Marylebone · online by video, with the Hove room for occasional sessions
Addiction counselling and rehab advice for Marylebone
Searching for rehab in Marylebone, perhaps for a partner, a parent or a son or daughter studying nearby, leads to Turning Point Westminster and Kensington and Chelsea, which assesses for free and can arrange detox or residential care. Alongside it I provide private addiction counselling over secure video. Hove is 103 minutes' drive from here, so video is the practical way for us to meet.
The practical facts for Marylebone
- Where sessions happen
- A private room at Intergen House, 65-67 Western Road, Hove BN3 2JQ, or secure video.
- From Marylebone by car
- About 103 minutes with clear roads (55.5 miles); longer at busy times.
- Free local drug & alcohol service
- Turning Point Westminster and Kensington & Chelsea (Drug and Alcohol Wellbeing Service, DAWS), 0330 303 8080
- 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.
Looking for rehab a few streets from Harley Street
Marylebone can be a confusing place to look for help with drink or drugs.
Harley Street and Wimpole Street are known for their concentration of doctors and medical practitioners, and it can seem as though the answer must be behind some private door nearby. In Westminster the free starting point is simpler: the borough's drug and alcohol service, run by Turning Point. The district itself moves quickly. Oxford Street forms its southern edge, a main-line terminus and nine tube stations carry people through, and an evening on Marylebone High Street or around Baker Street can easily begin with a drink after work. Students at the University of Westminster, the Royal Academy of Music and London Business School may be carrying pressures of their own. For conditions caused wholly by alcohol, Westminster saw 689.0 hospital admissions per 100,000 residents in 2023/24, above England's 611.7. It is a figure for the whole borough, not a description of you or your family.
Counselling beside Westminster's drug and alcohol service
Marylebone falls under Westminster, so drug and alcohol treatment here runs through Turning Point's free service for that borough and Kensington and Chelsea, on 0330 303 8080. Its staff assess you and, where the assessment points that way, set up the right next step, whether that means help while living at home, a detox or a residential placement. What I provide sits next to it: a private weekly hour, one to one, to understand the job alcohol, cocaine, pills or gambling have taken on in your life. We start from where you are, with no promise to stop required. We look at the moments the pull is strongest, the client dinner, the late train out of Marylebone, the empty flat on a Sunday, and at what lies underneath, which is often older than the habit. If you go into treatment, sessions can pause or carry on, and they are there for the uncertain weeks afterwards. Family members can come to me in their own right, too. A parent worried about a student at one of the Marylebone colleges, or a husband who has watched a glass of wine become a bottle, can book sessions for themselves. A quarter of a century counselling, and my own years in recovery, mean you can bring the shame into the session and name it plainly.
Routes into help around Marylebone
Turning Point's Westminster assessment
Westminster's free drug and alcohol team, run by Turning Point, looks at what is happening with drink or drugs and lines up whatever comes next, local support, detox or residential care.
Students and young adults
For an 18 to 25 year old at a Marylebone college, St Marylebone HCC runs a dedicated sliding-scale programme in the crypt of the parish church.
Looking after a partner who drinks
If looking after a partner or parent whose drinking dominates the household has become your daily work, Carers Network supports carers, alongside sessions with me about your own strain.
Samaritans on Salisbury Place
Central London Samaritans offers in-branch emotional support in Marylebone as well as calls, for a night when the drinking at home feels too heavy to hold.
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 Marylebone
Private counselling can run alongside Westminster's free routes. For assessment and any detox or residential place, Marylebone residents go to Turning Point Westminster and Kensington and Chelsea. Carers Network supports relatives who look after someone, St Marylebone HCC offers sliding-scale psychotherapy, and Central London Samaritans in Marylebone listens face to face or by phone. Mutual-aid groups such as Alcoholics Anonymous and SMART Recovery add free peer support.
- Free drug and alcohol serviceTurning Point Westminster and Kensington & Chelsea (Drug and Alcohol Wellbeing Service, DAWS)0330 303 8080Free 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.
Locally, the CNWL Mental Health Single Point of Access is on 0800 0234 650.
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 Marylebone ask before starting
How do I find rehab for someone in Marylebone?
The free route begins with Turning Point Westminster and Kensington and Chelsea on 0330 303 8080. After an assessment, Turning Point can set up a detox, a residential place or support closer to home, whichever fits. If you are weighing up private clinics instead, it still helps to have counselling lined up, and I can see the person, or you, before, during or after any treatment.
My son studies in Marylebone and I think he is drinking too much. What can I do?
You can book counselling for yourself, even if he is not ready to talk to anyone. Together we think through what you have noticed, how to raise it without a row, and how to look after yourself meanwhile. At 18 to 25 he could use the St Marylebone HCC young adults programme, and Turning Point Westminster is the place for an assessment once he is willing.
Is addiction counselling by video realistic from a Marylebone flat?
Yes. From Marylebone, video is the normal arrangement, since the Hove room is around 103 minutes' drive and two changes by rail. All you need is somewhere private, a phone or laptop and a regular time each week. Seeing the same counsellor week after week gives recovery work a steady anchor, and an occasional session in the Hove room can be added.
Do I have to stop drinking before my first session from Marylebone?
No. You are welcome to begin with the drinking still going on and your mind not made up. Coming off alcohol abruptly after heavy daily use carries medical risk, so a GP or Turning Point should help you plan that part. Our counselling then works around the plan you agree with them, and it can begin well before any decision is made.
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 short call, from a Marylebone family or from you
When you feel ready, a short conversation is the easiest way to see whether we are a good fit. There is no obligation.