FREE Addiction Screening Clinic 1.30-4.30pm Thursday 16th January, Thursday 23rd January, Thursday 6th February and Thursday 13th February. No booking needed - drop in during those hours for a confidential discussion about your own drinking, substance use, gambling, food issues, sex and/or pornography use. Read More
We offer a 10 week outpatient programme for anyone who needs to break the cycle of addiction but who may not need full residential care at this time. Your assessment counsellor will give guidance and advice about which programme best meets your current needs.
During the outpatients programme you will attend 3 sessions per week here at the Rutland Centre. Two of these sessions will be group therapy, facilitated by our specialist addiction counselling team and the third will be a 1:1 counselling session.
Clinical assessment
Individualised treatment planning
Group therapy (client centred)
Lectures
Workshops
1:1 counselling sessions
Family involvement and support
Have minimal or no risk of severe withdrawal
Have well managed or no medical conditions that would distract from treatment
Can demonstrate a readiness to work towards change but require the support of a structured environment to achieve this
Need close support and monitoring to maintain abstinence
Have support and good coping skills
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"I came here in 2009. I was just pretty broken and lost inside and I had been doing some counselling for maybe 10 months. Up until that point I had no idea that I was suffering with addiction for me unlike many people with addiction, mine wasn't really manifesting on the outside it was more internal stuff while..."
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"I never thought I’d have to darken the doors as a patient in The Rutland, The Priory, or any rehab centre at all. I mean look at me, I’m 36 years old, handsome enough looking girl, working in finance - doesn’t sound like your typical addict does it now?"
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"I was the normal sort of teenager, you know what I mean - I would have been out with the lads and drinking, stuff like that. Then before I know it, you start hanging around with different crowds of people and you start getting introduced to people and before i know there's a lot of drugs on..."
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"I spent nearly 30 years in turmoil. This included self-harm, starving myself, and self medicating with drugs and alcohol to alleviate the pain and despair that I lived with daily. I attempted suicide on several occasions, I was hospitalised many times, in psych wards and in John of Gods a few times.”
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“I remember feeling lost, afraid, sick, angry and shocked, but most of all betrayed. That day changed me forever. Until then, I had felt safe and loved with my husband. He was my best friend and I trusted him with my life. After that, I never felt safe again. My world as I knew it was gone.”
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"As far as I can remember I was 33 years old that year. I've no doubt it was self-medication with me and I had very little tolerance for alcohol so I'd be crying in a corner, she knew very easily. I didn't have my first drink until my..."