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Tabankulu Secondary care facility is a charming double-storey thatch house with wooden floors and a warm, sunny ambience.  Tucked away on a large property in the Cape Fynbos, it has a sauna, swimming pool and is surrounded by a panoramic view of mountains and sea.  We accommodate 15 residents in comfortable semi-private bedrooms with en suite bathrooms


We offer a truly holistic programme to residents in a beautiful, safe and compassionate, mindful and healing environment.  Our integrated treatment approach recognises that humans exist as body, mind, emotions and spirit, functioning within a cultural and social context


Our treatment philosophy is based on the premise that only when the whole person is healed within his or her social and cultural context can lasting recovery begin.  Our integrated treatment, based on the Integrated Recovery Model, is a bio-psycho-social-spiritual approach to treatment and recovery.  The Integrated Recovery Model integrates 12-step abstinence-based methodologies, mindfulness-based interventions, positive psychology, Integral Theory and many other evidence-based therapeutic modalities.  The result is a comprehensive and balanced programme that initiates an awakening and healing in all dimensions of our clients' lives.


We are one of the few treatment centres in the world to offer this progressive level of treatment.

 

At Tabankulu Secondary clients are introduced to and educated in working an  Integrated Recovery Programme (IRP). An Integrated Recovery Programme is about mindfully practicing your physical, mental, emotional, spiritual, social and environmental dimensions as part of an Integrated Recovery Lifestyle that is geared towards continued personal growth in relation to self, others and the Trancendent. The aim of an IRP is for clients to achieve an optimal measure of health, meaning and joy in all the vital areas of their lives, thereby giving them the capcity to achieve their full potential as unique human beings.


Our 4-12 week programme incorporates six dimensions of treatment and includes the following evidence based therapeutic practices and activities:

  • Physical:
    • Walks on surrounding beaches and mountains
    • Surfing lessons
    • Yoga, Tai Chi and Kung Fu
    • Nutritional education and supplements
    • Daily exercise
    • Psychiatric assessment and pharmacological intervention
    • Neurological assessments
    • Neurotherapy using EEG-Biofeedback

 

  • Mental:
    • 12-Step education and written work
    • Lectures and workshops
    • Dialectic Behaviour Therapy (DBT) skills training adapted for addicted populations
    • Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy workshops and workbooks(REBT)
    • Psychological assessments

 

  • Emotional:
    • Individual counseling
    • Psychotherapeutic groups
    • Gender groups
    • Grief groups
    • Eating disorder groups
    • Sex and love addiction groups

 

  • Spiritual:
    • Daily mindfulness meditation (adapted from Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction Programme and assisted by brainwave entrainment technology)
    • Mindfulness practice groups using ikebana and bonsai as focus activities
    • Music therapy groups
    • Art therapy groups
    • Spirituality groups and education
    • Existential  groups

 

  • Social:

    • 12-Step meetings, sponsorship and service within 12-Step fellowships
    • 12-Step sponsor
    • Family programme
    • Family conjoints
    • After Care groups for ex-clients

 

  • Environmental:
    • Community and environmental service
    • Participation in recycling activities
    • Permaculture gardening
    • CV design, administrative life skills, financial education and guidance in finding safe accommodation

 

Our multi-disciplinary secondary staff team is comprised of expert addiction counsellors, a psychologist, a neurotherapist, a clinical nutritionist, a registered dietician, a consultant psychiatrist, a medical doctor, a qualified Tai Chi, Yoga and Kung Fu instructor, Permaculture and organic gardening instructor, an Ikebana and bonsai facilitator trained in Japan, a full time chef and a surfing instructor.


A postgraduate research project regarding Tabankulu Secondary was conducted through the University of Cape Town (UCT). It explored the value of the Integrated Recovery Model in an evaluative outcome-based study and has shown positive results, thereby confirming the excellence and success of our innovative approach to treatment and recovery.

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