About Us

SoCal Detox in Laguna Beach, Orange County

Many people are not aware that detox from an addictive substance has many potentially life-threatening effects. We offer a safe and highly monitored detox environment that is designed for the most comfortable physical detoxification process possible.

Environment is important. Our ocean view property, located in Laguna Beach, California, is small and private, offering a non-threatening harbor for the first step to sobriety: detox.

Once the transition to residential treatment occurs, our clients stay in the facility they have grown comfortable in and continue their drug and alcohol rehab program in the Laguna location.

As an accredited addiction treatment center in Orange County California, residents of SoCal Detox and residential treatment are assured complete and highly expert attention through the duration of the detoxification and rehab.

Every step is carefully monitored by experienced specialists who offer support and guidance as residents manage withdrawals and substance cravings, are offered addiction counseling, and become a part of a community that inspires sobriety and peace for the long haul.

Meet Our Highly Qualified Addiction Treatment Team

CEO, Founder

Josh Beauchaine, MA, LMFT, CNDAI

Josh Beauchaine is known as a direct, insightful, and firmly supportive interventionist. Integrating his 15 years of experience in the mental health field, Josh strives to help families implement a safe and effective approach to helping a loved one enter recovery.

Josh focuses on using strategic coaching to help each family member learn how to “motivate” the treatment decision without having to attack, embarrass, or abandon the very person they are trying to help.

During his thousands of hours of experience in the counseling field, Josh has intervened in almost every addiction category imaginable including alcohol, narcotics, marijuana, sexual behaviors, eating, pornography, spending, and gambling. He has held positions as the head counselor of an addiction recovery home, a psychotherapist, a pastoral counselor, a youth pastor, an assistant school counselor, and a mental health worker at a residential treatment center for severely emotionally disturbed adolescents.

Josh received his Bachelor of Arts in Applied Communications from Point Loma Nazarene University and his Master’s of Science in Counseling from California State University at Fullerton.

Roxanne Bates

Josh Beauchaine is known as a direct, insightful, and firmly supportive interventionist. Integrating his 15 years of experience in the mental health field, Josh strives to help families implement a safe and effective approach to helping a loved one enter recovery.

Josh focuses on using strategic coaching to help each family member learn how to “motivate” the treatment decision without having to attack, embarrass, or abandon the very person they are trying to help.

During his thousands of hours of experience in the counseling field, Josh has intervened in almost every addiction category imaginable including alcohol, narcotics, marijuana, sexual behaviors, eating, pornography, spending, and gambling. He has held positions as the head counselor of an addiction recovery home, a psychotherapist, a pastoral counselor, a youth pastor, an assistant school counselor, and a mental health worker at a residential treatment center for severely emotionally disturbed adolescents.

Josh received his Bachelor of Arts in Applied Communications from Point Loma Nazarene University and his Master’s of Science in Counseling from California State University at Fullerton.

Executive Program Director

Daniele Sena

With a background in operations management in biotechnology, Danielle started in the addiction treatment field in 2013. Since that time, her experience has brought her through all levels of care, working with startup facilities and existing facilities that need assistance in restructuring and implementation of new standards, policies, and procedures.
Among her many responsibilities at First Steps, she focuses on structuring multidisciplinary teams and program operations, staff acquisition, training and mentoring. She specializes in DHCS, Joint Commission compliance, state licensures/ MS certifications as well as programming systems structures for efficient and ethical care and building effective client-centered leadership.
She has been a guest speaker at various colleges, prisons, and high schools for community education on addiction and prevention with the OC sheriff’s dept and OC Health Care Agency and OC Drug Courts.

Danielle is passionate about affecting position change on a community level. She’s a direct communicator and driven leader dedicated to helping heal the human condition. Compassionate, integral, and unwavering in proving ethical client centered care above industry standard.

Scott Cohn

Josh Beauchaine is known as a direct, insightful, and firmly supportive interventionist. Integrating his 15 years of experience in the mental health field, Josh strives to help families implement a safe and effective approach to helping a loved one enter recovery.

Josh focuses on using strategic coaching to help each family member learn how to “motivate” the treatment decision without having to attack, embarrass, or abandon the very person they are trying to help.

During his thousands of hours of experience in the counseling field, Josh has intervened in almost every addiction category imaginable including alcohol, narcotics, marijuana, sexual behaviors, eating, pornography, spending, and gambling. He has held positions as the head counselor of an addiction recovery home, a psychotherapist, a pastoral counselor, a youth pastor, an assistant school counselor, and a mental health worker at a residential treatment center for severely emotionally disturbed adolescents.

Josh received his Bachelor of Arts in Applied Communications from Point Loma Nazarene University and his Master’s of Science in Counseling from California State University at Fullerton.

Admissions Coordinator

Cyndi Williams

Cyndi’s goal in her role as the intake coordinator is to help individuals move from decision point to treatment with care and efficiency. Her experience comes from real life: she has her own personal journey with recovery, two of her own children have substance use disorders, as well she is a foster parent for children of addicts that have lost their ability to parent.
All of these realities, and more, translate to a person who is emotionally invested in helping others and driven to get them the help they need. Understanding that recovery can be a tumultuous time for families and the recovering person, her passion is to help families through this difficult time with ease and compassion.

Currently holding her CAADE-R, she embarked on a journey into the substance abuse and co-occurring disorder treatment industry nearly 20 years ago. Her experience in the field has given her crucial insight into the causes, consequences, and processes of recovery from addiction. She is proud of the fact that she is working for a addiction treatment organization that shares her beliefs in providing safe, ethical treatment that is sympathetic to both clients and families.