Drug and Alcohol Rehab in Woking: the main options, compared

Clinically reviewed byNerea Encinas SánchezDirector of the centre, MSc General Health PsychologyRegistered psychologist, COPAO AO13857

Checked for accuracy on 28 July 2026. Next review due July 2027. This page is general information about our programme and is not a substitute for advice about your own situation.

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Free drug and alcohol services in Woking

Start here, before you consider paying for anything. These services are free, they are local, and for a great many people they are enough on their own. We publish them because a centre that only tells you about its own programme is not giving you the full picture.

Checked 28 July 2026. Commissioned services are retendered periodically, so confirm the current provider with the authority before you travel to an appointment.

AA and NA meetings in Woking

Mutual aid meetings are free, they run most days, and there is no waiting list, no referral and no assessment. You can walk into one this week. They work alongside whatever else you choose rather than instead of it, and plenty of people use them and nothing else.

What actually happens at a first meeting

You do not have to speak, and you do not have to give your surname. Most meetings open with a reading, someone shares for a while, and others speak if they want to. It lasts about an hour, and it is free, though a basket goes round for the room hire. Nobody takes a register and nobody will ask you to commit to anything.

An open meeting can be attended by anyone, including family. A closed meeting is for people who think they may have a problem themselves. If the first group does not suit you, the next one along will feel different, because each has its own character. The usual advice is to try three before deciding it is not for you.

We link the official finders rather than print a timetable, because meeting times and venues change and a stale listing sends someone to a locked door. Checked 28 July 2026.

Private residential rehab in Woking

Unlike many towns, Woking does have private residential rehab and hospital provision on its doorstep. Priory Hospital Woking in Knaphill and Life Works in Old Woking are both CQC-registered private rehab centres with residential rehab facilities, treating addiction and mental health conditions. No fee is taken for naming them, and you can confirm each centre’s current registration, rating and services on the Care Quality Commission (CQC) register. Both are private-pay, at UK private-hospital rates, so if cost is the barrier the free NHS route above is the place to begin. The main benefit of a private rehab clinic like these is speed and, often, medically supervised detox and a residential treatment programme under one roof, rather than a wait for an NHS place.

As a guide to the overall cost of drug and alcohol rehab, the recovery.com directory lists residential rehab in England from around £12,000 to £40,000 a month, with little that is credible under £10,000 a month. Sierra’s £9,900 for a 28-day programme, private room included, is roughly a third of what a comparable UK stay costs, because the cost of running a clinic in the Spanish countryside is far lower, not because the care is. Be wary of any provider that quotes unverified recovery success rates when you are comparing rehab centres; these figures are rarely independently audited, so ask how they were measured.

Cost ranges checked the date above. Typical published UK ranges, not quotations.

Considering residential treatment abroad?

Sierra Recovery, Málaga, Spain

Most people who look abroad are not chasing sunshine. They are trying to get far enough away from the people, the places and the routine that keep the drinking or the using going, because they have already discovered that stopping while all of that is still fifteen minutes away does not hold. That distance is the whole point, and it is the one thing a clinic near Woking cannot give you.

Sierra Recovery is a working farmhouse on forty hectares of olive groves in the Málaga countryside, about forty five minutes from the airport and roughly three hours from most UK airports. It is small, the team is English-speaking, and the same clinicians treat you from the first day to the last. What follows is what that actually buys, stated plainly enough that you can compare it with anything else you are considering.

What matters when comparing	Sierra Recovery
Is it actually licensed	A registered health centre entered in the Registro Andaluz de Centros, Servicios y Establecimientos Sanitarios (the Andalusian register of health centres, services and establishments) under N.I.C.A. 67331, authorised by the Junta de Andalucía. You can look it up yourself on the public register.
What it costs, in full	£9,900 for the 28-day residential programme, published on the site up front. All rooms are individual. You get an itemised written quotation before admission.
Who pays whom	No referral fees are paid or accepted, in either direction. Nobody earns a commission for sending you here, which is worth checking about any centre you are comparing.
What the clinical work is	Three group sessions a day five days a week, individual therapy three times a week, and a seventeen-module psychoeducation curriculum. The approach adapts the method of PROMIS Clinics, treating addiction in the United Kingdom since 1986.
Where the limits are	It is not a hospital and not a detox unit. Where a medically supervised detox is clinically needed it is completed in an appropriate medical setting before admission and billed separately. Qualified nurses are part of the team throughout the stay.
Who you speak to first	Our admissions team, all of them clinicians, working to the standards set by our clinical director. The assessment is free, and if a service closer to home suits you better, we will say so.
What happens afterwards	Aftercare is agreed before you leave: a session every week for a full year, online or in person at the PROMIS clinics in London, which is more than 48 sessions in the twelve months after discharge. A written handover goes to your GP so nothing has to be explained from scratch.

Every figure above is published elsewhere on this site and can be checked. See pricing, regulation and licensing and the programme.

Which option is right for you

There is no single right answer. Different rehabs suit different circumstances, and the free services above, a private hospital in Woking, or residential rehab abroad can each be right depending on where you start from.

Start with i-access, the free NHS Surrey service, if you are unsure, if cost is the barrier, or if you want to stay near family and work. Use AA or NA alongside whatever else you choose. A private hospital in Woking, such as Priory or Life Works, may suit you better than we do if you need medically supervised detox and rehab together under one roof, close to home, or if you are not fit to fly. Residential treatment abroad with us is worth considering only when a private UK stay is out of reach, when distance from your triggers would genuinely help, and when you can travel and do not need an immediate hospital detox. If a local option is the better fit, we will tell you so.

Going to rehab, in Woking or abroad, is a significant decision, and it is normal to want to get help without rushing it. When you are ready to talk it through, call us today or send an enquiry, and our team will be honest about whether Sierra is the right rehab for you. See how admissions works.