West Valley Detox & Treatment Services believes in individualized and integrated care. We feel helping individuals develop healthy behavior patterns in all areas of their lives, including family, school, relationships, social, and living skills is integral to the recovery process.
We believe such changes are crucial in a successful transition back to a balanced and healthy lifestyle. Our therapeutic approach is designed to celebrate hope as the most significant fact of life, providing our clients and families with newfound energy, a clear sense of direction, and the necessary tools to achieve long-term change.
Our facility proudly upholds the highest standards of clinical care, welcoming adults committed to their recovery from substance use disorder and other co-occurring disorders. At West Valley Detox Treatment & Services our client’s safety is our top priority. Our Tarzana facility offer our clients a luxurious home-like setting where they comfortably receive medical detox and comprehensive residential treatment programming.
Ara Gemilyan is the CEO and co-founder of Celebrated Consulting Inc., the parent company of West Valley Detox Treatment. With a distinguished background in real estate, development, and international business, Ara brings a wealth of knowledge, expertise, and entrepreneurial spirit to our organization. His personal experience, having lost his best friend to substance use, gives him a profound understanding of the devastating impact of addiction, driving his commitment to making a difference in the lives of those affected.
Zara Gemilyan is the Director of Business Development and co-founder of Celebrated Consulting Inc., the parent company of West Valley Detox Treatment. She earned her MBA from the prestigious Pepperdine Graziadio Business School, one of the nation’s top graduate programs, and brings extensive knowledge and expertise in business development and marketing to our organization. Zara is deeply committed to upholding the highest ethical standards, ensuring that patient care and well-being remain at the heart of everything we do. Her strategic vision and dedication play a pivotal role in driving our mission to provide exceptional, patient-centered care.
Dr. Rayan Aava serves as the Executive Director at West Valley Detox Treatment. He is an articulate and accountable leader with nearly 25 years of extensive executive leadership experience across diverse settings, including Substance Use, Dual Diagnosis, Acute Care, and Hospital Administration. Dr. Aava holds both a master’s degree and a doctorate in Clinical Psychology, which underpins his commitment to excellence in clinical operations and services.
As an author and thought leader on cultural differences and cross-cultural communication, he demonstrates exceptional emotional intelligence and is skilled at leading large organizations through a commitment to servant leadership, prioritizing patient care above all else. Renowned for his inspirational leadership and strategic vision, Dr. Aava excels in corporate engagement and is dedicated to fostering a culture that continually emphasizes the importance of patient care.
Ari serves as the Clinical Director at West Valley Detox Treatment. He is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in California and Idaho, holding a master’s degree in clinical psychology (M.A.). He approaches therapy from a strengths-based, humanistic perspective, fostering a safe and supportive environment for growth. With extensive expertise in drug and alcohol treatment, Ari has consulted for numerous recovery centers and brings a tailored approach to therapy, working with individuals, couples, and families to address unique challenges while emphasizing strengths. His diverse experience spans private practice, high schools, counseling centers, and corporate settings.
Anthony Tran serves as the Director of Admissions at West Valley Detox Treatment. With over a decade of experience in the substance use treatment industry, he is adept at leading diverse teams and fostering a collaborative environment. Anthony takes great pride in his work, finding fulfillment in assisting individuals as they navigate the challenges of overcoming addiction. His commitment to supporting patients throughout their recovery journey reflects his belief in the potential for change and the importance of comprehensive care.
Eddie is a licensed Psychiatric Nurse through the California Board of Vocational Nursing and Psychiatric Technicians (BVNPT) and serves as the nurse at West Valley Detox Treatment. He is also a certified yoga instructor and holds certifications from the American Sports & Fitness Association and National Academy of Sports Medicine as a personal trainer and group fitness instructor. He is compassionate, empathic and knowledgeable. Clients frequently express appreciation for Eddie’s expertise and dedication to their care.
Austin Hart serves as the Primary Therapist at West valley Detox Treatment. He is a compassionate and skilled pre-licensed Marriage and Family Therapist committed to helping individuals navigate recovery and achieve lasting personal growth. With a strong foundation in trauma-informed and client-centered therapeutic services, Austin has provided individual, family, and group therapy, with a focus on empowering clients through tailored care and evidence-based approaches. With a master’s degree in Marriage and Family Therapy from California State University, Northridge, Austin draws on both professional expertise and personal resilience to create a safe, empowering environment for clients. He is dedicated to fostering healing and transformation for those on their recovery journey.
