The new Rehab Campus at Withersdane Hall is rapidly becoming Europe’s largest mental health and recovery specialist centre. The former Imperial College’s Mind Campus at Withersdane Hall in Kent is being transformed by PROMIS Clinics into a ‘University of Recovery’.
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The 350 bed centre combines full conference facilities with a gym, breakout rooms, catering services and full educational infrastructure. The Mind Campus combines a true educational and learning environment with the therepeutic setting of a Promis clinic, all within landscaped gardens in an area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.
Leading the way in Recovery
PROMIS Clinics have been one of the leading providers of recovery and rehabilitation in the UK and Europe for 28 years and treat a full range of behavioural health issues, including addiction, depression, anxiety, eating disorders, dual diagnosis conditions and family and relationship difficulties. Thousands of patients and their families have been treated by PROMIS and are living testimony to the joys of recovery.
The acquisition of Withersdane Hall is the next natural expansion of this highly successful approach to recovery. The aim is to bring the philosophy of recovery to as many people as possible. The Recovery Campus at Withersdane Hall is also ideally located, near Ashford International to service the burgeoning needs caused by addiction and mental illness in Europe.
The treatment and interventions provided by PROMIS Clinics include a full range of mainstream therapies such as medical detox, one-to-one therapy, group therapy, CBT, NLP, DBT, EMDR, mindfulness, psychodrama, Equine Assisted Therapy (EAP), creative therapy, life coaching, exercise and physical training, meditation, pilates and yoga. However, part of the ethos is to endorse positive attributes and encourage all manner of healthy exploration and activity.
PROMIS Clinics Treatment Director, Robin Lefever says, “The link between genius and mental health is well documented. Some of the most creative and brilliant minds have walked the fine line between a troubled state of mind and healthy inspiration. It therefore seems appropriate to have a new University dedicated to people seeking to manage their predisposition to illness so that they can lead healthy lives. In this way society also benefits from their inspiration and creativity”.
Robin goes on to say that, “All too often it is not until it is too late and many are lost to their illness either because of associated mortality rates or are unable to find – or seek the right help in time. The problem is that your greatest assets are often also your biggest threats. For example, high intelligence also means that self-delusional justifications also become more convincing”. Robin continues, “So, it is only through expanding our research facilities, patient and professional collaborations, education and group that we are likely to be able to reach more people before their suffering progresses – as it inevitably does. Withersdane Hall therefore provides the ideal environment to extend professional services to a far larger number of people in desperate need of appropriate care”.
There are many forms of behavioural health disorders including depression, anxiety, acute stress, gambling, co-dependency, alcohol, prescription medication and other substance dependencies. There are genetic predispositions and environmental triggers and addiction is often termed a ‘progressive illness’. All too often it is not until their suffering drives the patient to the point of collapse that intervention is sought, but this can be avoided. Therefore, one of the primary objectives will be to improve early identification, as well as provide increasingly appropriate levels of therapy at earlier stages of the disorder.
We also embrace the opportunity to use the success of the Mind Campus at Withersdane Hall to inform and support more inclusive, informed and proactive attitudes to mental health disorders within our communities at large.
Recovery at Withersdane Hall provides the ideal environment to combine clinical with professional educational initiatives, where people and practitioners can work together towards the common goal of recognition and recovery. The facilities are also in place to encourage residential family participation and a modular approach to care targeted at each phase of the recovery journey - from detox to primary and secondary care through to sober living.
About Recovery at Withersdane Hall:
Comprehensive Mental Health Treatment at Withersdane Hall
We are very excited to announce the opening of a new, 20-acre, 36-bed (initially) mental health clinic at Withersdane Hall, in the village of Wye, near Ashford in Kent. Following successful accreditation with the Care Quality Commission, we wish to introduce Private Health Care providers to the treatment we offer and our philosophy of care and invite you to contact us at any time, hopefully to visit Withersdane Hall and enjoy a relationship of mutual co-operation towards our shared aim: the treatment and care of others.
Withersdane Hall
Withersdane hall, until 2009, was the Imperial College London Agricultural College Halls of Residence. It sits in acres of beautiful grounds and gardens,with formal and informal lawn areas, a Victorian kitchen garden and many rare specimens donated by Kew Gardens and the Edingburgh Royal Botanical Gardens, with tennis courts, croquet lawn, and a theatre.
The Hall was built in the early it 1800s as a private residence until the death of its last private owner in April 1940, when the Hall became the Divisional HQ for the operation to repel the expected invasion of Kent, home to first the 43rd Wessex Division, and then the 56th (London) Division, housing the divisional general and the intelligence section.
