Addiction Counselling
How Counselling Help Line Melbourne can help you.
Feeding an addiction provides a common feeling or euphoria and escapism to the daily life however this is normally short lived.
Addictions include alcohol, drugs, eating, gambling, shopping, sex and use of the internet. Addiction normally means unstoppable repetitive behaviour that normally causes harmful reactions or services distasteful consequences.
For many the craving or impulse of an addictive event, substance or behaviour offers a short-term escape from the realities of their life and is often used to deal with depression or anxiety. Normally once the addiction has been fed, there are negative reactions such as guilt, depression and anger.
Most people with addictions to common causes such as alcoholism and abuse tend to seek rehab or advice through a counsellor. Addiction counsellors normally can provide treatments for addiction and can drastically improve the life of those whom suffer from addiction.
The human brain uses dopamine, (produced when we fall in love and similar to cocaine) to motivate; and endorphins (what we feel after vigorous exercise and similar to heroin) to reward behaviour.
When life is empty and these chemicals are not naturally present; when we are low or depressed, the tendency to addiction can increase.
Stimulation and reward are often ingredients of addiction: drugs, eating, gambling, shopping and sex all produce highs that need to be repeated
Common Addictions:
Alcohol Dependence
Drug Abuse
Gambling
Smoking
Internet Addiction
Counselling in melbourne can be an effective form of treatment, and may help sufferers to recognise their illness and try to understand it.
Our counselling melbourne offices are located in Melbourne CBD Victoria, as well as outlets available in the Eastern Suburbs of Victoria including Caulfield, Preston, McKinnon, Brighton, Newport, Sunshine, Vermont, Ringwood, Ferntree Gully, Knoxfield, Glen Waverley, and Boronia
Call to get help between 12pm to 10pm, 7 days a week.
Solution-focused bulk billed counselling in Melbourne
Individualised, forward-looking strategies—help move you through and beyond your difficulties.
Now there’s no need to worry about paying for high quality professional help—the help you thought was too expensive to access.
Because at Counselling Helpline Melbourne, we offer bulk billed counselling in Melbourne with $0 out of pocket expense to you.
We specialise in providing mental health treatments in the areas of anxiety, depression, anger management, addiction issues, and family, partner and couple counselling.
Our 100% bulk billed referral-based service provides up to 20 in-person, telephone or video sessions annually. So one of our dedicated Medicare-approved counsellors can work with you in-depth.
And help you overcome deep-seated issues or navigate tough life transitions with positive long-term results.
Our approach is not about ‘band aid’ quick fixes. Rather, we work together to create solutions-based strategies especially tailored for you.
Even if you’ve tried other counselling services that hadn’t worked, we will help you get just the help you need.
This is how we can help
We encourage you to call us directly, or alternatively fill out the confidential form on this page and we will contact you. We take into account the issue troubling you and match you to a specific counsellor who specialises in that area.
You would then go to your general practitioner to obtain a mental health care plan referral for that counsellor.
We encourage you to have one or two sessions with the nominated counsellor to determine if you are comfortable with the therapy. And if need be, we can arrange to match you with another counselling professional. The control is always with you.
We appreciate you taking the step to arrange counselling and will ensure you are not left while in need. So we will attend to you even if you have a pressing need to talk things through the very first time you call us.
In-person or telehealth counselling (Melbourne)
We offer information and referrals for individuals, couples and families to friendly professional qualified counsellors who are registered with Medicare Australia.
Our service is flexible to enable either in-person counselling sessions at our premises, or a telehealth session via video call or telephone. The choice is yours.
Fully bulk-billed via Medicare, telephone counselling for Melbourne residents is easy to arrange—even if you have no access to the internet or aren’t able to come in in person.
All about empowering you
For in-person sessions, we offer comfortable, easy to access locations in Melbourne CBD as well as outlets in the eastern suburbs including Caulfield, Preston, McKinnon, Brighton, Newport, Sunshine, Vermont, Ringwood, Ferntree Gully, Knoxfield, Glen Waverley and Boronia.
We are open between 12 noon until 10 pm daily—yes, even on weekends.
All calls are fielded by qualified counsellors. So right from the start, you can be assured of a friendly, non-judgemental professional service. And of course, your confidentiality is always a top priority.
Call 03 9846 4466 today to book an appointment and begin your journey back to empowerment.
You’ll be relieved you did.
Contact us - in strict confidence
A trained counsellor will contact you within 24 hours.
For urgent assistance, call us on 03 9846 4466 (12 noon - 10 pm daily).