CARF Accredited · Confidential · St. Catharines, OntarioPrivate Mental Health Treatment in Ontario
Searching for private mental health facilities in Ontario usually starts the same way: someone is not okay, the public wait-lists are long, and the family wants somewhere real. If substance use is part of the picture — and it very often is — this is what residential care for both looks like, in two heritage houses in St. Catharines.
A Residence Where Mental Health Is Half the Work
Twelve Mile Recovery is a private, CARF-accredited residential program built on one clinical conviction: anxiety, depression, trauma and substance use so often feed each other that treating them separately is how recovery comes undone. Every stay here treats them together — trauma-informed one-to-one psychology, small-group therapy, and a team that includes psychologists, psychotherapists and nurses, with physician oversight once you are here.
What we are not is a psychiatric hospital, and this page will not pretend otherwise. We do not provide involuntary care, locked units or emergency psychiatric services. What we provide is six to twelve weeks of structured residential treatment for people whose mental health and substance use have become tangled together — with twenty-nine places across two houses, so nobody becomes a file number.
Mental Health Care, Built Into Every Day
Nothing here is a bolt-on. The mental-health work and the substance-use work are one plan, delivered by one team, in a setting quiet enough for it to land.
Trauma-Informed Psychology →
One-to-one sessions with the same clinician throughout your stay, going after what the symptoms are protecting — not just managing what they look like.
Concurrent Treatment →
When mental illness and substance use travel together, we care for both as one condition. This is the clinical heart of the program.
Medication, Done Carefully →
Pharmacogenetic testing is included for every client, so any medication in your plan — for mood, anxiety or sleep — is chosen with how your body actually processes it in mind.
A Body That Can Recover →
Sleep, chef-prepared nutrition, the gym and quiet practice are on the timetable — because a nervous system does not settle by talking alone.
Are We the Right Place for You?
We are the right place when mental health struggles and substance use are feeding each other — which is most of the people who call us. We are the wrong place for a psychiatric emergency: if you or the person you love is in crisis or thinking about suicide, call 9-1-1 or Canada's Suicide Crisis Helpline at 9-8-8, right now, before anything on this page.
And if what you are facing is mental health alone, with no substance-use side to it, say exactly that on the phone. We will tell you honestly whether we are the right fit, and point you somewhere better if we are not. Nobody here is going to talk you into the wrong program.
- Not a psychiatric hospital — no locked or involuntary care
- In crisis: call 9-1-1, or 9-8-8 for the Suicide Crisis Helpline
- Built for mental health and substance use together
- A confidential first call, and an honest answer about fit
A nervous system settles in rooms like this one. The residence is arranged so there is somewhere quiet to go when a day gets heavy.
Private Mental Health Care, Answered
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Completely confidential, at every stage of recovery, call or text (289) 301-8852.