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Houghton House Treatment Centres
Treatment Focus
This center treats substance use disorders and co-occurring mental health conditions. Your treatment plan addresses each condition at once with personalized, compassionate care for comprehensive healing.
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.
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Treatment Focus
This center treats substance use disorders and co-occurring mental health conditions. Your treatment plan addresses each condition at once with personalized, compassionate care for comprehensive healing.
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.
Houghton House Treatment Centres
Houghton House Treatment Centres
About Houghton House Treatment Centres
Houghton House has helped over 15,000 people find hope and healing, drawing people from far and wide to their Johannesburg facility for addiction and mental health treatment. With the added benefit of being a licensed psychiatric hospital, their intense rehab programme—which includes in-house medical detox—fundamentally shifts patients’ views of themselves, relationships, and life. Every element is intentional, refined through 30 years of experience, and lays the foundation for a new way of being and living.
Get A Vivid Taste of Life Beyond Addiction
Houghton House uses research-backed treatment methods that treat the whole person, not just the addiction. Days 1-24 focus on medically supervised detox, stabilisation, and building recovery skills through therapy and support. Days 25-30 increase family contact and outside interaction while reinforcing recovery skills through therapy, 12-Step work, and daily activities to prevent relapse. Individual and group therapy sessions help patients gain life-altering insights into the cost and roots of their addiction, and biokinetics restores balance in the body.
Combine Hospital Standards with a Serene Setting
At Houghton House, patients can focus on recovery in a tranquil, nurturing environment. Patients stay in immaculate shared bedrooms with ensuite bathrooms, and enjoy nutritious, home-cooked meals approved by a registered dietitian. The facility provides 24-hour security and nursing care, and hospital-grade safety standards. The grounds feature picnic tables for outdoor dining and a swimming pool.
Prevent Relapse with Continuing Care
Each personalised aftercare plan helps patients reinforce the skills they learned in rehab by applying them to real-world situations as they reintegrate into their communities. Patients receive help identifying relapse triggers and creating plans to avoid them, building a sober support network, and mastering emotional regulation. For those who need additional support before fully returning home, Houghton's halfway houses give patients a balance of independence and accountability.
Center Overview
Treatment Focus
This center treats substance use disorders and co-occurring mental health conditions. Your treatment plan addresses each condition at once with personalized, compassionate care for comprehensive healing.
Cash Pay Rates
Estimated Cash Pay Rate
Center pricing can vary based on program and length of stay. Contact the center for more information. Recovery.com strives for price transparency so you can make an informed decision.
Meet Your Care Team
Dan Wolf
Director
Alex Hamlyn
Director
Dr. Ajay Makan
Psychiatrist
Dr. Zaheeda Ebrahim Iqbal
Psychiatrist
Dr. Rezaan Ali
Physician
Savannah Verheem
Admissions counsellor
Reginald Mahlatjie
Clinical psychologist
Aasiyah Mia
Social worker
Siphokazi Makubalo
Counselling psychologist
Angela Maoela
Counselling psychologist
Tshegofatso Kgasago
Counselling psychologist
Nompumelelo Ngubane
Registered counsellor
Elli Garb
Senior addictions counsellor
Robert Beck
Recovery assistant
Mohammed Cothia
Recovery assistant
Nyasha Muchada
Hospital case manager
Tessa Otten
Social worker
Zarina Patel
Social worker
Georgina Dix
Registered counsellor
Claire Myhill
Counselling psychologist
Judith Gordon-Drake
Clinical social worker and family support
Levels of Care
Your Care Options
Specializations
Alcohol
Using alcohol as a coping mechanism, or drinking excessively throughout the week, signals an alcohol use disorder.
Anxiety
Anxiety is a common mental health condition that can include excessive worry, panic attacks, physical tension, and increased blood pressure.
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.
Drug Addiction
Drug addiction is the excessive and repetitive use of substances, despite harmful consequences to a person's life, health, and relationships.
Who We Treat
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.
Approaches
Evidence-Based
A combination of scientifically rooted therapies and treatments make up evidence-based care, defined by their measured and proven results.
Therapies
Conditions We Treat
Pornography Addiction
A person with a porn addiction is emotionally dependent on pornography to the point that it interferes with their daily life and relationships.
Schizophrenia
Schizophrenia is a serious mental health condition that causes hallucinations, delusions, and disordered thinking.
Grief and Loss
Grief is a natural reaction to loss, but severe grief can interfere with your ability to function. You can get treatment for this condition.
Personality Disorders
Personality disorders destabilize the way a person thinks, feels, and behaves. If untreated, they can undermine relationships and lead to severe distress.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Psychedelics
Hallucinogenic drugs—like LSD—cause euphoria and increased sensory experiences. When abused, they can lead to depression and psychosis.
Languages
Aftercare
Care Designed for Your Needs
Personal Amenities
Amenities
Special Considerations
Flexible technology policies
Centers with flexible technology policies allow professionals to stay in touch with work and give patients a greater sense of connection and normalcy.
Activities
Yoga
Yoga is both a physical and spiritual practice. It includes a flow of movement, breathing techniques, and meditation.
Off-Site Activities
Off-Site Amenities
Smoking and Vaping Policy
What people are saying
Treatment
5.0
Accommodations
5.0
Food & Nutrition
4.5
Value
5.0
Dy Williams
Treatment in 2008 • (60 days) • Reviewed 11/02/22
Former Client
•Picture Framer
•South Africa
