OCD Treatment in Spain: Private One-to-One Rehab with Therapy & Specialist Support
Oasis Premium Recovery provides private, one-to-one OCD treatment inside a calm residence in Southern Spain. We deliver Exposure and Response Prevention in a contained, supportive way, with cognitive and skills work that reduces compulsions, mental rituals, and reassurance loops. No compulsory groups unless requested. Your plan is paced to your nervous system and goals.
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Who This Page Is For
Adults experiencing persistent intrusive thoughts or urges, compulsive checking or reassurance seeking, avoidance that shrinks daily life, or hours lost to rituals. It also fits clients whose OCD is masked by high performance, perfectionism, or fear of judgement. If safety is a concern or mood is unstable, we address that first, then step into ERP when ready.
OCD Subtypes We Treat
Labels can help with planning, but we target the shared pattern underneath: intrusive discomfort followed by safety behaviours that keep the loop going.
- Contamination and cleaning: washing, sanitising, laundry and showering cycles, avoidance of touch and shared spaces.
- Checking and doubt: doors, appliances, emails, contracts, sending errors, health checks.
- Order, symmetry, and “not right” feelings: arranging, repeating until it feels correct.
- Harm obsessions: fear of causing harm accidentally or on purpose, with checking, avoidance, or mental review.
- Scrupulosity and moral themes: religious or ethical fears, confession, thought neutralising, reassurance seeking.
- Relationship and health obsessions: certainty seeking about partners or symptoms, repeated online researching.
- Pure O presentations with covert rituals: mental review, counting, praying, replacing thoughts, self-reassurance.
Understanding OCD in Real Life
- Intrusions feel sticky because rituals short-term reduce anxiety but keep doubt powerful.
- Mental rituals are still rituals. Thought neutralising, covert counting, and self-reassurance quietly glue OCD together.
- Exposures work best when they train willingness and uncertainty tolerance, not certainty.
Our One-to-One Model for ERP
ERP is most effective when exposures are precise, humane, and repeated with coaching. In our one-to-one model you progress through a collaboratively built hierarchy with in-session guidance and between-session support.
- Daily individual therapy to design, rehearse, run, and debrief exposures.
- Graded exposure ladders that start small and build steadily, using your language and real contexts.
- Response prevention for both overt and mental rituals, including reassurance delay and uncertainty practice.
- Inhibitory learning focus so the brain updates “I can handle this discomfort” rather than seeking proof of safety.
- Skills for arousal and emotion using CBT, ACT, DBT skills, and optional body-based work such as TRE.
Two Sample Exposure Hierarchies
Contamination ladder (example)
- Touch a low-anxiety surface for 10 seconds, delay washing for 2 minutes.
- Sit on a public bench, place hands on lap, delay washing for 10 minutes.
- Handle a shared door handle, eat a snack without washing.
- Use public transport, hold rail, eat lunch after without sanitiser.
- Cook at home after shopping without re-washing items.
Checking ladder (example)
- Leave the room without re-checking the light switch.
- Lock the door once, take a photo, do not look at the photo.
- Send an email without rereading more than once.
- Leave home with one stove check and no photo.
- Submit a document with a planned, limited proofread.
We design ladders specific to your obsessions and rituals. Success is measured by doing the exposure and allowing discomfort to rise and fall, not by feeling certain.
Reassurance Traps and Mental Rituals
We identify and reduce hidden loops that quietly feed OCD:
- Repeated Googling, health checks, and seeking opinions from friends or colleagues.
- Self-reassurance scripts, replacing thoughts, covert counting or praying until it feels right.
- “Just in case” safety behaviours such as avoiding sharp objects or avoiding certain words.
You will learn brief allow and allow scripts, reassurance delay methods, and one-touch rules to keep gains outside sessions.
Dual Diagnosis and Complex Presentations
We treat the full picture so ERP is safer and gains hold.
- Anxiety and depression: stabilised alongside ERP to reduce shutdown cycles. See Anxiety Treatment and Depression Treatment.
- Trauma responses: we pace work when baseline arousal is high. See Trauma and PTSD Treatment.
- Eating disorders and compulsive exercise: rule-bound patterns are addressed in parallel. See Eating Disorders Treatment.
- ADHD and perfectionism: task initiation and completion problems can look like checking. We separate patterns and adjust plan.
- Substance use or prescription patterns: targeted support through Addiction Treatment, including Alcohol, Drugs, and Prescription rehab.
- Sleep disruption and burnout: predictable rhythm improves ERP tolerance and learning.
