ANA Treatment Centres Ltd

Centre Description

England

1 . Environment, Location, Geography

ANA Treatment Centres are located in Southsea in Hampshire. Southsea is the southern most area in Portsmouth and includes the majority of the coastline, seafront, common and parks.

The urban nature of the location requires clients to deal with the reality of being in a busy town on a regular basis. This has been a deliberate strategy on ANA’s part to facilitate recovery and develop life skills with clients in a place not too far removed from what they have previously had to deal with. The main difference is that, at ANA, abstinence is an essential requirement.

One of ANA’s core aims is to equip clients with the confidence, knowledge and life skills needed to live a life free from dependence on drugs or alcohol in the real world. ANA believes that one of the most effective ways of doing this is to ensure that clients remain in a safe, supported but realistic environment whilst they progress their recovery.


Many ANA clients have a proven track record of success in recovery because of this approach. Following treatment, many clients find it difficult to function upon return to their lives and familiar places due to familiar sights, sounds, people and temptations. ANA seeks to minimise the likelihood of relapse by supporting clients to deal with these realities throughout treatment by moving between locations daily and not leave it all to the client once treatment has been completed. Hence, “treatment in the real world.”

2. Treatment, support and therapeutic input

Treatment at ANA is based on an eclectic mix of best practice, underpinned by a twelve step, non-denominational philosophy.

Due to the urban environment, clients do experience temptations on a daily basis when they move, accompanied, between ANA residential and treatment centres. Treatment modules and the ANA therapeutic structure supports clients to discuss those temptations and experiences, as they occur, on a daily basis. This can occur in peer group sessions, in one to ones with their key worker and in daily contact with peers, councillors and support staff.

This support, combined with exposure to the realities of life and a safe environment, provides clients with the confidence and experience to build strategies to maintain recovery and avoid relapse.

All clients have different triggers that need to be identified, accepted and then managed. From a bill-board advertisement through walking past a public house and passing people in the street, these triggers are everywhere is a busy urban environment. Treatment at ANA supports clients to deal with them whilst in recovery and not leave it until afterwards. Hence, “treatment in the real world.”

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