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Addiction Treatment Center

12 Step Holistic Resort

Addiction Primary Care

Addiction Primary Care

IMPORTANT INFORMATION FOR PEOPLE WHO ARE
LOOKING TO COME INTO PRIMARY CARE TREATMENT:

Holina’s 12 Step approach, mixed with our robust and exhilarating holistic program, permits us to mix expert addiction treatment of exceptional quality with self-discovery, mindfulness and long-lasting wellness. We believe in this mixture of both principles – deep and insightful talking therapies and great holistic health. This is the essence of our Primary Care Program.

Our beautiful private rehab, located on the tropical paradise island of Koh Phangan, Thailand, delivers evidence-based treatments, proven to be highly effective in treating addiction and other common co-occurring illnesses, alongside personal self-transformation and adventure.

When considering a private rehab clinic for primary care addiction treatment, it is important to consider all the services that are included and whether they are appealing to you personally.

At Holina, our primary care program includes, but isn’t limited to, the following:

  • Pyschotherapy 121
  • Trauma Recovery 121
  • Somatic Therapy 121
  • Aqua Tuning (releasing tension and letting go)
  • Intensive 12 Step Program of recovery
  • 12 step meetings, fellowship, education and workshops
  • Workbook and manual understanding of control / lack of control paradigms
  • Discovering the Power within vs the powerlessness of addiction / depression
  • Unmanageability and how we reclaim our lives
  • Psychodrama 
  • Breathwork
  • Trauma Release Exercises 
  • Group Therapy
  • One to One Counselling and Case Management
  • Wisdom Groups with Spiritual Teachers
  • One to One with Koh Phangan’s Buddhist Monk and co-Founder of Holina
  • Neuro Linguistic Programming and rebalancing behaviours, processes and attitudes
  • Spirituality for all levels of understanding
  • Inner Walking
  • Yoga
  • Sauna
  • Ice Bath
  • Sound Healing & Singing Bowls
  • EMDR (subject to availability of Practitioner)
  • Emotional Trauma Release
  • Mindfulness Groups
  • Topic Groups
  • Wellness exercises
  • Movement Therapy
  • Physical Training
  • Muay Thai
  • Swimming
  • Hiking
  • Weekly excursions
  • Snorkelling boat trips
  • Elephant interaction

Holina is proud of its therapeutic team and has specifically chosen them based upon their own multi-disciplinary skills, which when combined together help us address all of our clients’ specific needs and brings a whole new dimension to our residential experience.
By collaborating and joining up all these evidence-based therapies, Holina has created an engaging and inspirational model of treatment for its residents.

Primary Care

When it comes to treating addiction, we’ve seen and heard from many people who’ve attempted and failed previously by using various strategies, typically ones they’ve sourced local to their home or in their community. Even our own staff tried many different things before finding something that works. What we’ve discovered over time is the value of removing the client from their home environment and giving them a real chance to work on themselves somewhere remote and somewhere unusual. This is especially powerful for transformation when the location that the help is given and received is in such a beautiful location as Holina on Koh Phangan.

Where addiction is concerned, treatment has come a great distance over the past few decades. We now have the knowledge and expertise to treat addiction more successfully than ever before. We’ve combined all the things that did work for us personally and professionally, and combined them with the things we’ve observed and experienced have had a great impact on the treatment of others, to create a strong and robust program that will serve everyone seeking help. We have created a Retreat type Rehab with the space for people to come and discover what works best for them by trying all the different features we offer. So, the Holina treatment becomes highly effective at tackling and healing the root causes of addiction, depression, stress, anxiety, burnout, and other behavioural, emotional, and spiritual concerns.

We provide a treatment experience that is unique, powerful, and more to the point, works!

We offer a vast and varied mixture of treatments that are proven to be effective and most importantly, to help with your transformation. These treatments are vital to an individual’s personal recovery from addiction. The evidence-based treatments that Holina delivers are designed to not only work whilst you’re with us but can be taken home and worked when you return to your families and communities.

Evidence Based Addiction Treatment at Holina

Holina pride ourselves on being able to offer the very latest in evidence-based treatments to our patients. Targeting the mind, the body, the emotions and perhaps most importantly, the spiritual aspects of proven addiction recovery, we have a model that serves the many and not the few.

