Fleet · online by video, with the Hove room for occasional sessions
Addiction counselling and rehab advice for Fleet
If you're looking up rehab in Fleet, for your own sake or for a person you love, detox and residential care come through the free Hampshire treatment route, and I offer counselling around it, shaped by my own recovery. By secure video I see people who drink, use drugs or gamble, and the families around them, before, alongside or after that treatment.
The practical facts for Fleet
- Where sessions happen
- A private room at Intergen House, 65-67 Western Road, Hove BN3 2JQ, or secure video.
- From Fleet by car
- About 89 minutes with clear roads (74.6 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.
Hampshire help, Surrey hospital: finding the right door
Fleet is in north east Hampshire, yet some of the help around it is run from Surrey, which can make finding support for drink or drugs more confusing than it should be.
Frimley Park Hospital, which has an A and E, is over the border near Camberley. The 24/7 mental health crisis line for Fleet is run by Surrey and Borders Partnership. The free drug and alcohol service for people living in Fleet, though, is a Hampshire one, Inclusion Recovery Hampshire. A daughter looking up help for her father in Crookham Village, or a partner in Ancells Farm trying to make sense of a gambling debt, can lose a whole evening reading about services that aren't theirs. Across the county, alcohol-related hospital admissions on the narrow definition ran at 410.0 per 100,000 in 2023/24, which is below England's 504.1 per 100,000. That's an average for all of Hampshire. It can't measure what is happening in your house, and it doesn't make your family's trouble any smaller.
What Inclusion does, and what I do
For anyone living in Fleet, the route to detox or a residential place begins with Inclusion Recovery Hampshire, run by Inclusion as part of Midlands Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust, on 0300 124 0103. They assess what's needed and, where medically supported detox or residential care is right, they are the ones who arrange it. What I offer is weekly counselling that can start before anyone has phoned them, carry on while community support runs, or begin after a residential stay, when the structure stops and ordinary life in Fleet starts again. With the person drinking, using or betting, we look honestly at what the habit gives you and what it takes, without a lecture, because I know recovery from the inside. With a family member, the hour belongs to you. We look at what you've been carrying, how to say what you see without starting a war, where helping turns into covering up, and how to keep a life of your own while you wait for someone else to choose. You don't need their permission to come.
The people behind a Fleet search for rehab
A parent drinking alone
An older mum or dad in Church Crookham whose drinking you only see properly when you visit. If you've slipped into being their carer, the Hampshire Carers Support Service can support you too.
A son or daughter using
Your teenager or grown-up child is drinking or taking drugs and you're frightened for them. Parent Support Link (PSL) supports families, and your own sessions can hold the fear and the anger.
Bets placed between stations
Gambling on your phone on the train to Waterloo, with losses kept from a partner at home. The free gambling helpline is listed on this page, and we can look at what the betting does for you.
Quiet evenings after stopping
Once treatment through Inclusion ends, evenings in a quiet suburban town can feel very long. A weekly session gives those early months without a drink one fixed point.
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 Fleet
For drink and drugs, the free service for Fleet is Inclusion Recovery Hampshire. Parent Support Link (PSL) supports families, and The Princess Royal Trust for Carers in Hampshire runs the Hampshire Carers Support Service for anyone looking after a relative. If your own mental health is suffering too, the Hart and Rushmoor Wellbeing Centre, which Andover Mind runs, takes people without a referral. 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. Locally, the Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust Mental Health Crisis Helpline is on 0800 915 4644. Local drop-in crisis support: Aldershot Safe Haven (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 Fleet ask before starting
Where do I go for rehab if I live in Fleet?
Start with Inclusion Recovery Hampshire, the free drug and alcohol service for people living in Fleet, on 0300 124 0103. They assess what's needed and arrange detox or a residential place where that's right. Counselling with me can come before, during or after that treatment, and you can begin while you're still deciding whether to call them.
My dad in Church Crookham drinks every day. Can I have counselling for myself?
Yes. You can come on your own, and the sessions are about you: the worry, the visits you dread, the guilt about not doing more. You don't need his agreement. If you've become the one who looks after him, the Hampshire Carers Support Service supports carers. If he drinks heavily every day, please read the medical warning in the urgent help box higher up this page before anyone urges him to stop overnight.
Do I have to travel to Hove for addiction counselling from Fleet?
No. At about 89 minutes each way by car, weekly sessions in Hove aren't realistic from Fleet, so we'd meet by secure video from somewhere private. A video session keeps the same shape as one in the room. If you'd like to come in person once things feel steadier, we can plan an occasional longer session.
I'm not sure I'm an addict. Can I still talk to someone about it?
Yes. You don't need a label, and you don't need to have decided anything. We can begin with what's bothering you about it, how often it happens, what it's costing you and what it does for you, and work out together whether Inclusion Recovery Hampshire should be involved too. Start with the free 15-minute call, where I'll be clear about when I can offer a regular time.
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.
One private call, whichever side of it you're on
When you feel ready, a short conversation is the easiest way to see whether we are a good fit. There is no obligation.