Nueva Esperanza Treatment and Wellness Centre, Ruiru (2025)

13/08/2025

JOB OPPORTUNITIES AT NUEVA ESPERANZA REHABILITATION CENTRES

As we expand our services with the opening of our new branch, Nueva Esperanza Rehabilitation Centres is looking for passionate, dedicated, and experienced professionals to join our growing team.

We provide high-quality, compassionate care for persons struggling with substance use disorders, co-occurring mental health conditions, and other behavioural addictions.

We are recruiting for our new branch as well as other existing branches.

1. Medical Psychologist

Minimum of 2 years’ experience in a rehabilitation or mental health setting.

Registered and licensed to practice in Kenya.

Strong clinical assessment, treatment planning, and therapeutic skills.

Ability to work collaboratively within a multidisciplinary team.

2. Counselling Psychologist

Minimum of 2 years’ experience in addiction recovery, mental health, or rehabilitation settings.

Degree in Counselling Psychology or equivalent.

Registration with a recognized professional body.

Skilled in individual, group, and family therapy.

3. Addiction Counsellors / Chemical Dependency Professionals
Diploma or certification in Addiction Counselling or Chemical Dependency .

Prior work experience in rehabilitation or substance use treatment necessary.

Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.

Certification in Addiction Counselling or Chemical Dependency is a strong added advantage.

Key Competencies for All Roles

Compassionate and empathetic approach to client care.

Excellent communication and documentation skills.

Ability to maintain professional boundaries and confidentiality.

Commitment to ethical and evidence-based practice.

How to Apply:

Interested candidates are invited to send their CV and a cover letter indicating the position applied for to:
📧 nuevaesperanzake@gmail.com
📧 info@nuevarehab.com

Application Deadline: [Insert date]

About Us:

Nueva Esperanza Rehabilitation Centres provide safe, supportive, and structured programs for individuals recovering from substance use disorders and mental health conditions. Our multidisciplinary approach integrates medical care, psychotherapy, counselling, life skills training, and relapse prevention strategies to support holistic recovery.

Join us in making a difference—one life at a time.

07/08/2025

🌍✨ Last week, I had the honour of representing Nueva Esperanza Treatment and Wellness Centre and Empower Her Recovery Centre- The SHE Recovers Centre at a powerful harm reduction workshop in Diani Beach, Kenya — hosted by HRISSA (Harm Reduction Advocacy in Sub-Saharan Africa).

It was inspiring to connect with fellow practitioners, researchers, and advocates from across Africa and the world, all united by one mission: to promote evidence-based, compassionate responses to substance use and related harms.

As a harm reduction practitioner and consultant, I walked away encouraged by the solidarity, wisdom, and shared passion in the room. The work we do at Nueva and Empower Her is part of a much larger movement — and this gathering affirmed that we are not alone.

🤝 Together, we’re pushing forward:

✔️ With science,
✔️ With dignity,
✔️ With love.

01/08/2025

🧠 Attending Scientific Program on Harm Reduction Approaches in Sub-Saharan Africa.

I’m honored to be participating in a scientific program on harm reduction approaches organized by Harm Reduction Advocacy in Sub-Saharan Africa.

This convening brings together public health professionals, clinicians, policy advocates, and researchers to explore strategies for minimizing the negative consequences of substance use and misinformation, with the goal of improving health outcomes and reducing stigma across our communities.

As a mental health advocate and addiction recovery professional, this is a critical opportunity to:

Deepen my understanding of evidence-based harm reduction.

Examine the intersection of policy, practice, and lived experience.

Advocate for compassionate, non-judgmental care for people who use substances.

Amplify the importance of inclusive approaches that center the voices of those affected.

Harm reduction is not about enabling — it is about saving lives, restoring dignity, and making public health interventions more humane, realistic, and equitable.

I look forward to sharing insights gained with my teams at Nueva Esperanza Treatment and Wellness Centre and Empower Her Recovery Centre- The SHE Recovers Centre, and applying them in our ongoing work to support women and families navigating substance use and mental health challenges.

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26/07/2025

🌱 “Hope Changes Everything” 🌱

📍Nueva Esperanza Treatment & Rehabilitation Centre
Did you know?

In nearly every Kenyan family, workplace, or community, there’s someone silently battling a substance use disorder (SUD). According to NACADA, more than 1 in 10 Kenyans struggles with harmful substance use — yet stigma, shame, and misunderstanding keep many from getting the help they need.

