Chiswick · online by video, with the Hove room for occasional sessions
Addiction counselling and rehab advice for Chiswick
A search for rehab near Chiswick often starts late at night, after another evening that went the wrong way, or after finding the bottles. Here is how help with drink and drugs is organised in Hounslow, and where one-to-one counselling with me comes in. Hove is about 90 minutes' drive from W4, so weekly sessions are usually by secure video, with the odd Hove visit if you'd like one.
The practical facts for Chiswick
- Where sessions happen
- A private room at Intergen House, 65-67 Western Road, Hove BN3 2JQ, or secure video.
- From Chiswick by car
- About 90 minutes with clear roads (75.2 miles); longer at busy times.
- By train
- From Chiswick, change at Clapham Junction for trains towards Brighton and Hove.
- Free local drug & alcohol service
- ARC Hounslow (Addiction Recovery Community), 01895 488675
- 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.
Brewing history, riverside pubs and a polished front door
Chiswick wears its drinking history openly.
Beer has been brewed at the Griffin Brewery in Old Chiswick on the same site for over 350 years, several of the old pubs are listed buildings, and Strand-on-the-Green has three pubs right on the river. Most of that is simply part of the area's character. The difficulty is that a glass in a pub garden is so ordinary here that a problem can hide inside it for years, especially behind the neat front doors of Bedford Park or Grove Park, where looking as though you are managing can feel like part of the deal. A partner notices the recycling. A teenager notices a parent's mood after six. On the narrow measure of alcohol-related admissions, Hounslow reached 590.5 per 100,000 residents in 2023/24, above England's 504.1 per 100,000. That counts admissions across the whole borough; it cannot speak to the reasons behind any one person's drinking.
What ARC Hounslow arranges, and what counselling adds
If your W4 address falls on the Hounslow side, the NHS route for drink and drugs is ARC Hounslow, the Addiction Recovery Community that CNWL runs. Its team looks at what you are using and how much, then organises community treatment, or a detox or residential place where that fits, and you can self-refer on 01895 488675. One-to-one counselling with me works around that, whatever point you have reached. You might want to talk before you feel ready to ring anyone. You might come during treatment, wanting an hour about your life rather than your units. Or you might arrive months after stopping, when the drink has gone but the reasons for it are still there: work that never switches off, a marriage running on politeness, a bereavement, or a sense of failing in a place where everyone seems to be doing well. Chiswick is split between Hounslow and Ealing, so if your home is on the Ealing side, around Acton Green, check with your GP which borough's service covers your address. Having been through recovery myself, and having counselled for over 25 years, I can hear what the pub-garden afternoons or the hidden bottles have really been like, told plainly and without softening anything.
Drink and drug support around Chiswick
ARC Hounslow assessment and treatment
Call 01895 488675 to be assessed. From Chiswick, ARC Hounslow is the CNWL-run service that sets up community treatment, a detox or a residential stay once it has assessed you.
Al-Anon in Chiswick
The Al-Anon Chiswick group is a mutual-aid meeting where relatives and friends of a drinker can hear from others living with the same worry.
ARC support for families and carers
ARC Hounslow also supports families and carers. Counselling with me can give a parent or partner a weekly hour of their own, whatever the person drinking chooses.
Mornings at Chiswick House
Chiswick House and Gardens is free and opens at 7am. Early sobriety can leave long empty hours, and a morning walk there can sit alongside weekly counselling.
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 Chiswick
Private counselling is one piece of support in Chiswick. ARC Hounslow is the free route for assessment, detox and residential care, and it runs support for families and carers. Relatives can sit in on the Al-Anon Chiswick group, West London Mind covers broader mental health needs, and on nights when it all becomes too much, Hestia's Hounslow Safe Space is a place to turn.
- Free drug and alcohol serviceARC Hounslow (Addiction Recovery Community)01895 488675Run by Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust (CNWL). Free and confidential.
- Local organisationHounslow Council Carers Service
- Local organisationAl-Anon Chiswick group
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 West London NHS Trust 24-hour mental health helpline (Mental Health Single Point of Access) is on 0800 328 4444.
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 Chiswick ask before starting
Where does someone in Chiswick go for a rehab or detox assessment?
ARC Hounslow, the borough's Addiction Recovery Community, assesses drink and drug use for Hounslow residents and arranges detox or residential treatment when it is needed. You can refer yourself on 01895 488675. My part is weekly one-to-one counselling by video, which you can start while waiting for ARC, keep up during treatment and continue once ordinary life on Chiswick High Road resumes.
My partner's drinking in Chiswick is getting worse and they hide it. Is there support for me?
Yes, and you can start without them agreeing to anything. In our sessions the hour belongs to you, so the dread when the key turns late at night, the anger and the endless checking of the recycling can all be said out loud. Locally, the Al-Anon Chiswick group brings together relatives of someone whose drinking dominates home life, and ARC Hounslow runs support for families and carers. You can use any of these at once.
Can I come to Hove in person from Chiswick, or is it all on screen?
You can come in person, though weekly it is rarely practical. The Hove room is about 90 minutes' drive from W4, or a train trip changing at Clapham Junction. So regular addiction counselling from Chiswick runs by secure video, and a longer 90- or 120-minute session in Hove can be booked whenever sitting face to face feels important.
Is there a wait before addiction counselling can begin from Chiswick, and must I have stopped drinking?
Nobody needs to be sober, or certain about stopping, before a first session with me. After a free first call, I offer the weekly slots I have open, with no waiting list. Anyone in Chiswick drinking heavily each day should talk to a GP or to ARC Hounslow before making any change, and read the withdrawal warning shown here.
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.
From a W4 kitchen table, a first call about the drinking
When you feel ready, a short conversation is the easiest way to see whether we are a good fit. There is no obligation.