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Online Addiction Counselling · Perth
Online Addiction Counselling in Perth
Online addiction counselling for Perth, by secure video. From a base in Hove I work with people across Perth, from the centre and the Inches to the streets around the Tay, with the same BACP-registered, confidential support as an in-person session, and no journey.
BACP registered member25+ years of experienceLived experience
ConfidentialA safe, private space
Person-centredThe therapy fits you
In and around Perth
Addiction Counselling for Perth, at a glance
- Areas covered online
- All of Perth: from the centre and the Inches to Craigie, Letham and Scone
- Known for
- The Tay, the two Inches and the Fair City heritage
- Region
- Scotland
- Local NHS / support route
- NHS inform's drugs and drug use pages
- Format
- Secure video, UK-wide. In-person also available on the Sussex coast.
Life in Perth
Why people in Perth get in touch
Perth looks prosperous, and in places it is. Handsome streets, the River Tay running through the middle, Perth Concert Hall, Scone Palace up the road. What that surface hides is a wide rural hinterland of low wages, seasonal work and farms where the nearest neighbour is a long way off. A habit survives well in a place that looks well. Nobody expects a problem in Kinnoull or Craigie, so nobody looks, and the person concerned certainly is not going to raise it. Add long distances to any kind of specialist help and the default becomes managing it privately, for years, while everything outwardly carries on exactly as before.
Areas covered
Neighbourhoods in and around Perth
CraigieLethamSconeBridgendMuirtonTullochKinnoullFriarton
Wherever you are in Perth, the work is the same, a calm, confidential space shaped around you.
The local picture
The local picture in Perth
Official figures for Perth, for context rather than as a description of you.
the age-standardised drug-misuse death rate in Perth and Kinross averaged 18.0 per 100,000 over 2020-2024, below the Scotland average of 22.5 Source: National Records of Scotland, Drug-related deaths in Scotland 2024 (Table C4) (2020-2024).
In Perth and Kinross, 7.1% of adults reported a low life satisfaction score (4 or below out of 10) in the year ending March 2023, compared with a Scotland average of 6.1%, a difference the survey's margin of error does not confirm. Source: Office for National Statistics (ONS), Personal well-being estimates by local authority (Year ending March 2023 (2022-23)).
Reviewed June 2026.
What is addiction counselling, in practice?
Addiction counselling here treats the pain beneath the habit, not just the symptom, alcohol, drugs, gambling, food or behavioural, so recovery is something you grow into rather than force.
Because the work itself is the same wherever you live, the detail sits in one place rather than all of them: everything on addiction counselling sets out the methods, the practical side covers the practicalities, and qualifications, registration and ethics covers accountability.
What do I need for an online session?
Sessions run over a secure, encrypted video link, held to the same BACP confidentiality as meeting in person. After a free fifteen-minute call, you join from any private space on a phone, tablet or laptop.
Bradley is in Hove, so there is no Perth room to attend and everything runs by secure video. That matters most for people outside the town itself, where an appointment has traditionally meant a long drive each way. Sessions can be held from a farmhouse kitchen, a flat in Muirton or a car parked at the end of a track. Slots sit early, late or midday, and the free 15-minute consultation costs nothing.
Book a free 15-minute callWhat I help with
What sort of things do people bring?
Drugs and substances
Compassionate, confidential help with substance use.
Gambling
Breaking the cycle of compulsive gambling, guilt and debt.
Food and behavioural
Support for food and process addictions.
Affected by a loved one
Help for those living alongside someone's addiction.
The pain underneath
We treat the cause, not just the symptom.
Addiction Counselling in Perth
Why people in Perth come for addiction counselling
Addiction here covers gambling, gaming and spending as well as substances, and rural privacy suits every one of them. In Perth and Kinross the drug-misuse death rate averaged 18.0 per 100,000 over 2020-2024, below the Scotland average of 22.5, while alcohol-specific deaths averaged 16.7 against a Scotland figure of 21.9. Both sit under the national line, which is worth knowing and no comfort at all if you are the household in question. What sessions examine is the function: what the habit fills, what it postpones, and what a long, quiet evening would otherwise ask of you. Tayside Council on Alcohol provides counselling and support in Perth, the Perth and Kinross Alcohol and Drug Partnership sets out the local route, and Breathing Space Scotland is free on 0800 83 85 87.
