Online Substance Use Counselling in Portsmouth

No. A session is not a test and there is no telling-off in it. You can come having used, provided you are able to take part and to recall the hour afterwards. Honesty about where you actually are is worth far more than a tidy account of where you think you should be.

The 15-minute consultation is free and carries no obligation whatsoever. Then £80 an hour, £100 for ninety minutes, £120 for two hours, paid as you go. Statutory services cost nothing at the point of use, so approaching The Portsmouth Recovery Hub as well or instead is sensible.

The Portsmouth Recovery Hub, delivered by the Society of St James with Inclusion. Portsmouth City Council's drug and substance misuse support sets out how to reach it. Structured treatment, prescribing and needle exchange happen there. Counselling with Bradley runs alongside without duplicating any of it.

Nothing routine. The work is confidential under the BACP Ethical Framework, and the exceptions are few and stated before you begin: a serious risk to life, or a legal requirement. What you use does not go to a chain of command, an employer, or your GP as a matter of course.

Very much so. Coming home is often harder than the leaving, and something that softens a difficult re-entry can quietly become the way re-entry gets done. Use that clusters around particular weeks is still use with a job to do, and that job is what this work examines.

No. This is private, independent counselling with nothing reported to any employer or the forces. You join securely from home, and everything stays confidential between us. Many people in Portsmouth value that separation, knowing they can be fully honest without it touching anything official.

Generally yes. A free 15-minute consultation comes first, then a regular time, often within a week. There is no clinic to reach across Portsea and no referral queue, so you can join securely from home in Old Portsmouth, Copnor or Cosham, discreetly and without travel.

There are free routes: your GP can refer you, Portsmouth's drug and alcohol service takes self-referrals, and FRANK offers confidential national advice. Serving personnel have military support too. This practice is private, at £80 for 60 minutes, £100 for 90 and £120 for 120, with a free consultation.

Often, yes. Online sessions hold a steady, confidential thread through postings and time apart, reaching you wherever you are without a trip across the island. Evening slots suit many forces families here. In-person meetings are possible in Hove, a train along the coast, if you can reach the Sussex side.