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Freeman House Recovery
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Treatment Focus
This center primarily treats substance use disorders, helping you stabilize, create relapse-prevention plans, and connect to compassionate support.
Primary Level of Care
Offering intensive care with 24/7 monitoring, residential treatment is typically 30 days and can cover multiple levels of care. Length can range from 14 to 90 days typically.
Treatment Focus
This center primarily treats substance use disorders, helping you stabilize, create relapse-prevention plans, and connect to compassionate support.
Primary Level of Care
Offering intensive care with 24/7 monitoring, residential treatment is typically 30 days and can cover multiple levels of care. Length can range from 14 to 90 days typically.
Private Pay
You pay directly for treatment out of pocket. This approach can offer enhanced privacy and flexibility, without involving insurance. Exact costs vary based on program and length of stay. Contact the center for specific details.
Freeman House Recovery
Freeman House Recovery
About Freeman House Recovery
Consistently praised on Google for their transformative results, Freeman House Recovery immerses clients fully in recovery from substance use—including ketamine addiction—as well as self-destructive behaviours like gambling, gaming, shopping, and workaholism. From their upscale lodge an hour from Johannesburg, they provide 35+-day programmes that include medically supervised detox, clinical excellence, luxurious accommodations, and unique therapeutic experiences at a fraction of the cost of comparable U.S. and European programmes.
Learn to Manage Thoughts, Emotions & Behaviours
At Freeman House, the recovery journey focuses on positive self-development, helping clients take responsibility for their choices, prepare to face challenges, and set growth goals. Clients engage in twice-weekly individual sessions and twice-daily group sessions that integrate cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT), dialectical behaviour therapy (DBT), family sessions, and trauma counselling to address both addiction and underlying mental health conditions. Programmes also incorporate vitamin infusion therapy, martial arts, physiotherapy, art, woodworking, gardening and birdwatching.
Boost Well-Being with Comfort and Privacy
Freeman House Recovery offers private and shared rooms with comfortable beds, some with balconies and spectacular views. Men and women are housed separately, and the lodge features 24-hour security. Clients enjoy gourmet meals, tranquil gardens, a pool, gym, sauna and cold plunge, and BBQ area. Cell phone use is permitted twice weekly (three times for foreigners), with accommodations available for clients needing additional phone access for work-related responsibilities.
Transition Home with Full Support
After clients receive treatment in South Africa, Freeman House supports them with aftercare closer to home. Clients continue meeting virtually with their primary Freeman House clinician during the transition, while Freeman House coordinates preferred providers in their home countries for outpatient care, sober living, and case management. Freeman House also offers a two-week job-hunt bootcamp to ensure each client is equipped for the best chance at a new life.
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On-site Medical Detox
Private Rooms Available
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Center Overview
Treatment Focus
This center primarily treats substance use disorders, helping you stabilize, create relapse-prevention plans, and connect to compassionate support.
Pricing and Program Length
Estimated Center Costs
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Meet Your Care Team
Alan Freeman
Director
Brad Webster
Therapeutic Director
Certified Alcohol & Drug Counsellor (ICADC), Member BAPSA (Board of Addiction Professionals South Africa)
Laura Edmonds
Therapeutic Director
Colleen Muskat
Family Counselor / Senior Addiction Therapist
Alexi Trninic
Occupational Therapist
Gali Katida
Clinical Psychologist
Zipporah Gaven
Head Nurse
Pleasure Manyama
Professional Nurse
Zanele Dhlamini
Professional Nurse
Minette Bronkhorst
Administrative Manager
Esthé Bester
Personal Trainer
Edee Deegan-Bennie
Yoga Instructor
Mashadi Esther Teane
Head Chef
Kamogelo Teane
Chef
Your Care Options
Specializations
Adventure Therapy
This experiential approach uses the physical and emotional challenges of outdoor activities as tools for personal growth.
Alcohol
Using alcohol as a coping mechanism, or drinking excessively throughout the week, signals an alcohol use disorder.
Detox
Detox fully and safely removes toxic substances from the body, allowing the next steps in treatment to begin with a clean slate.
Co-Occurring Disorders
A person with multiple mental health diagnoses, such as addiction and depression, has co-occurring disorders also called dual diagnosis.
Cocaine
Cocaine is a stimulant with euphoric effects. Agitation, muscle ticks, psychosis, and heart issues are common symptoms of cocaine abuse.
Drug Addiction
Drug addiction is the excessive and repetitive use of substances, despite harmful consequences to a person's life, health, and relationships.
Prescription Drugs
It's possible to abuse any drug, even prescribed ones. If you crave a medication, or regularly take it more than directed, you may have an addiction.
Who We Treat
Young Adults
Emerging adults ages 18-25 receive treatment catered to the unique challenges of early adulthood, like college, risky behaviors, and vocational struggles.
LGBTQ+
Addiction and mental illnesses in the LGBTQ+ community must be treated with an affirming, safe, and relevant approach, which many centers provide.
Men and Women
Men and women attend treatment for addiction in a co-ed setting, going to therapy groups together to share experiences, struggles, and successes.
