An Intentionally Small Treatment Centre
Bali Beginnings sits in Uluwatu, on the southern tip of Bali. Eight clients maximum, at any one time. We hold that line on purpose. It means nobody gets lost in the crowd, and it means we can be a bit choosy about who we take on. Everyone here has actually decided they want to be — and honestly, that's a large part of why the programme works.
Howard, who started the place, is over 12 years sober from alcohol himself — a "grateful alcoholic", as he puts it. He built Bali Beginnings as the rehab he wishes had existed when he was trying to stop drinking: small, clinically serious, in a setting that actually helps rather than reminding you of a hospital ward, and at a cost that comes in well below UK private residential rehab. A stay at the Priory or somewhere similar can run to eight or ten thousand pounds a week. We're a long way under that.
Dr Terry Spokes — an Oxford-trained clinical psychologist who spent years heading up NHS psychology departments before this — designed the programme. Day to day it's run by a team of psychologists, doctors and recovery coaches, plenty of whom have their own recovery behind them.
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