Our evidence-based treatment programme includes the following powerful proven addiction treatment therapies:
  • Qualified Pyschotherapy
  • 12 Step Therapy
  • CBT – Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
  • DBT – Dialectical Behaviour Therapy
  • ACT – Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
  • NLP – Neuro Linguistic Programming
  • EMDR – Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing
  • MI – Motivational Interviewing
  • EMT – Emotional Trauma Release
  • MET – Motivational Enhancement Therapy
  • NARM Trauma Recovery
  • Somatic Therapy 
  • Stress Management
  • Full suite of Holistic Programs

Comprehensive Rehabilitation

Safely removing the alcohol, drugs or addicted behaviour or process is only the very beginning of someone’s journey into recovery. Addiction is now medically recognised by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) as a “chronic relapsing brain disease”.
Our ambition is to serve our clients to never have to relapse ever again!

Our Holina Primary Care program not only helps to safeguard against relapse but also enables the individual to live life happy, joyous, and free from their addictions, managing their own emotions and affairs without resorting to alcohol, drugs, or dysfunctional behaviours.

If you or a family member need help with an addiction call us now; we are confident our evidence-based treatment programme can help you, as it has been proven with many others.

The Holina Residential Program

Holina’s holistic approach brings to life a broad and healthy view that meets the 6 primary human needs – certainty, significance, variety, love/connection, growth and contribution.

At Holina, we use this framework to provide a solution to the full range of addictive symptoms, while investing in the most beautiful location for recovery you’re likely to find in Asia and beyond. with the highest quality and prestigious facilities available.

How Much Does Rehab Cost?

We have a wide selection of accommodation options available when you stay at Holina Rehab, Koh Phangan. We believe your environment and the people around you can make a big difference in your treatment and your overall well-being.

Please enquire about the pricing structure of 24/7 medically managed detox, supervised by Doctors and nurses, licensed as an inpatient hospital on the contact form below.

Holina Cyprus

Holina Youth Village

Holina Village is a safe and contained space designed for young people from the age of 16 to 26, who are choosing to deal with their addictions.

Holina Retreat

Corporate Spiritual Retreat

Specialising in healing our emotions and expanding our spirit through our beautiful retreat in Koh Phangan.

Holina Global Locations

Holina Rehabilitation Services are also available in Europe at our new Holina Youth Village in Cyprus where we welcome the younger generation who have addictions and more commonly online and behavioural addictions. We also cater for the corporate and business world with our Spiritual Retreats at our forthcoming location on Koh Phangan Island.

For More Details Reach Out To Us Today & Contact Holina Rehab!

Holina Addiction Treatment Center FAQ's

If the substances you consume, or your behaviour or attitude is getting you into trouble or having a negative impact on your life, The River Rehab may be an important option for you to consider. Not only will we provide you with the tools that you need, but we will also give you access to customized levels of treatment that will enable you to literally reinvent your life.

We treat the disease of addiction, which incorporates all substance dependencies, including alcohol, cocaine, crack, crystal meth, ketamine, heroin, methadone, Subutex, morphine, benzodiazepines, barbiturates, psychedelics, ecstasy, solvents, and legal (prescribed) medication addictions, as well as other process and behavior addictions such as sex, love, gaming, gambling, internet or technologies, shopping, food, exercise and co-dependency. We believe that addiction is a disease of the mind, from which we can recover, one day at a time.

We are a residential rehab experience, with a minimum of one month commitment. People are not permitted to come by and visit or look around unless an appointment has been made. This is to protect the privacy and the space for our residents and to keep them safe. We are not a day care facility or outpatient service. We only serve those people looking for a fully immersive experience.

Our minimum commitment is 4 weeks. Even considering that it’s possible to overcome an addiction with any long-lasting effect for any shorter period is simply unrealistic, and likely unethical. Whilst our minimum commitment is 4 weeks, many, probably most of our residents stay 6 to 8 weeks and some up to 12 weeks (the full program length).

We will discourage this until after week 9. Whilst it may be nice to think that your family are supportive and want to encourage you, it’s a huge distraction from treatment for the individual, and our collective observations (in other facilities) are that in over 66% of these visits it leads to disruption, early self-discharge, and often relapse. That said, please know we’re a treatment centre driven by your success and we do know that your success is significantly improved when family members are engaged in their loved one’s recovery. So if you would like to organise either a zoom call with your family and your primary therapist, or an actual family visit on site, we would encourage this towards the end of your treatment experience.

We appreciate that you will be away from your loved ones for fairly long periods of time and that connection to them is important. Sometimes work or business calls are important to you. We will always find ways to help you facilitate these relationships. We have super-fast internet, and all the bedrooms have Smart TVs running YouTube and Netflix etc.


