Concerned Persons Workshop Saturday 4th January 2025 here at the centre from 9.45am. Contact reception on 01-4946358 for more information or to book spaces. Read More
We treat each person who comes to us with care and respect while providing a safe place for treatment.
Our success in treatment is based on 46 years of experience with evidence based practice in addiction recovery. We treat each person who comes to us with care and respect, while providing a safe place for rehabilitation. Understanding the individual needs is of primary concern to us, and we tailor our programme to meet these needs. Our treatment philosophy is based on our belief that addiction is a disease and that abstinence is the best way to manage the condition.
We approach treatment in a holistic way, working with mind, body and spirit. We believe that addiction reflects only a part of the person, and often it occurs in the context of other personal or life challenges. Addiction treatment is delivered by our multidisciplinary team of professionals including nurses, social; care workers, project workers, consultant psychiatrist, substance abuse/addiction counsellors, psychologists, psychotherapists and complimentary therapy specialists.
Rutland Centre is a 5-week Residential Treatment Programme. During this time, you will stay in our 25 bed Centre in Knocklyon. During your stay, you can have visits from family and friends each weekend and we actively encourage family and ‘concerned persons’ to become personally involved in your rehabilitation by joining a weekly group workshop.
On admission, you will be assigned to a therapy group and to a team of counsellors who explain the treatment programme to you and begin your treatment plan. The Medical Director who is a consultant psychiatrist will also complete a psychiatric evaluation.
Our programme is structured and on admission, you will be given a detailed timetable outlining the events for the day/week ahead. The programme includes;
One-to-one counselling
Group therapy
Personal time for reflection and reading
Relaxation, and recreation activities
Healthy, nutritious, homecooked meals
Art therapy
Music & Dance therapy workshop
Suicide prevention
Stress management
Yoga
Lectures and therapeutic workshops
Time for fellowship, allowing for personal sharing and understanding
In addition, our clinical staff provide daily lectures covering a broad range of topics including psychological, medical, social, and spiritual & Twelve Step work. We also run specialty groups such as relapse prevention, anger, eating issues, women’s issues, men’s issues, assertiveness, Twelve Step group study, family issues and similar specialist topics.
Former clients make a valuable contribution to our programme providing a weekly talk to current clients providing opportunities to listen, share, and receive support and encouragement for your recovery.
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"I came here in 2009. I was just pretty broken and lost inside and I had been doing some counselling for maybe 10 months. Up until that point I had no idea that I was suffering with addiction for me unlike many people with addiction, mine wasn't really manifesting on the outside it was more internal stuff while..."
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"I never thought I’d have to darken the doors as a patient in The Rutland, The Priory, or any rehab centre at all. I mean look at me, I’m 36 years old, handsome enough looking girl, working in finance - doesn’t sound like your typical addict does it now?"
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"I was the normal sort of teenager, you know what I mean - I would have been out with the lads and drinking, stuff like that. Then before I know it, you start hanging around with different crowds of people and you start getting introduced to people and before i know there's a lot of drugs on..."
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"I spent nearly 30 years in turmoil. This included self-harm, starving myself, and self medicating with drugs and alcohol to alleviate the pain and despair that I lived with daily. I attempted suicide on several occasions, I was hospitalised many times, in psych wards and in John of Gods a few times.”
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“I remember feeling lost, afraid, sick, angry and shocked, but most of all betrayed. That day changed me forever. Until then, I had felt safe and loved with my husband. He was my best friend and I trusted him with my life. After that, I never felt safe again. My world as I knew it was gone.”
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"As far as I can remember I was 33 years old that year. I've no doubt it was self-medication with me and I had very little tolerance for alcohol so I'd be crying in a corner, she knew very easily. I didn't have my first drink until my..."