Howard Silver
Co-founder. No clinical qualification is published.
leadership
Marbella,
A family-run, abstinence-based villa programme, warm and communal, with lived experience at its centre rather than a named clinical team.
The most important fact about The Bridge Marbella is an absence: no clinician is named anywhere on the clinic's own site, in either language. The only people named are the three Silver family co-founders, whose published credential is long-term personal recovery, and one of whom is described as a nutritional therapist and eating disorder practitioner. The clinic nonetheless offers medically supervised detoxification and weight restoration in anorexia nervosa. Opened in 2019, it runs an abstinence-based, twelve-step-informed programme in a single villa outside Marbella, built on daily group therapy, one-to-one counselling, CBT, trauma work and EMDR, alongside nutrition, fitness, yoga and equine sessions. A dedicated eating disorder programme was added in 2023. Aftercare runs through a Marbella day programme and an online programme. No price, no capacity figure, no staff-to-client ratio and no licence reference appears anywhere on the clinic's own pages, and no entry was retrievable from the Andalusian health-centre register.
No clinician is named anywhere. No medical director, psychiatrist, doctor, lead therapist, clinical lead, nurse or dietitian is identified on the clinic's site, in English or Spanish. The site refers only to private doctors and a psychiatrist, eating disorder trained nurses, a fitness manager, a nutritionist and a resident chef, all unnamed. The only named people are the three co-founders.
Co-founder. No clinical qualification is published.
leadership
Co-founder. No clinical qualification is published.
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Co-founder, described as a nutritional therapist and qualified eating disorder practitioner, with no awarding body or registration named and no stated role treating clients
leadership
No registration number is published, because no clinician is named to hold one. No colegiado number appears anywhere, and the clinic links to no faculty directory and no specialist board verification page.
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The core programme: an abstinence-based, twelve-step-informed plan combining daily group therapy, one-to-one counselling, CBT, trauma therapy and EMDR with twelve-step meetings, fitness, yoga, nutrition and equine work, delivered in one villa with en suite bedrooms, a private pool and gardens. The clinic guarantees small groups and states that people are there around the clock, without publishing a session count, a capacity figure or a staff-to-client ratio.
Days, weeks or longer in very severe cases
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Clients are seen immediately on arrival by the clinic's doctor and, where necessary, a detox commences on site, with medical help offered to manage symptoms. The clinic states it can offer a medically supervised detox for drug addiction and for serious long-term alcohol addiction. No physician is named, no protocol is published, no 24-hour on-site medical rota is stated and no licence evidence exists.
Clients usually stay 8 to 12 weeks
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Weight restoration and nutritional rehabilitation with supervised meals, alongside CBT, psychodynamic and person-centred therapy, group work, psychoeducation and body image therapy. Meal plans are described as overseen by a nutritional therapist, a therapist and a doctor at three meals plus two snacks a day. The clinic names the professions delivering it, including nurses, doctors, therapists, psychiatrists, dietitians and nutritional therapists, and names none of the people.
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A service tier rather than a separate product. It is marketed as one-to-one care in one of the clinic's exclusive private villas, with a chauffeur, private chef, personal trainer and concierge alongside the same dedicated team, and family visits encouraged. No page states a separate address, a separate clinical team, a separate price or an occupancy figure, and no page states that the client has the villa alone, so it should not be listed as a private-villa product.
Suggested for one or two months after residential treatment
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Clients live independently on the coast and attend daily for therapy, twelve-step meetings and study, with a healthy lunch. It is delivered by qualified professionals at the clinic, so continuity stays within the operator. Afternoons and evenings are the client's own.
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Remote treatment positioned as the route for people who cannot travel and as aftercare for alumni back home, delivered through online programmes, regular check-ins and virtual therapy sessions.
No public price found.
