What is your mental health, exactly? It involves your thinking, emotions, and behaviors. It also affects how you make choices, relate to other people, and handle stress. Alcohol and drug use impacts all of these things, and — in simple terms — addiction is the relationship between the substances you are abusing and your brain.
For this reason, taking care of your mental health is important for addiction recovery and living your best life. For some, it’s creating healthier thought patterns and coping skills. For others, it’s learning how to navigate life despite family history, trauma, or psychological challenges.
No matter where you are in your understanding of your personal mental health, there are professionals, support groups, and organizations who can come alongside you.
Youth-Focused Mental Health
Family & Child Treatment of Southern Nevada (FACT) in Las Vegas
FACT offers trauma-focused therapy to address the traumas and cycle of abuse, neglect, and violence. Among its various additional programs, FACT also offers a family and child treatment program through Donna’s House Central to provide supervised visitation for non-custodial parents to initiate, reunite, or continue in a relationship with their children.
The Harbor
With four locations in Las Vegas, The Harbor is a Juvenile Assessment Center that houses community providers and services under one roof. They determine the needs of youth (ages 17 and under) and connect their families with appropriate services to address those needs. Services include family counseling, mental health counseling, anger management, youth mentorship, and substance abuse counseling.
Solutions of Change
Solutions of Change is a Las Vegas-based nonprofit that provides free outpatient therapeutic and counseling services to help those dealing with behavioral, emotional, and mental health needs. The group uses new therapeutic techniques such as art, sports, theatre, music, and leadership to educate and empower individuals from children to adults to build better life skills.
Mental Health Services
Advanced Psychiatry, Inc.
Advanced Psychiatry is a multidisciplinary team of professionals who provide services for a wide range of mental health disorders, including but not limited to depression, anxiety, bipolar, schizophrenia, OCD, ODD, ADHD, conduct disorders, and adolescent substance abuse disorders. They have two locations in Las Vegas.
Alliance Mental Health Specialists
Alliance Mental Health Specialists is a diverse team trained in intervention and treatment for severe and debilitating psychiatric illnesses. The group has locations in both Las Vegas and Reno and operates with the understanding of “biological, psychological, and sociological factors which contribute to both physical and mental health.”
Cal Psychiatric Services
Cal Psychiatric Services specializes in psychotherapeutic and psychopharmacological interventions, as well as medico-legal aspects of psychiatric and mental illness. They offer state-of-the-art services for children, adolescents, and adults with ADD/ADHD and a staff that is equipped to treat both substance-related disorders and dual substance and psychiatric disorders.
Dr. Arceo Psychiatric Services
Dr. Arceo Psychiatric Services is dedicated to providing exceptional, personalized mental health care for patients. They focus on the prevention and treatment of mental illnesses through psychiatric wellness care, as well as treating acute and chronic psychiatric disorders that may arise.
Heads Up Guidance and Wellness Centers of Nevada
Based in Las Vegas, the Heads Up staff treats a variety of mental health concerns including anxiety and stress, depression and mood disorders, PTSD, ADHD/ADD, OCD, trauma, behavioral problems, social skills, confidence, self-esteem, communication, weight management, smoking cessation, phobias, and anger management. They accept a number of insurance plans including Medicaid, Amerigroup, Teacher’s Health Trust, Health Plan of Nevada, Humana, and more.
H.O.P.E. Counseling Service
H.O.P.E. Counseling specializes in treating Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and offers two locations in Las Vegas. They also serve clients with various anxiety disorders, mood disorders, reactive attachment disorder, and ADHD, while also working to restore relationships.
Life Health and Wellness Center
Life Health & Wellness Center offers a unique combination of neurofeedback brainwave training, nutritional therapy, and psychiatric services to children, teens, adults, seniors, and families in Las Vegas as well as online to clients across the country. They also treat the root causes of clients’ brain issues through natural, permanent, and non-pharmaceutical methods.
Nevada Behavioral Solutions
All services at Nevada Behavioral Solutions stem from evidence-based medicine and represent the latest state-of-the-art treatments including depression treatment, anxiety treatment, bipolar treatment, and other therapeutic interventions for all presenting behavioral challenges. They offer comprehensive services including psychiatry; medication management; individual, couple, and family therapy; psychosocial rehabilitation; basic skills training; and LGBTQ+.
