Online Substance Use Counselling in Oxford

No. Turning up undecided is normal and entirely workable, and much of the useful thinking happens while a decision is still open. We examine what the substance does for you, honestly, alongside what it costs. Anything you choose afterwards comes from you rather than from being talked into it.

Appointments are £80 for sixty minutes, £100 for ninety and £120 for two hours, with a free 15-minute consultation first. Nothing is committed in advance. Oxfordshire County Council's alcohol and drug support and Roads to Recovery Oxfordshire are free at the point of use if that matters more.

Roads to Recovery Oxfordshire, run by Turning Point from a hub in the city centre, and Oxfordshire County Council's alcohol and drug support explains how to reach it. That is the route for prescribing and structured treatment. Counselling with Bradley sits beside it rather than against it.

Nothing here is disclosed to a university, a hospital or an employer. The work is confidential and follows the BACP Ethical Framework, with narrow exceptions set out at the beginning and nowhere else. No letter goes to your GP unless you specifically ask for one to be written.

It counts. A substance that improves performance is still doing a job, and in a city running at this pitch that job can look like ambition rather than difficulty. The question is what a week without it is actually like, not whether the reason for it sounds respectable enough.

Yes. Because nothing needs travelling to, we can settle on times that fit around clinical or lab rotas, including quieter parts of the day. If a shift changes we can be flexible, which is harder to manage with in-person appointments across the city.

Generally yes. We start with a free 15-minute consultation, then agree a regular time, often within a week. There is nothing to travel to across the city, so you can join securely from your room, a college set or home in Summertown or Botley, around the academic week.

There are free routes: your GP can refer you, Oxfordshire's drug and alcohol service takes self-referrals, and FRANK gives confidential national advice. Students can also use college welfare. This counselling is private, at £80 for 60 minutes, £100 for 90 and £120 for 120, with a free consultation.

For many here it is. An online session, away from the college or department, lets you be honest without being seen going in anywhere. Sessions flex around perfectionism and burnout at their own quiet pitch, evenings included. In-person is possible in Hove, a train down the line, if you would rather.