Evidence-Based Treatment for Women

Psychiatrist-led. Individually designed. Grounded in
what the research says works.

Overview of Treatment Philosophy:

Treatment at Canopy Pines begins with a clinical conviction: addiction is a medical condition, it almost always travels with other diagnoses, and it responds to the same rigor and precision applied to any serious illness.

The program is designed and led by Dr. Lantie Jorandby, a triple board-certified psychiatrist whose credentials span general psychiatry, addiction psychiatry, and addiction medicine. Her career has been spent at the intersection of these fields, and her leadership means this is not a treatment center with a psychiatrist on call. It is a treatment center where psychiatric medicine shapes every clinical decision from day one.

Women who come to Canopy Pines are not assigned to a standard protocol. They are assessed thoroughly and treated as individuals. Psychiatric evaluation informs the treatment plan. Medication is prescribed when it helps and managed carefully throughout. Therapy is selected and sequenced based on each woman’s actual clinical picture. The pace of treatment is determined by progress, not the calendar.

The 30-acre property outside Tallahassee supports this work. The farm setting removes external stimulation and pressure. The quiet of the land gives women room to settle, slow down, and let real insight develop. The horses make demands on the nervous system that no office visit can replicate. Structure and environment work together here, and both are part of the treatment.

Individual Therapy

Every woman in treatment at Canopy Pines meets with her individual therapist multiple times per week. Sessions are focused on her specific clinical goals: the roots of her addiction, the mental health conditions she arrived with, the patterns that have kept her stuck, and the skills she needs to stay well. This is not a supplement to the program. It is the center of it. Her therapist knows her case, tracks her progress, and adjusts the clinical focus as she moves through treatment.

Group Therapy

Group therapy runs daily and is structured around the clinical themes most relevant to women in recovery: trauma, relationships, emotional regulation, shame, identity, and relapse prevention. The women-only environment means conversations go to the places they actually need to go. Women frequently say that group therapy is the part of treatment that surprises them most. They arrive expecting to sit in a circle and leave having done some of the most honest work of their lives.

Family Therapy

Addiction does not happen to one person. By the time a woman arrives at Canopy Pines, her closest relationships have been shaped by it. Family therapy at Canopy Pines is not confrontation. It is a structured clinical process, facilitated by a licensed therapist, that helps the people who love her understand what addiction actually is, learn to communicate without enabling, and begin repairing what can be repaired. Participation is timed appropriately within the treatment process and guided by what is clinically right for each woman and her family.

Psychiatric Evaluation and Ongoing Oversight

Dr. Jorandby and the clinical team conduct a full psychiatric evaluation for every woman who enters treatment. That evaluation drives the treatment plan and determines whether medication is appropriate, what type, and how it should be managed. Unlike many residential programs where a psychiatrist signs paperwork from a distance, clinical oversight at Canopy Pines is active, ongoing, and present throughout a woman’s entire stay. Treatment plans are reviewed regularly and adjusted as she progresses.

Medication Management for Mental Health

For women who arrive with depression, anxiety, PTSD, or other psychiatric conditions requiring medication, management happens entirely within the program. Dr. Jorandby’s triple board-certification means she evaluates and manages both psychiatric and addiction-related medications through the same integrated clinical lens. Medications are carefully selected, started at appropriate doses, and monitored consistently throughout treatment.

Equine-Assisted Therapy

Equine-assisted therapy at Canopy Pines is not a break from treatment. It is treatment. Working with horses requires a woman to be fully present in a way that verbal therapy alone does not always produce. Horses respond directly and immediately to the emotional state of the person with them, which creates a mirror that is both honest and impossible to argue with. Through this work, women develop emotional regulation, the ability to set clear and healthy limits, present-moment awareness, and self-trust. These are among the most critical skills for long-term recovery, and equine work builds them in a way that carries forward.

DBT-Informed Therapy

Dialectical Behavior Therapy is a skills-based clinical approach built specifically to help people regulate emotions, tolerate distress without destructive behavior, and function in relationships. At Canopy Pines, DBT-informed skills are woven throughout treatment because they are among the most evidence-supported tools available for women dealing with emotional dysregulation, trauma responses, and the behavioral patterns that accompany addiction. These skills are practiced, applied, and reinforced across multiple modalities every week.

Trauma-Informed Care

The connection between trauma and addiction in women is well-established in the clinical literature. At Canopy Pines, every clinical interaction is delivered through a trauma-informed lens. Safety is established before depth is pursued. A woman’s history is understood as context, not character. The clinical team never pushes a woman into territory she is not yet stable enough to enter. Trauma-informed care is not a program add-on here. It is the standard of how every clinician operates.

Relapse Prevention and Recovery Planning

Before a woman leaves Canopy Pines, she and her clinical team have built a specific, concrete plan for what comes next: the name of her outpatient therapist, her prescribing provider, her peer support resources, her identified triggers, her early warning signs, and what she will do when the hard days come. Relapse prevention is built throughout treatment and customized to her life, her circumstances, and her recovery.

Dual Diagnosis Overview:

Most women who arrive at Canopy Pines are not dealing with addiction alone. Depression and alcohol use disorder arrive together. Anxiety and prescription misuse are linked. Trauma and substance use are wound around each other in ways that took years to develop and require integrated treatment to unwind. Treating addiction while leaving depression unaddressed does not work. A woman cannot build a stable recovery while untreated anxiety drives her back toward what quieted it. At Canopy Pines, dual diagnosis is not a specialty track. It is the clinical baseline. Every assessment, every treatment plan, and every therapy session accounts for the full picture simultaneously. This is the approach Dr. Jorandby has practiced and written about throughout her career: integrated care for co-occurring conditions produces better outcomes than sequential treatment, and women in particular deserve a clinical program built around that reality.

Continuum of Care:

Recovery moves in stages. Medical detox stabilizes the body. Residential treatment is where the clinical work happens. Continuing care planning ensures the work does not stop at the property line. At Canopy Pines, women who need medical detox complete it on-site and transition directly into residential treatment without disrupting the clinical relationships they have already begun. Discharge from residential does not happen until a specific, reviewed continuing care plan is in place. The clinical team coordinates referrals, communicates with receiving providers, and ensures no woman leaves with a folder of paperwork and nothing confirmed.