Peaceful Mind Psychiatry Services
Peaceful Mind Psychiatry uses a holistic approach to psychiatric care by integrating core values in medical/nursing practice and evidence-based psychiatric treatments. Dr. Giddings-White provides comprehensive psychiatric evaluations, diagnosis, and medication management for children, adolescents, and adults. Her approach to treatment is driven by her belief that every client is a unique individual, so treatment plans are specifically developed for each client.
TeleMind Clinic
TeleMind is a Las Vegas-based psychiatry office that provides psychiatric care for a variety of disorders. They claim the lowest cash prices in the area and accept most commercial insurance, as well as Medicaid/Medicare. They also can treat patients from the comfort of home in the states of Nevada and Texas.
Thriveworks Counseling
Thriveworks Las Vegas, NV counselors, and therapists specialize in anxiety, blended families, eating disorders, sexual issues, obsessive-compulsive tendencies, panic attacks, grief counseling, career coaching, child therapy, addiction, divorce recovery, and much more. Their offices are open early and late, can provide same- or next-day appointments, and even offer phone and email access to a patient’s provider if needed between sessions.
Substance Abuse Services
ABC Therapy LLC
ABC Therapy has provided Las Vegas and the surrounding areas with professional counseling services for over 25 years. Currently, their staff includes Licensed Drug and Alcohol Abuse Counselors, Clinical Professional Counselors, Marriage & Family Therapists, and more. ABC Therapy services are available in English and Spanish, and ABC accepts a number of insurance providers.
Boulder City Hospital
Boulder City Hospital’s PHP Partial Hospitalization is staffed by a multidisciplinary team that includes psychiatrists, clinical psychologists, social workers, and psychiatric nurses and offers group therapy and an addictive behavior group. The PHP is approved by Medicare and may accept other insurance and managed care insurance plans. Transportation is also available to those in need.
Bridge Counseling Associates
BCA is the oldest non-profit providing individual and family counseling in Southern Nevada. Their staff include marriage & family therapists, clinical professional counselors, and substance abuse counselors who can address co-occurring mental health and addiction needs. They offer a discount/sliding fee scale, and no one is denied access to care due to the inability to pay.
Center for Behavioral Health
The Center for Behavioral Health has three locations in Las Vegas. CBH offers medically assisted drug and alcohol treatment, individual counseling, and group counseling at a reduced price. They also accept Nevada FFS Medicaid, Health Plan of Nevada, Anthem, Silver Summit Behavioral Healthcare Options, Nevada VA, Federal Medicare, and SNHD HATS.
Community Counseling Center of Southern Nevada (CCC) in Las Vegas
CCC accepts all patients, regardless of insurance or Medicaid status, and uses a sliding scale payment system. Originally established in 1990 to assist those living with HIV/AIDS who were being denied services, CCC now provides general mental health and substance abuse counseling.
FirstMed Health + Wellness
FirstMed offers three Las Vegas locations with providers and therapists who are well trained to deal with substance abuse and related conditions.
Pro-Health Therapeutic & Empowerment Services
Pro-Health TES is a Las Vegas-based multidisciplinary counseling, mental health, and professional agency offering counseling and support groups. They work to treat stress, addiction, ADHD, bipolar disorder, personality disordres, anxiety and depression, OCD-related disorders, self-injury, abuse, PTSD and stress-related disorders, and more.
Thrive Solutions IOP
Thrive Solutions IOP approaches addiction as a complex disease of the brain and body, and that it damages various body systems as well as families, relationships, schools, workplaces, and neighborhoods. They provide individual and group therapy, EMDR treatment, yoga, trauma therapy, mind & body therapy, and meditation.
Tuff Services Ministries
An interfaith (non-denominational) ministry, Tuff Services Ministries provides services to the community including: addiction support groups, certified mental health and life coaching, addiction-after-care, suicide prevention, and more.
Volunteers in Medicine of Southern Nevada
VMSN’s Social & Behavioral Health Intervention provides high quality, comprehensive mental health care regardless of an individual’s ability to pay. Patients are seen for a variety of issues including domestic violence and history of trauma, transportation barriers, mental health needs, history of substance abuse, and more. Their behavioral health team also provides individual and group therapy to assist patients.