This week, I had the opportunity to share on a TV documentary about the importance of compassionate, evidence-based care for individuals living with addiction, especially those who have relapsed.

💡 Relapse is not failure. It is part of the journey.
Addiction is a chronic brain disease — not a moral weakness or lack of willpower. Like other chronic conditions such as diabetes or hypertension, relapse is common and signals a need for adjusted treatment and stronger support, not judgment or rejection.

👥 To Families and Communities:
Your loved one’s recovery depends not only on treatment in professional centres like Nueva Esperanza, but on the consistent support from home and society. Here’s how you can help:

✅ Avoid Blame and Shame: Language like “weak” or “hopeless” only pushes them further away.
✅ Encourage Treatment: Just like you would seek medical help for a heart condition, addiction deserves the same urgency.
✅ Participate in Family Therapy: Healing happens faster when the whole family is involved.
✅ Support Aftercare: Recovery is a lifelong process. Help them stick with support groups, routines, and healthy coping strategies.

🏥 To Treatment Facilities – and society at large:
Let’s commit to non-discriminatory, trauma-informed, and gender-responsive care. Denying help to someone who has relapsed is unethical and dangerous. Every person deserves dignity, support, and a second (or tenth) chance at healing.

🔬 Our approach at Nueva Esperanza is rooted in evidence-based practices:

✅Community outreach
✅Individual and group therapy
✅Occupational and art therapy
✅Aftercare and sober living support
✅Holistic treatment including spiritual and psychological care.

Let’s change the narrative. Let’s be the safe place where healing can begin again and again. 💚

📸 Captured during a recent media feature as we continue to advocate for systemic, family-inclusive, and compassionate care for those facing SUD.

19/07/2025

Testimonies that keep us going 💛

“Manze at times mimi hushukuru Nueva tu sana. Walifanya nikasare tei hadi waleo — hii manze it’s a milestone. Me quitting drinking came at the right time, manze mpaka vile nilitoka huko nikapata promotion bro kwa job.”
— Former Nueva Esperanza Resident

🌱 This is what recovery looks like. Progress. Promotion. Purpose.

We are so proud of our former client for choosing recovery, embracing change, and showing that it works if you work it. 🙌

At Nueva Esperanza, we walk with you, one day at a time. Because healing is possible. Because your life matters. Because recovery gives life new meaning.

📍Recovery is real.
💪🏽Recovery is hope.
💙Recovery is transformation.

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17/07/2025

🧠 Workplace Wellness Means Facing the Hard Truths.

“We’re letting you go. You showed up drunk again.”

It sounds like accountability.

But sometimes, behind those words is something deeper — something we’re not ready to face.

What if that employee didn’t want to show up intoxicated?

What if that bottle was the only silence in a mind that wouldn’t stop screaming?

What if they tried to speak up — and no one truly listened?

It’s easy to judge from the outside.

To label someone as weak, irresponsible, or broken.

We forget:

👉 Not everyone started with the same tools.
👉 Not everyone learned how to cope.
👉 Some of us had support systems. Others had only pain.

Until it’s your colleague.
Your brother.
Your daughter.
Your friend.

Then you realize —
It was never about pity.
It’s about the stigma that isolates people instead of offering them help.

Stigma kills silently.

Not always in obituaries — but in lost promotions, job terminations, and broken relationships.

It’s time to stop looking away.

The issue isn’t the individual struggling with substance use.

The issue is the silence, the shame, and the cold policies that ignore the human behind the behaviour.

We don’t need more punishment.
We need more compassion.
We need workplaces that don’t just manage crises — but prevent them with empathy, support, and education.

Let’s be the leaders who don’t just create policies — but also create safe spaces.

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15/07/2025

🌸 Empower Her Recovery Centre – Ngewa House
Specialized Mental Health Care for Women. Compassionate. Clinical. Confidential.

Every woman’s mental health journey is unique. At Empower Her, we provide tailor-made, short-term residential mental health care designed to support women going through some of life’s toughest seasons — in an environment that understands and honours the complex emotional, psychological, and social needs of women.

Whether you’re a young mother battling postpartum depression, a woman navigating bipolar disorder or schizophrenia, or an older woman newly diagnosed with a chronic illness, experiencing late-life depression, or processing separation, divorce, or loss — this is a safe space for you to begin healing.

