Weybridge · online by video, with the Hove room for occasional sessions
Addiction counselling and rehab advice for Weybridge
If you searched for rehab in Weybridge because you're worried about a husband, a daughter or yourself, residential places and detox are arranged through Surrey's free service, and I offer addiction counselling alongside it by secure video, drawing on my own lived experience of recovery, for the person drinking, using or gambling and for the family around them.
The practical facts for Weybridge
- Where sessions happen
- A private room at Intergen House, 65-67 Western Road, Hove BN3 2JQ, or secure video.
- From Weybridge by car
- About 70 minutes with clear roads (57.9 miles); longer at busy times.
- By train
- From Weybridge, change at Clapham Junction for trains towards Brighton and Hove.
- Free local drug & alcohol service
- i-access, 0300 222 5932
- 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 worry that stays behind the front door
Drinking and drug use can be well hidden in Weybridge, behind a good job at Brooklands or a house where everyone has learned not to mention it.
The first person to look for help may not be the one drinking. It might be the wife who keeps finding bottles in the boot of the car, the father whose son came back from university and rarely leaves his room, or the sister who took the phone call from St Peter's Hospital in Chertsey after a fall late one evening. Gambling and drugs can be harder still to notice, because they leave no empty bottles behind. In 2023/24, Elmbridge saw 377.8 hospital admissions per 100,000 people for alcohol-related conditions, measured on the narrow definition, below the England figure of 504.1 per 100,000. Those figures describe admissions borough-wide. They tell you nothing about your own household, and you don't need a figure to be worried enough to ask.
How i-access and counselling fit together
In Surrey, the free door into specialist drug and alcohol treatment is i-access, which Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust runs jointly with the non-profit Via, on 0300 222 5932. They carry out the assessment and, when it's needed, arrange a detox or a residential place. My part is one-to-one counselling that can begin before anyone phones them, carry on while their treatment is under way, or start when someone comes home and has to rebuild an ordinary Weybridge week. Our sessions look plainly at what the drinking, drugs or betting gives you, whether that's quietening a racing mind after work or blunting a loss. Nobody expects you to have quit already, or to be sure you want to, when you book a first session. Having been through recovery myself, I'm hard to shock and have no interest in lecturing you. Family members are welcome in their own right. Together we can work out where helping ends and rescuing begins, how to name what you've noticed without it turning into a row, and how to stop their habit taking over your own life as well.
Weybridge readers this page is written for
The partner finding bottles
Wine hidden in the car or the garage, explanations that keep shifting. i-access offers information and support for family and carers, and counselling can be just for you.
A Brooklands career under strain
Drinking that once helped you unwind from a demanding role at one of the Brooklands headquarters, and now gets in the way of doing it.
After a night at St Peter's
An A and E visit at St Peter's Hospital in Chertsey can be the moment a family stops pretending. i-access is the route to assessment, and counselling can begin now.
Home again after treatment
Coming back from a residential stay to the same Weybridge streets and routines. Weekly sessions give the first months home a fixed point, and Catalyst Community Connections offers drug and alcohol wellbeing support nearby.
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 Weybridge
Questions about assessment, detox or a residential place go to i-access, whose family and carers information is there for relatives too. Catalyst Community Connections offers drug and alcohol wellbeing support in Walton, Weybridge and Hersham, and Action for Carers Surrey helps if someone's drinking or using has turned you into their carer. Private counselling fits around all three.
- Free drug and alcohol servicei-access0300 222 5932Free and confidential.
- Local organisationi-access information and carers support for family and carers
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 Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS FT Mental Health Crisis Helpline is on 0800 915 4644.
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 Weybridge ask before starting
Is there a rehab in Weybridge, and who decides whether someone goes to one?
Residential places aren't usually chosen by name: for people living in Weybridge, residential treatment and detox are arranged after an assessment by i-access, the free drug and alcohol service for Surrey, on 0300 222 5932. My counselling can start ahead of that assessment, keep going during treatment, or pick up afterwards once someone is back at home.
My husband drinks every night at home in Weybridge. Can I see a counsellor even if he won't?
Yes, and he doesn't need to know or agree. Sessions can be about your fear, the rows, the excuses you find yourself making for him, and what you are willing to keep doing. i-access also offers information and support for family and carers. Because he drinks every night, look at the withdrawal warning on this page before anyone tries to change the pattern.
Is addiction counselling from Weybridge done online, or would I travel to Hove?
Online. At about 70 minutes each way by car, Hove is too far for a weekly session, so from Weybridge we work by secure video, and the hour runs just as it would in the room. A face-to-face session at Intergen House can be arranged later if you want one, but it's never a condition of starting.
Can I start counselling in Weybridge while I'm waiting to hear from i-access?
Yes. You don't need a referral from them or anyone else. Arrange the free 15-minute call, share whatever you're comfortable sharing, and I'll tell you frankly whether a weekly slot is open now or soon. Counselling and their assessment can overlap. If you drink heavily every day, the withdrawal warning on this page applies while you wait, and your GP at the Health Centre on Church Street is there for the medical side.
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 it through before you decide anything
When you feel ready, a short conversation is the easiest way to see whether we are a good fit. There is no obligation.