Bob Forrest

Bio: Bob Forrest found sobriety in 1996 after attending 24 different rehab facilities. Over the last decade he has helped countless individuals achieve sobriety, including many celebrities. At Pasadena Recovery Center Bob leads group sessions twice a week — on Tuesday and Thursday.

Bob is, perhaps, best known for his work on VH1’s “Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew” series. Additionally, an award winning documentary about him titled, “Bob and the Monster,” was released in 2011.

Bob has also had a successful music career fronting the influential post-punk rock bands Thelonious Monster and The Bicycle Thief. Check out Bob Forrest Music for his latest and greatest work.

Quotes about Bob:

“Bob is the most talented chemical dependency counselor I’ve ever seen. Simple. Period.” – Dr. Drew Pinsky

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The video above does an excellent job explaining the Pasadena Recovery Center in less than two minutes. PRC CEO and Co-owner, Mike Bloom, narrates the piece which covers many important topics.

Mike mentions that the center has always been a family run facility that got it’s initial inspiration from Mike’s father, world renown psychiatrist, Dr. Lee Bloom. While Dr. Bloom passed away a few years ago, his legacy continues to be felt throughout PRC — especially his compassionate approach to fighting the disease of addiction.

In addition to practicing compassion at every turn, we also adhere to the 12 Steps treatment philosophy. And we specialize in treating dual diagnosis or co-occurring disorders.

Finally, Mike evidences some of the qualities – from our location in the Pasadena foothills to some of our weekly offerings like yoga, acupuncture and art therapy – that differentiates PRC from other facilities. And we do it all at an affordable price.

Be sure to watch the video for more information.

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Below are some recent testimonials about the Pasadena Recovery Center on Yelp:

Hadley V:

The people at Pasadena Recovery Center care.  The setting is not lavish, but it is not expensive.  It offers human decency and a lot of old-fashioned sobriety.   I thank PRC for everything and I recommend it without hesitation.

Kelly S:

I will never be able to adequately thank the compassionate staff at PRC.  I recommend this facility without reservation for everyone who is ready for sobriety.

Donna W:

I was on the street spending every dime I had on crack, and the Pasadena Recovery Center literally saved my life. But for the caring, supportive staff and  fellow patients I’d be dead right now. I’m certain of it. I felt like all of us were a family with the same goals of staying sober and I felt safe. I admired the counselors that had long term sobriety and were always giving us insight on how to achieve that. Now I’m 6 months sober after a 6 week stay at PRC. And I’m so thankful.

Richard N:

In the end it was the best thing i cound have ever done for myself and the staff at the PRC enabled me to find and discover within myself that i was indeed a person worth getting my head screwed back on straight again.

Shannon M:

My brother was here for treatment towards the beginning of this year (2012) and the Pasadena Recovery Center definitely did their job. My brother has been sober since being released and the staff was always very helpful when I called. I hope he never has to go back there but I definitely recommend it to anyone looking for a great rehab facility.

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The waiting room of the Pasadena Recovery Center is sun-drenched, warm, painted with soft, muted colors. Orchids bloom in pots on little wooden tables, sleek post-modern chairs line the walls, above hang photographs of exquisite and exotic locales. It looks more like a lobby in a boutique hotel than a rehab hub.

The building was purchased by the late Dr. Lee Bloom with his daughter, criminal defense attorney Alison Triessl, in 2000. Bloom brought his son Mike on as “the money guy.” And after major renovations, the center greeted its first patient in January 2001.

The center treats everyone — and they mean everyone — from celebs to people who would otherwise go to jail, or have gone to jail (no violent sex offenders or anyone deemed a threat to the health and safety of others). The PRC provides scholarships for those who need financial assistance, accepts all insurances and offers a wide range of healing services, from group counseling and one-on-one sessions to acupuncture, yoga, art therapy and massage. And the 50 staff members employed at the center work to help people afflicted with a variety of issues, from alcohol, drug and sex addiction to eating disorders.

Several reality shows have been filmed at the center including all three seasons of Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew, Sex Rehab with Dr. Drew and several episodes of A&E’s Intervention.

“When VH1 and Dr. Drew approached us to do his reality shows, my father and I thought it was absolutely perfect,” says Mike Bloom.

Dr. Lee Bloom, who passed away last year, had treated 18,000 people in his life and was widely known and respected by clients and staff alike for his compassion. Mike Bloom remembers his father instilling that same compassion into his sister and him from a young age. “We’d be on our way to a Dodger game,” he says, “but he’d have to stop and do an admission into a psychiatric hospital. We’d be sitting there in our Dodger shirts and hats waiting, while someone was brought in with restraints. I feel like we’ve been cultured into this. I’ve been doing this by osmosis for as long as I can remember. My father used to say, ‘I’m leaving a legacy to my kids.’ And he’d say it in half-joking way, but it is truly a legacy that we inherited.”

Treissl agrees. “This is our life’s work. People have causes and things that mean something to them and for us it’s helping people get recovery.”

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