Fareham · online by video, with the Hove room for occasional sessions
Addiction counselling and rehab advice for Fareham
If you searched for rehab in Fareham, for yourself or for someone you love, this page explains where that help actually starts and where counselling fits. Detox and rehab are arranged through the county's free service, and I offer one-to-one counselling alongside it by secure video, or in a room in Hove about 68 minutes' drive away.
The practical facts for Fareham
- Where sessions happen
- A private room at Intergen House, 65-67 Western Road, Hove BN3 2JQ, or secure video.
- From Fareham by car
- About 68 minutes with clear roads (50.0 miles); longer at busy times.
- By train
- Direct trains from Fareham towards Brighton call at Hove on the way.
- 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.
The drinking nobody in Titchfield would guess
In a tidy market town, a drinking or drug problem can stay hidden for years behind a job that still gets done.
The manager at Solent Business Park who never misses a meeting may be counting the hours until the first glass. A neighbour in Titchfield or Sarisbury may keep the lawn perfect and the empties in the boot. Often it is a husband, wife or parent who notices first, and who is left sitting in the car park at Queen Alexandra Hospital in Cosham when it finally can't be hidden. Hampshire's rate of hospital admissions for alcohol-related conditions, on the narrow definition, was 410.0 per 100,000 in 2023/24, which is below England's 504.1 per 100,000 for that year. A lower county rate is no comfort when it's your household, and it describes no one in particular. What counts is what is happening in your home now, and who can help with which part of it.
What Inclusion arranges, and what an hour with me adds
The free starting point from Fareham is Inclusion Recovery Hampshire, run by Inclusion, part of Midlands Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust, on 0300 124 0103. It assesses what someone needs and can arrange detox, community treatment or a referral to residential care. What I offer is a different strand. Each week we look at what the drink, the drugs or the betting gives you, perhaps numbing stress or filling the evenings, and what it has taken from you in return. Still using, still unsure, halfway through a referral to Inclusion: any of those is a fine place to begin, and you won't shock me, because my own recovery means I have sat where you are sitting. For partners and parents the hour is yours alone: the fear, the rows, the money that keeps disappearing and the limits you are trying to hold. The work centres on the part that is yours to change. Anything medical belongs with your GP or Inclusion.
Who might ring from Fareham
Waiting for a treatment place
Between first ringing Inclusion and an assessment or a treatment place, the waiting can feel endless. A weekly hour gives you somewhere to put the fear and keep going.
A parent at breaking point
PSL, the Parent Support Link charity, works with families, and sessions here give you separate time for your own exhaustion, anger and grief.
Drinking around a naval career
When drink has crept into life around service, for you or your partner, Anchoring Minds supports Royal Navy and Royal Marines personnel and their families, and counselling adds a private hour outside the Navy.
The weeks after residential care
Coming back to Fareham after detox or a residential stay, when the structure has gone and the old routines are waiting. Counselling can help you hold on to what you started.
Public health figures for the area
These are local authority figures from the Office for Health Improvement and Disparities. "Similar to England" means the difference is not statistically significant. The figures describe a whole population over a period, not any one person.
Free drug and alcohol support for Fareham
Around Fareham, the person drinking or using can go to Inclusion Recovery Hampshire, which is free. Parent Support Link (PSL) is there for families, and The Princess Royal Trust for Carers in Hampshire runs the Hampshire Carers Support Service if looking after someone has taken over your life. Anchoring Minds works with naval families. Private counselling with me can sit beside any of them.
- 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 Fareham ask before starting
Is there a rehab near Fareham, and how do I get a place?
The way into rehab from Fareham starts with an assessment by Inclusion Recovery Hampshire, the free county service, on 0300 124 0103. If residential care or detox is right for you, that is where it gets arranged. Counselling with me can begin before then, carry on while you wait, and continue once you are home.
My partner in Fareham drinks every night and denies there's a problem, so could I have counselling on my own?
Yes. Sessions for a partner are about you: the checking, the excuses you make to friends, the arguments that go nowhere, and how to look after yourself without carrying all of it. Your partner doesn't need to agree, or even know. If they drink heavily every day, the withdrawal warning higher up this page applies to them before anything changes at home.
Would addiction counselling from Fareham be in Hove or by video?
Usually by video. With about 68 minutes of driving each way, weekly trips to Hove are hard to keep up, and steady weekly contact matters most in the early weeks. If you'd like to meet in person, the direct coast train, which stops at Hove, makes an occasional visit possible, perhaps for a longer session.
How quickly could I start, and do I need to have stopped first?
You don't need to have stopped. Begin with the free 15-minute call, and I'll be straight with you about when I could start. If you drink heavily every day, the medical side belongs with your GP or Inclusion Recovery Hampshire, and the withdrawal warning higher up this page applies to you. Counselling can begin while that is in hand.
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.
Start with a quiet call, whoever it's about
When you feel ready, a short conversation is the easiest way to see whether we are a good fit. There is no obligation.