Our Founder and 20-year History

Privé-Swiss was founded by Heidi Kunzli, whose work over more than two decades has helped shape the modern model of discreet, individualized care for high-functioning individuals seeking meaningful, lasting change.

In 2001, Heidi founded Beau Monde Transformational Recovery and Executive Renewal, a highly private residential program modeled after the Swiss clinic tradition and designed for executives, professionals, creatives, and other individuals requiring exceptional discretion and personalization. Based in Newport Beach, California, Beau Monde quickly gained international recognition for its uncompromising standards of care, service excellence, and long-term outcomes, ultimately expanding to seven exclusive locations across Southern California, including Newport Beach, Laguna Beach, and the Hollywood Hills.

Over time, former clients, colleagues, and medical professionals encouraged Heidi to extend this philosophy beyond traditional treatment models. In response, she founded Privé-Swiss in 2008 — an ultra-private program created to integrate clinical rigor, behavioral depth, and a highly individualized approach to mental health, wellbeing, and performance.

Today, Privé-Swiss reflects more than twenty years of refinement, leadership, and experience, grounded in the belief that meaningful change requires both precision and humanity, structure and flexibility, science and lived understanding.

our Philosophy

Privé-Swiss is guided by the belief that addressing mental health and life-disrupting challenges is not about limitation or reduction — it is about expansion, restoration, and forward momentum.

Rather than viewing individuals through a lens of pathology or deficiency, we approach each client as a capable, complex human being navigating a period of disruption, transition, or vulnerability. Our work is rooted in the understanding that depression, anxiety, trauma, substance use, and chronic stress do not define a person — but signal an opportunity for recalibration, growth, and renewed alignment.

Our programs are designed to support this process through a highly individualized blend of clinical care, behavioral insight, and structured self-rebuilding. Clients are not “kept down” or reduced to diagnoses; they are supported in reconnecting with their strengths, values, discipline, and capacity for meaningful engagement with life.

At Privé-Swiss, we believe that people do recover — and that many emerge from the process stronger, more self-aware, and more resilient than before. Our role is to provide the structure, expertise, and environment that allow that transformation to occur with dignity, discretion, and lasting impact.

Our Clients

The Privé-Swiss programs were created to serve the specific needs and treatment goals of successful, high-functioning individuals struggling with mental health challenges such as depression, anxiety, trauma, bipolar, burnout, addiction and more. Read more about our typical clients.

Your Unique Experience

Privé-Swiss is incomparable when it comes to clinical excellence, exceptional quality of care, comfort, privacy, individual attention and lasting success. No sitting in groups all day! Every moment and every penny you spend at Privé-Swiss is devoted totally and completely to you and your recovery. The unparalleled Privé-Swiss integrated team of physicians, therapists, coaches, counselors, companions and personal assistants ensure the most sophisticated and meticulous level of care. Situated on the CT shoreline, clients have access to an incredible variety of seasoned professionals throughout the area.

Our reputation is built on our dedication to help individuals restore mental and emotional health — and to recover from depression, anxiety, trauma and addiction. There is no compromise. It is about the individual and his or her unique needs and treatment goals. Recovery is a life-altering, deeply-personal experience which is central to the Privé-Swiss model of care.

Please note this is not a psychiatric inpatient program nor alcohol/drug detox/rehab facility. All clinical services are provided by highly experienced, licensed healthcare professionals practicing throughout the community who work together as a team to assist our clients in achieving their treatment goals. Clients receive services throughout the shoreline and are able to return to private accommodations to relax and restore in total privacy and comfort.

All services are private pay only; insurance is not accepted. A superbill and support can be available for submission for reimbursement if desired.