🌿 Our holistic, gender-sensitive mental health program includes:

🔹 Psychiatric care and medication support
🔹 Daily therapy with trained psychologists
🔹 Support for grief, trauma, and emotional burnout
🔹 Help with life transitions like divorce, empty nesting, chronic illness
🔹 Family therapy, couple’s counseling, and reintegration support
🔹 Nutritional and physical wellness plans
🔹 Mental health nursing and personalized case management
🔹 A serene, private setting in Ngewa to rest, reflect, and recover

We combine clinical excellence with warmth and empathy — so that healing isn’t rushed, but supported, structured, and sustainable.

💗 Mental health is health. You don’t have to wait for a crisis to seek help.

At Ngewa House, we walk with women toward healing, peace, and purpose.

📍Located in the tranquil outskirts of kiambu county .
📞 Reach out today to speak with someone from our care team.

Let her know she’s not alone — there is help, there is hope, and there is healing.

15/07/2025

📍 Welcome to Empower Her Recovery Centre – Ngewa House 🌸

A safe, nurturing, and supportive space exclusively for women on their journey to healing.

At Empower Her, we believe that recovery is possible and transformation is real.
We provide:

💜 Self-Care Practices
🧠 Therapeutic Support
🤝 Long-Term Recovery Planning

If you or a loved one is battling alcohol or substance use, there is hope. Our team of professionals walks with each woman through healing, self-discovery, and restoration.

📞 Call us: +254 780 659 743
🌐 Learn more: www.nuevarehab.com
📍 Located at Ngewa House – Kiambu

Because every woman deserves to recover in dignity, with strength, and with support. 💪💜.

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14/07/2025

🛑 No Drinks Before 21: A Win for Prevention, Protection, and Purpose

Today I celebrate a major victory for youth, families, and the future of our nation. The recent move by Nacada Kenya and the Government of Kenya to raise the legal drinking age to 21, ban online alcohol sales, and restrict pubs near schools and colleges is bold, timely, and necessary.

These policy changes are not about punishment. They are about prevention — and prevention is powerful.

🎯 Why Prevention Matters More Than Ever
As someone who works daily in addiction treatment and mental health, I’ve seen the heavy cost of early alcohol exposure. Young people today are navigating overwhelming challenges — and alcohol is often marketed as a quick escape. But when introduced too early, it becomes a trap.

Here’s why this move makes sense:

🧠 1. The Adolescent Brain is Still Developing
Science shows the brain continues developing until around age 25. Alcohol use during this critical period interferes with memory, decision-making, emotional regulation, and impulse control. Raising the age to 21 gives the brain more time to mature before facing the risks of alcohol.

🚩 2. Early Use = Higher Risk of Lifelong Addiction
We’ve treated countless young adults who began drinking at 15 or 16 — many of whom now struggle with alcohol use disorder, cross-addictions, and a long road to recovery. Early onset addiction is much harder to treat and often comes with co-occurring challenges.

🎓 3. School Dropouts and Academic Decline Are on the Rise
We’ve seen a surge in:

✴️University dropouts linked to alcohol and drug use
🔆Unwanted pregnancies
🔆Risky sexual behavior and rising HIV/STI rates
🔆Gambling addiction among youth
🔆A decline in academic performance and graduate quality

What starts as “fun” becomes an academic and health crisis — affecting not just the student, but families and institutions too.

😔 4. The Mental Health Crisis Is Deepening
Alcohol masks mental health symptoms — but doesn’t heal them. In fact, it worsens them. We’re seeing an increase in ADHD, anxiety, depression, and suicidal ideation among youth who self-medicate with alcohol or other substances.

💡 This Is Not Just a Policy Shift — It’s a Public Health Win

By raising the legal drinking age to 21 and banning online sales (which had made access dangerously easy), we are taking a stand to protect the potential of our young people.

We must support these efforts by:

✅Educating parents and schools
✅Promoting alternative healthy coping strategies
✅Offering accessible prevention and early intervention programs
✅Calling out irresponsible advertising and glamorization of drinking.

🙌🏽 Well done to Nacada Kenya and all partners pushing for this change!

Let’s not stop here.

Let’s push for:
✔️ Full enforcement
✔️ Community sensitisation
✔️ Peer-led prevention programs
✔️ Support for those already struggling

Because prevention is not just better than cure — it’s the cure that society needs most.

🔗 Read the full article via The Star

Empower Her Recovery Centre- The SHE Recovers Centre

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14/07/2025

🛑 No Drinks Before 21: A Win for Prevention, Protection, and Purpose

Today I celebrate a major victory for youth, families, and the future of our nation. The recent move by Nacada Kenya and the Government of Kenya to raise the legal drinking age to 21, ban online alcohol sales, and restrict pubs near schools and colleges is bold, timely, and necessary.