It is our policy that in today’s modern world, our residents need to find recovery with their smart devices to hand. We are against hiding technology from our residents as it’s a useful tool to support our recovery as well as our lifestyles.


Therefore, unless you specifically require a digital detox, . you can use your phone, pad and laptop in your room outside of the scheduled structure and groups, meaning that you can use your devices before morning activities, after the daily groups, and even in between the scheduled program (for instance, lunchtime) should you choose to.

Yes you may. Whilst we’d love to encourage you to quit whilst youre with us, we acknowledge that many people still smoke So you may smoke on the balcony of your room, or in the dedicated smoking sala in the lounge area.

Koh Phangan is a warm climate all year round. It is typically in the low to mid 30s*c / low 90s*f during the day, and at night it rarely goes under 23*c / mid 70s*f Sometimes it rains, usually for up to 30 minutes, which serves at cooling down the air. Occasionally it may rain for longer periods (typically in October or November), though this doesn’t interfere with treatment particularly.

Pack as if you were coming on holiday to a tropical paradise island in Thailand – which, of course you are. Summer style clothing is recommended (light shirts, T-shirts, shorts, comfortable shoes, sneakers, flip flops / sandals, etc, light, breathable clothing and swimwear for the pool and the beaches. Most of us wear underwear, shorts, T-shirts / Tank Tops / Vests, sneakers, sandals & tongs / flip flops. Active wear for workouts and other fitness activities including swimming, sports shoes, and light wear for yoga. We do physical activities almost every day, so bring a few pairs to allow for laundry times.

There is no need to dress formal or smart. Everything is relaxed, comfort focused and easy going. We have a safe to keep your valuables in, but expensive jewellery and other luxury items are unnecessary. Toiletries: Please bring your own toiletries and hygiene products, such as toothbrushes, toothpaste, shower gel, shampoo, conditioner, shaving materials, basic makeup, hairbrush, etc. Anything you forget we can purchase from local shops.

Medications: You are allowed to continue using your doctor-prescribed medications while in rehab, but please do bring proof of your prescription. Please keep all your pills in the original packaging so that they are not  to be unauthorized narcotics.

Kindly do not bring the following: Alcohol or drugs: It might seem self-explanatory, but some clients may try to sneak in a last-minute hit, fix, pill, can, bottle, etc. Your bags and belongings will be searched when you arrive at Holina. Alcohol or drug paraphernalia: This includes anything that advertises or glorifies the use of alcohol or drugs. This should also include items that display support for criminal acts including terrorism, sex, gambling, or other negatively perceived notions that could upset other residents.
Weapons: There is absolutely no need to bring any knives or weapons with you to Thailand or to treatment. They will be confiscated and destroyed. Toiletries that contain alcohol: Leave any alcohol-based products at home, such as certain mouthwashes, nail polish remover, perfumes, and aerosols.

We have 2 main Chef’s (supported by 2 other Thai chefs) – a Meat focused one and a Vegan Chef. You can advise us of any of your specific dietary needs and we can manage them. We’re used to having people with all types of needs. Nothing unusual there.

Our prices are all inclusive and dependent upon the style of room you choose – shared, single occupancy or private plunge pool villa. You can view our prices here

We don’t have any hidden costs, though there are some costs that should be aware of. We pay for any psychiatric assessments and other mental health professional visits. We ask you to pay for anything non detox or mental health related, including your medications.

We also ask that you have travel or medical insurance in place before you come to us. This is really for any non-detox or psychiatric related problems, like if you fall over and break your arm, or some other uncalculated trip to accident and emergency.

We don’t pay for your flights to and from Koh Samui Airport (USM), but we do cover the cost of getting you from the airport to Holina and we will pay for your return to the airport unless you check out against clinical advice. Typically, our clients spend between US$50 and $75 per month on personal items, such as snacks, sodas, cigarettes, some toiletries, etc, but it’s not necessary to spend any more. Even gift buying on this island is relatively cheap compared to the rest of the world.

At this time, residents of most countries around the world are able to come into Thailand and achieve a visa upon entry. We will advise you on this process. It’s very straight forwards.
If you extend your treatment and need a lon
ger visa then we will take care of this for you, and in most instances we will pay for all your visa extensions too. 

Currently, there are no requirements for any vaccines to come into Thailand. This includes COVID vaccines or any other historical vaccines previously required. So please don’t worry about this, unless you specifically want to be extra vaccinated.