Counselling
Counselling Aims
- To help you to understand the situation surrounding your drinking. It also aims to clarify the options available to you in order to change.
- Your counsellor will not tell you what to do, nor sit in judgement, but listen to you and try to help you make up your own mind about the course of action you wish to undertake.
- Help you set realistic goals regarding your drinking and also to understand how your drinking is affecting you and those close to you.
- Help you develop strategies to deal with situations you have found difficult, more effectively.
- Counselling can extend for a period of weeks or months.
Individual Counselling
Once weekly sessions over 6 to 12 weeks are available to people who wish to reduce or stop drinking. Counselling is also available to partners and carers.
Confidentiality
Counselling is confidential, this rule will only be broken if your counsellor feels someone else is at risk. This will always be discussed with you before any action is taken.
