Online Counselling for Drinking Problems in Crawley

The free 15-minute consultation is normally within days rather than weeks, and regular sessions tend to start inside a fortnight of it. No referral is needed and nothing is queued. For people working shifts, the honest constraint is usually your rota and not availability.

It is £80 for the hour, £100 if you want ninety minutes and £120 for a full two. Payment happens each time rather than in advance, and there is no package to buy into. The first 15-minute conversation is free, so you can hear how it works before spending anything at all.

You can, and it costs nothing. It is the statutory route, delivered by Change Grow Live, and it is where medical support belongs, including any conversation about withdrawal. Counselling works alongside it on the pattern and the reasons. West Sussex Wellbeing covers broader health support if you want it.

Often, yes, within reason. Because nothing has to open and nobody has to travel, appointments can be arranged outside the ordinary working day. That is the practical reason video suits a town where a large share of people work to an airport timetable rather than a nine-to-five.

Physically it is the same alcohol, and the body does not read the clock. What changes is how invisible it becomes: nobody is around, nothing about it looks social, and there is no one to pace yourself against. That isolation is usually the part worth taking seriously.

It can. Drinking to come down from shift work, often alone and out of step with everyone else, is a common way a problem builds unseen. We can look at your own pattern honestly and, if you wish, find gentler ways to wind down around your rota.

Often within a week. The free 15-minute consultation lets us talk through your drinking first, then we set a regular time around your rota. Working online means no journey and no waiting list, so you can start quietly from home, whatever hours the airport keeps you on.

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

It can. Because it is online, sessions sit whenever your body clock and rota allow, day or evening, with no drive around Gatwick to add in. Shift patterns that ignore day and night take their toll, and this flexes to meet them. Face-to-face is available in Hove if you prefer.