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Making a referral to Sierra Recovery
For GPs, therapists, interventionists, case managers and employers placing someone in residential treatment in Spain.
We assess every referral clinically before travel is booked, and we will tell you if the placement is not appropriate. A residential supervision setting is not right for everyone, and we would rather say so than take a placement that fails.
How a referral works
You get in touch
Call or email with an outline. No formal paperwork is needed to start a conversation.
Clinical assessment
We assess by phone or video, and review any clinical information you can share with the client's consent. Where clinical risk indicates a hospital setting rather than a supervised residence, we say so at this point.
Written proposal
You receive the proposed length of stay, the clinical plan and the full cost in writing before anyone commits.
Travel and admission
We coordinate arrival, arrange the transfer from Malaga airport and confirm admission with you.
Updates and handover
You receive progress updates during the stay with the client's consent, and a written clinical handover on discharge.
What we can take
Adults with alcohol, drug and behavioural addictions, and the co-occurring mental health conditions that usually accompany them. Withdrawal is medically supervised, with medical and psychiatric direction provided through our linked outpatient treatment centre and transfer to our partner hospital where clinical risk requires it.
What we cannot take
We are a supervised residential centre, not a hospital, and our authorisation is not a hospital licence. Where someone needs inpatient medical or psychiatric care, an acute detox in a hospital setting, or a level of supervision beyond a residential service, we will say so and, where we can, point you somewhere appropriate.
Continuity after discharge
Aftercare runs online or in person at the PROMIS clinics in London when the client returns to the UK, plus a weekly virtual group. If you are the referring clinician and want to remain the continuing care provider, we will build the handover around that.
We work with the referrer, not around them
You are involved in the admission, not cut out of it once the client arrives. With the client's consent you receive the assessment outcome, progress updates during the stay and a written clinical handover on discharge. We would rather you stayed part of the picture, because continuity is what protects the recovery.
Come and see it
Visit the centre before you refer anyone.
We would rather you saw the place with your own eyes than took our word for it. If you place clients in residential treatment, come and spend a day: meet the clinical team, see the rustic cortijo and its 40 hectares (nearly 100 acres) of grounds, and understand exactly what you would be referring into.
Forty five minutes from Malaga airport, and we will arrange the transfer. There is no expectation attached to a visit.
Your point of contact
Nerea Encinas Sánchez
Director of the centre, MSc General Health Psychology
Nerea is your point of contact for a visit and will show you the centre herself. You do not have to wait for her to start the conversation, though: any clinician on our admissions team can take the call and answer the clinical questions, and she signs off every pre-travel assessment.
Arrange a visit or discuss a referral
For GPs, psychiatrists, therapists, interventionists, case managers and employers. We reply within one working day.
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Talk to a clinician today
You will speak to our admissions team, English-speaking clinicians who know the programme and the people in it. Callback within 24 hours.
Registered health centre. Authorised by the Junta de Andalucía, N.I.C.A. 67331.
