Welcome to We Conquer Together, Orange County’s dedicated space for specialized mental health and addiction recovery. We specialize in comprehensive mental health care for individuals facing the dual challenges of personality disorders and addiction. When personality disorders intertwine with a substance use disorder, finding stability requires a unified approach. Our support team establishes an individualized treatment plan to address both conditions simultaneously, prioritizing your wellness and well-being. By addressing the root causes of both the personality disorder and the addiction, we help you navigate your symptoms and rebuild a foundation for lasting healing.
When a personality disorder remains untreated, the individual often struggles with distress. This distress often leads them to seek relief through substances. The substances temporarily mask the emotional pain but ultimately worsen the baseline symptoms. This cycle requires an integrated approach that stops the pattern. Clinicians must address the core emotional regulation challenges while simultaneously treating the chemical dependency. Without this combined focus, the risk of returning to old habits remains present.
When a person experiences an addiction alongside a mental illness, providers refer to this as a co-occurring disorder. Mental health challenges often surface first, leading individuals to turn to substances to cope with feelings. This pattern frequently necessitates dual diagnosis treatment. Addiction treatment alone cannot resolve the symptoms of underlying mental health conditions. A holistic approach helps individuals find stability in their daily functioning and daily life.
Our inpatient mental health treatment center in Orange County supports individuals facing various personality and mood conditions. Clinicians design treatment plans to address specific mental health conditions and their root causes. We treat several conditions that complicate addiction:
Behavioral health requires evaluating all forms of substance dependence. We support the healing process for many types of addiction, including:
Mental health challenges and addiction create disruptions in routines. Recognizing these signs provides direction for the treatment approach.
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Getting help can feel hard, but you’re not alone. Our team can check your insurance for free, and many plans cover all treatment costs.
Finding a path forward requires evidence-based therapies. Our therapy sessions provide tools for emotional regulation and coping skills. We utilize individual therapy and group therapy to support the healing process.
Our advanced treatments provide biological and neurological support. These modalities target factors that standard therapies might not reach, providing relief when traditional methods are not enough.
Healing from a dual diagnosis requires a supportive environment and focused health care services. At We Conquer Together in Southern California, we provide the highest quality residential treatment. Navigating the various levels of care can feel confusing for many families. While some facilities offer a partial hospitalization (PHP) program or an intensive outpatient program (IOP), we focus entirely on the residential (at times referred to as inpatient though there are some distinctions) phase to ensure complete stabilization. After individuals complete our program, we coordinate with outside providers for a seamless transition to those step-down options.
Whether you are navigating addiction alongside ADHD or personality disorders, we offer guidance for relapse prevention. Do not wait to seek the support you deserve. Contact our admissions department today to start your recovery journey. Reach out to our facility immediately to verify your benefits and discover a clear path to lasting well-being.
Dr. Kelly Gonderman is a Licensed Clinical Psychologist with extensive experience in clinical practice, supervision, and program administration. She earned her Doctorate in Clinical Psychology from Biola University’s Rosemead School of Psychology and has developed broad clinical expertise in the treatment of mood and anxiety disorders, trauma, eating disorders, co-occurring substance use, and personality-related concerns.
As Clinical Director at We Conquer Together, Dr. Gonderman specializes in fostering supportive and structured therapeutic environments where clients can heal, build resilience, and develop lasting skills for long-term well-being.
A dual diagnosis happens when an individual navigates a mental illness and a substance use disorder at the same time. These conditions interact and complicate the healing process. Treatment plans must address both challenges simultaneously for effective healing.
DBT teaches skills for emotional regulation and distress tolerance. It helps individuals navigate mood shifts without turning to substance abuse. This modality builds a foundation for lasting stability.
We coordinate safe detox processes for individuals in our care. Medical supervision ensures physical safety during withdrawal. Afterward, individuals transition directly into our residential treatment program.
We incorporate family therapy into the treatment approach. Addiction impacts the entire household. Healing relationships provides a supportive environment for the future.
