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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.
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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.
Pacifica
Pacifica
About Pacifica
Pacifica Treatment Centre welcomes adults 19 and older into their residential substance use recovery. Located in Vancouver near the Main/Commercial SkyTrain Station, Pacifica primarily serves clients from the Vancouver Coastal Health and Fraser Health Authority regions. Their typical waitlist is 8 to 12 weeks, though they have priority admission for pregnant women.
Pre-Engage for Confident Recovery
Even those not quite ready for treatment can engage with Pacifica through its pre-engagement option. Individuals can visit for a meal, meet the team, and ask questions so they know what to expect before committing. This welcoming step helps future clients ease into the recovery process.
Semi-Structured, Self-Guided Recovery
Treatment lengths tends to last 35 to 84 days, but Pacifica works with each client to determine what length works for them. Clients participate in a 5-phase, trauma-informed approach designed to support growth and stability at every stage. The phases—pre-engagement, orientation, primary treatment, integrative wellness, and resiliency—guide clients from first contact to a confident return to everyday life. Alongside an interdisciplinary team, they work through self-guided workbooks, attend short workshops, and build the skills they need for lasting recovery.
Hands-On Expressive Healing
Pacifica can integrate experiential, art, and music therapies into its recovery programs, giving clients creative and hands-on ways to process emotions and build resilience. These approaches allow individuals to explore feelings, express themselves, and develop healthy coping tools beyond talk therapy. Clients can choose what experiential therapies to include in their recovery journey.
Community-Based Healing Space
Pacifica’s programs help individuals strengthen their overall well-being while preparing for life beyond treatment. The centre’s community spaces create space to build relationships and support other clients. They also give clients passes for the Vancouver Community Centre during treatment and for 9 months after graduation, encouraging healthy habits that support recovery.
Aftercare Community Support
For up to 24 months after their stay, clients can also access community-based recovery services that offer continued guidance and connection. An alumni advisory council and volunteer program keep past and current clients connected.
No More Than $45 a Day
Pacifica accepts both public and private funding. Their public funding covers up to 84 days. Additional days cost a max of $45. Pacifica keeps costs down through the generosity of foundations, corporations, and individual donors.
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.
Pricing and Program Length
Estimated Center Costs
The cost listed here ($0-$45 CAD / day), 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.
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.
Art Therapy
Visual art invites patients to examine the emotions within their work, focusing on the process of creativity and its gentle therapeutic power.
Drug Addiction
Drug addiction is the excessive and repetitive use of substances, despite harmful consequences to a person's life, health, and relationships.
Expressive Arts
Creative processes like art, writing, or dance use inner creative desires to help boost confidence, emotional growth, and initiate change.
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."
Who We Treat
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.
Pregnant Women
Addiction and mental health treatment meets the clinical and psychological needs of pregnant women, ensuring they receive optimal care in all areas.
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.
Individual Treatment
Individual care meets the needs of each patient, using personalized treatment to provide them the most relevant care and greatest chance of success.
Spiritual Emphasis
Spirituality connects patients to a higher power and helps strengthen their recovery, hope, and compliance with other treatment modalities.
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.
Expressive Arts
Creative processes like art, writing, or dance use inner creative desires to help boost confidence, emotional growth, and initiate change.
Family Therapy
Family therapy addresses group dynamics within a family system, with a focus on improving communication and interrupting unhealthy relationship patterns.
Massage Therapy
Massage therapy relieves physical and emotional tension, reduces pain, promotes relaxation, and improves emotion regulation.
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.
Music Therapy
Singing, performing, and even listening to music can be therapeutic. Music therapy sessions are facilitated by certified counselors.
Languages
Conditions We Treat
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 Treat
Alcohol
Using alcohol as a coping mechanism, or drinking excessively throughout the week, signals an alcohol use disorder.
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.
Synthetic Drugs
Synthetic drugs are made in a lab, unlike plant-based drugs like mushrooms. Most synthetic drugs are either stimulants or synthetic cannabinoids.
Aftercare
Care Designed for Your Needs
Personal Amenities
Amenities
Special Considerations
Activities
Yoga
Yoga is both a physical and spiritual practice. It includes a flow of movement, breathing techniques, and meditation.