Support Groups
Las Vegas Central Office for Alcoholics Anonymous
Alcoholics Anonymous is a support group that uses a 12-Step program approach to recovery. Meetings are free and membership does not require anything more than the desire to stop drinking and live a substance-free life. Since its founding in 1935, AA has successfully helped millions of people recover from their alcohol addiction. There are approximately 94,000 groups worldwide, with meetings being held in rec rooms and church basements every day in Las Vegas and the surrounding areas. 24-hour hotline: (702) 598-1888 Email: lvaa-webmail@lvcoxmail.com
Al-Anon & Alateen
Al-Anon is a fellowship of people who have been affected by the alcohol abuse of a loved one, and Alateen is for people under age 20 who live or have lived, with someone who abuses alcohol. In-person meetings and Zoom group meetings in the Las Vegas area can be found using the site’s online tool.
Alternative Peer Group Las Vegas
Alternative Peer Group (APG) is a drop-in center for teens suffering from substance use disorder. This after-school/summer program is driven by peer mentors that provide recovery support services and healthy time management life skills.
Celebrate Recovery Las Vegas
Celebrate Recovery is a recovery program aimed at all “hurts, habits, and hang-ups,” including but not exclusive to: high anxiety, co-dependency, compulsive behaviors, sex addiction, financial dysfunction, drug and alcohol addictions, and eating disorders.
Cocaine Anonymous (CA) – Greater Las Vegas & Southern Nevada Chapter
Founded in 1982, Cocaine Anonymous (CA) is a support group for both men and women who are looking to achieve recovery from cocaine addiction. Worldwide, there are approximately 45 chapters, including one in Southern Nevada. Click here for a list of meeting times in Las Vegas. 24-hour hotline: (702) 758-5139 Email: cawso@ca.org
Co-Dependents Anonymous (CoDA ) – Southern Nevada
The aim of Co-Dependents Anonymous (CoDA) is to provide a fellowship for men and women who are striving to develop healthy relationships. As it states on the CoDA website, “The only requirement for membership is a desire for healthy and loving relationships.” Click here to view a meeting schedule for Southern Nevada. Meetings are offered seven days a week and are available in English and Spanish. Phone: (888) 444-2359 {Toll free} | (888) 444-2379 {Spanish, toll free}
Family Recovery Support Group
Las Vegas Recovery Center (LVRC) offers a free family recovery support group that is open to any family member needing help and support in coping with a loved one’s addiction. It currently meets every Friday at 6 p.m. at 3321 North Buffalo Drive, Las Vegas, NV 89129 in Suite 101. Support Group Contact: Hortensia De Jesus Phone: 702-515-1373, ext. 324
Family Renewal Program
The alcohol and drug treatment center Las Vegas Recovery Center (LVRC) offers a four-day Family Renewal Program for friends, family members, employers and Southern Nevada community members who would like to learn more about addiction and addiction recovery. The course is offered several times a year. Contact: Hortensia De Jesus 702-515-1373, ext. 324 3321 North Buffalo Drive Las Vegas, NV 89129
FirstMed Health + Wellness
FirstMed has three Las Vegas locations and hosts both a Substance Use Group and All-Recovery Meeting.
Foundation for Recovery (FFR)
Foundation for Recovery (FFR) is a non-profit organization in Las Vegas that provides peer-based addiction recovery education and advocacy services. FFR’s aim is to promote the positive impact of recovery through community events and outreach programs. Phone: (702) 257-8199 Email: info@forrecovery.org
Gamblers Anonymous – Southern Nevada Area
Gamblers Anonymous (GA), which was founded in 1987 and has about 1,200 chapters worldwide, is a twelve-step program for those who have a compulsive gambling problem and would like to stop. GA currently has over 100 meetings a week across the Las Vegas Valley. Las Vegas 24-hour hotline: 855-2CALLGA (855-222-5542) Email: isomain@gamblersanonymous.org
Narcotics Anonymous – Region 51
Narcotics Anonymous (NA), which follows the same principles as Alcoholics Anonymous, is a community-based support group organization that promotes recovery from drug addiction through the “Twelve steps.” It was founded in 1953 and is geared specifically to those recovering from narcotics (prescription or illicit). If you are looking to attend an NA meeting in Las Vegas, Henderson or Boulder City, Region 51 is the chapter to contact for a current meeting schedule. Click here for a list of meetings in the area. 24-hour hotline: 1-888-495-3222 Email: chair@region51na.org
Peer Recovery
Peer Recovery is a program designed to provide people new to recovery from addiction and/or other behavioral health challenges with a peer leader/coach who can help guide them along the path towards successful long-term recovery. In addition to being trained recovery coaches, all peer leaders are in stable recovery themselves. As the name suggests, Peer Recovery is a program that utilizes peer-to-peer interaction and sharing to foster recovery. Contact Info: Chelsey Mony (702) 257-8199 Email: info@forrecovery.org
The PRACTICE
Operated by the University of Nevada Las Vegas, The PRACTICE is a community mental health clinic located on UNLV’s main campus. Faculty and graduate student clinicians provide low-cost, evidence-based care and mental health services to the community, including group therapy sessions. Clinical fees are based on a sliding scale.
