Coming home after rehab in Bali or Spain
Treatment abroad works while you're there. The hard part starts at the airport home. That gap is exactly what I work in.
More people from the UK than ever are choosing residential treatment in Bali or on the Costa del Sol. The programmes are often excellent: private villas, one to one therapy, weeks away from every trigger you have. Then it ends. You land back in the UK, back to the same house, the same job, the same friends, and the structure that held you up for 28 or 60 days is nine time zones away.
Most overseas centres offer aftercare as weekly group video calls. For some people that's enough. For many it isn't, and the research on early recovery is blunt: the first weeks and months after treatment carry the highest relapse risk.
How the bridge works
- Before you fly home. We speak while you're still in treatment, with your centre's blessing, and build a written plan for your first 30 days back: routine, meetings, people, pressure points, and what happens on a bad day.
- Landing week. Daily contact. Short calls or messages, whatever keeps you honest and steady while the treatment bubble wears off.
- The first 90 days. Weekly coaching sessions plus message support between them. We work on the real stuff: work, family, boredom, the first wedding, the first bad Friday.
- In person, where it helps. I split my time between the UK, Bali and Spain. If you want in-person support near your treatment centre before you leave, or at home in the UK after, that's often possible.
Why me for this
I'm in recovery myself, and I work across the same three places this journey usually happens in: the UK you're returning to, and the Bali and Spain you're returning from. I know what those programmes give you and, more importantly, what they can't give you once you're home. Coaching is not therapy and doesn't replace your centre's clinical aftercare. It runs alongside it, in your actual daily life.
When to get in touch
The best time is two to three weeks before your discharge date, so the plan exists before you need it. If you're already home and finding it harder than you expected, that's the second best time. Either way, the first call is free and there's no obligation.