Addiction counselling and therapy for Tonbridge

Getting here from Tonbridge

Borough Green is about twenty minutes north of Tonbridge up the A227 through Shipbourne, or via the A26 and the A25 depending on where in the town you start. Free parking on site when you arrive.

Who I see from Tonbridge

Tonbridge has a reasonable supply of counsellors and psychotherapists, so let me be straightforward about why anyone would drive north instead.

It is not distance and it is not price. It is specialism. If what you need is individual work on alcohol, gambling, pornography, gaming or compulsive spending — or ACT specifically, rather than the general integrative counselling that most local practices offer — the provision within twenty minutes of Tonbridge is genuinely thin. That is the reason, and if it does not apply to you, see someone in Tonbridge.

What is actually available near Tonbridge

Roughly three things. General counselling, of which there is plenty and much of it good. Free statutory drug and alcohol services, which are valuable and usually have a waiting list and a group-based format that does not suit everyone. And residential rehab, which is highly effective for some people and costs several thousand pounds a week.

Weekly, private, one-to-one addiction therapy with no waiting list sits in the gap between those, and that is what this is.

What I work with

The approach is Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, supported by CBT where a specific belief or behavioural loop needs breaking.

Practical details