For anyone thinking about attending a residential alcohol and drug addiction treatment facility for the first time, they might quite reasonably wonder what kind of environment they will be walking into. Will you be greeted at the entrance of the facility by well-built men wearing white coats? How will you spend your time? Will you never be allowed to leave the facility until you complete your treatment?
Where to Begin?
With no frame of reference on residential alcohol or drug addiction treatment, it’s completely understandable that a person’s feelings of uncertainty and some degree of fear or anxiety will cause someone seeking residential drug or alcohol addiction treatment for the first time to ask these kinds of questions.
In this article, we will explore what you can expect from attending residential alcohol and drug treatment for the first time by providing you with some insight into life at Breathing Space Thailand, Asia’s leading residential treatment for the treatment of drug and alcohol addiction.
Support for you
For many of our clients, once a decision has been made to attend treatment with us, they might very well make a long haul flight from Europe or the US to Suvarnabhumi Airport in Bangkok. At the client’s request, a member of the Breathing Space Thailand therapy team can meet you at Suvarnabhumi Airport, before travelling together with you on the 50 minute domestic flight to Chiang Mai, which is some 600kms north of Bangkok. After travelling long haul, many of our clients appreciate meeting a member of the Breathing Space Thailand therapy team at this stage in their journey.
For clients who have undergone detoxification from alcohol or drugs shortly before travelling to residential treatment Breathing Space Thailand or clients who might only recently have stopped actively using drugs or alcohol, it can be reassuring to have some support at this stage of the journey to Breathing Space Thailand.
Other clients feel comfortable completing the journey from Bangkok to Chiang Mai by themselves, in which case we will meet you at Chiang Mai International Airport and then make the traffic jam-free 30 minute journey to Breathing Space Thailand by air-conditioned limousine.
Confidentiality and Discretion Assured at Residential Drug and Alcohol Treatment Breathing Space Thailand
There is nothing mysterious about attending a residential addictions treatment program, although confidentiality and discretion are an expectation for many clients attending Breathing Space Thailand. Client confidentiality is something we take very seriously and we consider this to be a pre-requisite for anyone attending our program. Discretion is something that anyone choosing to attend our program can be assured of, from the time you make an initial enquiry through to your after-treatment personal therapy sessions (and beyond), your treatment records are held securely and are viewed only be members of the Breathing Space Thailand therapy team, on a need-to-know basis.
On arrival at Breathing Space Thailand, you are inducted onto our program and your stay begins with a visit to our spa center, which is situated within our facility, where you’ll receive a massage, sauna or steam and your spa session is concluded with a Jacuzzi. We find this enables our clients to really relax and de-stress after the journey to Thailand and is an excellent way of providing you with some quality time before becoming immersed in our therapy program.
The Only Private Residential Addiction Treatment to offer Medical Clinic Facilities in SE Asia
We are the only private residential drug and alcohol addiction treatment facility in SE Asia to provide clients with a medical clinic within the Breathing Space Thailand facility. Breathing Space Thailand’s alcohol and drug addiction center is staffed by qualified and experienced doctors and psychiatrists to ensure that you receive a thorough medical assessment, shortly after your arrival.
Providing you with Structured, Individualised Care at Asia’s Leading Treatment Facility
All aspects of the Breathing Space Thailand residential alcohol and drug addiction treatment program are timetabled, so at Asia’s leading treatment center you’ll have a very clear understanding of what you are doing on any given day.
Many people from an addictions background often find it difficult to successfully maintain a time-bound structure to their average day or week, or have found trying to do so is often interrupted in various ways either by their alcohol or drug use or the mental or physical side-effects of their drug or alcohol use. Therefore, following and completing a weekly time table whilst at Breathing Space Thailand has proven to be incredibly beneficial to many of our clients in helping them to re-establish this discipline.
The Breathing space Thailand residential alcohol and drug addiction treatment living environment is a very comfortable and therapeutic place to spend time and makes for the perfect counter-balance to a full and often demanding psychotherapy-based program. Any worthwhile drug or alcohol addiction treatment program should challenge its clients to address and change their thinking and behavior and our Breathing Space Thailand’s treatment program is no exception in this regard.
