The Ashburn Clinic 496 Taieri Road, Halfway Bush, Dunedin, Otago 9010

"Attended for teaching purposes. A centre of excellence for treatment of psyhiatric disorders."

"I don't understand how this place is still legally open and given govt funding. I agree with the other review. I literally felt like I was in one flew over the cuckoo's nest. After leaving here I got some real help. Te Whare Mahana is a treatment facility with a wealth of compassion that literally saved my life. Please do not even consider this 1950s style asylum."

"Do not go here. There is nothing therapeutic about this place. It is old, dirty, with mixed accommodation and archaic treatment models and very little goes on other that constant group meetings , weekly serious suicide attempts and some are successful. This place tries to treat literally everything under the sun including addictions and it is a hot mess of chaos. You will have zero privacy with other patients wading in on your care and what you can do. I liken it to going back 50 years to the movie of One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest - seriously. The tax payer or you will be forking out just over 4k a week for the privilege . I think you are better to spend time in the community with therapist, coming here will actually send you backwards. The food is good."

"FYI here is my review of Ashburn Before my son went to Ashburn clinic (AC)  he had a good relationship with two parents who were kind to him and supportive of him. We gladly went to the family therapy sessions as requested. We accepted that we had something to apologise for and did so. Just to be clear we aren’t and never have been what you would call abusive, so I’m talking about very small stuff on the scale. AC seemed to paint us parents as the problem, this was obvious to both of us when we went to the family therapy sessions. When our son moved out of the clinic he wouldn’t give us his address and told both of us that he didn't want contact while he rebuilt his life. We believe that the ‘therapy’ AC provided convinced our son that he needed to separate himself from his parents. Having healthy connections with others is scientifically proven to increase longevity. One of a person’s most fundamental connections is with their parents. In this case, receiving treatment at AC led to our son going from getting on well with his parents to having no connection at all with us. I am very unimpressed with Ashburn clinic."

"All good if you're a good sheeple and do exactly what you're told and don't question anything. If you dare go against the grain and do ask opposing questions, or concerns over treatment, prepare to be labeled argumentive, threatening, and you get written up as a trouble maker... If you're in need of immediate available help, don't hold your breath. Nurses and most other staff have no clue about trauma informed care. Some of them don't even know what you're there for. Could work if they were more tolerable, and explained what you'd done wrong and look at how to do it better next time.eg. going to the dairy without asking and signing out and in again. They just straight away admonish you, despite the action and the cause.... The theraputic community is a joke, more of a witch Hunt and narcing session, very unhelpful, possibly harmful...... Don't rock the boat and you'll be a good Ashburn minion."