You maybe like many other people who are concerned enough to want help with your drug, alcohol or other habitual behaviour but dont necessarily feel ready or want to stop. You’d like to get some help but you don’t want to accept labels like ‘addict’ or ‘alcoholic’ and you don’t buy into the notion that you are ‘powerless’.

The beauty of Harm Reduction Therapy is that it provides a behavioural and therapeutic framework around you while you are exploring your options. Less risky usage, moderation nstrategies or abstinence can all be explored, with you being trusted enough to self-determine your own outcomes.

While you are learning skills to manage urges, negotiate ambivalent feelings and building a trusted therapeutic alliance, you will also have the opportunity to understand and manage emotional processes that may be the fuel for your addictive behaviour.

You will learn that substance misuse has multiple meanings, from the need to self -medicate to hedonistic pleasure. While we know that many people who have an addiction have considerable pain in their lives, this isn’t the case for everyone.

What’s essential is that we are able to support you and your unique goals and relationship with substances. Nobody’s recovery is the same. The fundamental premise of Harm Reduction Therapy is in line with the traditional maxim of good psychotherapy, that you don’tjust dismantle a person’s defences without creating new ones first.

So, you can go at your own pace.

Follow this simple process for an initial consultation and ongoing plan.