Seven days or a concentrated weekend. Personally led by Simon Hitchcock and shaped around the work you need to do.
Start the ConversationTwo private formats
Both routes are centred on direct therapeutic work with Simon. The difference is how much time you can give the work and whether the situation calls for a full private week or a concentrated weekend.
Simon Hitchcock leads the private therapeutic work personally. There is no fixed group timetable: the pace, focus and approach can respond to what emerges in the room.
Simon is a British integrative psychotherapist with 15+ years’ clinical experience. He helped establish and coordinate two private residential treatment centres, developing and then leading their therapeutic programmes. A former university lecturer, he wrote therapeutic courses and trained therapists entering the profession.
The Seven-Day Private Intensive may be arranged for one person or, where clinically appropriate, a couple; the weekend is one-to-one. If the relationship itself is the focus, see our couples therapy retreat in Spain. Simon will discuss suitability with you directly.
What private changes
Private work is not simply the group programme with fewer people. Removing the group changes what Simon can follow, how quickly the work can move and how specifically the programme can respond.
The programme is not selected from a menu. It is built around what becomes visible.
Discuss a Private IntensiveThe attention stays on one person, or potentially one couple in the seven-day format. There is no need to make the work fit a cohort.
If something important opens, the programme can follow it. The day does not have to move on because six other people are waiting for the next part of a timetable.
Breathwork, equine, wilderness and behavioural elements are available as bespoke additions. They are not automatically included simply because they exist elsewhere at The Ridge.
Founders, executives, professionals and other highly capable people can keep performing long after something has become difficult privately. This is therapy, not coaching or performance optimisation.
The Private Weekend Intensive is a shorter 1:1 route for someone who wants concentrated therapeutic work with Simon but cannot realistically step away for seven days.
Arrive Friday. Work privately with Simon on Saturday and Sunday. Leave Monday. The weekend is not a lighter or cheaper version of The Ridge. It is a different amount of time for a different practical situation.
Accommodation, all meals and agreed Málaga airport transfers are included. Specialist elements can be added where they genuinely serve the work. Timing, wider practical arrangements and fees are discussed directly with Simon.
The Ridge is not suitable for people in acute psychiatric crisis or active addiction. It is not a substitute for emergency, inpatient or medically supervised care.
Where Simon believes the five-day scheduled programme would be more useful than a private format, he will say so. If a weekend is not enough time for the work being described, he will say that too.
There are two private formats. The seven-day Private Ridge Intensive is arranged 1:1 or potentially 1:2. The Private Weekend Intensive is a shorter 1:1 format, with Friday arrival, therapeutic work with Simon on Saturday and Sunday, and Monday departure.
The seven-day intensive has no wider participant group. The work is centred on intensive private psychotherapy with Simon and is shaped around one person or, where appropriate, one couple. Specialist elements are added only where they genuinely serve the work rather than forming a fixed group timetable.
It is for someone who wants concentrated one-to-one therapeutic work with Simon but cannot commit to a full week. Suitability depends on what the person is bringing and whether two days of work is an appropriate format for it.
Private dates are arranged around suitability and Simon's availability. In some circumstances the work may be organised relatively quickly; more commonly, dates are agreed over the following few weeks.
Private pricing is not published because the structure and level of support are agreed around the individual situation. Simon discusses fees directly once he understands what is needed and which private format is appropriate.
Potentially, in the seven-day Private Ridge Intensive, when the couple is working through something together and Simon believes a joint format is clinically appropriate. The Private Weekend Intensive is 1:1.
Not automatically. Breathwork, equine, wilderness and behavioural elements are available as bespoke additions where Simon believes they will genuinely serve the work. The private programme is centred on direct therapeutic work with Simon.
No. The Ridge is not an emergency or crisis service and is not suitable for acute psychiatric crisis or active addiction. Emergency or medically supervised support should be accessed first where required.
You do not need to decide between seven days and a weekend before getting in touch. Twenty minutes is enough to explain what is happening, what you need and what time you can realistically give the work.
Discuss a Private Intensive