Medication Coordination
Medication can support OCD treatment when appropriate. We coordinate with your prescriber, monitor effects and side effects, and keep therapy central so progress does not rely on medication alone. If you already take medication, we align ERP timing around it. Any changes are made with your prescriber.
Assessment and Planning
We begin with a structured assessment to map obsessions, compulsion time, triggers, covert rituals, reassurance sources, and co-occurring drivers. Together we build an exposure hierarchy, agree prevention targets, and define early wins. Risk and mood are reviewed regularly so pacing stays humane and sustainable.
Programmes and Levels of Care
Intensity is matched to need and adjusted as you stabilise.
- The Foundation Retreat for assessment, early ERP wins, and rhythm setup.
- The Restorative Path for steady exposure work with skills consolidation.
- The Regenerative Stay for complex OCD with trauma, mood, or eating concerns.
- The Signature Experience when a fully bespoke framework is required.
- The One-to-One Residence for maximum privacy and continuity.
Daily Rhythm and Example Day
Structure keeps momentum while leaving room for rest.
- Morning planned exposure with in-session coaching and response prevention.
- Midday skills practice, psychoeducation, calm outdoor activity, and regulated meals.
- Afternoon targeted session such as CBT, ACT, or DBT skills, plus review of prevention wins.
- Evening wind-down routine, brief planning for tomorrow, and sleep support.
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Family and Partner Involvement
With your consent, we provide education and boundary work so loved ones reduce reassurance and accommodation while staying supportive. Brief joint sessions can accelerate generalisation of ERP gains at home.
Professional Clients and Confidentiality
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Measuring Progress and Outcomes
We track change so adjustments are timely and concrete.
- Weekly review of exposure completion, distress curves, and ritual minutes.
- Regular symptom measures and functional goals such as work, family, and travel tasks.
- Written prevention plan for home with specific behaviours to continue.
Relapse Prevention and Aftercare
ERP gains hold when you keep practising. We make that simple.
- Personal exposure library with scripts and refreshers.
- Reassurance plan that outlines how to respond to spikes.
- Lifetime Aftercare and Lifetime Aftercare Support for scheduled reviews and top-ups.
- Life Skills and Relapse Prevention for uncertainty practice and ritual audits.
Admissions and Discreet Travel
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- Confidential enquiry and clinical history.
- Pre-assessment and safety screen.
- Programme selection and dates confirmed.
- Discrete arrival with unbranded transfers and a calm first day.
Compare Locations and Private Therapy Options
If you are travelling to Spain or weighing international choices, these pages help you decide:
- Rehab Spain and a nationwide overview of Spain treatment centres and Rehab clinics in Spain.
- Why choose one-to-one work: One-to-One Therapy Spain and Why Private Therapy Spain.
- Regional comparisons: Rehab in the UK vs Spain and Private Rehab Europe.
- International options: Rehab USA Private, Rehab Middle East Private, Private Rehab France Clients.
- Nordic clients: Rehab Sweden Private, Rehab Norway Private, Rehab Denmark Private.
- Explore luxury options: Luxury Rehab Clinics.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Do you offer ERP?
Yes. ERP is central to our OCD work. Exposures are designed collaboratively, delivered one-to-one, and paced to your capacity.
Do you treat pure O or mental compulsions?
Yes. We target covert rituals directly, including mental review, replacing thoughts, counting, and self-reassurance. Response prevention includes uncertainty practice and reassurance delay.
Are exposures done in public settings?
Where relevant, we practise in everyday environments. We start with in-residence tasks and progress to real-world exposures when you are ready.
Will I be forced to drop safety behaviours immediately?
No. We reduce rituals in planned steps. You will know the target, the duration, and how we will measure success before each exposure.
Do I need a formal diagnosis before admission?
No. We complete a structured assessment on arrival and coordinate with your existing clinicians if helpful.
Can family be involved?
With your consent, we offer education and boundary work so loved ones reduce reassurance loops while staying supportive.
Do you coordinate medication?
Yes. We communicate with your prescriber, monitor effects, and align ERP timing. Therapy remains central to change.
How long should I stay?
Length of stay depends on severity, ritual time, co-occurring conditions, and goals. Many clients extend in measured steps as skills grow.
How to Start Treatment at Oasis
- Enquire: contact admissions privately and share history, goals, and examples of obsessions and rituals.
- Pre-assessment: complete a clinical screen and safety check with recent information where available.
- Plan: agree programme, exposure hierarchy, and review points with clear prevention targets.
- Arrive: settle in, meet your team, begin gentle exposures and skills work with calm pacing.
- Review: weekly reviews adjust intensity, ritual targets, and real-world practice.
- Aftercare: step down with structured follow up and exposure refreshers.