Sober in Vegas
Sober in Vegas is a social group for people who live substance-free lives in Southern Nevada. As the group’s website explains, “Sober in Vegas is dedicated to exploring mindful activities, travel, arts, public events, hiking, and things to do here in sin city that don’t revolve around alcohol.”
Mental Health Directories
Behavioral Health NV
A great resource for finding local behavioral health offerings in Las Vegas, the Behavioral Health NV “Provider Search” tool is perfect for finding treatment based on the services you are looking for. Aside from providing basic contact information and Google directions about treatment centers, the site also shows centers’ ratings and service endorsements.
The Emotional PPE Project
Specifically for healthcare workers who are in need of mental health services due to the COVID-19 crisis, the Emotional PPE Project connects you with licensed mental health professionals who can help. There is no cost and no insurance needed. The online directory is straightforward by providing contact information of volunteer mental health practitioners.
Nevada 211
Nevada 211 is a program of the Nevada Department of Health and Human Services that is committed to helping Nevada residents connect with the services they need. The search tool and behavioral & mental health services page can help you find what you need, from counseling and medication-assisted treatment to crisis hotlines and grief support.
Nevada Health Centers
NVHC is a federally funded network of Community Health Centers in Las Vegas. Their provider directory search tool can be filtered by behavioral health services and location.
Nevada Psychological Association
The NPA offers a “Find A Psychologist” tool where you can tailor your search based on the language spoken, services offered, types of treatment, and much more.
Nevada Resilience Project
The Nevada Resilience Project is offering support to families and individuals experiencing challenges due to COVID-19, including counseling. With the help of Resilience Ambassadors, the project offers bilingual access to services and connection to resources over the phone, through text and video chat, or face to face.
OpenCounseling
OpenCounseling is a directory of BetterHelp.com, Regain.us, and TalkSpace.com therapists and organizations, but also 10,000 other providers. The website is dedicated to making affordable counseling easier to access, regardless of financial status.
Open Path Psychotherapy Collective
Open Path is a nationwide network of mental health professionals offering in-office and online mental health care at drastically reduced rates. There are a number of diverse Las Vegas-based therapists with varying specialties and licenses, including mental health, social work, psychotherapy, drug and alcohol therapy, and more.
Psychology Today
Psychology Today’s “Find a Therapist” tool allows you to find Las Vegas-based therapists by language, gender, age, faith, price, insurance, types of therapy, and more.
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
SAMHSA’s “Find Treatment” tool illustrates a comprehensive map of facilities in Las Vegas and can be tailored based on services like substance abuse, mental health, and veterans.
Therapy for Latinx
This online directory was made specifically to help individuals find a Latinx therapist, including in Las Vegas.
Treatment Connection
You can use Treatment Connection to find substance use or mental health treatment facilities near you. Filters can be used to easily find the best treatment for you based on distance, treatment type, the age and/or gender of therapists, and even by substance.
For those who have been caught up in addiction, neglecting your body is all too familiar to you: forgetting to eat, not eating a healthy diet, or going without food altogether could have been trademarks of your life.
A body that is well-cared for is one that is nourished so that it can function as it was intended. At Landmark Recovery, this is why we are champions of healthy bodies.
While being physically healthy looks different for everyone, across the board healthy bodies need regular exercise, a balanced diet, and appropriate amounts of rest. And thanks to research and technology, we know so much more about the factors that contribute to our physical health and can make decisions based on those factors. In the 21st century, there are also so many more options available for exercise and nutrition, no matter someone’s abilities or dietary restrictions.
