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Online Counselling for Drinking Problems · Woking
Online Counselling for Drinking Problems in Woking
Online counselling for drinking problems 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
Counselling for Drinking Problems 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?
Alcohol in Woking is mostly the punctuation at the end of a commute. One on the train, one when the door shuts, and the weekend arranged around rather more of both. The town's figures are gentle: alcohol-specific admissions at 477.3 per 100,000 in 2023/24 against an England average of 611.7 per 100,000, and an alcohol-specific death rate of 8.5 per 100,000 in 2024 against 13.8 nationally. Set beside that, 27.3% of adults reported a high anxiety score in 2022/23, above the England average of 23.8%. Low recorded drinking harm and high anxiety in the same place suggests a lot of alcohol doing quiet work that never reaches a hospital.
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-specific conditions was 477.3 per 100,000 in 2023/24, below the England average of 611.7 per 100,000. Source: OHID Fingertips – Admission episodes for alcohol-specific conditions (2023/24).
the alcohol-specific death rate was 8.5 per 100,000 in 2024, below the England average of 13.8 per 100,000. Source: OHID Fingertips – Alcohol-specific mortality (2024).
Reviewed June 2026.
What actually happens in counselling for drinking problems?
Counselling for drinking problems here looks beneath the habit at what drives it, you do not need to have hit rock bottom to begin, and signposts medical, detox and peer support where useful.
Because the work itself is the same wherever you live, the detail sits in one place rather than all of them: the full counselling for drinking problems page sets out the methods, how I work covers the practicalities, and my credentials and registration covers accountability.
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.
There is no room in Woking, so everything runs online by secure video from Hove. For drinking, that places the hour in the same house as the habit, which keeps the account exact rather than approximate. Appointments can be set before the train, at lunchtime or later on, which helps if you would rather not talk about alcohol during the stretch of evening you would usually be drinking.
Book a free 15-minute callWhat I help with
What does counselling for drinking problems help with?
The cause, not the habit
Looking beneath the drinking to what drives it.
Anxiety and low mood
Working with what the alcohol has been managing.
Privacy at home
Sensitive support without anyone needing to know.
Signposting
Links to medical, detox and peer support where useful.
Without the anaesthetic
Reconnecting with the person beneath the drinking.
Counselling for Drinking Problems in Woking
Why people in Woking come for counselling for drinking problems
Nothing here requires abstinence, and nothing requires a disaster first. Those two ideas keep more people away than cost or availability ever do, and in a town of responsible, capable, tired commuters the second is especially effective, because the entire way of life is designed to prevent a visible disaster. Meanwhile the amount rises quietly and the sleep gets worse. So the opening question is not how many units. It is what the alcohol is being asked to do: end the working day, take the edge off anxiety that already runs high here, fill an evening that arrives too late to do anything else with. Then what it costs. Healthy Surrey's drugs and alcohol support and i-access cover treatment and the medical side, and Woking Mind is there if anxiety is a large part of it.
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 Counselling for Drinking Problems in Woking: common questions
How do I know whether to book?
If you are counting, hiding it, or the night off keeps not arriving, that is enough of a reason. Nothing worse needs to have happened first. The free 15-minute consultation exists for that uncertainty, and it can usually be fitted in within a few days of asking.
What does it cost each week?
One hour a week is £80. Ninety minutes is £100 and two hours £120, with each appointment paid as it comes and nothing bought in advance. There is nothing to pay for the initial 15-minute consultation. Since no travel is involved, the fee is the whole cost of an appointment.
What alcohol services are there in Surrey?
Healthy Surrey's drugs and alcohol support is the county route, and i-access, run in partnership with Catalyst, provides drug and alcohol care locally. If you drink heavily every day, please speak to them or to your GP before making any change, because that side is medical.
Can this happen without going anywhere?
That is how it works. Secure video from wherever you are, with telephone as a backup on a poor line, and nothing to attend in person. For a town where two hours a day already belong to the train, an appointment with no journey attached is often the only workable kind.
I drink on the train and again at home. Is the train part the issue?
The place matters less than the function. A drink attached to a journey becomes automatic very quickly, because the cue arrives at the same time daily and asks nothing of you. What is worth examining is what the commute is being softened for, and what an evening feels like without it.
A drink at the end of the commute has become every night. Should I be concerned?
It is worth looking at. A nightly drink to decompress is where many commuter drinking patterns quietly harden. We can examine how fixed and how heavy it has become, and, if you wish, find other ways to mark the end of the working day.
How quickly can I get online help for a drinking problem in Woking?
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 further trip to a platform and no waiting list, so you can start quietly from home wherever you are in Woking.
Can I get drinking problem counselling on the NHS in Woking?
Yes. Your GP can refer you and Surrey'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.
Can drinking counselling fit the long days and time away from home in Woking?
It can. Being online, sessions sit in the evening or on a remote-working day, with none of the travel that a London-facing routine already demands. That relentless pace can wear at wellbeing quietly, and this reaches you where you are. In-person meetings are available in Hove if you prefer.
Online Counselling for Drinking Problems 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.
Related work in Woking: addiction counselling, substance use counselling and depression counselling.
There is more on this in my writing: why practice makes permanent and questioning “once an addict”.
Within reach of Sussex? counselling for drinking problems is offered in the room in Hove, where the room is as well as online; see the full list of areas.