It’s not an easy task to review your personal history from the perspective of your alcohol or drug using past and to then set about changing the thinking and behavior that has accompanied your active addiction. Nevertheless, this process is integral to making the necessary changes to successfully move forward in life free from addiction.
An important point to make here is that you are not alone in going through this process of change. You’ll receive support from our qualified and experienced therapy team staff and also from fellow peers. Breathing Space Thailand has an excellent staff to client ratio to ensure you receive the very best standards of care.
With a maximum of just 11 bed spaces there is no risk of getting lost in the crowd and you’ll receive additional support from a member of Breathing Space Thailand’s therapy team who is assigned to work with you for the duration of your stay.
Finding a Balance to Your Life at Drug Alcohol Treatment Center Breathing Space Thailand
Any good quality residential treatment program should ensure that your recovery from drug or alcohol addiction enables you to achieve a much greater balance in your life with fewer extremes in your thinking and behavior. So, at Breathing Space Thailand we provide a concentrated focus on the addiction recovery process with therapy groups, personal therapy and key work sessions forming the main focus of your timetable during the morning and afternoons are spent completing written assignments, attending personal training, massage and spa treatments or taking a dip in the swimming pool.
On a number of evenings each week, we’ll also take you to 12 Step fellowship meetings to enable you to further broaden your understanding and perspective of addiction recovery.
Enjoy Your Leisure Time
On evenings when we don’t attend 12 Step meetings, our clients can choose to watch a movie together or enjoy playing some games on the Wii console, sending an email home to family from our net cafe or relaxing over a game of chess in one of our many outdoor or indoor communal spaces.
On Sundays, clients head out on an excursion providing a change of scenery and the opportunity to create a new frame of reference on enjoying leisure time without the need to use mood altering substances in order to experience a sense of fun.
Life Goes On at Asia’s Leading Treatment Center
At Breathing Space Thailand, your life goes on in recovery from drug or alcohol addiction. We facilitate you with the time and space you need to make a transition from active addiction into a new life in addiction recovery. Residential addiction treatment should be inspiring and life-changing, it should provide you with the memory of a point in time when you needed help and received that help in a way that fundamentally changed your life. At Breathing Space Thailand, we make that possibility a reality. For more information, please contact us.
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Seeking Addiction Treatment
For anyone thinking about attending a residential alcohol and drug addiction treatment facility for the first time, they might quite reasonably wonder what kind of environment they will be walking into. Will you be greeted at the entrance of the facility by well-built men wearing white coats? How will you spend your time? Will you never be allowed to leave the facility until you complete your treatment?
Where to Begin?
With no frame of reference on residential alcohol or drug addiction treatment, it’s completely understandable that a person’s feelings of uncertainty and some degree of fear or anxiety will cause someone seeking residential drug or alcohol addiction treatment for the first time to ask these kinds of questions.
In this article, we will explore what you can expect from attending residential alcohol and drug treatment for the first time by providing you with some insight into life at Breathing Space Thailand, Asia’s leading residential treatment for the treatment of drug and alcohol addiction.
Support for you
For many of our clients, once a decision has been made to attend treatment with us, they might very well make a long haul flight from Europe or the US to Suvarnabhumi Airport in Bangkok. At the client’s request, a member of the Breathing Space Thailand therapy team can meet you at Suvarnabhumi Airport, before travelling together with you on the 50 minute domestic flight to Chiang Mai, which is some 600kms north of Bangkok. After travelling long haul, many of our clients appreciate meeting a member of the Breathing Space Thailand therapy team at this stage in their journey.
For clients who have undergone detoxification from alcohol or drugs shortly before travelling to residential treatment Breathing Space Thailand or clients who might only recently have stopped actively using drugs or alcohol, it can be reassuring to have some support at this stage of the journey to Breathing Space Thailand.
Other clients feel comfortable completing the journey from Bangkok to Chiang Mai by themselves, in which case we will meet you at Chiang Mai International Airport and then make the traffic jam-free 30 minute journey to Breathing Space Thailand by air-conditioned limousine.
Confidentiality and Discretion Assured at Residential Drug and Alcohol Treatment Breathing Space Thailand
There is nothing mysterious about attending a residential addictions treatment program, although confidentiality and discretion are an expectation for many clients attending Breathing Space Thailand. Client confidentiality is something we take very seriously and we consider this to be a pre-requisite for anyone attending our program. Discretion is something that anyone choosing to attend our program can be assured of, from the time you make an initial enquiry through to your after-treatment personal therapy sessions (and beyond), your treatment records are held securely and are viewed only be members of the Breathing Space Thailand therapy team, on a need-to-know basis.
