarification

Internal Family Systems (IFS) Therapy

Internal Family Systems (IFS) therapy explores the different “parts” of a person — protective parts, wounded parts, and a calm, grounded core known as the Self. Through guided exploration, clients learn how these parts developed and how to lead them with self-compassion rather than shame or self-criticism. IFS is often integrated with other evidence-based approaches to address trauma, addiction, and inner conflict.

Best for:

  • Trauma recovery
  • Shame and self-criticism
  • Addictive patterns
  • Inner conflict
  • Emotional regulation

Psychodynamic Therapy

Psychodynamic therapy explores how past experiences, unconscious patterns, and unresolved emotions influence current behaviors and relationships. Through open conversation and reflective dialogue, clients gain awareness of recurring patterns that contribute to addiction and mental health symptoms. This insight-oriented approach can be especially helpful when issues feel rooted in deeper, longstanding emotional conflicts.

Best for:

  • Recurring relationship patterns
  • Depression and unresolved grief
  • Long-term emotional struggles
  • Self-awareness and insight
  • Underlying conflicts behind substance use

Family Therapy

Family therapy addresses the impact of addiction and mental health challenges on family dynamics. It encourages healthy communication, understanding, and support among loved ones. The goal is to strengthen family relationships while promoting accountability and mutual healing.

Best for:

  • Family conflict
  • Codependency
  • Communication issues
  • Addiction-related family strain
  • Emotional disconnection

Emotionally Focused Family Therapy (EFFT)

Emotionally Focused Family Therapy (EFFT) strengthens family relationships by focusing on emotional connection, communication, and attachment security. Sessions help family members identify emotional needs, repair attachment wounds, and create healthier patterns of interaction. EFFT is especially valuable when addiction or mental health concerns have strained communication and eroded trust over time.

Best for:

  • Strained family relationships
  • Attachment wounds
  • Communication breakdowns
  • Rebuilding trust after addiction
  • Emotional reconnection

Couples Therapy

Couples therapy helps partners rebuild trust, restore intimacy, and manage conflict affected by addiction or stress. Through guided discussions and exercises, couples learn healthier ways to relate and support one another. The process fosters empathy, forgiveness, and shared growth in recovery.

Best for:

  • Relationship strain from substance use
  • Communication breakdowns
  • Trust and intimacy issues
  • Conflict resolution
  • Co-dependency

Trauma-Focused Therapy (PTSD)

Trauma-focused therapy helps individuals process and heal from past traumatic experiences linked to addiction or mental health struggles. It uses targeted techniques to reduce trauma symptoms and improve emotional stability. Clients learn to re-establish safety, trust, and empowerment in their daily lives.

Best for:

  • Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
  • Childhood trauma
  • Abuse survivors
  • Substance use related to trauma
  • Anxiety and hypervigilance

Trauma-Informed Therapy

Trauma-informed therapy is an overall framework for care that recognizes how past trauma can affect mental health, relationships, and substance use. Rather than a single technique, it shapes the way therapists approach every session — prioritizing safety, choice, and emotional regulation. This approach runs throughout outpatient care and pairs well with dual diagnosis treatment and other trauma-focused modalities.

Best for:

  • Survivors of complex trauma
  • Co-occurring trauma and addiction
  • Emotional dysregulation
  • Hypervigilance and chronic anxiety
  • Building a foundation of safety in treatment

EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing)

EMDR is an evidence-based therapy that helps individuals process traumatic memories so they no longer carry the same emotional weight. During sessions, a therapist guides clients through bilateral stimulation — typically eye movements, tapping, or auditory cues — while briefly revisiting specific memories. This guided process supports the brain’s natural ability to reprocess painful experiences, making them easier to integrate over time.

Best for:

  • Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
  • Unresolved childhood trauma
  • Trauma-related anxiety and depression
  • Substance use linked to trauma
  • Self-destructive patterns rooted in past experiences

Seeking Safety

Seeking Safety is an evidence-based approach designed for people working through both trauma and substance use at the same time, without requiring clients to relive traumatic experiences. Sessions use structured psychoeducation, grounding skills, and guided discussions to help clients build coping strategies and establish emotional stability. The model is especially useful early in recovery, when emotional regulation tools matter most.

