Ealing · online by video, with the Hove room for occasional sessions
Addiction counselling and rehab advice for Ealing
If you typed rehab Ealing into a search bar, worried about your own drinking or someone else's, this page explains how help with drink and drugs fits together in the borough, and where counselling comes in. I work with addiction and with the families around it. My room is in Hove, 93 minutes' drive away, so sessions from Ealing take place on secure video, with a visit in person when you'd like one.
The practical facts for Ealing
- Where sessions happen
- A private room at Intergen House, 65-67 Western Road, Hove BN3 2JQ, or secure video.
- From Ealing by car
- About 93 minutes with clear roads (76.1 miles); longer at busy times.
- Free local drug & alcohol service
- RISE (Recovery Intervention Services Ealing), 0800 195 8100
- 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.
Drinking in a borough with busy high streets
Ealing has the Broadway, the shopping centre, the University of West London on St Mary's Road and three Tube and rail lines heading east into London.
Drink fits easily into all of it: after work, after a shoot at Ealing Studios, at the end of a long day caring for someone. For a while it can look like ordinary London life. Then it becomes the thing you plan around, hide, or argue about at home. The borough's figures show alcohol is a real local pressure. Hospital admissions for alcohol-specific conditions in Ealing reached 942.9 per 100,000 in 2023/24, while England as a whole stood at 611.7 per 100,000, so the borough's rate is above the national one. That number describes the borough, not you, and it says nothing about why anyone drinks. What it does tell you is that the borough has a clear, established route for help, and you can use it.
Where RISE fits and where counselling fits
Ealing Council funds RISE, Recovery Intervention Services Ealing, which Change Grow Live leads in partnership with Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust and Build on Belief. RISE is where assessment happens, and where community treatment, medically supervised detox or a residential placement is arranged when it's needed. You can phone it yourself on 0800 195 8100. One-to-one counselling with me sits alongside that, before, during or after treatment. Before, it can help you decide what you want and make the first call. During, it gives you an hour that is about you rather than units or plans. Afterwards, it is space to look at what the drinking or using was doing for you, the shame, grief or old hurt underneath it, and what a life without it might hold. A recovery of my own, plus more than 25 years of practice, means I already know how loud a craving can get and why stopping takes more than willpower.
Help with drink and drugs around Ealing
Assessment and treatment through RISE
RISE on 0800 195 8100 assesses drink and drug use in Ealing and arranges community treatment, detox or residential care, and counselling can run alongside.
Peer recovery with Build on Belief
Build on Belief runs a peer-led recovery drop-in at RISE in Southall, a chance to meet people further along who know the ground.
Support for women in Ealing
The Jasmine Project from EACH Counselling and Support works with women in Ealing affected by substance use, and can sit alongside our sessions.
When it's your partner or child
Relatives in Ealing can turn to RISE family and friends support, and counselling with me gives the worry you carry a place of its own.
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 Ealing
Private counselling is one part of the picture in Ealing. RISE, Recovery Intervention Services Ealing, is the free route for assessment and treatment, including detox and residential care. Build on Belief offers a peer-led recovery drop-in, the Jasmine Project from EACH Counselling and Support works with women, and RISE family and friends support is open to relatives and partners.
- Free drug and alcohol serviceRISE (Recovery Intervention Services Ealing)0800 195 8100Run by Change Grow Live (lead provider). Free and confidential.
- Local organisationEaling Carers Hub
- Local organisationEaling Carers Partnership
- Local organisationEaling Carers (Your Voice in Health and Social Care)Low-cost or fee-paying.
- Local organisationEaling Advice ServiceFree social welfare law advice.
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 (Single Point of Access) is on 0800 328 4444. Local drop-in crisis support: Circle (West London Mind children's crisis café) (check opening times before you go).
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 Ealing ask before starting
Who arranges residential rehab for people living in Ealing?
Residential rehab and detox for Ealing residents are arranged through RISE, Recovery Intervention Services Ealing, after an assessment. You can call RISE yourself on 0800 195 8100 without a GP letter. I offer one-to-one addiction counselling by video, which can help you prepare for treatment, support you while it happens, and continue once you're back home in Ealing.
My son in Ealing is drinking heavily. Is there counselling for me as his parent?
Yes. You can book counselling for yourself, whatever stage he's at and whether or not he wants help. Sessions give you room to look at the worry, the anger and the guilt families often carry. RISE family and friends support is also there for relatives of someone drinking or using in Ealing, and the two can run together.
Can addiction counselling really work over video from Ealing?
For most people, yes. Talking from your own room in Ealing often makes honesty easier, and video slots in between work, RISE appointments and home life, with no 93-minute drive to Hove. All it takes is a room in your Ealing flat or house where nobody can listen in. If you'd value meeting in person, we can arrange the occasional session in the Hove room.
Do I have to stop drinking before I start counselling?
No. You can begin while still drinking or using, and while unsure what you want. We start where you are and look honestly at what's happening. If you're drinking heavily every day, please talk to your GP or RISE before making changes, and see the withdrawal safety note on this page first.
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.
Talk it through first, whoever is drinking
When you feel ready, a short conversation is the easiest way to see whether we are a good fit. There is no obligation.