Treatment

Recognizing that the disease of addiction affects the BIO-PSYCHO-SOCIAL-SPIRITUAL dimensions, the clinical team at Top of the World provides a treatment program that addresses all these areas.

Our team of highly trained, respectful, deeply committed and passionate recovery staff will gently and firmly guide our clients through their individualized goals and recovery.

The Top of the World Ranch Treatment Centre is a Level 111.5 Center according to the ASAM PPC-2R Level of Care Criteria. We are a Clinically Managed High Intensity Residential Treatment Centre that provides 24 hr care with trained counselors and support staff. Compassionate and well trained, they are available around the clock to stabilize clients and provide support. Our counselors provide both group psycho educational and group psycho therapeutic treatment in conjunction with intensive individual therapy sessions with each of our clients. We provide up to date clinical education and self care seminars with evidence based strategies including cognitive behavioral therapy and motivational interviewing as well as mutual help support groups making Top of the World Ranch one of the most intensive and thorough recovery programs in the world.

At Top of the World Ranch Treatment Centre, our clients begin their stay with a 2 day assessment period.  This is an important period of time in which we, together with our individual clients conduct the ASI (Addiction Severity Index), undergo the initial counseling session, and discover and diagnose what stage of change our clients appear to be in.  We establish goals and develop the individual treatment plan.  We assign appropriate reading material that is geared to the unique needs of the individual client along with accompanying assignments.  This time allows our clients a full orientation as to what the ranch has to offer as well as ranch expectations. This is a time to gain our sober footing and to begin to visualize what we wish our lives to look like upon our departure and into the future.  This is a time to commit to finding and becoming the person that we know we are supposed to be.

We utilize an initial comprehensive assessment using the ASI (Addiction Severity Index) followed by an individual case management model throughout the length of the clients stay, ensuring that the Top of the World Ranch clinicians identify and respond to any emergent co-occurring mental health problems that arise.

Time Tested Supports: Because we are holistic in our approach to addictions, we are not a traditional 12 step treatment center and program. However the most successful, widely available, spiritually conducive and encouraging relapse preventive care offered are the 12 step groups of Alcoholics Anonymous and Narcotics Anonymous. AA & NA offer experience, strength and hope to all persons who suffer from alcohol and/or drug addiction. As a part of our program and our clients relapse prevention plan and continuing care, we attend both AA & NA meetings off site and have a 12 step meeting hosted on site.

We also encourage a balanced approach to recovery emphasizing regular self care and stress reduction with exercise, stretching, tai chi, mindfulness meditation and creative therapies for enhanced internal tranquility and to support attention span and information retention as part of a clinically proven cognitive functioning repair process.

Recognizing that addiction is also a disease that affects the whole family, we have family therapists and family weekend sessions in which family members are encouraged to attend. The family weekends are here to help the client and their families.

Physical recovery is key. A fully equipped fitness gymnasium with high-quality stationary aerobic and weight stations is on site for the exclusive use of program participants. The Ranch supports biological recovery for participants of every level of physical ability. Many miles of varied hiking and biking trails wind their way through the Ranch backcountry inviting our clients to get closer in touch with Nature’s healing rhythms on guided regular adventures. You will also have ample opportunity to be still or take a silent reflective walk within the beauty of nature. Creative therapies are available and taught to clients in various media, including arts and music.  

Highest attention is paid to nutritional recovery through our chef’s creative and appealing supply of healthy meals and snacks. Every effort is made to ensure that the finest quality ingredients are combined to satisfy a varied palette of tastes and nutritional needs. The ranch also provides nutritional supplements for our clients as part of the recovery process.

Supported group living is highly conducive to personal and social rehabilitation for people who struggle with addictive and compulsive behaviors. As participants engage in group activities and daily routines, the Ranch’s skilled support workers are available to facilitate and enhance greater development of each client’s social boundaries and communication skills. Support workers and counselors instruct each participant in the art of healthy conflict resolution. Group members can be invaluable as mirrors of unhealed aspects of ones being. Clear and healthy personal boundaries are essential for sustaining healthy recovery. The interaction that takes place within the client community helps to establish trust, reinvigorate communication skills and allows our clients to know that they are an essential part of the whole.

Continuing Care: A major and very important factor in a clients sustained long term sobriety and overall life contentment is a solid and attainable relapse prevention recovery plan and aftercare supports.  At Top of the World Ranch Treatment Centre we create this recover plan with our clients, to include available support within the clients own community.  We have a continuing care counselor who is dedicated to helping our clients stay on a healthy path of recovery after departing the ranch. We offer an online alumni forum that is interactive, offers recovery based topics and allows departing clients to stay connected to the ranch and to each other with full privacy offered. All of this helps to assist in the transition from treatment at the Ranch to settling back into your home.  This is all included in your cost of treatment.  As we work together with you, we offer you guidance in making the decisions that are best for you. We assist you in reaching your goals and potential. We help to uncover and bring to life the human being you are meant to be.

We at Top of the World Ranch Treatment Centre are very confident of the value that we offer to our clients. We are able to offer an exceptional treatment experience, with an excellent staff, location and programs. As a part of all of our programs, our clients receive one to one counseling sessions with members of our clinical staff whose varied expertise are best suited to help to attend to the root causes of our client’s addictions.

• Information shows that outcomes improve with extended treatment stays. We understand this to be true. We have adjusted our fees to reflect this belief and to help our clients to attend treatment with us for longer stays.  www.nida.nih.gov/PDF/PODAT/PODAT.pdf  This is a link to a report from the US Government National Institute for Drug Abuse/National Institute of Health. This report has a great deal of helpful information including information on program lengths.
• Our comprehensive stays in Primary treatment are designed to stabilize and gain sobriety as are most programs, but beyond that we help our clients to understand and work through their reasons why, and to gain confidence and to release their fear of moving forward in their lives, sober and with purpose and meaning.
• Our 30 day program is designed for those that are highly motivated to gain sobriety, that have had some degree of sobriety on their own and that are high functioning, beyond the need to end their addictions and move forward into a sober life and a much better way of living.

Questions to ask yourself:

1. Have I received counseling and/or attended prior addictions treatment and have relapsed at least once before?
2. Do I still have some uncertainty that I am addicted, even though the evidence shows otherwise? 
3. Am I under 29 years of age?
4. Have I been drinking or using since my teens?
5. Do I use and or drink in large quantities for extended periods of time with little to no sobriety?
6. Do I know deep down that 30 days is not enough time for me but am fearful of committing to a longer stay?
7. Do I have concerns other than my addiction(s) that I would like to work through while in treatment?

Any yes answers to the above questions would be a good indication that a stay of more than 30 days in treatment is the better choice.

Primary Treatment Programs:

• Our 30 day accelerated program is $13,950 Canadian dollars + 12% HST tax.
• Our 45 day core program is $17,950 Canadian dollars + 12% HST tax.
• Our 90 day extended program is $31,999 Canadian dollars + 12% HST tax.
• Additional days to your programs: $400.00 per day +12% hST tax.

Longer Term Treatment Programs (currently for men only). These programs consist of 45 days in our primary treatment program coupled with our transitional living program. 

These programs are designed for those that have had opportunities to gain sobriety but have not yet had success in doing so, those that are currently relapse prone and those that wish to improve their life skills in conjunction with gaining their sobriety.

• See our Transitional Living for more information.

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Financing Now Available!

We realize that private treatment with us can be costly for some of our clients. We also realize that without sobriety we have nothing and that with sobriety comes many opportunities, including the repayment of treatment costs. With that, financing for treatment at Top of the World Treatment Centres is now available through Medicard. (please click the Medicard logo for details)