Helping Someone You Care About Get Support
Watching someone close to you struggle with substance use, mental health, or trauma is difficult. Knowing what to do, or even where to start, can feel overwhelming.
Recovery is Possible
South Pacific Private’s intake team works with loved ones every day. We can help you understand what support may be available, how our programs work, and what the next step might look like.
Speak with our intake team. We’re available to answer your questions in confidence.
What We Treat
South Pacific Private is a private hospital on Sydney’s Northern Beaches. For over 30 years, our multidisciplinary team has provided inpatient treatment for adults experiencing:
– Substance use – alcohol, prescription medication, and other substances
– Co-occurring mental health conditions, including depression, anxiety, and PTSD
– Unresolved trauma, including developmental and childhood trauma
– Disordered eating alongside co-occurring mental health presentations
Treatment addresses the underlying causes of these conditions, not just the presenting symptoms. Our approach integrates psychiatric assessment, group psychotherapy, and evidence-based therapeutic programs within a 24/7 clinical environment.
What Happens When Someone Enters Treatment
Understanding the process can help you feel more prepared.
On admission, each client undergoes a full clinical assessment with our psychiatry team. From there, a structured inpatient program is developed in consultation with the client and their treating clinicians. The inpatient program runs within a 54-bed facility and includes:
– Daily group psychotherapy
– Individual psychiatric and therapeutic sessions
– A personal, dedicated multi-disciplinary support (MDS) team led by a psychiatrist along with experienced GPs, nursing staff, counsellors, psychotherapists, psychologists and case workers
– educational lectures
– 24-hour access nursing support
– Medically supervised detox where clinically indicated
– A structured daily therapeutic schedule, seven days a week
Most clients hold private health insurance. Our intake team can provide guidance on coverage and what to expect before any commitment is made.
Support for Loved Ones
Being close to someone in treatment is its own experience. South Pacific Private recognises that.
The Family Program Our four-day Family Program is designed for partners, parents, siblings, and other significant people in a client’s life. Through psycho-educational sessions and guided group discussions, the program addresses family relational dynamics, communication, and the shared impact of addiction and mental health conditions. The family program runs online every fortnight (Saturday–Monday) and onsite every weekend (Friday–Monday), both as full-day sessions.
Family Education Day For loved ones who want to better understand addiction and mental health, regardless of whether the person they care about is in treatment, we also offer a standalone Family Education Day. It’s a full-day program available to the general public, run online only.
How to Start a Conversation With Us
You don’t need to have made any decisions to call. Our intake team is available to answer questions, explain the process, and help you understand what options may be relevant.
Call or reach out via the enquiry form and a member of the team will be in touch. Calls are confidential. There is no obligation.
South Pacific Private offers Australia’s most comprehensive treatment programs for substance use concerns, mental health issues and trauma.
Conversations with a loved one about mental health or substance use treatment can be challenging. Our clinical team share their experience on how to approach these conversations constructively, and how to avoid common pitfalls.
Established almost 30 years ago, South Pacific Private is Australia’s most comprehensive treatment centre for substance use concerns, depression, anxiety and trauma.
Our Family Program is offered onsite and online. It is an intensive and interactive program designed specifically to bring together and treat both the individuals who have struggled with substance use and mental health and who are now in recovery and their families, partners and loved ones.
The Family Education Day is an introductory one-day online program for family members, partners, friends, and carers supporting someone with a mental health condition or substance use concern. No prior knowledge is required – the program is open to anyone navigating this with someone they care about.
The Parents and Children's Program is a prevention and intervention program for children aged 6–13 years who have been impacted by substance use or untreated mental health conditions within their family system.
Why Choose South Pacific Private?
With decades of experience, South Pacific Private is Australia’s leading treatment centre for addiction, trauma, depression and anxiety. Our uniquely comprehensive programs change lives, repair relationships and heal families by identifying and addressing the underlying causes laying the groundwork for sustained, long-term recovery.
Our intake team is available to answer your questions.
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1800 063 332
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FAQs
We won’t be surprised if you have a couple of things to check. We have compiled a list of some of the most common questions other people ask before committing to a treatment program.
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