Best for:

  • Co-occurring trauma and substance use disorder
  • Early recovery stability
  • Grounding and coping skills
  • Emotional safety
  • Building healthier behavioral patterns

Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT)

CPT is a specialized form of cognitive therapy designed to address trauma-related thoughts and beliefs. It helps clients challenge self-blame, guilt, and distorted thinking caused by traumatic events. Through structured sessions, clients find new meaning and regain control over their lives.

Best for:

  • PTSD
  • Combat-related trauma
  • Sexual assault survivors
  • Anxiety and guilt
  • Depression linked to trauma

Solution-Focused Therapy

Solution-focused therapy emphasizes practical strategies to move forward rather than revisiting past problems. It helps clients identify personal strengths, set achievable goals, and take active steps toward positive change. The approach is goal-oriented and motivational, often leading to quick, meaningful progress.

Best for:

  • Mild depression
  • Motivation challenges
  • Goal setting and planning
  • Stress management
  • Relapse prevention

Motivational Therapy

Motivational therapy (or Motivational Interviewing) helps individuals explore ambivalence about recovery and identify internal motivation for change. It uses empathy, collaboration, and non-judgmental guidance to strengthen commitment to treatment goals. This empowering approach supports lasting behavioral transformation.

Best for:

  • Addiction recovery readiness
  • Resistance to change
  • Low motivation
  • Early-stage recovery
  • Engagement in treatment

Mindfulness

Mindfulness teaches individuals how to stay grounded in the present moment, reducing stress, emotional reactivity, and the intensity of cravings. Through breathing exercises, body awareness, and meditation, clients learn to slow automatic reactions and respond more intentionally to difficult thoughts and emotions. Mindfulness skills are reinforced across individual and group sessions and support long-term relapse prevention.

Best for:

  • Stress and anxiety
  • Cravings and urges
  • Emotional reactivity
  • Self-awareness
  • Relapse prevention

Art Therapy

Art therapy provides a creative, nonverbal way to express emotions, process trauma, and explore experiences that may be difficult to put into words. Through drawing, painting, sculpting, and other creative activities, clients can safely access feelings and gain personal insight in a supportive setting. No artistic skill is required — the focus is on what the work reveals, not how it looks.

Best for:

  • Trauma processing
  • Grief and loss
  • Difficulty expressing emotions verbally
  • Stress reduction
  • Adolescents and young adults

TMS (Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation)

Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) is a non-invasive treatment that uses magnetic pulses to stimulate areas of the brain involved in mood regulation. It’s often considered when depression has not responded well to medication or therapy alone, and it requires no anesthesia or sedation. TMS has been shown to help improve mood, motivation, and recovery outcomes for many individuals.

Best for:

  • Treatment-resistant depression
  • Persistent low mood and motivation
  • Mood symptoms during recovery
  • Anxiety symptoms alongside depression
  • Adults seeking non-medication options

We accept your insurance!

Invicta Recovery Center offers addiction, mental health, and/or substance use disorder treatment in partnership with the following:

  • Anthem Insurance
  • Aetna Insurance
  • United Healthcare
  • Surest Insurance
  • Horizon Insurance
  • HIghmark Insurance
  • Mayo Medical Plan
  • UMR
  • Cigna Insurance
  • Adventist Health
  • Tricare Insurance
  • California Blue Shield

Don’t see your healthcare insurance provider listed? Reach out to verify your insurance with us beforehand.

Contact Us Today

Invicta Recovery Center is led by Arman Ter-Grigoryan, CEO and Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, whose deep roots in the Pasadena and Altadena communities inspire his commitment to accessible, high-quality care. With decades of experience in psychology, counseling, and community mental health, Arman leads the program with both professional expertise and a heartfelt dedication to local recovery and well-being.

If you or someone you love is struggling with addiction, you don’t have to face it alone—help is within reach. Contact Invicta Recovery Center today to speak with a caring professional and take the first step toward lasting recovery.