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About Algarve Wellness
Algarve Wellness provides a transformative experience for clients looking to increase their longevity, heal from mental health challenges, or recover from addiction. Dedicated to promoting overall wellness, their approach extends beyond therapy for the mind, teaching clients how to live a balanced life. Set along Portugal’s stunning southern coast, they deliver individualised, non-12-Step treatment within a private, high-end retreat—where exceptional care meets ocean views, gourmet dining, and restorative calm.
Algarve Wellness begins each client’s journey with a thorough assessment to understand their unique needs and goals. Their team then delivers customised care with an emphasis on daily individual therapy using trauma-informed, evidence-based approaches like cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT). Clients also engage in restorative practices such as yoga, mindfulness, and nutrition as they achieve meaningful emotional healing, physical vitality, and a sustainable path to vibrant living.
Clients stay in Algarve’s exclusive private villas with ensuite bathrooms, gourmet dining, and tailored accommodations based on selected packages. Their discreet team ensures confidentiality from airport pick-up to departure. They blend luxury and privacy with guided adventures—from yacht trips to fishing tours to skydiving—all designed to reconnect clients with life’s pleasures and inner peace through nature, movement, and mindful exploration.
After treatment, clients receive personalised aftercare, including a dedicated recovery coach—either virtual or based in their home country—who may collaborate with the client’s existing psychiatrist. Continued care is also available through Algarve’s partner programme in Greece. Support includes tailored wellness plans, such as nutrition guidance for specific health needs, helping clients maintain progress, strengthen resilience, and integrate healing into everyday life.
Treatment is available in English and Portuguese.
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Algarve offers carefully supervised psychedelic-assisted therapies—including psilocybin, ketamine, and ibogaine (ibogaine treatment available after end of July 2025) —led by experienced clinicians. These therapies can help clients process trauma, reduce depression or anxiety, and disrupt addictive patterns. Each treatment is customised and supported medically and emotionally, guiding clients toward insight, breaking cycles, and reconnecting with a deeper sense of meaning and vitality.
Algarve Wellness combines nearby clinic-based genetic testing with on-site health monitoring to instantly measure key biomarkers—such as vital signs—through non-invasive technology. This approach supports individualised care by tracking physiological changes over time, helping clients and clinicians tailor wellness and addiction treatment plans, and then maintain progress with select tools even after leaving the programme.
Whether a client is pursuing longevity or substance use recovery, Algarve integrates evidence-informed care with calming, embodied therapies—like yoga, breathwork, and nature-based movement. Sound healing, massage, and consistent sleep rhythms promote deep relaxation and stress reduction, while custom nutrition plans and fitness training build healthy habits and enhance long-term physiological resilience.
Algarve supports executives facing burnout or addiction with tremendous respect for their achievements and the demands of their high-responsibility roles. Clients can work during treatment if needed, but the priority remains on restoring their wellness and addressing stress-related exhaustion, while guiding them away from self-medication and towards more effective, long-term tools for balance.
Executives
Executive treatment programs typically directly support the needs of people who manage businesses and may provide flexible schedules and office space to allow work during treatment.
LGBTQ+
Addiction and mental illnesses in the LGBTQ+ community must be treated with an affirming, safe, and relevant approach, which many centers provide.
Men and Women
Men and women attend treatment for addiction in a co-ed setting, going to therapy groups together to share experiences, struggles, and successes.
Professionals
Busy, high-ranking professionals get the personalized treatment they need with greater accommodations for work, privacy, and outside communication.
Alcohol
Using alcohol as a coping mechanism, or drinking excessively throughout the week, signals an alcohol use disorder.
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Anxiety
Anxiety is a common mental health condition that can include excessive worry, panic attacks, physical tension, and increased blood pressure.
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Burnout
Burnout entails mental and physical exhaustion, and leads to a severe lack of fulfillment. This condition is often caused by overwork.
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Depression
Symptoms of depression may include fatigue, a sense of numbness, and loss of interest in activities. This condition can range from mild to severe.
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Drug Addiction
Drug addiction is the excessive and repetitive use of substances, despite harmful consequences to a person's life, health, and relationships.
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Executives
Executive treatment programs typically directly support the needs of people who manage businesses and may provide flexible schedules and office space to allow work during treatment.
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Trauma
Some traumatic events are so disturbing that they cause long-term mental health problems. Those ongoing issues can also be referred to as "trauma."
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Residential
In a residential rehab program, patients live onsite, with access to daily treatment and 24-hour care. An average stay is 30-90 days.
