Camberley · online by video, with the Hove room for occasional sessions
Addiction counselling and rehab advice for Camberley
If you've typed rehab and Camberley into a search bar, perhaps for a husband, a mother or a grown-up son, the free Surrey route below handles assessment, detox and residential care, and I offer one-to-one addiction counselling by secure video alongside it. I know recovery from the inside, because I've lived it.
The practical facts for Camberley
- Where sessions happen
- A private room at Intergen House, 65-67 Western Road, Hove BN3 2JQ, or secure video.
- From Camberley by car
- About 84 minutes with clear roads (68.6 miles); longer at busy times.
- Free local drug & alcohol service
- i-access, 0300 222 5932
- 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.
Capable at work, unravelling at home
Being good at a demanding job can hide a drinking or drug problem for a long time, in uniform or out of it.
The person keeps turning up and keeps performing, and the cost lands at home: the partner who now does every school run, just in case, the parent in Heatherside who has stopped lending money without quite saying why, the brother who notices that talk of cocaine has crept from weekends into weekdays. By the time anyone searches for rehab, the family may have been coping alone for months. In Surrey Heath, the rate of hospital admissions for alcohol-related conditions (narrow definition) was 344.2 per 100,000 in 2023/24, below the England figure of 504.1 per 100,000. Those admissions are counted across the whole district, so they say nothing either way about one household.
How i-access and counselling divide the work
For anyone living in Camberley, the free starting point is i-access, the county's drug and alcohol service, on 0300 222 5932. They assess what is needed and, where it's safe and right, arrange a medically supported detox, community treatment or a residential place. What I offer is a weekly hour of one-to-one counselling, which can begin while someone is still deciding whether to ring i-access, run alongside their treatment, or pick up after residential care, when the structure of that stay has gone and ordinary evenings return. In sessions we get specific about what the drinking or using has been doing: settling nerves before a big week, filling the quiet after the children are in bed, numbing something nobody has asked about. Nothing you describe will shock me, and I won't lecture. If you're the partner or parent, the hour can belong to you. We can work on what you'll stop covering for, what you'll say and when, and how to look after your own health while the person you love makes their own choices.
Routes worth knowing in and around Camberley
Assessment through i-access
Ring 0300 222 5932 and i-access will work out with the person whether community support, detox or a residential place fits. Counselling can start before that call is made.
If they live over the border
Camberley sits close to Hampshire and Berkshire, and i-access covers Surrey. If the person you're worried about lives over the border, the service for their own area is likely to be the one to contact.
Thursday evenings in Camberley
Cocaine Anonymous holds its 12 and 12 meeting in Camberley on Thursdays, 19:30 to 20:45, an open, in-person peer recovery meeting. It can run alongside weekly counselling.
Support for the family
i-access has information and carers support for family and carers, and Action for Carers Surrey helps if looking after someone who drinks or uses has taken over your life.
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 Camberley
Free routes in Surrey can run alongside counselling with me. The i-access information and carers support is there for the people around the drinking or drug use, and the Cocaine Anonymous meeting on Thursday evenings is in Camberley itself. If someone you love has lost their home, The Hope Hub is a local charity offering homelessness and crisis drop-in support, though it isn't an addiction service.
- Free drug and alcohol servicei-access0300 222 5932Free and confidential.
- Local organisationi-access information and carers support for family and carers
- Local organisationAction for Carers Surrey
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.
Locally, the Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS FT Mental Health Crisis Helpline is on 0800 915 4644.
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 Camberley ask before starting
Is there a rehab in Camberley I can ring directly?
Not that I can name. For people living in Camberley, residential care or a medically supported detox is normally reached through an assessment with i-access, Surrey's free drug and alcohol service, on 0300 222 5932. Counselling with me can begin before that assessment, run during treatment, or follow a residential stay.
Everyone at home in Camberley can see the drinking except the person doing it. Is counselling open to me even if they won't come?
Yes. You don't need their agreement, or for them to change, to get support for yourself. Sessions give you a private hour to sort out what you've seen, what you'll no longer cover for, and what you need. i-access can also talk to you about support for yourself as a family member.
Can addiction counselling by video from Camberley be as useful as sitting in the Hove room?
From Camberley it's the sensible way to work, since the Hove room is about 84 minutes away by car. A video session keeps the same hour and the same confidentiality as one in the room. Talking from your own home can make the first honest conversation easier, and nobody locally need know you're getting help.
Can counselling start while we wait to hear from i-access?
Yes. You don't have to wait for i-access, because the two don't depend on each other and no referral is needed. Book the free 15-minute call, tell me roughly what's going on in your Camberley household, and I'll be straight about when I have a regular space.
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.
Help for the one drinking, and for the ones beside them
When you feel ready, a short conversation is the easiest way to see whether we are a good fit. There is no obligation.