Hammersmith · online by video, with the Hove room for occasional sessions
Addiction counselling and rehab advice for Hammersmith
Typing 'rehab Hammersmith' late at night, for yourself or someone you love, deserves a straight answer about who does what. Treatment in this borough is arranged by Turning Point Hammersmith and Fulham, and I offer one-to-one counselling beside it. With the drive from Hammersmith Broadway to Hove taking 94 minutes, we usually meet on video, and you can add a session in Hove now and then.
The practical facts for Hammersmith
- Where sessions happen
- A private room at Intergen House, 65-67 Western Road, Hove BN3 2JQ, or secure video.
- From Hammersmith by car
- About 94 minutes with clear roads (61.3 miles); longer at busy times.
- Free local drug & alcohol service
- Turning Point Hammersmith & Fulham, 020 8740 6815
- 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.
Meetings at the Grove and Mondays on Blacks Road
Mutual aid in Hammersmith is woven into an ordinary week.
At the Grove Neighbourhood Centre, Narcotics Anonymous meets on Tuesday and Friday evenings, Gamblers Anonymous on Wednesdays from 7pm, and an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting runs from 8 to 9am on Tuesdays, before work. On Monday evenings Andy's Man Club gathers at 30 Blacks Road, near the tube, with no booking and no referral, for men who would rather talk among other men. Around all this, the town centre is busy with commuters, gig crowds at the Eventim Apollo and nights out along King Street. Across the borough in 2023/24, the narrow measure of alcohol-related hospital admissions stood at 497.0 per 100,000, similar to England's 504.1 per 100,000. A borough figure says nothing about any one person or family. What the figure cannot show is how much help, formal and informal, already meets close to home in W6.
How counselling fits with Turning Point and the meetings
Turning Point Hammersmith and Fulham is the council's drug and alcohol service, on 020 8740 6815. It assesses drinking and drug use for borough residents and arranges detox, residential rehab or community treatment when that is what is needed. Alongside Turning Point, I provide one-to-one counselling that fits wherever you are with them: before you feel ready to phone, during a programme, or once a stay is over and you are back among the pubs of King Street and the long evenings by the river. Meetings give you people who have been there. Counselling gives you an hour that is entirely yours, where we explore the job that drinking, using or betting has quietly taken on in your life, and the price it has charged. With gambling, that often means untangling secrecy and debt as much as the bets themselves. I have counselled for more than 25 years and come through my own recovery, so you can tell me about a relapse after a night on King Street, the lies and the shame, and I will not flinch. Medication and physical health stay with your GP or Turning Point, and our sessions fit around their plan. Partners and parents can also come to me on their own.
Help around Hammersmith Broadway, and what each does
Turning Point for treatment places
Turning Point Hammersmith and Fulham assesses residents' drinking and drug use, arranges detox or residential rehab when needed, and supports people who care about someone using.
NA, GA and AA meetings nearby
Grove Neighbourhood Centre hosts weekly Narcotics Anonymous, Gamblers Anonymous and Alcoholics Anonymous meetings, free mutual aid you can use beside counselling.
Andy's Man Club on Mondays
Men aged 18 and over can turn up from 7pm on Mondays at 30 Blacks Road W6 9DT, with no booking or referral, for free peer support.
A day centre at Barons Court
The Barons Court Project offers a drop-in, a low-cost cafe and wellbeing groups for people in the borough who are homeless or living with mental health problems.
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 Hammersmith
Families in Hammersmith have support of their own. Turning Point Hammersmith and Fulham also helps the people around someone's drinking or drug use, and provides naloxone. Build on Belief keeps a recovery community going at its Acorn Hall Weekend Service, Outside Edge Theatre Company offers recovery through drama, and the Club Drug Clinic is a specialist NHS route for club drug use. Whichever you use, our sessions can carry on beside it.
- Free drug and alcohol serviceTurning Point Hammersmith & Fulham020 8740 6815Free and confidential.
- Local organisationCarers Network (Hammersmith & Fulham hub)
- Local organisationMaggie's West London (at Charing Cross Hospital)
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 crisis line 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 Hammersmith ask before starting
How do I get my partner into rehab from Hammersmith?
Turning Point Hammersmith and Fulham, on 020 8740 6815, assesses borough residents and arranges detox or residential treatment when that is right. Your partner will need to take part in the assessment, but you can make the first call yourself to ask how it works and what support exists for you. Counselling with me is open to either of you, before, during or after treatment.
Where are the nearest NA or AA meetings to Hammersmith?
Yes. Grove Neighbourhood Centre hosts Narcotics Anonymous on Tuesday evenings from 6.30 and Friday evenings from 7.30, Alcoholics Anonymous on Tuesday mornings from 8, and Gamblers Anonymous on Wednesday evenings from 7. Meetings and counselling can sit side by side: one gives you a group that understands, the other a private hour for what is harder to say in a room.
Can I have addiction counselling online from W6?
Yes, and from Hammersmith it is the usual way to keep a steady weekly hour. The Hove room is around 94 minutes by car, or the District line and a Southern train, which is a lot to fit round early recovery. You join from a private space at a fixed time, and a longer session in Hove can be booked occasionally.
How soon could I start counselling for gambling or drinking in Hammersmith?
Once we have had the free consultation, you choose from weekly times that are genuinely free, without a waiting list. If you drink heavily every day, please speak to your GP or Turning Point Hammersmith and Fulham before stopping, as the safety note on this page sets out. For gambling, the Wednesday Gamblers Anonymous meeting at the Grove can run alongside our sessions.
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.
A first call from W6, for you or someone close
When you feel ready, a short conversation is the easiest way to see whether we are a good fit. There is no obligation.