Beachside Teen Treatment Center
Residential Treatment for Teen Girls
Our residential treatment may be the next step for your teenage daughter struggling with mental or behavioral health issues.
Call Beachside Teen Treatment Center today to learn more.
When your daughter is struggling, you notice it before anyone else does.Â
Maybe she has pulled away from friends she has known for years, or her grades have slipped in ways that feel out of character. Maybe the anxiety, sadness, or behaviors you are seeing have grown past what weekly therapy can hold.Â
Residential treatment for teen girls exists for exactly this moment. At Beachside Teen Treatment Center in Malibu, California, girls ages 12 to 18 receive around-the-clock clinical care in a private home with a maximum of six teens. Healing gets the time, space, and attention it deserves.Â
Call (888) 254-0916 to talk with our admissions team today.
Why More Families Are Seeking Residential Treatment for Teen Girls
Teen girls are carrying a heavy load right now. According to the CDC’s most recent Youth Risk Behavior Survey, 53% of teen girls reported persistent feelings of sadness or hopelessness, nearly double the rate reported by teen boys. Social pressure, academic stress, social media, and experiences of trauma all land differently during adolescence, and girls often internalize that distress in ways that stay hidden until they reach a crisis point.
Residential treatment gives girls distance from the environments and pressures feeding the struggle, paired with daily clinical support from a team that sees the whole picture.
Recommended: Signs Your Teen Needs Residential Treatment
What We Treat
Beachside provides residential treatment for teen girls experiencing a wide range of mental health, behavioral, and co-occurring conditions, including:
- Anxiety Disorders: Generalized anxiety, social anxiety, panic, and phobias that interfere with school and daily life
- Depression: Persistent sadness, withdrawal, loss of interest, and hopelessness
- Trauma and PTSD: The lasting effects of painful or frightening experiences, treated with trauma-informed care
- Eating Disorders: Co-occurring disordered eating patterns addressed alongside the emotions that drive them
- Self-Harm: Compassionate, clinically grounded treatment for girls who hurt themselves to cope
- Borderline Personality Disorder: Emerging personality disorder symptoms treated with DBT-informed care
- Substance Use: Alcohol, marijuana, vaping, and drug use, including dual diagnosis treatment when substance use and mental health challenges appear together
Explore our full mental health treatment pages to learn more about any of these conditions.
How Residential Treatment Helps Teen Girls Heal
Adolescence is a relational time of life, and girls often heal best in settings built around connection. In residential treatment, your daughter lives alongside a small group of peers who understand what she is going through, guided by clinicians who are present every day rather than once a week.
That combination changes what treatment can accomplish. Daily individual therapy uncovers the root causes beneath the symptoms. Group work builds honest peer relationships, often the first healthy ones a struggling teen has formed in years. Structure and routine restore sleep, nutrition, and a sense of safety. Over weeks rather than hours, girls practice new skills in real time, with support standing right beside them.
What Daily Life Looks Like at Beachside
Beachside is a licensed residential home on the Malibu coast with panoramic views of the Pacific Ocean and a maximum of six teens in residence at any time.Â
Days are intentionally full. Girls participate in individual therapy, group sessions, and family programming alongside academics, healthy meals, and time outdoors. The environment is mostly unplugged, which gives teens a genuine break from the social media pressure that follows them everywhere else.
School continues throughout treatment through our on-site Therapeutic Education Program, so your daughter keeps pace academically while she heals. Our goal is for her to return home stronger in every area of her life, including the classroom.
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Therapies That Help Teen Girls Open Up
Talk therapy is the foundation, and for many girls it works best when paired with approaches that reach beyond words.Â
Our clinical team blends evidence-based care with experiential therapies that give teens more ways in:
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT): Identifying and reshaping the thought patterns behind anxiety and depression
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT): Building emotional regulation and distress tolerance, especially powerful for girls who feel everything intensely
- EMDR Therapy: Processing trauma safely with a specialized, evidence-based approach
- Family Therapy: Healing the relationships your daughter will come home to
- Surf Therapy: Building confidence and calm in the water, steps from our Malibu home
- Equine Therapy: Developing trust and emotional awareness through work with horses
- Art and Expressive Therapies: Giving voice to feelings that are hard to say out loud
Why Families Choose Residential Treatment for Girls in California
Families searching for residential treatment for girls in California often tell us the setting mattered more than they expected. California offers year-round access to the outdoors, and at Beachside the ocean itself becomes part of the therapeutic environment. There is a reason so many families travel from across the state and beyond to the Malibu coast.
The credentials matter just as much as the coastline. Beachside is licensed by the California Department of Social Services, accredited by CARF, and certified by LegitScript, and our program holds a 4.9 star rating across more than 100 verified Google reviews. Families from communities across California trust Beachside because the care meets the highest clinical standards inside an environment that feels like a home rather than a facility.
Signs Your Daughter May Need Residential Care
Every teen has hard days. Consider a higher level of care when the hard days become the pattern:
- Withdrawal: She has pulled away from friends, family, and activities she used to love
- Declining Functioning: School, sleep, and eating have all been disrupted for weeks or months
- Safety Concerns: She is engaging in self-harm, substance use, or other high-risk behavior
- Outpatient Care Has Reached Its Limit: Weekly therapy is helping less than it once did, or she has stopped engaging with it
- Your Instincts Are Telling You: You feel like you are losing her, and you are ready for more support than you can provide at home
If any of this sounds familiar, a conversation with our admissions team can bring clarity, whether or not Beachside turns out to be the right fit.
Frequently Asked Questions
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Take the First Step for Your Daughter Today
You do not have to have it all figured out before you call. Reach out to Beachside Teen Treatment Center at (888) 254-0916 or verify your insurance online.Â
Our admissions team will listen, answer your questions, and help you understand whether residential treatment is the right next step for your daughter and your family.
Mark Paladini
Director of Education
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At Beachside, our programming meets the highest standards for quality adolescent healthcare.