The Ashburn Clinic

The most dangerous and lethal 19 months of ritual overt and covert abuse I and others suffered at the hands of the kapos in charge.Do not go there.

All good if you're a good sheeple and do exactly what you're told and don't question anything.If you dare go against the grain and do ask opposing questions, or concerns over treatment, prepare to be labeled argumentive, threatening, and you get written up as a trouble maker...If you're in need of immediate available help, don't hold your breath.Nurses and most other staff have no clue about trauma informed care. Some of them don't even know what you're there for.Could work if they were more tolerable, and explained what you'd done wrong and look at how to do it better next time.eg. going to the dairy without asking and signing out and in again.They just straight away admonish you, despite the action and the cause....The theraputic community is a joke, more of a witch Hunt and narcing session, very unhelpful, possibly harmful......Don't rock the boat and you'll be a good Ashburn minion.

Our experience while our son was an inpatient last year compared to his rehab in Chch.So much more positive and not paying for “the experience” Rehab saw lapses as a way to move forward and not like Ashburn to banish with no acknowledgement that their way failed. Thinking about it they really are not in touch with addictions. Possibly better suited to other issues like anorexica, OCD etcSo Salvation Army Bridge Programme in Chch is very impressive for addiction recovery. The workers really care about all the participants and are so positive and encouraging.

Awful. Would never recommend coming here for any sort of care. Psychiatrists seem disinterested and dismissive, total waste of a lot of money.

Ashburn was life changing for me in all the good ways. I came in a wreck and left 5 months later significantly healthier. Thanks Ashburn!

Living in a therapeutic community such as Ashburn is not easy. The days are full and the work is hard. The main programme will challenge every inch of your being and the communal living will do the same ... though if you are willing to do the work and put aside the personal agendas Ashburn can be such a healing experience. Nothing is without fault in this world including Ashburn, but it really did help me in so many ways ... most importantly it kept me alive when I wasn't able to do it for myself! If you're looking for a quick fix Ashburn isnt the place for you but if you're prepared to commit to the work and trust in the process and people ... it can be life changing.

Pur and simple it should be closed down. Staff are total bullies. Theres no privacy and set patients against each other. I tried to take my life a week after i left. It was pure hell wwhen i was

FYI here is my review of AshburnBefore my son went to Ashburn clinic (AC)  he had a good relationship with two parents who were kind to him and supportive of him.We gladly went to the family therapy sessions as requested. We accepted that we had something to apologise for and did so. Just to be clear we aren’t and never have been what you would call abusive, so I’m talking about very small stuff on the scale.AC seemed to paint us parents as the problem, this was obvious to both of us when we went to the family therapy sessions.When our son moved out of the clinic he wouldn’t give us his address and told both of us that he didn't want contact while he rebuilt his life.We believe that the ‘therapy’ AC provided convinced our son that he needed to separate himself from his parents.Having healthy connections with others is scientifically proven to increase longevity. One of a person’s most fundamental connections is with their parents.In this case, receiving treatment at AC led to our son going from getting on well with his parents to having no connection at all with us.I am very unimpressed with Ashburn clinic.

This place is worth it if you put in the effort. With a diplomatic therapeutic co.munity group therapy is essential to getting better and I'm so glad I have had the chance and opportunity to get better during my stay here.

Do not go here. There is nothing therapeutic about this place. It is old, dirty, with mixed accommodation and archaic treatment models and very little goes on other that constant group meetings , weekly serious suicide attempts and some are successful. This place tries to treat literally everything under the sun including addictions and it is a hot mess of chaos. You will have zero privacy with other patients wading in on your care and what you can do. I liken it to going back 50 years to the movie of One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest - seriously. The tax payer or you will be forking out just over 4k a week for the privilege . I think you are better to spend time in the community with therapist, coming here will actually send you backwards.The food is good.