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Houghton House Treatment Centres
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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.
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 co-occurring mental health conditions. 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.
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Co-Occurring Disorders Treatment
On-site Medical Detox
20+ Years in Business
Addiction Recovery
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.
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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
Your Care Options
Specializations
Intensive Inpatient
The highest level of care, medically managed intensive inpatient services provides 24-hour nursing and physician care.
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.
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.
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.
Heroin
Heroin is a highly addictive and illegal opioid. It can cause insomnia, collapsed veins, heart issues, and additional mental health issues.
Synthetic Drugs
Synthetic drugs are made in a lab, unlike plant-based drugs like mushrooms. Most synthetic drugs are either stimulants or synthetic cannabinoids.
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.
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
Evidence-Based
A combination of scientifically rooted therapies and treatments make up evidence-based care, defined by their measured and proven results.
Therapies
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
Learn More About the Center
International Patients
Learn how Houghton House provides a seamless experience for patients from the UK, Europe, and Africa.
Halfway House
Build a new life in a supportive, safe, home-like environment in one of Houghton’s supervised residences.
Hindu and Muslim Perspectives on Addiction
Discover why Houghton House provides a treatment environment that can support religious considerations.
Intensive Outpatient Programme
Find out who Houghton’s IOP is best suited to treat.
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
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•South Africa