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Bowen Island, British Columbia, Canada
Orchard Recovery
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Estimated Cash Pay Rate
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Customized Treatment Plans
Medically Assisted Detox
Certified Professionals
20+ Years in Business
About Orchard Recovery
The Orchard Recovery Center is a private, boutique, 25-bed addiction treatment program tucked away in the West Coast rainforest on Bowen Island. Since 2002, they’ve combined the heart and science of recovery—treating the brain, body, and soul through holistic care and individualized treatment. Internationally accredited and led by an award-winning team, Orchard helps clients detox, stabilize, and leave feeling emotionally strong, personally accountable, and inspired to pursue lifelong recovery.
Build a Strong Base for Lifelong Recovery
Orchard Recovery Center builds a solid foundation for recovery by integrating clinical interventions, trauma-informed therapy, 12-Step philosophy, and holistic modalities. Clients are immersed in recovery-themed programming, which includes individual therapy, group therapy, psycho-educational seminars, relapse prevention skills, family programming, yoga, mindfulness, music and art therapy. Treatment also includes life skills and psycho-spiritual development tailored to each client’s values—supporting both practical growth and deeper personal insight.
Recover in a Former 4-Star Resort
Tucked away in a rainforest, Orchard Recovery Center offers shared bedrooms with fireplaces and queen beds, a 2,800-sq-ft fitness facility, an outdoor pool, and spaces to relax indoors or outdoors. Clients enjoy delicious meals, guided nature walks, and designated time for devices, including Sunday video calls with family members. With space for reflection and connection, clients feel grounded and supported as they engage in the work of recovery.
Stay Supported After Treatment
Staying connected with Orchard Recovery Center is an important part of each client’s continued recovery journey. Counsellors and recovery coaches provide weekly and monthly check-ins for a full year after treatment. Clients can also stay connected through Friends of the Orchard 12-Step meetings, special events like the annual picnic, and an alumni app. These opportunities for connection, joy, and accountability remind clients they’re not alone as they continue building meaningful lives.
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Support Family Healing and Growth
As part of the primary care program, Orchard Recovery Center offers weekly online family programming and in-depth weekends to help loved ones understand addiction, explore its impact, and begin healing. Families gain insight into their own dynamics, learn tools for healthier relationships, and join process groups with clients—building trust and preparing for life after treatment.
Experience a Safer, More Comfortable Detox
Detox at Orchard is a medically assisted, client-centered process that helps manage withdrawal safely and comfortably. Clients are assessed by an addiction medicine doctor and supported by nurses, support staff, and clinicians. This structured approach reduces complications, increases comfort, and prepares clients to fully engage in treatment when clinically ready.
Trust a Seasoned Staff Team
Orchard’s well-established team and structured environment help clients focus fully on recovery. Their team has worked together for years, which ensures a consistent and effective approach to treatment, refined through experience. Clients are more likely to open up when they feel the stability, knowledge, and genuine care of the dedicated staff.
Ease in with a 12-Day Option
Orchard Recovery Center offers a 12-Day Introduction to Treatment for clients seeking a shorter stay to explore whether the program is the right fit. This option provides an entry point into structured care with the flexibility to extend into their 28- or 42-day programs, supporting informed decisions and a personalized path to recovery.
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Center Overview
Estimated Center Costs
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Midlife Adults
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Pregnant Women
Addiction and mental health treatment meets the clinical and psychological needs of pregnant women, ensuring they receive optimal care in all areas.
Treatment Focus
This center treats primary substance use disorders and co-occurring mental health conditions. Your treatment plan addresses each condition at once with personalized, compassionate care for comprehensive healing.
Treatment
Specializations
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.
Chronic Relapse
Consistent relapse occurs repeatedly, after partial recovery from addiction. This condition requires long-term treatment.
Co-Occurring Disorders
A person with multiple mental health diagnoses, such as addiction and depression, has co-occurring disorders also called dual diagnosis.
Drug Addiction
Drug addiction is the excessive and repetitive use of substances, despite harmful consequences to a person's life, health, and relationships.
Opioids
Opioids produce pain-relief and euphoria, which can lead to addiction. This class of drugs includes prescribed medication and the illegal drug heroin.
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.
Treatment Services
Detox (on-site with residential)
This is often the first step of addiction treatment. For many people, it's dangerous to detox without proper medical support.
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
Spiritual Emphasis
Spirituality connects patients to a higher power and helps strengthen their recovery, hope, and compliance with other treatment modalities.
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.
Medical
Medical addiction treatment uses approved medications to manage withdrawals and cravings, and to treat contributing mental health conditions.
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.
Meditation & Mindfulness
A practiced state of mind that brings patients to the present. It allows them to become fully aware of themselves, their feelings, and the present moment.
Art Therapy
Visual art invites patients to examine the emotions within their work, focusing on the process of creativity and its gentle therapeutic power.
Family Therapy
Family therapy addresses group dynamics within a family system, with a focus on improving communication and interrupting unhealthy relationship patterns.
Hypnotherapy
A hypnotherapist guides patients through a trance-like state. This helps them identify and process subconscious emotions and regain inner control.
Life Skills
Teaching life skills like cooking, cleaning, clear communication, and even basic math provides a strong foundation for continued recovery.
Massage Therapy
Massage therapy relieves physical and emotional tension, reduces pain, promotes relaxation, and improves emotion regulation.
Motivational Interviewing and Enhancement Therapy (MET)
This approach is based on idea that motivation to change comes from within. Providers use a conversational framework that may help you commit to recovery.
Music Therapy
Singing, performing, and even listening to music can be therapeutic. Music therapy sessions are facilitated by certified counselors.
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.
Chronic Relapse
Consistent relapse occurs repeatedly, after partial recovery from addiction. This condition requires long-term treatment.
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.
Methamphetamine
Methamphetamine, or meth, increases energy, agitation, and paranoia. Long-term use can result in severe physical and mental health issues.
Aftercare
Experience
Personal Amenities
Amenities
Special Considerations
Gender-specific groups
Patients in gender-specific groups gain the opportunity to discuss challenges unique to their gender in a comfortable, safe setting conducive to healing.
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
Professional Staff
Lorinda Strang
Executive Director, Co-Founder
Dr. Patrick Fay
Medical Director Emeritus
MD, ABAM(d), DFASAM, ASAM
Dr. Adam Chodkiewicz
Psychiatrist
MD, FRCP(C), DABAM
Dr. Máire Durnin
Addiction Physician
MD, PhD, MSC.BA(Mod), CCFP(AM), FASAM, cCSAM, cISAM, CCBOM, MRO
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Testimonial
Through hard work, I am a better husband, Dad, son, employee, and a happy and contented member of my community. I could never put into words the respect and gratitude my family and I have for the Orchard and the staff for their time, patience and genuine concern.
Jamie, Nova Scotia
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