Prospect Hill is a counselling services of experienced practitioners. We offer affordable, accessible mental health and relationship support including recovery from self-defeating behaviours, mood disorders, trauma, loss, addiction and its effects,. We believe in harnessing available resources to support individuals and families in healing and exploring new possibilities.

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Counselling

Counselling available to anyone affected by addiction, self-defeating behaviour, trauma or loss.

Therapeutic Groups

A range of therapeutic groups are available that offer safe, communal spaces that support healing and growth.

Personal development

We offer workshops and short courses exploring a range of topics relevant to self-development and personal growth.

Professional Development

Professional development to enhance capacity to manage self-defeating behaviours effectively in a variety of contexts.

Addiction and its Effect

Addiction is a compulsive self-defeating behaviour involving an all-consuming relationship with a mood- altering chemical, person or activity that has debilitating consequences. 

Chemical addictions may include alcohol, street drugs (such as tic, heroin, crack, cocaine, marijuana) or prescription medication (such as codeine, morphine, pethidine, benzodiazapines). Process addictions may include sex, love, codependency, eating, gambling, work, social networking and gaming.

You don’t have to be in active addiction to suffer from addiction.

Addiction not only affects the addict/ user but a network of others connected to them. Family members, friends, work colleagues, employers and employees also suffer from the debilitating and progressive effects of addiction and codependency eg. ‘adult children of addicts or alcoholics’ (ACOA) who have grown up in homes where there is addiction.

Recovery is possible for anyone affected by addiction in the past or present.