Acupuncture
Integrative Acupuncture of Southern Nevada
Integrative Acupuncture practices evidence-based medicine, so your treatment plan will be based upon available research studies for your condition and the doctor’s clinical experience. This practice offers relief care, corrective care, and maintenance care.
Crossfit
Crossfit Near Me
The high-intensity, nationwide fitness program that’s been around for more than 20 years has numerous gyms in the Las Vegas area. If you are easily bored or don’t like the monotony of going to the gym, CrossFit keeps things interesting. Your workout will be different every day! Check out Rounds for Time’s “23 Best Crossfit Gyms in Las Vegas” to find the right fit for you.
Sober Housing
Neighborhood Housing Services of Southern Nevada, Inc. (NHSSN)
Neighborhood Housing Services of Southern Nevada, Inc. (NHSSN) is a non-profit agency that has dedicated itself to all things housing for more than 25 years. They serve low-to-moderate-income individuals, families, and communities in Las Vegas and throughout Southern Nevada by providing affordable rental housing, down payment assistance, financial literacy, pre-and post-purchase housing counseling, and homebuyer education.
Nevada Partnership for Homeless Youth
With a Drop-In Center located at 4981 Shirley Street in Las Vegas, the Nevada Partnership for Homeless Youth (NPHY) provides access to life-changing services for homeless youth 24 hours a day in Southern Nevada. NPHY’s wrap-around programs stabilize young people’s lives, meeting their immediate needs and providing a safe, supportive environment and a path to self-sufficiency. NPHY’s individualized, holistic services empower young people to not only achieve long-term independence but to craft the futures they want for themselves.
Share Village Las Vegas
SHARE Village Las Vegas is a nonprofit organization that has a unique and innovative approach to holistic and comprehensive housing with 24/7/365 crisis intervention center services complemented with intensive supportive services for veterans. Public and private partnerships have been formed to develop and operate affordable housing with collaborative medical and mental health services, salon services, employment referrals and placements, and full-service community food pantry/nutrition programs.
Massage Therapy
Knead To De-Stress, LLC
Knead To De-Stress, LCC is a Las Vegas clinic offering mobile massage therapy services. Its massage therapists specialize in Swedish and deep tissue techniques, as well as sports massages and oil massages.
All Star Massage Therapy
All Star is a massage therapy studio in Las Vegas that offers therapies like myoskeletal alignment, craniosacral therapy, reflexology, and trigger point therapy.
Be Well Professional Therapy
Be Well offers different wellness therapies, but its best-known treatment uses reflexology and Reiki. The therapy provider also supports Three Square, Las Vegas’ largest food bank.
Body in Balance Las Vegas
Body in Balance addresses pinched nerve, carpal tunnel syndrome, post-operative discomfort, cervical spine complaints, whiplash injury, tendonitis, and also lymphedema maintenance.
Elements Massage
Elements Massage provides therapeutic, handcrafted, and personalized massages. Their expert certified therapists are focused on delivering massages that are responsive to the individual needs of their clients.
Faithfully Therapeutic Massage
Faithfully Therapeutic Massage provides Swedish, hot stone, healing, aroma, deep tissue, full body massage, and more, plus sugar scrubs. The practice believes in the lasting benefits of routine, weekly massage.
Hired Hands Massage Therapy
Hired Hands offers services at a client’s home or hotel, and also provides individualized services for the elderly and pregnant women. The company has more than 25 years of experience providing treatment around Las Vegas.
Integrative Muscular Rehab, LLC
Integrative Muscular Rehab provides specific treatments for car crash victims, injured athletes and workers, and stressed-out persons.
Massage Customs
Massage Customs offers modalities in Thai massage, active release technique, and aroma touch technique but also customizes therapy for clients.
The Body Restoration Massage Group
The Body Restoration Massage Group’s modalities include trigger point therapy, rainbow therapy, bamboo therapy, myofascial release, and Ortho-Bionomy®. The practice also has tailored therapies for pediatric and geriatric clients, expecting mothers, and mastectomy patients in a post-operative phase.
Zen Body & Skin
Zen Body & Skin provides Swedish massage therapy, aromatherapy, temporomandibular treatments, and skin care programs designed to reduce joint and muscle pain, enhance sleep quality, increase the body’s natural energy, and tone the skin.
Naturopathic Services
Las Vegas Integrative Medicine
Integrative Medicine Las Vegas offers naturopathic services for healing (functional medicine, nutritional therapy, homeopathy, botanical medicine) as well as acupuncture to find the most natural, drug-free solution for your symptoms and underlying physical issues.
