Our Philosophy

Recovery doesn’t happen to people. It happens with them.

Every person who walks through the doors of Royal Recovery arrives with something already intact inside them, even if it doesn’t feel that way yet. The capacity for change, for self-understanding, for connection. Our job isn’t to fix people. It’s to create the conditions where those things can surface.

The staff here hold themselves to the same standards they bring to client care. Compassion isn’t a clinical tool we pick up at the start of a shift and set down at the end. It’s how we actually operate, with each other and with every person we serve. Honesty, understanding, the absence of judgment. These aren’t words on a wall. They’re the culture of this place, and culture is either real or it isn’t.

What we’ve seen, over and over, is that people don’t need to be told who they can become. They need someone to sit with them long enough, and steadily enough, that they start to believe it themselves.

That’s what we’re here for.

  • Graham Ashby, LMFT
    Graham Ashby, LMFT
    Clinical Director
  • Deanna Cantu, LMFT
    Deanna Cantu, LMFT
    Primary Therapist
  • Priscilla Diaz Miranda, CNA
    Priscilla Diaz Miranda, CNA
    Certified Nursing Assistant
  • Dr. Benjamin Shapiro, MD
    Dr. Benjamin Shapiro, MD
    Medical Director
  • Dr. Abe Malkin, MD/MBA
    Dr. Abe Malkin, MD/MBA
    Chief Medical Director
  • Kelly Sweeney
    Kelly Sweeney
    Director of Business Development
  • Dylan Brown
    Dylan Brown
    Admissions Coordinator
  • Christopher Radisich
    Christopher Radisich
    Program Director
  • Chef John Maciulavicius
    Chef John Maciulavicius
    Chef
  • Brad Fontaine, CADC-II
    Brad Fontaine, CADC-II
    Case Manager