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Retreat
These curated experiences promote physical, mental, and spiritual well-being, and provide a break from the busy pace of daily life.
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Evidence-Based
A combination of scientifically rooted therapies and treatments make up evidence-based care, defined by their measured and proven results.
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Holistic
A non-medicinal, wellness-focused approach that aims to align the mind, body, and spirit for deep and lasting healing.
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One-to-One
Patients work with their treatment team members on a 1-on-1 basis, keeping their journey and treatment fully private and personalized.
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Personalized Treatment
The specific needs, histories, and conditions of individual patients receive personalized, highly relevant care throughout their recovery journey.
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1-on-1 Counseling
Patient and therapist meet 1-on-1 to work through difficult emotions and behavioral challenges in a personal, private setting.
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Meditation & Mindfulness
A practiced state of mind that brings patients to the present. It allows them to become fully aware of themselves, their feelings, and the present moment.
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Trauma-Specific Therapy
This form of talk therapy addresses any childhood trauma at the root of a patient's current diagnosis.
Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy
A type of cognitive therapy that identifies negative self-defeating thoughts and behaviors, rewriting beliefs to be positive, empowering, and present.
Equine Therapy
Guided interactions with trained horses, their handler, and a therapist can help patients improve their self-esteem, trust, empathy, and social skills.
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Eye Movement Therapy (EMDR)
Lateral, guided eye movements help reduce the emotional reactions of retelling and reprocessing trauma, allowing intense feelings to dissipate.
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Family Therapy
Family therapy addresses group dynamics within a family system, with a focus on improving communication and interrupting unhealthy relationship patterns.
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Nutrition Counseling
Nutritious food helps patients heal from within, setting them up for mental and bodily wellness as they learn about healthy eating.
Psychoeducation
This method combines treatment with education, teaching patients about different paths toward recovery. This empowers them to make more effective decisions.
Relapse Prevention Counseling
Relapse prevention counselors teach patients to recognize the signs of relapse and reduce their risk.
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Twelve Step Facilitation
12-Step groups offer a framework for addiction recovery. Members commit to a higher power, recognize their issues, and support each other in the healing process.
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Yoga
Yoga is both a physical and spiritual practice. It includes a flow of movement, breathing techniques, and meditation.
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Ketamine Therapy
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Anxiety
Anxiety is a common mental health condition that can include excessive worry, panic attacks, physical tension, and increased blood pressure.
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Bipolar
This mental health condition is characterized by extreme mood swings between depression, mania, and remission.
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Burnout
Burnout entails mental and physical exhaustion, and leads to a severe lack of fulfillment. This condition is often caused by overwork.
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Depression
Symptoms of depression may include fatigue, a sense of numbness, and loss of interest in activities. This condition can range from mild to severe.
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Gambling
Excessive, repetitive gambling causes financial and interpersonal problems. This addiction can interfere with work, friendships, and familial relationships.
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
PTSD is a long-term mental health issue caused by a disturbing event or events. Symptoms include anxiety, dissociation, flashbacks, and intrusive thoughts.
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Sex Addiction
Compulsively seeking out sex can easily become a problem. This addiction is detrimental to relationships, physical health, and self-esteem.
Stress
Stress is a natural reaction to challenges, and it can even help you adapt. However, chronic stress can cause physical and mental health issues.
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Trauma
Some traumatic events are so disturbing that they cause long-term mental health problems. Those ongoing issues can also be referred to as "trauma."
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Alcohol
Using alcohol as a coping mechanism, or drinking excessively throughout the week, signals an alcohol use disorder.
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Co-Occurring Disorders
A person with multiple mental health diagnoses, such as addiction and depression, has co-occurring disorders also called dual diagnosis.
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Drug Addiction
Drug addiction is the excessive and repetitive use of substances, despite harmful consequences to a person's life, health, and relationships.
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Prescription Drugs
It's possible to abuse any drug, even prescribed ones. If you crave a medication, or regularly take it more than directed, you may have an addiction.
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Healthy Meals are provided
Great food meets great treatment, with providers serving healthy meals to restore nutrition, wellbeing, and health.
Pet Friendly
For greater comfort and healing, pet-friendly treatment centers welcome dogs and animal companions to stay with their owners while they attend treatment.
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Executive Program
Addiction and mental health treatment for executives typically involves high discretion, greater technology access, and more private, 1-on-1 care.
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Yoga
Yoga is both a physical and spiritual practice. It includes a flow of movement, breathing techniques, and meditation.
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