Burning Tree provides relapse prevention programs specializing in long term residential drug and alcohol treatment for adults with a relapse history. We serve the substance abuse relapse adult who has been to other treatment programs and in and out of 12 step programs and just can't seem to get and stay sober. Alcohol & drug relapse prevention and a relapse prevention plan are our primary roles.  We are a  drug rehab program treatment center licensed by the State of Texas.

I will forever be indebted to Burning Tree for guiding my daughter into recovery and helping me to better understand her illness and how to cope with it. There were many years that I woke up every morning afraid to watch the news because I was certain that the next drug related death they announced would be my daughter. She had been to treatment twice before Burning Tree.  She has now been sober since 8/4/03 and it is heartwarming to see not only that she finally cares for and respects herself, but that she is selflessly sharing this knowledge and her experience with those around her. 

Thank you Burning Tree, from the bottom of my heart.

Danielle S

I am profoundly grateful to be living in a manner that I am able to write this today; happy, joyous and free.  For me that is predicated on my sobriety today.  I was not this way when I arrived at the gate of Burning Tree over three years ago. I had been an executive running a profitable company in my mid thirties, married, house, pool, you name it.  I considered myself a "heavy drinker" and was proud of that fact.  Alcoholics live under bridges, I just had a DUI...then a PI, then another, then another, then another DUI in a company car, then another PI then lost my job. 

I decided that was good and I would take a year off from working so that I could remove the "stress" from my life and get back on track.  After a month I was drinking 100 proof vodka every day, at every waking moment.  In my year long sabbatical I was in and out of the emergency room for hydration and to stop the intestinal bleeding.  In that I never told the doctors the truth about my drinking they were never able to pinpoint the real reason for my poor health despite their suspicions.  

In a short lived moment of clarity I realized that due to my inability to eat I had lost 80 lbs and the idea of going on a job interview without shaking or vomiting was ludicrous!  My wife persuaded me to go to a 30 day rehab in South Central Texas. 

I spent the first 20 days in their detox unit but made a "rapid" recovery after that and was elected President of the class my last week there.  I finally beat this thing!  I graduated and ventured into the world a free man.  32 days later I was sitting at my kitchen table with a bottle of vodka wondering what happened.  I had no power. 

When my family next intervened I stated that I was willing to go back to rehab but it had to be different, as the traditional rehabs just don't work for me.  Burning Tree was that place. 

Over the next 8 months I learned what was wrong with me and that the 12 steps of alcoholics anonymous practiced in a controlled environment was the promise that I was looking for.  For years I was able to live a good life in all aspects except I could NOT control the behaviors that kept me unhealthy and in trouble with the law. I learned that my DISEASE prevented me from sane thinking and actions on a daily basis. 

I learned that my life could become functional again after I achieved a spiritual experience as a result of working the steps of A.A.  I learned that selfishness and self centeredness is the root of my problem and that only a power greater than myself could restore me to sanity.....And It has!  I am happy with my life today.  I can look in the mirror and not be ashamed of what I see. 

As a direct result of working the steps I am able to look the world in the eye.  I hide from no one.  My time at Burning Tree was the hardest and yet most rewarding experience of my life. 

I am inherently grateful to the staff at BTRR for their belief in me and their willingness to tell me what I needed to hear regardless of what I wanted to hear.  I have made friends in recovery unlike any I have ever had in my life.  Friends that are there for me 24/7. 

I have a peace and serenity that I was unable to imagine while using.  I did a lot of hard work there and I do not regret spilling one drop of blood, sweat or tears.  Today I am whole.

Patrick K

I came to Burning Tree a broken individual. My passion for life and all it had to offer had become meaningless to me. Drugs and alcohol had become my master and serving it was leading me to certain destruction. I pretty much had lost all hope when, thankfully, I had the opportunity to come to the Ranch and start my life over.

The Ranch taught me how to live a sober life and how to love again. The emphasis on the 12- steps, as well as the concept that alcoholism and addiction are a disease, became my truth. Upon this truth my life began to dramatically change for the better. For the first time in years, I became available to myself, my family, and everyone else in my life. Ultimately, the Ranch gave me the freedom to live a healthy life. That freedom is indescribable and I will be eternally grateful for it.

Dirk L

I watched for years as Craig battled with the disease of alcoholism and addiction.  After multiple trips to rehab, countless attempts by his family and myself to somehow try to ‘fix’ the problem, it was apparent that Craig was of the hopeless variety.  By hopeless, I mean what the progression of alcoholism leads to, death.

On January 31, 2005, Craig entered the program at Burning Tree.  He followed the suggestions and guidance from the staff and gradually transcended from a completely hopeless state of mind, body, and spirit, into a man whose character, spirituality, and work with others is a daily inspiration to me.

Not only was Craig offered a new way of life, but the family program at Burning Tree gave me the tools and resources to understand my active role and to learn how to take care of myself.

The staff at Burning Tree encompasses the genuine love, dedication, and strength of angels.  They gave Craig, and me, the opportunity to live and walk a second journey- a journey that is isn’t filled with holes of anguish and desperation, but instead, spiritual freedom and joy.

Thank you Burning Tree, for teaching us that there is a solution.  I am forever grateful.

-Leigh B

I suspect that the greatest bond of compassion in life might be between the parents of an addicted child. I love your mother’s comment, “if you are reading this, you can probably relate.” I think that the first real epiphany in my life came with the birth of our first son, when I realized how precious life really is. The second epiphany came when I realized the depths of the love that flows from the parents of an addict, and the searing pain that goes accompanies it.

The first time Matt went into a thirty-day program for his heroin/cocaine addiction, I feared that association with hardened addicts might ruin any chance he had to escape his addiction. Matt seemed misguided, whereas the addicted population seemed somehow evil, and I feared contamination. Through my involvement in that first program I began to see that all addicts were as sad and trapped and desperate as my son. My compassion grew for them, and for their families, and I understood a little more about the disease - but I still didn’t get it.

I didn’t get it through a cascade of thirty-day programs all over the country, as the drugs kept reclaiming Matt’s life and dominating our family’s existence. After many years the inevitable overdose call came from the hospital, the one that had come to several of Matt’s closest user-associate’s parents, the one that precedes the funeral and the final end of the fear. But Matt survived. We listened to Matt’s sponsor’s advice, “Let go; let God,” but we simply couldn’t walk away – not while Matt still begged us to help him find a way to live in sobriety. My wife started calling more programs, confused by the lack of solid information, but desperate to find new hope; I bought time by taking Matt to the mountains to keep him away from the dealers. Finally she ended her telethon, telling me that she had found someplace new and different in Texas, Burning Tree. So we sent Matt off yet another plane to yet another program, still hoping, but more with the hope of the desperate than the optimistic hope that we had many years before, with Matt’s first program.

I still don’t understand the miracle that occurred over the next year of Matt’s life. I know that it was a very difficult year for Matt, and that there were times when he almost didn’t make it to the next day. But I also know that he just celebrated his second year of sobriety, that he has a renewed love of life, and that at the end of each of our frequent phone calls, I realize that I am smiling.  I have formed strong bonds with the loving parents of other many addicts, and I wish that they all could finally feel the serenity that we now know, and that their child could find the sobriety that Matt now treasures.

-Ron M