Advanced treatments target biological and neurological factors. They provide relief when standard psychotherapy does not yield results. These interventions support stabilization alongside traditional counseling.
Our facility is an in-network option with many providers. Coverage depends on the specific policy and the required treatment options. Our admissions team verifies benefits to outline your care.
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To fulfill this, we aim to adhere as strictly as possible to the World Wide Web Consortium’s (W3C) Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.1 (WCAG 2.1) at the AA level. These guidelines explain how to make web content accessible to people with a wide array of disabilities. Complying with those guidelines helps us ensure that the website is accessible to all people: blind people, people with motor impairments, visual impairment, cognitive disabilities, and more.
This website utilizes various technologies that are meant to make it as accessible as possible at all times. We utilize an accessibility interface that allows persons with specific disabilities to adjust the website’s UI (user interface) and design it to their personal needs.
Additionally, the website utilizes an AI-based application that runs in the background and optimizes its accessibility level constantly. This application remediates the website’s HTML, adapts Its functionality and behavior for screen-readers used by the blind users, and for keyboard functions used by individuals with motor impairments.
If you’ve found a malfunction or have ideas for improvement, we’ll be happy to hear from you. You can reach out to the website’s operators by using the following email
Our website implements the ARIA attributes (Accessible Rich Internet Applications) technique, alongside various different behavioral changes, to ensure blind users visiting with screen-readers are able to read, comprehend, and enjoy the website’s functions. As soon as a user with a screen-reader enters your site, they immediately receive a prompt to enter the Screen-Reader Profile so they can browse and operate your site effectively. Here’s how our website covers some of the most important screen-reader requirements, alongside console screenshots of code examples:
Screen-reader optimization: we run a background process that learns the website’s components from top to bottom, to ensure ongoing compliance even when updating the website. In this process, we provide screen-readers with meaningful data using the ARIA set of attributes. For example, we provide accurate form labels; descriptions for actionable icons (social media icons, search icons, cart icons, etc.); validation guidance for form inputs; element roles such as buttons, menus, modal dialogues (popups), and others. Additionally, the background process scans all the website’s images and provides an accurate and meaningful image-object-recognition-based description as an ALT (alternate text) tag for images that are not described. It will also extract texts that are embedded within the image, using an OCR (optical character recognition) technology. To turn on screen-reader adjustments at any time, users need only to press the Alt+1 keyboard combination. Screen-reader users also get automatic announcements to turn the Screen-reader mode on as soon as they enter the website.
These adjustments are compatible with all popular screen readers, including JAWS and NVDA.
Keyboard navigation optimization: The background process also adjusts the website’s HTML, and adds various behaviors using JavaScript code to make the website operable by the keyboard. This includes the ability to navigate the website using the Tab and Shift+Tab keys, operate dropdowns with the arrow keys, close them with Esc, trigger buttons and links using the Enter key, navigate between radio and checkbox elements using the arrow keys, and fill them in with the Spacebar or Enter key.Additionally, keyboard users will find quick-navigation and content-skip menus, available at any time by clicking Alt+1, or as the first elements of the site while navigating with the keyboard. The background process also handles triggered popups by moving the keyboard focus towards them as soon as they appear, and not allow the focus drift outside it.
Users can also use shortcuts such as “M” (menus), “H” (headings), “F” (forms), “B” (buttons), and “G” (graphics) to jump to specific elements.
We aim to support the widest array of browsers and assistive technologies as possible, so our users can choose the best fitting tools for them, with as few limitations as possible. Therefore, we have worked very hard to be able to support all major systems that comprise over 95% of the user market share including Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari, Opera and Microsoft Edge, JAWS and NVDA (screen readers).
Despite our very best efforts to allow anybody to adjust the website to their needs. There may still be pages or sections that are not fully accessible, are in the process of becoming accessible, or are lacking an adequate technological solution to make them accessible. Still, we are continually improving our accessibility, adding, updating and improving its options and features, and developing and adopting new technologies. All this is meant to reach the optimal level of accessibility, following technological advancements. For any assistance, please reach out to