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The Ark at White River
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Treatment Focus
This center treats mental health conditions and co-occurring substance use. You receive collaborative, individualized treatment that addresses both issues for whole-person healing.
Primary Level of Care
Offers a structured, immersive environment for intensive healing and personal growth, combining therapy, wellness activities, and peer support in a peaceful, distraction-free setting
Treatment Focus
This center treats mental health conditions and co-occurring substance use. You receive collaborative, individualized treatment that addresses both issues for whole-person healing.
Primary Level of Care
Offers a structured, immersive environment for intensive healing and personal growth, combining therapy, wellness activities, and peer support in a peaceful, distraction-free setting
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.
About The Ark at White River
The Ark at White River offers a calm, restorative experience for those needing time to step back, breathe, and find their feet again. Clients arriving with burnout, trauma, addiction, stress, and other mental health conditions receive truly individualised care that blends therapy, leisure, and restorative practices.
Blend Therapy with Wellness
With each stay at The Ark, expert clinicians help individuals cultivate inner strength and confidence as they navigate challenging mental health concerns. Through a personalised blend of therapy sessions, mindfulness practices, and wellness activities, individuals break unhealthy patterns and gain emotional balance. The Ark’s restorative practices are designed to strengthen emotional resilience, help find clarity, and foster lasting transformation.
Enjoy 5-Star Lodging in a Tranquil Setting
The Ark at White River Manor offers both private and shared rooms for up to four people, allowing residents to balance privacy and companionship. Rooms have en-suite bathrooms, WiFi, and well appointed furnishings. Guests have full access to The Ark’s spa, outdoor pool, gym, cinema room, library, relaxation lounges, and outdoor spaces.
Maintain Positive Habits Back Home
The Art at White River develops a personalised aftercare plan to ease each client’s transition home, including access to resources that reinforce a lifelong pursuit of positive habit-building, maintaining mental well-being and avoiding triggers. Their team remains available for ongoing guidance, ensuring clients have the tools needed to maintain their progress and thrive.
Center Overview
Support Focus
This center supports mental health conditions and co-occurring substance use. You receive collaborative, individualized support that addresses both issues for whole-person healing.
Pricing and Program Length
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Meet Your Support Team
Giles Fourie
Director Co-Owner
Jeanine Fourie
Clinical Director and Co-Founder
Jerry Hartless
Co-Founder
Professor Elisabeth Weiss
Specialist Psychiatrist
Nokwanda du Plessis
Clinical Psychologist
Gert Janse Van Rensburg
Clinical Manager/Clinical Psychologist
Dr. Sharon Boyce
Counselling & Equine-Assisted Psychologist
Mariaan Wiltshire
Occupational Therapist
Caroline Erdmann
Equine-Assisted Therapist
Michele Morphitis
Business Development Manager
Dr. Lenie Galloway
Social Worker & Trauma Specialist
Dr Mabule Lucas Mothapo
Consulting General Practitioner
Elarda Bunting
Art Facilitator
Yolande Lizamore
Personal Trainer
Nomcembo Simba
Reception & Front of House Supervisor
Jenny Pott
Music Therapist
Your Care Options
Specializations
Anxiety
Anxiety is a common mental health condition that can include excessive worry, panic attacks, physical tension, and increased blood pressure.
Burnout
Burnout entails mental and physical exhaustion, and leads to a severe lack of fulfillment. This condition is often caused by overwork.
Chronic Pain Management
Long-term physical pain can have an affect on mental health. Without support, it can also impact your daily life and even lead to addiction.
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.
Stress
Stress is a natural reaction to challenges, and it can even help you adapt. However, chronic stress can cause physical and mental health issues.
Who We Support
Executives
Executive treatment programs typically directly support the needs of people who manage businesses and may provide flexible schedules and office space to allow work during treatment.
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.
Professionals
Busy, high-ranking professionals get the personalized treatment they need with greater accommodations for work, privacy, and outside communication.
Support Services
Retreat
These curated experiences promote physical, mental, and spiritual well-being, and provide a break from the busy pace of daily life.
Approaches
Holistic
A non-medicinal, wellness-focused approach that aims to align the mind, body, and spirit for deep and lasting healing.
Personalized Treatment
The specific needs, histories, and conditions of individual patients receive personalized, highly relevant care throughout their recovery journey.
Wellness
Wellness philosophies focus on the physical, mental, and spiritual wellness of each patient, helping them restore purpose with natural remedies.
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.
Eye Movement Therapy (EMDR)
Lateral, guided eye movements help reduce the emotional reactions of retelling and reprocessing trauma, allowing intense feelings to dissipate.
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.
Mindfulness Therapy
This ancient practice can be mental, emotional, and even spiritual. In meditation, you focus your attention on the present moment without judgement.
Trauma-Specific Therapy
This form of talk therapy addresses any childhood trauma at the root of a patient's current diagnosis.
Languages
Conditions We Support
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.
Burnout
Burnout entails mental and physical exhaustion, and leads to a severe lack of fulfillment. This condition is often caused by overwork.
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.
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.
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
OCD is characterized by intrusive and distressing thoughts that drive repetitive behaviors. This pattern disrupts daily life and relationships.
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
PTSD is a long-term mental health issue caused by a disturbing event or events. Symptoms include anxiety, dissociation, flashbacks, and intrusive thoughts.
Stress
Stress is a natural reaction to challenges, and it can even help you adapt. However, chronic stress can cause physical and mental health issues.
Trauma
Some traumatic events are so disturbing that they cause long-term mental health problems. Those ongoing issues can also be referred to as "trauma."
Substances We Support
Co-Occurring Disorders
A person with multiple mental health diagnoses, such as addiction and depression, has co-occurring disorders also called dual diagnosis.
Aftercare
Care Designed for Your Needs
Personal Amenities
Amenities
Special Considerations
Pet Friendly
For greater comfort and healing, pet-friendly treatment centers welcome dogs and animal companions to stay with their owners while they attend treatment.
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.
Executive Program
Addiction and mental health treatment for executives typically involves high discretion, greater technology access, and more private, 1-on-1 care.