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Online Addiction Counselling · Woking
Online Addiction Counselling in Woking
Online addiction counselling for Woking, by secure video. From a base in Hove I work with people across Woking, from the town centre and Horsell to the streets around the canal, 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 Woking
Addiction Counselling for Woking, at a glance
- Areas covered online
- All of Woking: from the town centre and Horsell to Knaphill, Goldsworth Park and Sheerwater
- Known for
- The canal, Horsell Common and the centre
- Region
- London & South East (England)
- Local NHS / support route
- Healthy Surrey's drugs and alcohol support
- Format
- Secure video, UK-wide. In-person also available on the Sussex coast.
Life in Woking
What is going on for people in Woking?
Woking is organised around the train. Half an hour from Waterloo, and a great many lives here run to that timetable: out before the house wakes, back after it has eaten. The McLaren Technology Centre adds its own demanding hours on the other side of town. What that produces is long days, short evenings and very little that belongs to you. Something reliable tends to move into the gap. A drink that signals the day has finally ended. A betting account worked through on the way home. A phone that takes the last hour before sleep. Recorded anxiety here runs high, with 27.3% of adults reporting a high anxiety score in 2022/23 against an England average of 23.8%.
Areas covered
Neighbourhoods in and around Woking
HorsellKnaphillGoldsworth ParkSheerwaterSt John'sMayburyOld WokingByfleetMount Hermon
Wherever you are in Woking, the work is the same, a calm, confidential space shaped around you.
The local picture
The local picture in Woking
Official figures for Woking, for context rather than as a description of you.
the rate of hospital admissions for alcohol-related conditions (narrow definition) was 386.7 per 100,000 in 2023/24, below the England average of 504.1 per 100,000. Source: OHID Fingertips – Admission episodes for alcohol-related conditions (narrow) (2023/24).
the rate of deaths from drug misuse was 2.9 per 100,000 in 2022 - 24, below the England average of 5.8 per 100,000. Source: OHID Fingertips – Deaths from drug misuse (2022 - 24).
Reviewed June 2026.
What actually happens in addiction counselling?
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.
The approach does not change with the postcode, so rather than repeat it on every page you can read it in full, the methods and what each session covers, on everything on addiction counselling, alongside how I work and how to check my registration.
What happens in 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 works from Hove, and Woking is seen online by secure video. In a town where the commute already claims two hours of most days, an appointment that adds no travel is not a small thing: it costs one hour and nothing beyond that. Sessions can sit early, late, or in a gap at lunch. There is no reception to wait in, and nowhere a neighbour or a colleague might see you going in.
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 Woking
Why people in Woking come for addiction counselling
This is the wide service. Alcohol and drugs are in it, and so are gambling, gaming, shopping, pornography and the phone, meaning anything that has become the reflex when a particular feeling arrives. Woking's substance figures are all low: alcohol-related admissions at 386.7 per 100,000 in 2023/24 against an England average of 504.1 per 100,000, deaths from drug misuse at 2.9 per 100,000 across 2022 to 2024, and 2.3 adults per 1,000 in specialist drug treatment in 2020/21 against 4.5 nationally. The anxiety figure is the one that stands out, at 27.3% in 2022/23 against an England average of 23.8%. Habits very often sit directly on top of that. What the work follows is the loop and its function. Healthy Surrey's drugs and alcohol support is the statutory route, and i-access provides drug and alcohol care across the county.
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 Woking
My online counselling sits alongside the help available locally. In Woking, free local drug and alcohol support is available through Healthy Surrey's drugs and alcohol support.
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 111 and choose the mental health option. The Samaritans are free, day or night, on 116 123, or 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.
Woking questions
Online Addiction Counselling in Woking: common questions
When could I actually start?
Normally within days. A free 15-minute consultation comes first, arranged around the train rather than in competition with it, and there is no referral and no waiting list. A regular weekly appointment usually follows within a week or two if you decide to continue.
What are the fees?
Sessions are £80 / 60 min, £100 / 90 min and £120 / 120 min, paid one at a time, with no block and no minimum number of them. The 15-minute consultation at the start is free of charge. Healthy Surrey's route is free at the point of use throughout.
What is the local NHS route in Woking?
Healthy Surrey's drugs and alcohol support sets out the county route, and i-access, the Surrey drug and alcohol care service run with Catalyst, provides treatment. Prescribing and structured care belong there. Woking Mind offers local wellbeing support if anxiety is part of the picture.
Does it have to be video?
No. Telephone works well and is steadier on a poor connection, and plenty of people keep the camera off at first. There is no room in Woking and nothing to attend, so wherever you are is where it happens, including a parked car if that is the only quiet place.
It is gambling, and I have never had a problem with drink. Am I in the right place?
You are. Behavioural habits belong in this service, and gambling hides better than anything else because there is nothing to see and nothing to smell. A long daily commute hands an app two uninterrupted hours, and the only record it leaves is financial.
Nothing dramatic has happened, I'm just worn down. Is that a reason to get help?
Very much so. A lot of people in Woking describe exactly that slow erosion rather than one clear crisis. Online sessions give you a regular space to unpick where the strain is coming from, arranged around the train and the working day so it is genuinely sustainable.
How soon can I start online addiction counselling in Woking?
Usually within a week. After a free 15-minute consultation we agree a regular time. In a town built around the commute, where most people have had their fill of station platforms, online means nothing further to travel to; you join securely from home in Horsell, Knaphill or Goldsworth Park.
What are the fees in Woking, and can I get addiction counselling on the NHS?
Privately, £80 for 60 minutes, £100 for 90 and £120 for 120, after a free 15-minute consultation. For free NHS support, your GP can refer you and Surrey's council-funded drug and alcohol service accepts self-referrals, separate from this private practice.
Life here runs on the timetable. Are evening online sessions realistic in Woking?
Yes. Because the work is online, sessions sit in the evening or on a day you are not in the office, without adding to a half-hour dash to Waterloo. That helps when stress builds so gradually there is no single moment to point to. The room is in Hove for in-person meetings if preferred.
Online Addiction Counselling in Woking, 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 London & South East: Guildford, London. See all of London & South East.
If addiction counselling is not quite what you are looking for, substance use counselling, counselling for drinking problems and trauma counselling may fit better in Woking.
Some further reading, if that helps before getting in touch: the four-stage cycle of addiction and the four Rs framework.
Closer to the Sussex coast? The same addiction counselling is available in person, in Brighton, or see every area I cover.