Basingstoke · online by video, with the Hove room for occasional sessions
Addiction counselling and rehab advice for Basingstoke
Searching rehab in Basingstoke, whether for yourself or for a son, partner or parent, leads in practice to Inclusion Recovery Hampshire, whose free assessment can open the way to community treatment, detox or a residential stay. My part is the talking: weekly addiction counselling over a secure video link, starting before treatment, running alongside it or following it, with sessions for worried relatives too. Hove is 99 minutes away, so video is how we meet.
The practical facts for Basingstoke
- Where sessions happen
- A private room at Intergen House, 65-67 Western Road, Hove BN3 2JQ, or secure video.
- From Basingstoke by car
- About 99 minutes with clear roads (85.6 miles); longer at busy times.
- Free local drug & alcohol service
- Inclusion Recovery Hampshire, 0300 124 0103
- Fees
- £80 for 60 minutes, £100 for 90, £120 for 120. The first 15-minute call is free.
- Registration
- BACP registered member, no. 109340 (check the register); UKCP student member in advanced psychotherapy training.
From a Basingstoke search for rehab to an actual plan
Rehab is often the first word typed when drinking or drugs have got out of hand in a family, but in Basingstoke the route to it, and to most other help, runs through one free service.
For anyone living in Basingstoke, drug and alcohol treatment is run by Inclusion Recovery Hampshire, which Inclusion delivers within Midlands Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust. You can ring it on 0300 124 0103 whether you live in Popley, Lychpit or Old Basing, and after an assessment it works out with you what fits: support in the community, detox, or a residential place. Counselling is a separate piece of the picture. It is the regular, private conversation about why the drinking, using or gambling came to matter so much, and what a life could be built around instead. It can begin before any of those decisions are made, and it can carry on whatever the plan turns out to be.
Weekly sessions for the person drinking, or the people around them
Sessions with me are outpatient and one to one, and you are welcome to start before you have stopped, or promised to stop. Together we map the moments the craving bites hardest, maybe the walk back from Basingstoke station or the end of a draining shift on Basing View, along with what drink, drugs or gambling have been giving you and what they have cost. There is often something older underneath, and we give that room too. If Inclusion has arranged detox or a residential stay, the weeks after you come home to Basingstoke can feel the most exposed, and a fixed hour each week keeps a thread running through them. Partners, parents and grown-up children can book sessions for themselves, to talk about lying awake, covering for someone at work and where their own limits sit. I bring my own recovery and more than 25 years of practice, so what you tell me will be heard without judgement. Purely as background, Hampshire's rate of alcohol-specific hospital admissions was 618.4 per 100,000 people in 2023/24, similar to England's 611.7 per 100,000, and no county average can describe what is happening in your own home.
Why you might be reading this from Basingstoke
Unsure who does the assessment
Ring 0300 124 0103 and Inclusion Recovery Hampshire will weigh up with you whether help in the community, a detox or a residential stay suits best, then set that up at no cost.
A parent watching a son or daughter
Parent Support Link helps families affected by a loved one's drug or alcohol use. Separate sessions with me can be kept entirely for you and the worry you carry.
When their drinking made you a carer
Years of covering for a partner's or parent's drinking can make you a carer without the title, a role in which the Princess Royal Trust for Carers in Hampshire backs people around Basingstoke.
Company between sessions
Andover Mind's Basingstoke wellbeing base runs peer support and social groups, somewhere to be among other people on the evenings our video sessions leave free.
Public health figures for the area
These are local authority figures from the Office for Health Improvement and Disparities. The figures describe a whole population over a period, not any one person.
Free drug and alcohol support for Basingstoke
In Basingstoke, free drug and alcohol treatment is arranged through Inclusion Recovery Hampshire on 0300 124 0103. Families can turn to Parent Support Link, relatives who have slipped into caring can lean on the Princess Royal Trust for Carers in Hampshire, and Andover Mind's Basingstoke wellbeing base runs peer groups. If an evening turns into a crisis, the North and Mid Hampshire Safe Haven on Vyne Road is open 6pm to 10pm without an appointment.
- Free drug and alcohol serviceInclusion Recovery Hampshire0300 124 0103Free and confidential.
FRANK (on 0300 123 6600) and Drinkline on 0300 123 1110 are free and confidential, and Alcoholics Anonymous and SMART Recovery run peer-support meetings you can find online. For gambling, the National Gambling Helpline is free, day or night, on 0808 8020 133 (NHS gambling support).
If raising someone's drinking or drug use with them feels unsafe, or someone at home is hurting, threatening or controlling you, the National Domestic Abuse Helpline is free, day or night, on 0808 2000 247. In immediate danger, call 999.
Detox and residential rehab are arranged through the free local drug and alcohol service named here. It assesses what you need, arranges medically assisted withdrawal where that is safe and needed, and can refer for community or residential treatment. My part is one-to-one counselling before, alongside or after that treatment, to help the changes last.
If you need urgent help now
If you need help right now, please don't wait for a session.
In this area you can also text HANTS to 85258.
If you, or someone you live with, drink heavily every day, or take drugs such as benzodiazepines or GHB daily, do not stop suddenly without medical advice. Withdrawal can cause seizures and can be dangerous. Your GP or the local drug and alcohol service can arrange medically assisted withdrawal. Call 999 or go to A&E if someone in withdrawal is shaking visibly, unusually restless or agitated, confused, seeing or hearing things that are not there, or has a fit. For milder symptoms, such as a slight tremor or sweating, contact your GP or NHS 111 the same day (NHS guidance). Counselling works alongside medical support, not instead of it.
What people in Basingstoke ask before starting
Who arranges a rehab place for someone living in Basingstoke?
A rehab place usually begins with a free assessment by Inclusion Recovery Hampshire, which handles drug and alcohol treatment across the Basingstoke area and answers on 0300 124 0103. They look at what is needed and arrange community support, detox or a residential place from there. Counselling with me can run before, during or after any of that, and you can book a first call without waiting for their decision.
My husband's drinking keeps getting worse. Where can I get help in Basingstoke for myself?
You can get support now, whatever he chooses. Partners who have drifted into looking after a drinker can get their own backing from the Princess Royal Trust for Carers in Hampshire, and Inclusion Recovery Hampshire will explain what it offers the people around him. Sessions with me can be wholly about you: what you have been living with, what you are willing to keep doing, and how to look after yourself while he decides.
Would addiction sessions from Basingstoke run over a video call?
Yes, and from Basingstoke that is the normal way we would work, since the drive to Hove is about 99 minutes each way. Joining from a bedroom with the door shut, or from your car parked up away from the house, keeps the conversation private enough to say what is really going on. A longer one-off session in the room at Intergen House is possible too, planned around the change at Clapham Junction or Southampton Central.
Is there any point talking to a counsellor before Inclusion Recovery Hampshire has assessed me?
Yes. Counselling can begin before an assessment and continue once treatment is arranged, so there is no need to wait. Heavy daily drinkers should look over the urgent help box on this page first, then plan any change with Inclusion on 0300 124 0103 or a Basingstoke GP so it happens safely. We can talk through what happens next on the free call.
How much do sessions cost, and is the first call free?
Sessions are £80 for 60 minutes, £100 for 90 minutes and £120 for 120 minutes, the same in person in Hove or by video. The first 15-minute call is free, with no obligation to book. There is no NHS referral needed to see me privately.
Whether it's you or someone you love, one short call to begin
When you feel ready, a short conversation is the easiest way to see whether we are a good fit. There is no obligation.