These policy changes are not about punishment. They are about prevention — and prevention is powerful.

🎯 Why Prevention Matters More Than Ever
As someone who works daily in addiction treatment and mental health, I’ve seen the heavy cost of early alcohol exposure. Young people today are navigating overwhelming challenges — and alcohol is often marketed as a quick escape. But when introduced too early, it becomes a trap.

Here’s why this move makes sense:

🧠 1. The Adolescent Brain is Still Developing
Science shows the brain continues developing until around age 25. Alcohol use during this critical period interferes with memory, decision-making, emotional regulation, and impulse control. Raising the age to 21 gives the brain more time to mature before facing the risks of alcohol.

🚩 2. Early Use = Higher Risk of Lifelong Addiction
We’ve treated countless young adults who began drinking at 15 or 16 — many of whom now struggle with alcohol use disorder, cross-addictions, and a long road to recovery. Early onset addiction is much harder to treat and often comes with co-occurring challenges.

🎓 3. School Dropouts and Academic Decline Are on the Rise
We’ve seen a surge in:

✴️University dropouts linked to alcohol and drug use
🔆Unwanted pregnancies
🔆Risky sexual behavior and rising HIV/STI rates
🔆Gambling addiction among youth
🔆A decline in academic performance and graduate quality

What starts as “fun” becomes an academic and health crisis — affecting not just the student, but families and institutions too.

😔 4. The Mental Health Crisis Is Deepening
Alcohol masks mental health symptoms — but doesn’t heal them. In fact, it worsens them. We’re seeing an increase in ADHD, anxiety, depression, and suicidal ideation among youth who self-medicate with alcohol or other substances.

💡 This Is Not Just a Policy Shift — It’s a Public Health Win

By raising the legal drinking age to 21 and banning online sales (which had made access dangerously easy), we are taking a stand to protect the potential of our young people.

We must support these efforts by:

✅Educating parents and schools
✅Promoting alternative healthy coping strategies
✅Offering accessible prevention and early intervention programs
✅Calling out irresponsible advertising and glamorization of drinking.

🙌🏽 Well done to Nacada Kenya and all partners pushing for this change!

Let’s not stop here.

Let’s push for:
✔️ Full enforcement
✔️ Community sensitisation
✔️ Peer-led prevention programs
✔️ Support for those already struggling

Because prevention is not just better than cure — it’s the cure that society needs most.

🔗 Read the full article via The Star

Empower Her Recovery Centre- The SHE Recovers Centre

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02/07/2025

📣 JULY BULLETIN — “THE GOOD SHEPHERD”

This July at Nueva Esperanza Treatment and Wellness Centre & Empower Her Recovery Centre- The SHE Recovers Centre, our guiding theme is The Good Shepherd — a reminder of the sacred responsibility we carry in walking with the wounded, the weary, and the lost. 🕊️

Many of our clients come to us in crisis — emotionally drained 😞, involuntarily admitted 🚔, or disconnected from family. Often, the ones who are hardest to reach — the loud, the resistant, the “difficult” — are the very ones crying out for help the most. 💔

🔸 Testimony 1
A young teacher battling substance use disorder and schizophrenia recently absconded, walked home but arrived safely , the mother called us I. Distress . We dispatched our social worker over 100km outside Nairobi 🚗 to trace him. He is now safely back with us.
This proves the heart of our work — leaving the 99 to find the one.

🔸 Testimony 2
A female client who was almost expelled from our program due to serious disciplinary issues ( Emotionally Dysregulated , Oppositional and Defiant , Trauma Driven Behavior) recently reached out: This one tested our patience and stretched our compassion limits .

“Your program gave me back my life. I’m now a counselor at a rehab centre, pursuing a Diploma in Chemical Dependency. I’d be honored to come back and serve at Nueva — the place where my healing began.” 🌱

Though her journey was not easy, her transformation is powerful — a testimony to what compassion, structure, and faith can do.

✨ Let’s not grow weary:

✅ Let’s see beyond the behaviors
✅ Let’s respond to pain, not just actions
✅ Let’s keep our eyes on the one who’s straying

Even when our occupancy is high, if one soul is lost on our watch, we’ve not fully done our part.
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This is not just a job — it is ministry, mission, and miracle work.

🫶🏾 To my team —
Thank you for your professionalism, patience, and commitment. May July find you anchored in purpose.

We are doing the Lord’s work. 🙌🏾

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