A free, unhurried first step
Not sure if it is right for you? A free fifteen-minute call is a no-obligation way to talk it through.
Book a free 15-minute callDrug, alcohol & addiction support in Perth
My online counselling sits alongside the help available locally. In Perth, your GP can refer you to local drug and alcohol services, and you can find support through NHS inform's drugs and drug use pages.
For confidential information and advice, FRANK (on 0300 123 6600) and Drinkline on 0300 123 1110 are free, and Alcoholics Anonymous and SMART Recovery run peer-support meetings you can find online.
Other local and national support verified for this area includes:
If you need urgent help now
This is not a crisis service. If anyone is in immediate danger call 999. For urgent mental health support, call NHS 24 on 111 for urgent mental health support. Breathing Space is free on 0800 83 85 87, the Samaritans are on 116 123, and you can text SHOUT to 85258.
If you drink heavily or use drugs daily, do not stop suddenly on your own. Withdrawal can cause seizures and can be dangerous. Speak to your GP or a local drug and alcohol service first, and they can arrange a safe, medically supported withdrawal. Counselling works alongside that, not instead of it.
Perth questions
Online Addiction Counselling in Perth: common questions
I live well outside Perth. Is regular counselling actually feasible?
More feasible than it has ever been. The session happens where you are, so an hour costs an hour rather than most of an afternoon, and bad weather or a closed road no longer decides whether you get support this week.
What are your fees?
£80 / 60 min, £100 / 90 min and £120 / 120 min, paid session by session. Rural and seasonal income is uneven, so people often go weekly for a period and then space things out. The opening 15-minute consultation is free and commits you to nothing.
What local help is there that does not cost anything?
Tayside Council on Alcohol offers counselling and support in Perth, and the Perth and Kinross Alcohol and Drug Partnership explains how services are arranged locally. Your GP can refer you into NHS care, and Breathing Space Scotland answers free on 0800 83 85 87.
Everything here looks respectable. Does that make it harder to admit?
Frequently, yes. In a town where appearances count, the effort of keeping up the front often becomes part of what the habit is managing. Saying it out loud once, to somebody with no connection to your life here, tends to reduce its size considerably.
My betting is a way of filling the evening. Is that still an addiction?
It may be heading that way. Boredom is one of the most reliable drivers there is, and a habit that starts as something to do can become the only thing that registers. The test is whether you can leave it alone when you decide to.
I live in rural Perthshire, can addiction counselling still reach me?
Yes. As long as you have a steady connection and a private space, secure video reaches you wherever you are in Perthshire. For many in the surrounding villages that is far more practical than driving into Perth or beyond for an appointment.
How soon can I start addiction counselling online in Perth or rural Perthshire?
Usually within a week. We begin with a free 15-minute consultation, then book your first secure video session. There is no drive into the city and no waiting list, so from the Fair City itself to a village out in Perthshire you can start quickly from home.
What are your fees, and how do they compare to NHS help in Perth?
Sessions are £80 for 60 minutes, £100 for 90 and £120 for 120, after a free 15-minute consultation. NHS Tayside talking therapy is free but can carry a wait, and distance adds a barrier in rural Perthshire; private work costs money yet starts sooner.
Do you offer evening online sessions for people around Perth?
Yes. Everything runs by secure video, so we can meet in the evenings from home, in the city or out in the countryside. There is no journey into Perth and no waiting room, which suits those juggling long rural distances and unsociable working hours.
Online Addiction Counselling in Perth, whenever you are ready
A free fifteen-minute call is the simplest place to start, no obligation, just a chance to see if we are the right fit.
Also available online across Scotland: Dundee, Stirling, Kirkcaldy. See all of Scotland.
Related work in Perth: substance use counselling, counselling for drinking problems and trauma counselling.
If you would like to read more first, I have written about the four-stage cycle of addiction and the four Rs framework.
Within reach of Sussex? addiction counselling is offered in the room in Brighton as well as online; see the full list of areas.