Addiction counselling and therapy for Sevenoaks

Getting here from Sevenoaks

Borough Green is about fifteen minutes east of Sevenoaks along the A25, or a similar time via the M26 depending on where in the town you start and what the A25 is doing. Borough Green & Wrotham station is a couple of stops from Otford on the Maidstone East line.

Free parking on site. If you have tried to park in Sevenoaks for a weekly appointment, you will know why that is worth a sentence of its own.

Who I see from Sevenoaks

Sevenoaks is well supplied with therapists, and I would not pretend otherwise — there are several good ones and you should feel free to speak to more than one of us.

What is thinner on the ground is specialist addiction work. Most of the counselling available locally is general practice, and most of the addiction provision within reach is either free statutory services with waiting lists or residential rehab at several thousand pounds a week. Weekly, private, one-to-one work on alcohol, gambling, pornography or compulsive spending sits in a gap between those two, and that is the gap I work in.

Being honest about the alternatives

If what you need is general counselling, there are people in Sevenoaks who will do that well and save you the drive. If you are unsure what you need, ring and I will tell you honestly — including if the honest answer is someone else.

Where I would make the case for coming out to Borough Green is specifically:

• Addiction of any kind, substance or behavioural.
• Where ACT is what you want, rather than standard CBT.
• Where you have had CBT before and it did not hold.
• Where you would rather not be seen going into a counselling practice in your own town — which, for Sevenoaks in particular, comes up more often than you would think.

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