The review base is thin and inconsistent for a business operating since 2019. A Google Business Profile exists, categorised as a health consultant, carrying a telephone number and the website but no address and no opening hours, and was recorded in earlier research as carrying no reviews at all. No Trustpilot profile exists. A commercial directory carries 4.7 from 15 reviews on a listing the platform states it has verified for name, location, contact information and licence to operate, with the explicit caveat that verification does not imply endorsement. A Facebook page carries a small following and 35 public check-ins, which is an exposure rather than a review signal. One rehab-review directory displays 1,023 reviews at 5.0 for the clinic. That is not credible for a villa of this size, and the same platform publishes the identical figure for unrelated clinics. It is excluded and is not relied on anywhere. No lawsuit, regulatory action, tribunal finding, complaint or documented incident was found in English or Spanish.
The review base is thin and inconsistent for a business operating since 2019. A Google Business Profile exists, categorised as a health consultant, carrying a telephone number and the website but no address and no opening hours, and was recorded in earlier research as carrying no reviews at all. No Trustpilot profile exists. A commercial directory carries 4.7 from 15 reviews on a listing the platform states it has verified for name, location, contact information and licence to operate, with the explicit caveat that verification does not imply endorsement. A Facebook page carries a small following and 35 public check-ins, which is an exposure rather than a review signal. One rehab-review directory displays 1,023 reviews at 5.0 for the clinic. That is not credible for a villa of this size, and the same platform publishes the identical figure for unrelated clinics. It is excluded and is not relied on anywhere. No lawsuit, regulatory action, tribunal finding, complaint or documented incident was found in English or Spanish.
No mainstream press coverage was found in English or Spanish. The only bylined article located, dated 14 October 2020, reports a directory award and relies on founder quotes, and does not describe the premises or care from a visit. No first-hand reporting from inside the villa exists.
The only award found comes from a rehab-directory site and was publicised in October 2020 through a piece that reads as a press release. Claims of being an officially rated leading treatment centre and of a diamond rating originate on directory and commercial award sites, not on any independent assessor, and none appears on the clinic's own pages.
A single private villa. The clinic describes en suite bedrooms, a private pool, gardens, bright therapy spaces, indoor and outdoor dining and beach access nearby, and says the villa sits in the hills outside Marbella. Four qualifications matter. First, the location claim conflicts with the only address in the clinic's own text: the address in its privacy policy sits in a coastal urbanisation of large detached villas east of Marbella town, not a mountain location, and the clinic's own events page describes the venue as minutes from the beaches and about 40 minutes from the airport. Second, no photograph, deed, lease or licence establishing ownership or authorised healthcare use of any property was located. Third, the published photography does not establish the premises: one image on the site depicts what appears to be the actual property, and the other luxury images are generic resort and villa photography, including files with stock-library filenames. Fourth, the villa doubles as a commercial venue: in October 2022 the clinic hosted a four-day professional workshop for outside counsellors and therapists at the property, and its events page invites addiction professionals to enquire about hosting training there. Not published: a nearest emergency department with a road travel time, emergency equipment and training, a medication storage policy or an environmental risk assessment.
Genuinely a strength at this price point. Meals are prepared daily on site by a resident in-house chef and served indoors or outdoors. In the eating disorder programme the meal plan is described as overseen by a nutritional therapist, a therapist and a doctor, structured at three meals plus two snacks a day to stabilise blood sugar, which is a clinically appropriate protocol rather than a hospitality flourish. One co-founder is described as a nutritional therapist and eating disorder practitioner, so nutrition expertise sits in the ownership rather than being bought in, and the clinic teaches clients the basics of nutrition and how to prepare and cook food. Against that: the awarding body and any registration for that nutrition title are not named, the chef is not named, no gourmet credential is claimed, no nutrition assessment on admission and no laboratory-based plan is described, no statement says the kitchen works to each client's clinical plan, no monitoring with repeat measurements is published, and no kitchen hygiene certification is published.
