IGNITUS RECOVERY

Igniting Recovery. Building Systems of Care. Creating Lasting Connection.

Ignitus Recovery is a Denver-based behavioral health organization dedicated to building clinically excellent, recovery-oriented programs for individuals and families navigating mental health and substance use challenges.

We believe treatment is an important part of recovery—but it is not the entire journey.

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our story

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Built to Create a Better Continuum of Behavioral Healthcare

Ignitus Recovery began with a simple idea: people seeking help for mental health and substance use challenges deserve care that is connected, personalized, clinically sound, and grounded in real human relationships.
Too often, behavioral healthcare is experienced as a series of disconnected episodes. A person enters treatment, completes a program, and then must navigate what comes next largely on their own.

We envisioned something different.

Ignitus was created to develop a recovery ecosystem that brings together clinical excellence, evidence-based and trauma-informed care, community, purpose, peer connection, and long-term recovery support. Our goal is not simply to help people stabilize. It is to help individuals and families build lives that are meaningful, connected, and sustainable.

Today, that vision is taking shape through two distinctive Colorado behavioral health programs: Cherry Hills Recovery and AIM Health.

We improve the behavioral health of people through healing, learning, and connection.

With personalized, evidence-based care, we walk alongside each person across a full continuum of support, helping them flourish at every step of recovery.

A world where healing begins in community, recovery is guided by purpose, and every person is empowered to flourish.

Connection

We believe healing happens in relationships. We intentionally create meaningful connections among clients, families, staff, referral partners, peers, and communities because no one should have to navigate recovery alone.

Trust

We create emotionally and physically safe environments and earn trust through honesty, consistency, transparency, confidentiality, and respect.

People First

People are more than diagnoses, admissions, outcomes, or numbers. We treat every client, family member, employee, and community partner with dignity, compassion, and respect.

Accountability

We take ownership of our decisions and actions. We act ethically, keep our commitments, and hold ourselves to high standards—even when doing so is difficult.

Excelence Through Innovation

We embrace evidence, technology, data, collaboration, and new ideas that can improve care and outcomes—without sacrificing the human relationships at the center of recovery.

About ignitus

One Organization. Two Distinctive Programs.

Ignitus Recovery develops and operates behavioral health programs designed around the populations and communities they serve. Each program has its own identity and clinical focus while sharing Ignitus Recovery's commitment to clinical excellence, individualized care, ethical practice, connection, and long-term recovery.

Cherry Hills Recovery

Specialized Care for Women

Cherry Hills Recovery is Ignitus Recovery’s specialized behavioral health program for women located in a discreet area of Denver.

Created particularly for high-achieving women, executives, professionals, and leaders, Cherry Hills provides Residential, PHP and IOP with supportive housing in a discreet, highly individualized environment for women experiencing anxiety, depression, trauma, burnout, stress-related conditions, and co-occurring behavioral health challenges.

The program integrates evidence-based clinical treatment with trauma-informed care, recovery support, wellness, family involvement, and opportunities for women to reconnect with their health, relationships, identity, and purpose.

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AIM Health

A New Chapter in a 20+ Year Boulder Legacy

In September 2026, Ignitus Recovery acquired AIM Health Boulder, carrying forward more than two decades of service to young adults, individuals, and families in Colorado and nationally.

Today, Ignitus is revitalizing AIM Health’s clinical continuum for young adults ages 18–30, while preserving the relationships, community connection, and heart that have defined AIM throughout its history.

Based in Boulder, AIM Health provides a continuum that includes PHP, IOP, and outpatient services, with supportive housing,with an emphasis on individualized behavioral healthcare, recovery support, community engagement, and helping young adults build sustainable lives beyond treatment.

As AIM enters its next chapter, Ignitus is integrating the program into a broader Recovery-Oriented System of Care that includes peer and recovery support, alumni engagement, mentorship and community partnerships, and long-term connection.

We are proud to carry the torch of AIM’s extraordinary history while building what comes next.

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Healing is a priority

How Can We Help You?

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Individual therapy.

These sessions usually focus on the client's emotional, mental or behavioral problems and support personal development.

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Group therapy.

It is used for purposes such as improving social skills, solving relationship problems and ensuring solidarity between people with similar experiences.

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Family therapy.

These types of sessions are used to resolve family conflicts, strengthen bonds between family members, and understand family dynamics.

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Couples therapy.

Such sessions may focus on communication problems, conflicts, loyalty issues, and other relationship difficulties.

Experienced Leadership. Shared Purpose.

Our Leadership

Ignitus Recovery is led by professionals with extensive experience across behavioral healthcare, organizational development, finance, operations, marketing, admissions, human resources, treatment, and recovery systems.

Steve Millette, LMHC, MS

Chief Executive Officer

Dana Roscoe

Chief Operating Officer

Deb Smith

Chief Financial Officer

Gina de Peralta Thorne, MS

Chief Marketing Officer

Rowan Hill

Human Resources Manager

Claire Hamrick

Admissions Manager

The Ignitus Difference.

Clinical Excellence + Human Connection + Long-Term Recovery

our principle

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We are building Ignitus around a simple principle:

That means developing excellent clinical programs while simultaneously investing in the relationships and systems surrounding them.

From our clinicians and operational teams to recovery coaches, peer specialists, admissions professionals, alumni communities, referral partners, and community organizations, we are creating a connected ecosystem with one shared objective: