Streatham · online by video, with the Hove room for occasional sessions
Addiction counselling and rehab advice for Streatham
If you've searched for rehab in Streatham, whether for yourself, a partner or a brother living off the High Road, this page explains where treatment actually comes from. The Lambeth Drug and Alcohol Service is the door to detox or a residential place, and my addiction counselling sits around it by secure video, the usual choice from here because Hove is about 73 minutes' drive away.
The practical facts for Streatham
- Where sessions happen
- A private room at Intergen House, 65-67 Western Road, Hove BN3 2JQ, or secure video.
- From Streatham by car
- About 73 minutes with clear roads (47.4 miles); longer at busy times.
- Free local drug & alcohol service
- Lambeth Drug and Alcohol Service, 020 3228 1500
- 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.
A High Road built around eating and drinking out
Lambeth's 2019 strategy for Streatham counted cafes and restaurants as around 52% of the units in the town centre, well above the UK average of 38%, and found a population weighted towards people aged 25 to 44.
Meeting a friend here can easily mean a table, and a glass. For plenty of people that stays sociable. For others it slides: a Friday that now begins at lunchtime, cocaine passed round once the bars close, a self-employed week with no fixed end where the first drink is the only finishing line. Across Lambeth in 2023/24, alcohol-related hospital admissions on the narrow definition ran at 382.9 for every 100,000 people, lower than England's 504.1. A borough rate says nothing about one flat in Streatham Vale or one family in Telford Park, and the person searching is often someone who loves the one using.
Lambeth's treatment route, and where counselling sits
If your Streatham address falls in Lambeth, treatment begins with a call to the Lambeth Drug and Alcohol Service on 020 3228 1500, a consortium where We Are With You, Humankind and Phoenix Futures work under South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust. Their assessment works out what comes next, from community-based help to a detox or a stay in residential care, and they organise it. One residential option is local: The Nehemiah Project, an abstinence-based recovery charity for men, has one of its two Stage One houses in Streatham and accepts referrals from anywhere in the UK. My part is weekly one-to-one counselling, before anyone rings, through treatment, or after someone comes home to the same streets. We look honestly at the job drink or drugs have taken on in your life, whether that's filling the silence after a late shift or carrying you through work that never quite stops. You can start before deciding to quit, and with recovery in my own past, very little will shock me. Relatives can come on their own to think through boundaries, money and what to say next.
Streatham support for each part of the picture
Families meeting on Tuesday evenings
Al-Anon Family Groups holds a Streatham Hill meeting on Tuesday evenings at the United Reformed Church on Brixton Hill, for family and friends affected by someone else's drinking.
Holding things together at home
If you've become the one keeping the household afloat around a partner's or son's drinking, Carers' Hub Lambeth has a Substance Misuse Carers service set up for that role.
Aftercare once treatment ends
Lambeth Harbour provides recovery and aftercare within the Lambeth consortium. Weekly counselling can sit beside it while ordinary Streatham life, old haunts included, comes back into view.
No boss to call time
With 21% of residents self-employed in Lambeth's 2019 count, a Streatham working day can lack an ending. A drink may become the signal instead, and we can look at that together.
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 Streatham
Lambeth's free route covers assessment, detox and residential care, and the Lambeth Drug and Alcohol Service also supports families and carers. Al-Anon's Streatham Hill meeting and Carers' Hub Lambeth are there for relatives, and Lambeth Harbour carries recovery on after treatment. If a night in Streatham becomes too much, a text or WhatsApp message to the crisis service run by SLaM will get a reply.
- Free drug and alcohol serviceLambeth Drug and Alcohol Service020 3228 1500Free and confidential.
- Local organisationCarers' Hub Lambeth: Substance Misuse Carers service
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.
The South London NHS Mental Health Crisis Text Service (SLaM) is another option: WhatsApp 0303 330 1511 or text 80991.
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 Streatham ask before starting
How do I find rehab for my partner in Streatham?
Rehab and detox for a Lambeth address are arranged after an assessment with the Lambeth Drug and Alcohol Service, on 020 3228 1500. Your partner usually needs to take part in that assessment, but you can contact the service about its support for families and carers today. Counselling with me can begin for either of you while they decide, and carry on afterwards.
Is there a residential recovery house in Streatham itself?
Yes. The Nehemiah Project, an abstinence-based residential recovery charity for men, has one of its two Stage One houses in Streatham and takes referrals from anywhere in the UK. Whether a residential place is right, and how it might be arranged, is worth exploring in an assessment with the Lambeth Drug and Alcohol Service. Weekly counselling with me can come before or after a stay.
Living in Streatham, could I ever see you face to face for addiction counselling?
In person means the room in Hove, about 73 minutes' drive from Streatham or a rail trip changing at East Croydon or Victoria. Weekly sessions therefore happen by secure video, which also means nobody on the High Road sees you arrive anywhere. When life feels steadier, a longer face-to-face hour in Hove now and then is easy to add if you'd value it.
I'm still drinking. Can I start counselling in Streatham before I've stopped?
Yes. Nobody needs to be sober, referred or assessed before a first session. After our free 15-minute call, I'll be honest about which weekly video times are open, so you can pick one that fits around Streatham life. Where drinking is heavy and daily, check the withdrawal safety warning on this page and talk to your GP or the Lambeth Drug and Alcohol Service before you change anything.
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 Streatham, whoever is worried
When you feel ready, a short conversation is the easiest way to see whether we are a good fit. There is no obligation.