Burning Tree Ranch

Specialties

Burning Tree Ranch provides drug and alcohol treatment for those seeking to end the cycle of chronic abuse. Struggling? Give our team of professionals who’ve been there and end your own cycle of chronic relapse today.

History

Established in 1999.

Buying the ranch that was to become Burning Tree was just the start as David Elliott spent a year designing the program, formulating policy and procedure, hiring a staff, and getting licensed. And all along sticking with the lessons he learned in Tucson; strict but supportive, Burning Tree Ranch would be a place where men and women would learn how to live with integrity, a safe place where clients would learn how to live rather than just surviving. His program would teach integrity, excellence and authenticity, in addition to a working knowledge of the 12 steps.

Burning Tree’s success quickly became obvious. From 20 clients in the first few months, the Kaufman, Texas, facility was soon operating at capacity. Elliott says that he felt bad when they were too full to accept additional patients. And so another seed began to grow. This time the seed would become Burning Tree Lodge. Located in Elgin, Texas, the new facility literally doubles the capacity of the Burning Tree.

Meet the Business Owner

David E.

Business Owner

When you hear David Elliott tell his story, you soon realize that while Lady Luck or the perfect alignment of the planets may have played a part, it was nothing less than Divine Intervention. The year was 1991, and David, facing 20 years in prison, had a moment of clarity. It had taken 27 years for that moment to arrive.

«I knew I was powerless, I knew I needed a long-​term program, and I knew right then I was willing to do whatever it would take to not drink or use again,» he says today.

What he didn’t know at the time was that he had just worked the first three steps of Alcoholics Anonymous. A sponsor soon helped him make it official. Now a client at a long-​term treatment center in Tucson, Arizona, the last thing on David’s mind was sticking around after his year was up. But stick around he did, working at the center for another 18 months. His time working with recovering alcoholics and addicts planted the seed for his future dream: to open a premier treatment facility.