On arrival at Breathing Space Thailand, you are inducted onto our program and your stay begins with a visit to our spa center, which is situated within our facility, where you’ll receive a massage, sauna or steam and your spa session is concluded with a Jacuzzi. We find this enables our clients to really relax and de-stress after the journey to Thailand and is an excellent way of providing you with some quality time before becoming immersed in our therapy program.
The Only Private Residential Addiction Treatment to offer Medical Clinic Facilities in SE Asia
We are the only private residential drug and alcohol addiction treatment facility in SE Asia to provide clients with a medical clinic within the Breathing Space Thailand facility. Breathing Space Thailand’s alcohol and drug addiction center is staffed by qualified and experienced doctors and psychiatrists to ensure that you receive a thorough medical assessment, shortly after your arrival.
Providing you with Structured, Individualised Care at Asia’s Leading Treatment Facility
All aspects of the Breathing Space Thailand residential alcohol and drug addiction treatment program are timetabled, so at Asia’s leading treatment center you’ll have a very clear understanding of what you are doing on any given day.
Many people from an addictions background often find it difficult to successfully maintain a time-bound structure to their average day or week, or have found trying to do so is often interrupted in various ways either by their alcohol or drug use or the mental or physical side-effects of their drug or alcohol use. Therefore, following and completing a weekly time table whilst at Breathing Space Thailand has proven to be incredibly beneficial to many of our clients in helping them to re-establish this discipline.
The Breathing space Thailand residential alcohol and drug addiction treatment living environment is a very comfortable and therapeutic place to spend time and makes for the perfect counter-balance to a full and often demanding psychotherapy-based program. Any worthwhile drug or alcohol addiction treatment program should challenge its clients to address and change their thinking and behavior and our Breathing Space Thailand’s treatment program is no exception in this regard.
It’s not an easy task to review your personal history from the perspective of your alcohol or drug using past and to then set about changing the thinking and behavior that has accompanied your active addiction. Nevertheless, this process is integral to making the necessary changes to successfully move forward in life free from addiction.
An important point to make here is that you are not alone in going through this process of change. You’ll receive support from our qualified and experienced therapy team staff and also from fellow peers. Breathing Space Thailand has an excellent staff to client ratio to ensure you receive the very best standards of care.
With a maximum of just 11 bed spaces there is no risk of getting lost in the crowd and you’ll receive additional support from a member of Breathing Space Thailand’s therapy team who is assigned to work with you for the duration of your stay.
Finding a Balance to Your Life at Drug Alcohol Treatment Center Breathing Space Thailand
Any good quality residential treatment program should ensure that your recovery from drug or alcohol addiction enables you to achieve a much greater balance in your life with fewer extremes in your thinking and behavior. So, at Breathing Space Thailand we provide a concentrated focus on the addiction recovery process with therapy groups, personal therapy and key work sessions forming the main focus of your timetable during the morning and afternoons are spent completing written assignments, attending personal training, massage and spa treatments or taking a dip in the swimming pool. On a number of evenings each week, we’ll also take you to 12 Step fellowship meetings to enable you to further broaden your understanding and perspective of addiction recovery.
Enjoy Your Leisure Time
On evenings when we don’t attend 12 Step meetings, our clients can choose to watch a movie together or enjoy playing some games on the Wii console, sending an email home to family from our net cafe or relaxing over a game of chess in one of our many outdoor or indoor communal spaces.
On Sundays, clients head out on an excursion providing a change of scenery and the opportunity to create a new frame of reference on enjoying leisure time without the need to use mood altering substances in order to experience a sense of fun.
Life Goes On at Asia’s Leading Treatment Center
At Breathing Space Thailand, your life goes on in recovery from drug or alcohol addiction. We facilitate you with the time and space you need to make a transition from active addiction into a new life in addiction recovery. Residential addiction treatment should be inspiring and life-changing, it should provide you with the memory of a point in time when you needed help and received that help in a way that fundamentally changed your life. At Breathing Space Thailand, we make that possibility a reality. For more information, please contact us.