Alcohol and Other Drug Service

Experienced counsellors can meet with you to discuss your concerns and goals around your alcohol or drug use and help you to achieve these.

You may wish to learn more about the effects of drug use on your health or mental health, find strategies to better control or reduce your drug use, or access support to stop using completely and improve your wellbeing.

Whatever your goals - whether it is to control, reduce or stop your alcohol or drug use, our counsellors will be able to help you with:

• Exploring the role and meaning of alcohol and drugs in your life
• Reducing the harms associated with alcohol and drug use
• Developing a plan and practical strategies to control or reduce your use
• Assisting you to plan to cease your drug use and provide you with strategies to prevent relapse
• Referral to Thorne Harbour Health’s therapeutic groups or other treatment services including residential or non-residential withdrawal and/or rehabilitation

Sometimes people only need a short number of focussed sessions rather than engaging in longer term counselling. This might be to:

• Help you explore whether alcohol and or drug treatment is right for you
• Help you identify what your most pressing needs are right now
• Check in on your progress after completing treatment
• Help you identify resources and supports
• Get you back on track after a lapse

We can meet with you for one, two or three sessions depending on what works for you.

Sometimes, when a person is struggling with drug and alcohol issues, they may need support in other areas of their life like housing, accessing health or mental health services or connecting with community supports like social groups and activities.

Our Care & Recovery Coordinator can work with you to look at the different areas of your life and help you to create a plan and work out goals to help you move forward, not only in relation to changing your drug and alcohol use but in other areas too.

Working with our Care & Recovery Coordinator you will supported to:

• Develop a holistic support plan and develop achievable goals in different areas of your life
• Access residential and non-residential alcohol and other drug withdrawal services
• Link in with health and mental health services
• Access Centrelink services
• Access employment services
• Connect with education providers
• Connect with community supports, including social and living skills groups, to help you in your recovery

Our Care & Recovery Coordinator will be able to help you access services by organising referrals and where needed, taking you to appointments and introducing you to other service providers. They will also support you on your journey to help you stay on track and access services as your needs and goals change.