Midlife Adults
For adults ages 40+, treatment shifts to focus on the unique challenges, blocks, and risk factors of their age group, and unites peers in a similar community.
Treatment Services
Detox
Detox fully and safely removes toxic substances from the body, allowing the next steps in treatment to begin with a clean slate.
Intensive Outpatient Program
In an IOP, patients live at home or a sober living, but attend treatment typically 9-15 hours a week. Most programs include talk therapy, support groups, and other methods.
Outpatient
During outpatient rehab, patients attend a structured treatment program while continuing to live at home.
Residential
In a residential rehab program, patients live onsite, with access to daily treatment and 24-hour care. An average stay is 30-90 days.
Approaches
Family Involvement
Providers involve family in the treatment of their loved one through family therapy, visits, or both–because addiction is a family disease.
Holistic
A non-medicinal, wellness-focused approach that aims to align the mind, body, and spirit for deep and lasting healing.
Individual Treatment
Individual care meets the needs of each patient, using personalized treatment to provide them the most relevant care and greatest chance of success.
Minnesota Model
The Minnesota Model encourages abstinence and family-wide healing through the 12-Steps, group therapy, and individualized, psychological treatment.
Twelve Step
Incorporating spirituality, community, and responsibility, 12-Step philosophies prioritize the guidance of a Higher Power and a continuation of 12-Step practices.
Therapies
1-on-1 Counseling
Patient and therapist meet 1-on-1 to work through difficult emotions and behavioral challenges in a personal, private setting.
Adventure Therapy
This experiential approach uses the physical and emotional challenges of outdoor activities as tools for personal growth.
Art Therapy
Visual art invites patients to examine the emotions within their work, focusing on the process of creativity and its gentle therapeutic power.
Elephant Therapy
Interacting with these awe-inspiring animals can help you regulate your emotions and practice communication.
Experiential Therapy
With this approach, patients heal by doing. Therapists help patients process difficult emotions to speak, using guided activities like art or dance.
Family Therapy
Family therapy addresses group dynamics within a family system, with a focus on improving communication and interrupting unhealthy relationship patterns.
Languages
Conditions We Treat
ADHD, ADD
ADHD is a common mental health condition caused by dopamine imbalance. Common symptoms include inattention, hyperactivitiy, and impulsivity.
Anger
Although anger itself isn't a disorder, it can get out of hand. If this feeling interferes with your relationships and daily functioning, treatment can help.
Anxiety
Anxiety is a common mental health condition that can include excessive worry, panic attacks, physical tension, and increased blood pressure.
Bipolar
This mental health condition is characterized by extreme mood swings between depression, mania, and remission.
Burnout
Burnout entails mental and physical exhaustion, and leads to a severe lack of fulfillment. This condition is often caused by overwork.
Chemsex
Also called Party 'n' Play (PnP), chemsex refers to using drugs, like methamphetamine, to enhance sexual activity.
Codependency
Codependency is a pattern of emotional dependence and controlling behavior. It's most common among people with addicted loved ones.
Depression
Symptoms of depression may include fatigue, a sense of numbness, and loss of interest in activities. This condition can range from mild to severe.
Gambling
Excessive, repetitive gambling causes financial and interpersonal problems. This addiction can interfere with work, friendships, and familial relationships.
Substances We Treat
Alcohol
Using alcohol as a coping mechanism, or drinking excessively throughout the week, signals an alcohol use disorder.
Benzodiazepines
Benzodiazepines are prescribed to treat anxiety and sleep issues. They are highly habit forming, and their abuse can cause mood changes and poor judgement.
Cocaine
Cocaine is a stimulant with euphoric effects. Agitation, muscle ticks, psychosis, and heart issues are common symptoms of cocaine abuse.
Drug Addiction
Drug addiction is the excessive and repetitive use of substances, despite harmful consequences to a person's life, health, and relationships.
Ecstasy
Ecstasy is a stimulant that causes intense euphoria and heightened awareness. Abuse of this drug can trigger depression, insomnia, and memory problems.
Heroin
Heroin is a highly addictive and illegal opioid. It can cause insomnia, collapsed veins, heart issues, and additional mental health issues.
Methamphetamine
Methamphetamine, or meth, increases energy, agitation, and paranoia. Long-term use can result in severe physical and mental health issues.
Aftercare
Care Designed for Your Needs
Personal Amenities
Amenities
Special Considerations
Healthy Meals are provided
Great food meets great treatment, with providers serving healthy meals to restore nutrition, wellbeing, and health.
Family Member Stays
Treatment providers welcome family members to stay on-site to better the experience and success of patients and their families as a whole.
Activities
Yoga
Yoga is both a physical and spiritual practice. It includes a flow of movement, breathing techniques, and meditation.
Off-Site Activities
Yoga
Yoga is both a physical and spiritual practice. It includes a flow of movement, breathing techniques, and meditation.
Off-Site Amenities
Learn More About the Center
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Mindfulness and Meditation: Powerful Tools for Addiction Recovery
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Family Support Programs: An Integrative Approach
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