Gosport · online by video, with the Hove room for occasional sessions
Addiction counselling and rehab advice for Gosport
If you've searched for rehab in Gosport, whether the drinking or drug use is yours or a relative's, this page sets out the real route and where counselling fits into it. Sessions with me are one to one, by secure video from Gosport, and my only room is in Hove. Detox and residential care are arranged through the free Hampshire route, and counselling with me can run before, alongside or after that kind of treatment.
The practical facts for Gosport
- Where sessions happen
- A private room at Intergen House, 65-67 Western Road, Hove BN3 2JQ, or secure video.
- From Gosport by car
- About 82 minutes with clear roads (55.6 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.
The search that starts at the kitchen table
The person typing rehab into a search box in Gosport late at night may not be the one drinking or using.
It might be a parent in Rowner whose grown-up son has moved back home and isn't himself, a partner in Elson counting what has gone from the joint account, or someone in Lee-on-the-Solent watching a mother's evening glass turn into a bottle. Or the search is your own, made after a morning you don't want to repeat. You may have kept all this quiet, partly because in a town this size it can feel as though everyone would hear. Hampshire's hospital admission rate for alcohol-related conditions, on the narrow measure, was 410.0 per 100,000 in 2023/24, which is below England's 504.1 per 100,000. A county figure like that says nothing about one household, and it is no reason to doubt your own worry. What counts here is what is happening under your own roof.
Inclusion Recovery Hampshire first, counselling beside it
If rehab is what you're looking for, the door to knock on from Gosport is Inclusion Recovery Hampshire, a free service run by Inclusion, which sits within Midlands Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust. Its workers assess what's needed, and that assessment is how detox with medical support, community treatment or a place in residential care gets arranged. Counselling with me is something different: a regular hour with one person, to look at what drink, drugs or gambling have been doing for you, what they've cost, and what you want now. It can start while you wait to be assessed, run alongside Inclusion's support, or begin when you come home from residential treatment and the old streets and routines are waiting. You don't need to have stopped first. When you're the relative rather than the person using, the hour belongs to you. We look at your fear and anger, the promises you've stopped believing, and where your limits are, whether or not the person you're worried about ever accepts help. I can't make someone else change. I have lived experience of recovery myself, so you won't need to tidy anything up for me.
Where sessions can fit in
While Inclusion assesses you
The weeks between first contacting Inclusion Recovery Hampshire and starting treatment can feel long. A steady weekly hour gives you somewhere to put the doubt and the waiting.
Home again after residential care
Coming back to Gosport after residential treatment means meeting old places and old company again. Video sessions can carry on through those first months home, when the pull of old routines is strongest.
A parent who can't sleep
If your child's drinking or drug use has taken over your life, you can contact Parent Support Link (PSL), a family support charity, and sessions here give you an hour about you.
When the person is serving
If the person you're worried about is in the Navy, Anchoring Minds offers peer support to people serving and to those at home, and you can still have private sessions here.
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 Gosport
If you're the one standing beside someone who drinks or uses, there is free help for you too. Parent Support Link (PSL) offers family support, The Princess Royal Trust for Carers in Hampshire runs the Hampshire Carers Support Service, and Anchoring Minds is there for naval households. For the person drinking or using, Inclusion Recovery Hampshire is the free service on 0300 124 0103. Counselling with me can run alongside 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 Gosport ask before starting
How do I get someone from Gosport into rehab?
The route runs through Inclusion Recovery Hampshire, the free drug and alcohol service, on 0300 124 0103. An assessment there decides whether detox, community treatment or residential care is right. Treatment depends on the adult concerned agreeing to it, which is often the hardest part for a family. Inclusion Recovery Hampshire arranges the place itself, and I can support you, or them, while it's being sorted out.
My husband in Gosport won't accept help for his drinking. Can I see you on my own?
Yes. Sessions for a partner are about you: what living with his drinking is doing to your sleep, your money, your confidence and your children, and what you are and aren't willing to keep doing. He doesn't need to agree, or even know. If you're also caring for him in other ways, the Hampshire Carers Support Service may be able to help.
Is addiction counselling by video realistic from Gosport?
Yes, and from Gosport it's what I'd expect. Hove is about 82 minutes away by car, which is hard to fit around early recovery, work or children. Video lets you talk from wherever you can be alone and unheard. If meeting in person once would mean something to you, a longer session in Hove can be arranged.
I'm still drinking. Is it too soon to start counselling from Gosport?
It isn't too soon. You can begin while you're still drinking and still unsure what you want. If drinking has become a daily thing for you, look at the safety warning in the urgent help box on this page before changing anything, and talk to your GP or Inclusion Recovery Hampshire. The first step with me is a free 15-minute call.
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 to someone outside the town first
When you feel ready, a short conversation is the easiest way to see whether we are a good fit. There is no obligation.