Leilani is passionate about helping clients suffering from substance abuse disorders. She applies her strong communication skills to help clients navigate next steps.
Max comes equipped with an extensive background in human resources, operations, and administration. He offers a tremendous amount of organizational support and knowledge.
West Valley Detox Treatment
We firmly believe that the internet should be available and accessible to anyone, and are committed to providing a website that is accessible to the widest possible audience, regardless of circumstance and ability.
To fulfill this, we aim to adhere as strictly as possible to the World Wide Web Consortium’s (W3C) Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.1 (WCAG 2.1) at the AA level. These guidelines explain how to make web content accessible to people with a wide array of disabilities. Complying with those guidelines helps us ensure that the website is accessible to all people: blind people, people with motor impairments, visual impairment, cognitive disabilities, and more.
This website utilizes various technologies that are meant to make it as accessible as possible at all times. We utilize an accessibility interface that allows persons with specific disabilities to adjust the website’s UI (user interface) and design it to their personal needs.
Additionally, the website utilizes an AI-based application that runs in the background and optimizes its accessibility level constantly. This application remediates the website’s HTML, adapts Its functionality and behavior for screen-readers used by the blind users, and for keyboard functions used by individuals with motor impairments.
If you’ve found a malfunction or have ideas for improvement, we’ll be happy to hear from you. You can reach out to the website’s operators by using the following email ara@westvalleydetox.com
Our website implements the ARIA attributes (Accessible Rich Internet Applications) technique, alongside various different behavioral changes, to ensure blind users visiting with screen-readers are able to read, comprehend, and enjoy the website’s functions. As soon as a user with a screen-reader enters your site, they immediately receive a prompt to enter the Screen-Reader Profile so they can browse and operate your site effectively. Here’s how our website covers some of the most important screen-reader requirements, alongside console screenshots of code examples:
Screen-reader optimization: we run a background process that learns the website’s components from top to bottom, to ensure ongoing compliance even when updating the website. In this process, we provide screen-readers with meaningful data using the ARIA set of attributes. For example, we provide accurate form labels; descriptions for actionable icons (social media icons, search icons, cart icons, etc.); validation guidance for form inputs; element roles such as buttons, menus, modal dialogues (popups), and others. Additionally, the background process scans all the website’s images and provides an accurate and meaningful image-object-recognition-based description as an ALT (alternate text) tag for images that are not described. It will also extract texts that are embedded within the image, using an OCR (optical character recognition) technology. To turn on screen-reader adjustments at any time, users need only to press the Alt+1 keyboard combination. Screen-reader users also get automatic announcements to turn the Screen-reader mode on as soon as they enter the website.
These adjustments are compatible with all popular screen readers, including JAWS and NVDA.
Keyboard navigation optimization: The background process also adjusts the website’s HTML, and adds various behaviors using JavaScript code to make the website operable by the keyboard. This includes the ability to navigate the website using the Tab and Shift+Tab keys, operate dropdowns with the arrow keys, close them with Esc, trigger buttons and links using the Enter key, navigate between radio and checkbox elements using the arrow keys, and fill them in with the Spacebar or Enter key.Additionally, keyboard users will find quick-navigation and content-skip menus, available at any time by clicking Alt+1, or as the first elements of the site while navigating with the keyboard. The background process also handles triggered popups by moving the keyboard focus towards them as soon as they appear, and not allow the focus drift outside it.
Users can also use shortcuts such as “M” (menus), “H” (headings), “F” (forms), “B” (buttons), and “G” (graphics) to jump to specific elements.
We aim to support the widest array of browsers and assistive technologies as possible, so our users can choose the best fitting tools for them, with as few limitations as possible. Therefore, we have worked very hard to be able to support all major systems that comprise over 95% of the user market share including Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari, Opera and Microsoft Edge, JAWS and NVDA (screen readers).
Despite our very best efforts to allow anybody to adjust the website to their needs. There may still be pages or sections that are not fully accessible, are in the process of becoming accessible, or are lacking an adequate technological solution to make them accessible. Still, we are continually improving our accessibility, adding, updating and improving its options and features, and developing and adopting new technologies. All this is meant to reach the optimal level of accessibility, following technological advancements. For any assistance, please reach out to ara@westvalleydetox.com