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Specialist Drug & Alcohol Counselling

I'm Paul Burrows — an addiction counsellor with lived experience of trauma and recovery.

Online sessions available UK-wide. If I can help, please contact me.

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She Was Never Broken: A Client's Journey Through Trauma, Addiction, and Recovery

I want to tell you about someone I will call S.

Read more: She Was Never Broken

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“I want to do it. I don’t need to do it. I want to.”

What does real change look like for someone drinking heavily every day?

Read more: I want to do it. I don’t need to do it. I want to.

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“I Thought I Was Just Thick”: ADHD, Cannabis, and What a First Session Can Reveal

One of the most important things a first counselling session can do is not solve anything.

Read more: “I Thought I Was Just Thick”

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Understanding Emotional Flooding and Finding Your Way Back

We’ve all been there. A message arrives, a phone call comes in, someone says something unexpected —

Read more: When Panic Takes Over

  1. Meeting the Parts That Protect Us
  2. Working with Relapse
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  • Finding the Courage
  • Two Voices
  • Heroin, Hope,
  • Being Mum
  • After the Fall
  • When the Parts Finally Feel Heard
  • The Door That Finally Opened
  • Finding Steadiness
  • Learning to Recognise the Cage You're In
  • When All the Parts Are Talking at Once
  • Breaking Routine: One Session at a Time
  • Which Part of You Is Saying Yes
  • Meeting the Parts That Protect Us
  • When Panic Takes Over
  • “I Thought I Was Just Thick”
  • I want to do it. I don’t need to do it. I want to.
  • She Was Never Broken
  • The Flickering Light
  • The Half-Hour That Took Twenty-Nine Years
  • Finding the Eye of the Storm
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