one to one therapy
This is a communal programme and does not claim otherwise. Group therapy, group meditation, twelve-step meetings and daily groups are standard content, the clinic's own article describes sessions led by a psychologist with a recent group of clients, and the eating disorder programme describes clients eating communally in the villa. What is established is one-to-one therapy alongside daily group work, not client separation. The private-villa tier is marketed on privacy and on one-to-one treatment, but no page states that the client has the villa alone, and no separate address, staffing, price or occupancy figure is published for it. Its privacy premium is a marketing claim rather than a verified structural separation. No confidentiality mechanism beyond statute is named. Total confidentiality and total discretion are adjectives, and the suggestion that treatment can be explained away as a family holiday is a cover story rather than a clinic mechanism. There is no NDA policy, no alias policy, no staff confidentiality or vetting statement, no visitor protocol and no arrival or departure separation. The Facebook page carries 35 public check-ins, and the villa is opened to external addiction professionals for multi-day workshops, putting non-clinical third parties inside the treatment property. As captured on 2026-09-15 the published privacy policy names a data controller marked as still in formation and cites a Spanish data protection statute repealed in 2018, states no retention period, no record-handling detail for client health records and no supervisory authority. That records what the published policy says. Whether the operator's actual handling of client data complies was not assessed, and no complaint, regulatory finding or proceeding was found.
Headline basis: Public evidenceThe headline number is the public score, not the extended score., LROAS 1.0.0, edition 2026-10-01
Public-evidence total: 36
The sum of the ten criterion scores, from 10 to 100, using evidence anyone can check, including the clinic's own pages as self-declared statements. For the licence element of C2 only, it can also use an authority ruling held in our sealed evidence room. It is the only number used for the rank.
ConfidenceHow well the evidence supports the score.: low. ProvisionalA check was still open when the edition closed, for example a register lookup or a video not yet received, or evidence under embargo.: none.
Bedrooms are en suite, and clients are brought together daily in one shared villa for group therapy, group meditation and twelve-step meetings. Band 4 would need either a published client count of 20 or fewer on site or a confidentiality measure beyond statute; the clinic states only that it takes a small number of clients, with no figure, and phones held for the first two weeks are presented as a focus measure, not as protection of other clients. The Residence private villa tier states no sole occupancy, address or price, so it does not add a tier. No contradiction deduction arises.
ConfidenceHow well the evidence supports the score.: low
Clients are seen by the clinic's doctor on arrival and withdrawal is managed on site, and the home page shows a referral partnership with a hospital group. A psychiatrist is referred to for the site without being named, and no medical lead role is stated. Spain has official registers of authorised health centres, and no authorisation for the residence was found or named on the site, so the licensing element is not met. Night cover is stated only as nurses for the eating disorder programme, with no physician or psychiatrist overnight, and no accreditor register entry exists, so band 5 is not reached.
ConfidenceHow well the evidence supports the score.: high
One element is met: a thorough assessment and diagnosis before admission, followed by a full medical and psychological assessment on arrival. No physician or psychiatrist is named for the site, the assessor is not named, no laboratory test or assessment instrument is described, and no written formulation is delivered, so no second element is established.
ConfidenceHow well the evidence supports the score.: medium
Individual therapy is offered, but no weekly count of one-to-one hours, group share or dedicated team is published. A high staff-to-client ratio is claimed without a figure, and the only session count, five one-to-one sessions a week, comes from a client testimonial rather than a published standard. The 24-hour nurse statement covers one programme and does not say nurses stay in the residence, so band 5 is out of reach. Length of stay is clinically determined, so no fixed-package cap applies.
ConfidenceHow well the evidence supports the score.: low
Four aftercare elements are met: continued work with the same operator's therapists, an in-person day programme in Marbella for one or two months after residential treatment, family involvement through family therapy, and remote delivery. No written plan before discharge, defined duration for aftercare as a whole, price or inclusion statement, psychiatric follow-up, coordination with outside doctors or six-month structure is published, so band 6 is not reached.
ConfidenceHow well the evidence supports the score.: medium
A sweep of the clinic's own domain found no self-ranking page, no press or award wall and no content addressed to AI assistants, so no violation applies. The blog post calling the clinic Spain's premier luxury rehab ranks no clinics, and the hospital group mark belongs to a referral partnership the clinic announced. One positive signal is met: a published policy of admitting only people the clinic feels it can help and referring others on. No price, no referral-fee position and no voluntary-admission statement is published, so no further signal is met.