Nutrition
Grabbagreen Food + Juice
Grabbagreen is the ultimate spot in grab-and-go health-conscious food in Las Vegas. Featuring multiple locations, this fast stop will have just what you’re looking for in the way of quick fill-ups.
Greens and Proteins
Greens have all the best vegan and vegetarian options, and it features locations all over the Greater Las Vegas area.
Planet Protein Snack Bar
Looking for a spot in North Las Vegas that has great meat options for healthy eaters? Planet Protein’s got you covered.
PROTEINHOUSE Las Vegas
Salads, smoothies, breakfast, and burgers are all featured at this contemporary spot near Henderson.
theProteinSource
A modern, health-conscious cafe, ProteinSource features a great menu, atmosphere, and patio, all centrally located in Las Vegas.
Total Nutrition Las Vegas
Total Nutrition is a store run by some of the most helpful staff in the area. Fondly reviewed by customers looking for gyms, new supplement stacks, and more, Total’s got your back.
Vegas Discount Nutrition
Looking for the best spot to get workout supplements and vitamins to keep your body in tip-top shape? Look no further than Vegas Discount Nutrition, a superstore for any and every nutrition need.
Nature Walks
Clark County Wetlands Park
Open during daylight hours every day and free to the public, the Clark County Wetlands Park offers 14 miles of walking trails. You can sign up for guided walks with a park naturalist or join the free walking club.
Ultra Marathon Running Events in Nevada
Whether you are a ½ marathoner, marathoner, or ultra-runner, there are plenty of races currently on the calendar for 2021-2022 in Las Vegas and Nevada!
Mt. Charleston
This mountain boasts being the eighth-most-prominent peak in the United States and is only 35 miles northwest of Las Vegas. You can choose from over 50 miles of trails to hike, camp at one of four campgrounds, and you might even glimpse wild horses and burros.
Historic Railroad Tunnels Trail
This 4.4-mile (round trip) trail is located about 40 minutes southeast of downtown Las Vegas and follows an old railroad bed. Alternating between railroad tunnels and stretches of desert, you can hike, bike, or jog this trail that runs above Lake Mead.
Tai Chi
Body & Brain Yoga Tai Chi
A Tai Chi school, Body & Brain Yoga Tai Chi offers two locations in Las Vegas for holistic wellness classes for yoga, tai chi, meditation, and breathwork based on 5000-year old Korean traditions. They have yoga classes for beginners and more advanced classes to energize and heal the mind, body, and spirit. Other yoga classes include Body & Brain Yoga (all levels), Core Strengthening, Energy Movement, Self-Healing with Wooden Pillow, Tai Chi and Qigong, and more.
YMCA of Southern Nevada
YMCA of Southern Nevada offers Tai Chi classes at four locations around the Las Vegas valley.
Yoga
103 Hot Pilates & Yoga
103 Hot Pilates & Yoga offers yoga and so much more, like HIIT, cardio kickboxing, step-aerobics, pilates, and extreme barre.
Goat Yoga Las Vegas
Goat Yoga Las Vegas hosts outdoor yoga sessions with baby goats from the local petting zoo. Enough said.
Power Yoga + Pilates + Fitness
Power Yoga + Pilates + Fitness offers a menu of diverse experiences from candlelight yin and Kundalini classes to Super Hot Chakra and Hot Power Hour classes.
Sin City Yoga
Sin City Yoga builds connections and friendships in the greater Las Vegas area through the practice of yoga asana and philosophy. They hold over 30 yoga classes in Downtown Las Vegas every week, and their studio offers in-person and online classes, teacher training, workshops, reiki sessions, and more.
The Salt Room Las Vegas
The Salt Room Las Vegas provides group and private yoga classes and meditation, as well as services like salt therapy, massages, facials, and body treatments.
Addiction can leave you feeling hopeless and as if your dreams are no longer within reach. This is so untrue! There is still life ahead of you, starting with today. This is the beauty of recovery and sobriety: you can start and dream again.
Caring for one’s spirit can look different for everyone. It can look like being at peace with your inner life, fulfilling a purpose, or finding connection with a higher power, among other things. It can also be as simple as doing things you enjoy. There are many unique, life-giving activities in the world that you can experience!
