Treatment Centre provides comprehensive therapeutic care that restores psychological, resilience and wellbeing. Our programme can also help with depression, trauma and anxiety and substance-related issues created in these uncertain times.
This is a place where you are safe and supported in a therapeutic setting specifically designed to help you establish a meaningful path forward.
Patients that are ready to make the life change simply need the guidance to do so. Investing time in the right directions and structures will aid the long term success from detox to sobriety and long term psychological recovery and resilience. This centre has been built to international 5 star standards to ensure that clients stay is welcoming, comfortable and homely.
The purposeful high-end retreat from the pressures of day to day life affords patients the immediate, non-confrontational “downtime” needed to reflect and start their personal journey of healing. Here patients start making all the positive progressive decisions that will affect their future in recovery.
Professional mentorship, counselling and guidance enables our clients to see through the past self-destructive cycles and trauma issues that underlie their addictive behaviour symptoms.
As one of the most sought after centres in South Africa, this private care centre operates from an exclusive facility location.
Each suite is uniquely designed and tailored to be comfortable and homely while maintaining exclusive modern colonial finishings.
Five-star treatment covers a broad spectrum of behaviours related to substance use disorders. No shortcuts are taken when establishing the best path to recovery for each person in our centres.
Expert consulting and residential psychologists, psychiatrists, counsellors and nurses operate within a collaborative environment to ensure the best possible outcomes for each person admitted to the centre.
This exclusive location is rich in South African history and serves as an ideal private refuge for mindful meditation and personal growth and recovery.
Single level structure with comfortable and warm multi-functional suites, with en-suite bathroom, unique views and balcony. Water is supplied by a natural spring, electricity is produced by ultra energy-efficient solar panels.
When you arrive at this centre, you are guaranteed to feel valued, safe and understood. This is a treatment centre doesn’t look or feel in any way like a facility or clinic. Anything that you have been through, we have been through too. Our treatment programme was created by people who were treated by ”one size fits all solutions” and found them to be lacking.
The result is a groundbreaking treatment protocol that is created from scratch and helps many people across a spectrum of mental health-related symptoms like stress, substance use, depression and anxiety. That means that the programme is specifically designed around YOU and YOUR needs. This is what makes us so different and what separates this centre.
So, how does This Center do all of this?
We assess you upfront and determine what the root cause of the problem is – often, it is due to some form of trauma that is affecting your ability to cope and be happy with the life that you are living now. This team then figures out how we are going to treat you holistically, using professional one-on-one sessions and a combination of other formats of therapy.
Harness the mental agility to manage your life again. Fine tune your mental-health and wellbeing inside of South Africa’s leading care centre.
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