ConfidenceHow well the evidence supports the score.: medium
One transparency element is met: the privacy policy names an operating entity, marked as in formation and trading as The Bridge Marbella, with a street address. No fee inclusions, deposit, refund, extension or early-departure terms, licence reference, ownership, complaints route, inspection result or retention period is published, and the privacy policy cites a data protection statute replaced in 2018. The general referral sentence is credited once, in C6, and no list of conditions not treated is published. The ceiling for a site that publishes only programme descriptions applies.
ConfidenceHow well the evidence supports the score.: low
Searches in Spanish and English for both entity names found no final regulator, court or inquiry finding and no allegation. No inspection record was found, the one bylined article reports a directory award from founder quotes without a first-hand description of the premises, and there is no Trustpilot profile or second independent review platform. With no finding and none of the independent signals, band 5 applies. The clinic states it was founded in 2019.
ConfidenceHow well the evidence supports the score.: low
C9 is the mean of a housing score of 5 and a nutrition score of 5. Housing credits en suite bedrooms, bright therapy spaces, a private pool and garden, and chauffeur and concierge service at the private villa tier with family visits encouraged. The emergency department drive time cannot be credited because it was computed from the data controller's address, which the site never names as a place of care, while the villa has no published street address. No medication storage policy, emergency equipment or risk assessment is published. Nutrition credits an in-house chef and an eating disorder meal plan, but rests on one co-founder whose nutrition title names no awarding body or registration.
ConfidenceHow well the evidence supports the score.: medium
No credentialed clinician is named with a role at this site. The site names only three co-founders and refers to doctors, a psychiatrist, therapists, nurses and a nutritionist without names or registration numbers, and neither sitemap lists a team or clinician page. Archived captures of the site over several years show no named clinical person either, so no register lookup can be formed and no higher band is reachable.
ConfidenceHow well the evidence supports the score.: low
No price appears anywhere on the clinic's own site, for any programme. There is no fee information at all: no inclusions, no deposit, no payment, refund, extension or early-departure terms. A two-week figure circulates on a commercial directory listing rather than from the clinic, and two further figures come from a domain that no longer resolves. None of the three is sourced to a named outlet or listing in our record, so we do not carry the amounts. Treatment is private pay and no insurer is accepted. Ask for a written quotation with inclusions, exclusions and refund terms before committing.
A single private villa near Marbella, in Malaga province. No address appears on the contact page or anywhere in the clinic's marketing. The only address in the clinic's own text sits inside its privacy policy and places it in a coastal urbanisation east of Marbella town, which does not fit the clinic's own description of a location in the hills. The events page describes the venue as minutes from the beaches and about 40 minutes from the airport. No nearest hospital, emergency department or travel time is published.
Adults seeking abstinence-based, twelve-step-informed residential treatment for alcohol, drugs, gambling, anxiety, depression and eating disorders, who want a small, family-run, communal setting rather than an institution. The clinic states that its approach is not right for everyone and that it takes only people it feels it can help, referring others on. It does not suit anyone who needs no contact with other clients, anyone who requires a named clinical lead or a licensed facility, or anyone who wants a published price before enquiring.
Admission runs directly through the clinic by telephone, WhatsApp or email, with no referral needed. The clinic describes a thorough assessment and a diagnosis of the issues as the first step in deciding whether to admit someone. On arrival clients receive a full medical and psychological assessment covering physical health, mental health, substance use history and underlying conditions, and are seen by the clinic's doctor, who starts a medically supervised detox where required. No waiting time is published. The assessing clinician is not named, and no laboratory panel or written formulation is published.
Aftercare is described as bespoke and tailored and is delivered by the clinic itself. A day programme in Marbella is suggested for one or two months after residential treatment, with therapy, twelve-step meetings and study and a lunch, and there are online programmes, regular check-ins, virtual therapy sessions, one-to-one therapy, sober coaches and accompanied transport. Families are involved throughout and family therapy is offered. Not published: a written plan before discharge, a defined duration, any price or statement of inclusion, psychiatric follow-up and medication management, or coordination with the client's own doctors.