our free services

alcohol (Southampton)

Options, in partnership with the Primary Care Trust and Southampton City Council, have been providing a highly specialised FREE counselling service for alcohol users, their spouses, partners and families throughout Southampton for nearly fifty years. 

With this valuable experience behind us, we are able to offer one-to-one counselling with experienced and skilled specialist counsellors who will create a non-judgemental, warm and nurturing environment in which clients can challenge their patterns of behaviour and find their own unique strategies for change.

All counsellors work within the standards and ethics set by the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, and adhere to a strict code of confidentiality.

Clients will be encouraged to consider a number of matters including;

	alcohol awareness
	physical, social & emotional effects
	triggers and compulsions
	cognitive and behavioural patterns
	goal setting
	making and maintaining changes
	self-esteem, confidence and assertiveness
	personal development
	relationship and related emotional problems

Options is able to provide this help and support FREE to anyone living in the Southampton area.  Clients will be offered a regular appointment with the same counsellor and will receive support and encouragement as he/she seeks ways of taking control of his/her alcohol intake. 

If you do not live in the Southampton area, you can take advantage of our valuable experience in the drugs and alcohol field by applying to Options Plus. Click here for our not for profit fee paying service.

gambling (Hampshire)

In partnership with Gamcare, Options has provided a specialist FREE counselling service for problem gamblers, their spouses, partners and families throughout Hampshire for several years. 

We are able to offer one-to-one counselling with experience, trained and skilled specialist counsellors who will create a non-judgemental, warm and nurturing environment in which clients can challenge their patterns of behaviour and find their own unique strategies for change. All our counsellors work within the standards and ethics set by the British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy Association and adhere to a strict code of confidentiality.

Clients will be encouraged to consider a number of matters including;

	triggers and compulsions
	the relationship with gambling and what it offers
	social, financial and emotional effects
	cognitive and behavioural patterns
	making and maintaining changes
	self-esteem, confidence and assertiveness
	personal development

Options, in partnership with GamCare, is able to provide this help FREE.

Clients will be offered a regular appointment with the same counsellor and will receive free counselling support and encouragement as he/she seeks ways of taking control of his/her gambling.

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