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Online Substance Use Counselling · Weston-super-Mare
Online Substance Use Counselling in Weston-super-Mare
Online substance use counselling for Weston-super-Mare, by secure video. From a base in Hove I work with people across Weston-super-Mare, from the seafront and the Grand Pier to the streets around the sands, 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 Weston-super-Mare
Substance Use Counselling for Weston-super-Mare, at a glance
- Areas covered online
- All of Weston-super-Mare: from the seafront and the Grand Pier to Worle, Milton and Uphill
- Known for
- The Grand Pier, the sands and Brean Down
- Region
- South West (England)
- Local NHS / support route
- North Somerset Council's drug and alcohol support
- Format
- Secure video, UK-wide. In-person also available on the Sussex coast.
Life in Weston-super-Mare
What brings people in Weston-super-Mare to counselling?
Drug use in Weston-super-Mare is bound up with the season and with what happens once it ends. Deaths from drug misuse ran at 5.4 per 100,000 for 2022 to 2024, just below the England average of 5.8, and 4.2 adults per 1,000 were in treatment at specialist drug-misuse services in 2020/21, slightly under the England average of 4.5. Behind those figures is use that carries people through summer shifts and then keeps them company through the winter. It sits in Ashcombe and Kewstoke as much as anywhere, and the town's distance from bigger opportunities does nothing to help anyone's reasons to stop.
Areas covered
Neighbourhoods in and around Weston-super-Mare
WorleMiltonUphillLockingBournvilleKewstokeOldmixonAshcombeHutton
Wherever you are in Weston-super-Mare, the work is the same, a calm, confidential space shaped around you.
The local picture
The local picture in Weston-super-Mare
Official figures for Weston-super-Mare, for context rather than as a description of you.
4.2 adults per 1,000 were in treatment at specialist drug-misuse services in 2020/21, below the England average of 4.5 per 1,000. Source: OHID Fingertips – Adults in treatment at specialist drug misuse services (2020/21).
the rate of deaths from drug misuse was 5.4 per 100,000 in 2022 - 24, below the England average of 5.8 per 100,000. Source: OHID Fingertips – Deaths from drug misuse (2022 - 24).
Reviewed June 2026.
What is substance use counselling, in practice?
Substance use counselling here is non-judgemental and one-to-one, working with the pain, fear or loneliness the substance has been managing, at a pace that protects your sense of safety.
The method travels; only the geography changes. the main substance use counselling page explains it properly, session lengths and fees answers the practical questions, and professional standards and registration shows how the practice is held to account.
What do I need for 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.
Because Bradley is in Hove, sessions run by secure video only. For drug work that offers two clear advantages: no journey, and no building with your name attached to it. You decide where you talk from, and there is no reception, no sign-in and nobody local involved. Sessions carry on through a change of hours, a change of address, or a winter spent working elsewhere.
Book a free 15-minute callWhat I help with
What sort of things do people bring?
The false self
Letting go of the protective self that no longer serves you.
Specialised attention
One-to-one sessions shaped entirely around you.
Self-discovery
Rediscovering the authentic self beneath the coping.
Anxiety and low mood
Treating what the substance has been masking.
Sustainable change
Growing into recovery rather than forcing it.
Substance Use Counselling in Weston-super-Mare
Why people in Weston-super-Mare come for substance use counselling
You are not required to stop, and you will not be pushed towards it. This is drug-focused work that treats what you are doing as something worth understanding rather than something to be corrected. Cocaine that arrives with every payday, cannabis relied on for sleep, ketamine, stimulants and prescribed medication used outside its purpose can all be talked about without a reaction. We look at what the use holds up, and at what happens on the days it is absent. Very often the answer to that second question explains the first one entirely. For treatment or prescribing, North Somerset Council's drug and alcohol support is the free route into We Are With You. Mind in Somerset also runs a wellbeing hub in the town for wider mental health. Counselling sits apart from those and reports to none of them.
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 Weston-super-Mare
My online counselling sits alongside the help available locally. In Weston-super-Mare, free local drug and alcohol support is available through North Somerset Council's drug 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.
Weston-super-Mare questions
Online Substance Use Counselling in Weston-super-Mare: common questions
Must I want to stop before getting in touch?
Not at all. Wanting to understand is a perfectly good starting point, and it is where most people are. Change tends to follow from making sense of something, rather than from being told in advance what to do about it.
What are the fees here?
Sessions cost £80 for an hour, £100 for 90 minutes and £120 for two hours, following a free 15-minute conversation. You pay for each one as you go, so nothing is committed to in advance and stopping costs you nothing whatsoever.
What does We Are With You offer in this town?
It is the local drug and alcohol service, reached through North Somerset Council's drug and alcohol support, and it provides treatment, harm reduction and prescribing free of charge. This is the private weekly hour about the reasons underneath. The two work well together.
Is any of it kept from my GP?
All of it, unless you decide otherwise. No NHS record is made, no letter is sent, and nothing reaches an employer. Notes are kept privately under the BACP Ethical Framework, with the single exception of a serious and immediate risk to life.
I use to get through summer shifts and then cannot stop in winter. Why?
Because by then the use has attached itself to more than the shifts. What started as stamina turns into routine, and the empty months give it nothing to compete with. That is the pattern to work on, and it is a very common one here.
My seaside job in Weston is seasonal and dries up in winter. Can sessions continue then?
Yes. Because we meet online, appointments carry on through the quiet off-season as easily as the busy summer. We speak by secure video from home. The counselling room is in Hove, so Weston-super-Mare is served online rather than in person.
Can I begin substance use counselling online in Weston-super-Mare this week?
Often yes. After a short message we set up a free 15-minute call, then arrange your first session, frequently within the same week. Because we meet online, you can talk from home anywhere in Weston-super-Mare, whether that is Uphill, Locking or Bournville, with no waiting list to join.
How much does private substance use counselling cost compared with NHS options in Weston-super-Mare?
I charge £80 for 60 minutes, £100 for 90 minutes and £120 for two hours, and the initial 15-minute consultation is free. NHS drug services and GP referrals in Weston-super-Mare are free of charge but often have waits, while private sessions can start quickly and stay flexible around you.
Do you offer evening online sessions for substance use counselling in Weston-super-Mare?
I hold some appointments later in the day, which helps if you work shifts or long hours around Weston-super-Mare. Sessions are online, so you join from wherever feels private, from Kewstoke to Oldmixon. In-person work is only at my Hove room, for those who can reach the Sussex coast.
Online Substance Use Counselling in Weston-super-Mare, 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 South West: Bristol, Taunton. See all of South West.
Close to this in Weston-super-Mare, there is addiction counselling, counselling for drinking problems and anxiety counselling.
If you would like to read more first, I have written about three ways to handle a craving and calming a craving as it rises.
For anyone near the coast, the same substance use counselling runs in person in Brighton. Every area covered is listed separately.