Online Counselling for Drinking Problems in Basingstoke

Usually inside a fortnight. The free 15-minute consultation tends to happen within a few days of you asking, and if you want to carry on a weekly slot is generally free shortly after. There is no form to complete, no referral to chase and no list to join.

At £80 an hour you can work it out precisely: there is no joining fee and nothing tucked away in the small print. The longer options are £100 for an hour and a half and £120 for two hours. Some people move to fortnightly after a while. The opening 15-minute conversation carries no fee at all.

It is the statutory service for the county and the place anything medical belongs, including any conversation about withdrawal. Inclusion Recovery Hampshire delivers it around the town. Counselling runs beside it rather than instead of it. If you are drinking heavily every day, speak to a GP before altering anything.

You are sent a secure video link and you click it at the agreed time. There is no app to install, no waiting area and no travel at either end. The camera can stay off if that makes it easier. Some people use a phone in a parked car rather than a laptop indoors.

It makes it normal in your particular corner of the world, which is a different thing. Office and commuter culture sets a generous bar for what counts as too much. The useful question is not how you compare with colleagues but what the drinking is doing to your sleep, your mornings and your temper.

It is worth looking at. A nightly drink to unload the day is where many office drinking patterns quietly harden, especially without local support around you. We can examine how fixed it has become and, if you wish, find other ways to switch off after a demanding day.

Often within a week. The free 15-minute consultation lets us talk through your drinking before you commit, then we set a regular time. Working online means no trip round the ring road and no waiting list, so you can start quietly from home wherever you are in Basingstoke.

Yes. Your GP can refer you and Hampshire's council-funded alcohol service accepts self-referrals for free, with Drinkline offering confidential phone advice. Going private, sessions here are £80 for 60 minutes, £100 for 90 and £120 for 120, after a free 15-minute consultation.

It can. Being online, sessions sit in the evening or on a day at home, with none of the travel a Waterloo commute already demands. In a town where wellbeing can slip until something gives, this reaches you where you are. Face-to-face meetings are available in Hove if you can reach the coast.