Teddington · online by video, with the Hove room for occasional sessions
Addiction counselling and rehab advice for Teddington
A search for 'rehab Teddington' can just as easily come from a worried partner or parent as from the person drinking or using. In Richmond upon Thames, WithYou Richmond is where detox and residential places are assessed and set up, and my part is one-to-one counselling that can come before, during or after it. Hove is about 80 minutes' drive from Teddington, so our sessions would normally happen on secure video.
The practical facts for Teddington
- Where sessions happen
- A private room at Intergen House, 65-67 Western Road, Hove BN3 2JQ, or secure video.
- From Teddington by car
- About 80 minutes with clear roads (55.6 miles); longer at busy times.
- By train
- From Teddington, change at Clapham Junction for trains towards Brighton and Hove.
- Free local drug & alcohol service
- WithYou Richmond, 020 3228 3020
- 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.
Quiet streets, private worries, and where treatment starts
Teddington looks orderly from Broad Street: family homes, the lock, Bushy Park, people heading off to laboratory work or into central London.
That orderliness can make a drinking problem easier to hide and harder to name. The person drinking may be holding down a demanding job without a visible slip. The person searching may be a teenager's parent, a spouse who has started checking the recycling, or a grown-up child noticing that a widowed father now drinks alone. Measured on the narrow definition, alcohol-related hospital admissions in Richmond upon Thames ran at 366.6 per 100,000 during 2023/24, lower than England's 504.1 per 100,000. That number describes hospital stays borough-wide, and it cannot measure what is happening in one Teddington kitchen. In Teddington, free treatment begins with a call to WithYou Richmond on 020 3228 3020, the adult drug and alcohol service delivered within RCDAS, whose assessment decides whether help in the borough, a detox or residential rehab comes next.
One hour a week, around whatever WithYou Richmond arranges
What I provide is weekly one-to-one counselling by video, and it can start at any point. You might still be deciding whether to ring WithYou Richmond, waiting for their assessment, partway through treatment in the community, or back in Teddington after a residential stay with old routines all around you. Together we look at the purpose drinking, drugs or gambling has come to serve, perhaps quietening a perfectionist mind after a day of exacting work, filling a lonely evening or dulling grief, and at what might meet that need instead. You set the pace, and nothing has to have stopped before we begin. Families get the same attention. A wife who has covered for her husband at school events, or a son worried about a parent who has drunk more since being widowed, can have sessions purely for themselves, about worry, anger and the limits they want to hold. I have counselled for over 25 years, came through recovery myself, and use an integrative approach that includes Internal Family Systems, which makes room for both the part of you that drinks and the part that feels ashamed of it.
Ways in for a Teddington family
Sunday evening Al-Anon on Langham Road
Relatives of a drinker can spend Sunday evening, 18:00 to 19:30, with the Al-Anon Teddington Sunday Evening group in St Mary's Parish Hall.
WithYou Richmond for family and friends
Partners, parents and friends get support from WithYou Richmond in their own right, not just the person using, and your own counselling can run beside it.
Drinking alone in later life
When an older parent is drinking more after a loss, the social club at the Elleray Centre on North Lane, opened in February 2026 to reduce isolation, offers company away from drink.
Evenings that need filling
Early recovery can leave long evenings empty. Sheddington, the community shed at St Mark's Community Hub, offers making, mending and gardening alongside other people.
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 Teddington
Free help in the borough can run alongside our sessions. WithYou Richmond assesses and arranges treatment, and its support for family and friends is open to relatives. Richmond Carers Centre backs anyone whose life now revolves around looking after a relative in trouble with drink or drugs, and Richmond Borough Mind offers wider mental health support. If you need someone urgently, the South London crisis text service is on 80991.
- Free drug and alcohol serviceWithYou Richmond020 3228 3020Run by We Are With You (WithYou). Free 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.
The South London NHS Mental Health Crisis Text Service is another option: text 80991 or WhatsApp 0303 330 1511.
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 Teddington ask before starting
Can my brother get into rehab from Teddington, and who decides?
Residential rehab for Teddington residents is arranged through WithYou Richmond after an assessment, on 020 3228 3020. The decision is made with your brother himself, weighing community treatment, a detox or a residential stay. Sessions with me, for him or for you, can come first, overlap with their treatment, or follow once he is home again.
My wife drinks in secret and I don't know who to tell. Who in Teddington helps someone in my position?
You can start with support of your own. The Al-Anon Teddington Sunday Evening group meets weekly at St Mary's Parish Hall, and WithYou Richmond helps family and friends even if your wife isn't ready to go. In sessions with me you get an unhurried, confidential hour to work out what to say and what to stop covering, without needing her agreement.
Do addiction counselling sessions from Teddington have to be in Hove?
Usually they run by secure video instead. Getting to Hove from TW11 means roughly 80 minutes in the car or a change at Clapham Junction, and that weekly trek sits badly with the first months of sobriety or a busy household. Talking from home also means nobody on Broad Street sees you going to appointments. A longer in-person session in Hove can be arranged now and again.
My father has been drinking heavily since Mum died. What can we do from Teddington?
Grief and drinking can become tangled. The parish's monthly Bereavement Café on Church Road, with listeners trained by Princess Alice Hospice, may suit him, and WithYou Richmond can talk with him about his drinking. You can book sessions with me for yourself, or he can, by video from home. If he drinks heavily every day, check the safety note about alcohol withdrawal on this page before he tries to stop.
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.
Whoever in the house is ready can call first
When you feel ready, a short conversation is the easiest way to see whether we are a good fit. There is no obligation.