My daughter went to rehab at Valiant Behavioral Health in Ottawa. Prior to attending this treatment center, we were told to take a look at what the program will offer.
According to their website, The program offers:
- 8 sessions of 1 on 1 private counselling per month
Unfortunately, they did not fulfill this even after advertising it as part of the program on their website. My daughter only received 2 private sessions in her 4 weeks there. She was supposed to receive at least 8 sessions. The main benefits of an in-patient program would be the one-on-one therapy for complex trauma and my daughter received hardly any therapy at all.
In general, this facility is poorly run with a lot of undertrained staff. There was no trained psychiatrist, psychologist or psychotherapist. There was only one certified social worker who manages the entire facility, and she was not there a lot of the time. The clients spend a lot of time completing workbooks by themselves without an instructor there to guide them, provide advice, and answer questions. The staff at the facility would say that they could not offer advice or answer questions because they weren't qualified. But these were the people working all the time. The only person qualified was not often at the facility.
Furthermore, there is a significant level of unprofessionalism among the staff at valiant behavioral health. During an outing, one of the staff was taking pictures with the clients, and posted the pictures on her Facebook with the clients names tagged on the post.
Before going here, and paying $15,000 I would look into other options at other facilities. Valiant behavioral health did not provide the help they promised or the therapy needed to overcome and combat drug addiction.
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