Interpersonal Therapy (IPT) for Emotional Recovery & Relationship Healing

Explore emotional patterns, communication, and relational health through Interpersonal Therapy — delivered one-to-one in a luxury rehab setting in Marbella, Spain.

We Heal Through Connection — And We’re Hurt By It Too

At Sea Recovery, we recognise that mental health doesn’t exist in isolation. Our emotions, self-image, and even addiction patterns are shaped in relationships — with partners, parents, friends, and ourselves. Interpersonal Therapy (IPT) helps clients understand and heal the emotional impact of their relationships, past and present.

Delivered in a one-to-one, emotionally safe setting, IPT supports recovery from depression, trauma, addiction, and identity loss by addressing the core relational issues that drive emotional distress.

What Is Interpersonal Therapy?

Interpersonal Therapy (IPT) is an evidence-based psychotherapeutic approach focused on improving your emotional wellbeing by addressing relationship issues. It’s structured, time-sensitive, and highly effective for individuals struggling with mood instability, unresolved grief, role transitions, or interpersonal conflict.

Rather than analysing the past in isolation, IPT explores how your relationships affect your current emotional health — and how changing patterns of communication, boundaries, and emotional expression can support long-term recovery.

What IPT Addresses

Interpersonal Therapy is used to explore and resolve:

• Unresolved grief or relational trauma
• Social withdrawal or emotional isolation
• Attachment wounds and codependent patterns
• Loss of self-esteem or role identity
• Chronic conflict in close relationships
• Depressive symptoms and emotional flatness

It is especially effective for individuals recovering from addiction, trauma, or life transitions who struggle to find safety in connection — or who rely on isolation to cope.

How IPT Works

IPT is typically structured around 1–3 of the following key focus areas, selected based on your unique history and therapeutic goals:

• Grief & Loss: Processing unresolved pain from the loss of a loved one or emotional abandonment
• Interpersonal Conflict: Exploring ongoing tension, resentment, or power struggles in key relationships
• Role Transitions: Navigating identity changes — e.g. divorce, career shifts, or becoming sober
• Social Isolation: Understanding patterns of avoidance, fear of rejection, or emotional withdrawal

Each session is collaborative and focused on practical outcomes: improved communication, deeper emotional awareness, and clearer relational boundaries. You’ll be guided with sensitivity and structure — never forced to share more than you’re ready for.

Why IPT Supports Lasting Emotional Recovery

Emotional pain rarely happens in a vacuum — it’s shaped through relationships. Likewise, recovery requires relational repair. IPT helps clients build the emotional literacy and self-awareness needed to:

• Navigate difficult conversations with calm and clarity
• Express emotions without fear or shutdown
• Grieve past relationships with compassion
• Rebuild their identity after trauma, addiction, or collapse
• Develop trust and intimacy without losing boundaries

At Sea Recovery, IPT becomes a key pillar for rebuilding relational safety — both with others and within yourself.

Who IPT Is For

Interpersonal Therapy is especially valuable for clients recovering from:

• Major depressive disorder or persistent low mood
• Addiction recovery Rehab and relational breakdown
• Relational or childhood trauma
• Social anxiety or chronic emotional suppression
• Loss, divorce, estrangement, or abandonment

It is also well suited to clients in dual diagnosis treatment, where emotional dysregulation and interpersonal patterns often reinforce each other.

Delivered One-to-One in a Luxury Rehab Setting

All therapy at Sea Recovery is delivered privately — never in groups. IPT is conducted in a calm, emotionally attuned setting at our luxury residence in Marbella, Spain. You’ll work with a licensed therapist who tailors each session to your personal goals, background, and current relational landscape.

Sessions may take place in serene indoor rooms, garden spaces, or private terraces — wherever you feel most at ease. We prioritise emotional safety, confidentiality, and meaningful progress in every session.

Included in All Core Programmes

Interpersonal Therapy is available across all of our one-to-one treatment plans:

• Outpatient Programme
• Essential Care Programme
• Deluxe Programme
• Executive Programme
• Premium Tailored Programme
• The Ultimate Bespoke Programme

It is frequently combined with:

• Trauma-informed therapy
• Self-esteem and identity work
• Mindfulness and emotional regulation
• Family or relationship therapy
• CBT and emotional tracking tools

Aftercare and Continued Support

Our Aftercare Programme includes ongoing interpersonal therapy sessions where appropriate. We support clients as they reintegrate into home, work, or family systems — applying what they’ve learned to real-life relational situations.

Where needed, we offer post-discharge coaching, continued IPT sessions online, and partner or family involvement if appropriate and safe.

Why Choose Sea Recovery?

Relational healing takes time, space, and skill. At Sea Recovery, we create emotionally intelligent, high-end spaces for individuals who are ready to face their interpersonal challenges with clarity, depth, and dignity.

We specialise in working with high-functioning, emotionally sensitive individuals who have experienced relational harm — and want to rebuild trust, expression, and connection without reactivating past pain.

Whether you’re healing from loss, rebuilding your identity, or learning to set boundaries for the first time, Interpersonal Therapy provides structure and safety for the journey.

Start Rebuilding from Within

If your relationships have been a source of pain, confusion, or self-doubt — it’s time to begin again. At Sea Recovery, Interpersonal Therapy offers a calm, structured space to explore your emotional world, rewrite old patterns, and rediscover who you are — in relation to others and to yourself.

Speak to our team about Interpersonal Therapy

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