Active Adventures
ATV Tours
For a memorable and exciting way to experience Nevada, Las Vegas ATVs offers a number of activities from ATV trips and water sports to shooting and helicopter trips.
Dream Racing
Dream Racing features the world’s largest and fastest selection of exotic cars for you — yes, you — to test drive.
Skydive Las Vegas
Where the activity you want to do is also the name of the company: Skydive Las Vegas. Or, if you prefer a skydive simulation, check out Vegas Indoor Skydiving.
Animal Activities
Clark County Wetlands Park
If you enjoy wildlife, you can observe birds, beavers, turtles, fish, and more while exploring the 210-acre Nature Preserve.
Flamingo Wildlife Habitat
Located on the grounds of the Flamingo Hotel & Casino, the Flamingo Wildlife habitat is open to the public at no cost. The 15-acre gardens are home to Chilean flamingos, ringed teal ducks, sacred ibis, koi fish, and turtles.
Gilcrease Nature Sanctuary
The Gilcrease Nature Sanctuary is a seven-acre property that is home to over 500 exotic birds and domestic animals. You can visit the sanctuary on Saturdays and Sundays with an appointment.
Horses4Heroes Equestrian Center
Horses4Heroes offers discounted recreational, instructional, and morale-boosting health and wellness programs with horses. Membership is free for active-duty service members, veterans, caregivers, and survivors, and membership for non-heroes is a $50 one-time fee.
Mandalay Bay Shark Reef Aquarium
The 2,000 animal aquarium features sharks, giant rays, endangered green sea turtles, piranha and a Komodo dragon. Located at Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino, the aquarium offers self-guided tours, animal encounters, a Dive with Sharks Program, and an annual pass quickly pays for itself.
Arts
First Friday Art Festival
Every month, the First Friday Art Festival supports local arts and culture by offering a space for emerging artists to perform and display their work. If you are an artist yourself, a food vendor, or simply want to volunteer with the festival, you can sign up to participate through the festival website.
The Truth Spot
If you express yourself through writing or poetry, The Truth Spot encourages fellow poets, rappers, and singers in Las Vegas to come together and showcase their work. The group hosts several weekly and monthly events, including Write Wednesday and Black Friday.
Writer’s Block
Writer’s Block of Las Vegas is a book shop and coffee shop located on the northeast corner of 6th Street and Bonneville Avenue, but it also hosts events and book clubs throughout the year. Whether you like to attend readings with local and up-and-coming authors or prefer to discuss writings and literature with others, Writer’s Block offers a wide selection.
Meditation
Chaiya Meditation Monastery
CMM is a distinctive Buddhist monastery located near the Las Vegas Strip. The monastery welcomes people from every walk of life, religion, and belief who are willing to learn the ancient perspective on the practice of Theravada Buddhism in today’s world.
The Kundalini Kollective
Using the yoga sciences, the Kundalini Kollective offers services in breathing technique (pranayama), ecstatic dance, Yoga Nidra, Ayurvedic services, and holistic and wellness services.
Las Vegas Center for Spiritual Living
The Center for Spiritual Living helps awaken individuals to their inherent power and purpose through unconditional love, creativity, and conscious community.
RYK Yoga and Meditation Center
RYK Yoga and Meditation Center is the first Kundalini Yoga studio in Las Vegas for individuals who want to begin, develop, maintain, or continue their yoga practice. The center provides a universal practice that welcomes all traditions and walks of life to practice personal growth.
Stillpoint
Stillpoint provides a gathering place for those wanting to embrace the sacred in their lives and in the world. Their programs encourage spiritual development, personal growth, and social transformation.
Outdoor Activities
Colorado River
You need a permit from the National Park Service, but if you’re an experienced kayaker looking for a beautiful self-guided float trip, look no further than the Colorado River in Black Canyon. Just 45-minutes outside of the Las Vegas strip, the Black Canyon Water Trail is 12-miles long, features hot springs and hidden caves, and begins directly below the Hoover Dam.
Las Vegas Astronomical Society
The Las Vegas Astronomical Society hosts “Astronomy in the Park” stargazing sessions in parks outside of Las Vegas.
Red Rock Canyon
A short drive from the Las Vegas Strip, you can venture to the Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area and either hike or climb in the beauty of the Nevada desert. It’s free aside from the cost of a day/seasonal pass to enter the park.
