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Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada
The Sanctuary Vancouver Island
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About The Sanctuary Vancouver Island
The Sanctuary is a luxury, private therapeutic retreat for high-profile clients. They treat addiction and mental health conditions with a holistic approach. The Sanctuary Vancouver Island delivers all treatment 1-on-1, with no group therapy or shared facilities. Clients reside in a private 5-star home with expert care staff on site. The Sanctuary’s holistic approach combines complementary therapies with traditional clinical medicine. They offer a full continuum of care with detox services, residential care, complex medical management, programs for eating disorders, and family and couples counseling.
Highly Individualized Care
The Sanctuary Vancouver Island offers medical care, psychotherapy, and complementary therapies like bodywork, transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), brain mapping, and biofeedback therapies. Clients can also enjoy yoga and meditation, acupuncture, massage therapy, and personal fitness training. Additional modalities can be integrated into the program. These include reflexology, osteopathy, dentistry, kinesiology, and pilates. The Sanctuary Vancouver Island strives to give each client the best experience possible, customizing each step of treatment to meet their needs and preferences.
One-on-One Treatment
The Sanctuary treats a full spectrum of health conditions including addiction, anxiety, depression, gambling and sex addiction, crypto addiction, relationship difficulties, and gender identity struggles. Their medical care helps manage and treat heart disease, chronic pain, diabetes, weight loss, and more. Treatment is highly personalized with hand-crafted therapies and treatments tailored to the unique needs of each individual. Each client has their own personal support staff, with therapists, doctors, nurses, yoga teachers, acupuncturists, a chef, and a personal trainer to meet their needs. Aftercare efforts begin during residential treatment. The Sanctuary connects with clients’ home providers to help ensure a seamless transition out of treatment at The Sanctuary.
Recover in Ultimate Privacy And Luxury
The Sanctuary carefully select private properties on Vancouver Island, which is just offshore British Columbia's southwest coast. Each private residence takes the client's taste into consideration. The Sanctuary offers everything from waterfront to modern to cozy homestead-style lodgings, and only personal staff members and/or family members live with clients in their own private home during treatment. The Sanctuary schedules treatment for a sense of routine, but plenty of free time and outside excursions give clients variety and adventure.
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Luxury rehab centers offer a unique blend of luxurious amenities and high-quality treatment. From private suites to gourmet dining, personal trainers to spa treatments, these facilities provide a high level of comfort and discretion.
Personalized, Elite Treatment
The Sanctuary Vancouver Island offers confidential treatment for elite clientele. They personalize each aspect for an optimal treatment experience. Daily therapies help unite each client and their treatment team. The Sanctuary can meet almost any request–with their array of treatment specialists and amenities, they can align each experience with unique needs.
Whole-Person Wellness
The Sanctuary Vancouver Island aims to heal all of the mind, body, and spirit. Their variety of psychological and medical treatments help clients heal inside and out. Mindfulness practices like yoga, Qigong, and meditation help clients restore their spiritual health. The Sanctuary Vancouver Island also offers recreational therapies like whale watching, beach walks, salmon fishing, adventure cruises, hiking, seaplane tours, and many more.
Family And Executive Programs
Understanding the importance of loved ones, The Sanctuary Vancouver Island offers a family and couples program. This program helps heal relationships, grow family bonds, and help the family unit support healthy futures. The Sanctuary also understands the unique needs of working executives, offering flexible tech access to keep their clients connected. They additionally focus on burnout and stress for professionals who need a respite.
Comprehensive Treatment And Support
The Sanctuary Vancouver Island offers support throughout treatment, from admissions to aftercare. Their travel companions and recovery coaches support clients as they enter and leave The Sanctuary, aiming to make the adjustment as smooth as possible. The Sanctuary also provides detox for those who need it. Their nursing and clinical staff monitor detox for a safe and positive experience, supported by complementary therapies.
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Center Overview
Estimated Center Costs
The cost listed here (Starting at $216,000 US for 21 days), is an estimate of program cost. Center price 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.
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.
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.
Professionals
Busy, high-ranking professionals get the personalized treatment they need with greater accommodations for work, privacy, and outside communication.
Treatment Focus
You can admit to this center with a primary substance use disorder or a primary mental health condition. You'll receive support each step of the way and individualized care catered to your unique situation and diagnosis.
Care Options
Treatment
Specializations
Burnout
Burnout entails mental and physical exhaustion, and leads to a severe lack of fulfillment. This condition is often caused by overwork.
Drug Addiction
Drug addiction is the excessive and repetitive use of substances, despite harmful consequences to a person's life, health, and relationships.
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.
One-to-One
Patients work with their treatment team members on a 1-on-1 basis, keeping their journey and treatment fully private and personalized.
Approaches
Evidence-Based
A combination of scientifically rooted therapies and treatments make up evidence-based care, defined by their measured and proven results.
Holistic
A non-medicinal, wellness-focused approach that aims to align the mind, body, and spirit for deep and lasting healing.
One-to-One
Patients work with their treatment team members on a 1-on-1 basis, keeping their journey and treatment fully private and personalized.
One-to-One
Patients work with their treatment team members on a 1-on-1 basis, keeping their journey and treatment fully private and personalized.
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.
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.
Cryotherapy
Stepping into a chamber of extreme cold floods the bloodstream with nutrients and endorphins, helping reduce withdrawal symptoms and cravings.
Online Therapy
Patients can connect with a therapist via videochat, messaging, email, or phone. Remote therapy makes treatment more accessible.
Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation
Localized magnetic pulses stimulate areas of the brain to increase brain activity and reduce abnormal functions.
Mindfulness Therapy
This ancient practice can be mental, emotional, and even spiritual. In meditation, you focus your attention on the present moment without judgement.
Adventure Therapy
This experiential approach uses the physical and emotional challenges of outdoor activities as tools for personal growth.
Aromatherapy
Inhaling or topically applying essential oils can help relieve stress, soothe pains, and relieve emotional distress.
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.
Bipolar
This mental health condition is characterized by extreme mood swings between depression, mania, and remission.
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.
Psychedelics
Hallucinogenic drugs—like LSD—cause euphoria and increased sensory experiences. When abused, they can lead to depression and psychosis.
Aftercare
Experience
Personal Amenities
Amenities
Special Considerations
Clients can bring their own pet(s)
For greater comfort and healing, pet-friendly treatment centers welcome dogs and animal companions to stay with their owners while they attend treatment.
Couples program
Using gentle clinical care, therapists guide patients and their partner through guided sessions to address issues and work towards lasting solutions.
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.
Executive Program
Addiction and mental health treatment for executives typically involves high discretion, greater technology access, and more private, 1-on-1 care.
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
Professional Staff
Dominique Vincenz
Case Manager
Carla Beer-Carpenter
Dietitian
Bachelor of Clinical Nutrition
Dr. Allen Berger
Gestalt Psychologist
Ph.D
Mary Elizabeth Holmes
Clinical Hypnotherapist and Life Coach
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