Brighton and Hove Recovery Service

This drop-in group aims to teach you some of the skills you can apply to your day-to-day life. These skills come from Dialectical behaviour therapy (DBT) which is designed to help you understand and accept your difficult feelings, learn skills to manage them and then become able to make positive changes in your life. ‘Dialectical’ means trying to understand how two things that seem opposite could both be true. For example, accepting yourself and changing your behaviour might feel contradictory, but DBT teaches that it's possible for you to achieve both these goals together. This is not group therapy, but more like a series of skills teaching sessions. There are four skill types we will cover: mindfulness, distress tolerance, interpersonal effectiveness and emotion regulation.

This is an online group, please contact Richmond House for a link to access the group.

Alcoholics Anonymous is a mutual aid fellowship dedicated to abstinence-based recovery, through the 12 step programme. 

This group is held at Richmond House, Richmond Road, Brighton, BN1 3FT.

Speakeasy is a drop-in, informal mutual aid support group, facilitated by peer mentors. The group offers a safe, non-judgemental space to explore recovery; the challenges, the successes, what helps, and everything in between. Exchanges with others who have been in similar situations can provide valuable insights and new perspectives on how to navigate your own journey. This group is about support and connection.

This group is held at Cascades, Brighthelm Centre, North Road, BN1 1YD.

Self-Management and Recovery Training uses motivational and cognitive behavioural therapy techniques to get out from under dysfunctional behavioural habits that form addiction. The model uses a 4-point programme: Building Motivation, coping with urges, Problem Solving and Lifestyle Balance. This group is about behaviour change and goal setting.

This group is held at Cascades, Brighthelm Centre, North Road, BN1 1YD.

These sessions are designed as a drop in version of our closed ACT group, but the group will be more focused on the here and now and require no prior knowledge of ACT. Acceptance and Commitment therapy uses both cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) and mindfulness-based strategies. It aims to help you create a rich, full and meaningful life whilst at the same time accepting the challenges that come with it. Coming from a personal values-driven perspective we aim to help you to develop tools to introduce more psychological flexibility and emotional resilience into your life.

This is an online group, please contact Richmond House for a copy of the timetable for a link to access the group.

If you’re stuck in a rut, gratitude and mindfulness may help you get more out of life and navigate difficult challenges. Gratitude allows you to notice your blessings and create balance from life’s difficulties. Mindfulness helps you handle tough times with grace, acceptance, and surrender. Gratitude is central to happiness; mindfulness can help us cultivate it.

When you combine gratitude and mindfulness, it allows you to acknowledge the blessings in your everyday life and sit with this moment, right now. During hard times, a gratitude and mindfulness practice may help keep your perspective balanced.

This is held at Richmond House.

Self-Management and Recovery Training uses motivational and cognitive behavioural therapy techniques to get out from under dysfunctional behavioural habits that form addiction. The model uses a 4-point programme: Building Motivation, coping with urges, Problem Solving and Lifestyle Balance. This group is about behaviour change and goal setting.

This group is held at Holland Road Baptist Church, Holland Road, Hove, BN3 1JN.

Speakout is a mutual aid group specifically for service users who identify as LGBTQIAA+. A safe, non-judgmental space to explore the recovery within the community. This group is about support and connection.

This group is held at Richmond House.

Ear acupuncture is for everyone. No need to make an appointment – just come along. Treatments are received sitting in a calm clinic space for around 30 minutes. Treatments can support people at all stages of recovery – relieving cravings, managing anxiety, stress, promoting a sense of ease and relaxation and improving sleep patterns.

This is held at Richmond House.

This drop-in group aims to teach you some of the skills you can apply to your day-to-day life. These skills come from Dialectical behaviour therapy (DBT) which is designed to help you understand and accept your difficult feelings, learn skills to manage them and then become able to make positive changes in your life. ‘Dialectical’ means trying to understand how two things that seem opposite could both be true. For example, accepting yourself and changing your behaviour might feel contradictory, but DBT teaches that it's possible for you to achieve both these goals together. This is not group therapy, but more like a series of skills teaching sessions. There are four skill types we will cover: mindfulness, distress tolerance, interpersonal effectiveness and emotion regulation.

This is held at Richmond House.

These sessions are designed as a drop in version of our closed ACT group, but the group will be more focused on the here and now and require no prior knowledge of ACT. Acceptance and Commitment therapy uses both cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) and mindfulness-based strategies. It aims to help you create a rich, full and meaningful life whilst at the same time accepting the challenges that come with it. Coming from a personal values-driven perspective we aim to help you to develop tools to introduce more psychological flexibility and emotional resilience into your life.

This is held at Richmond House.

Speakeasy is a drop-in, informal mutual aid support group, facilitated by peer mentors. The group offers a safe, non-judgemental space to explore recovery; the challenges, the successes, what helps, and everything in between. Exchanges with others who have been in similar situations can provide valuable insights and new perspectives on how to navigate your own journey. This group is about support and connection.

This group is held on Zoom and at Richmond House, Richmond Road, Brighton, BN1 3FT. To join online, please contact Richmond House for a copy of our timetable for links to the meetings.

The service user meeting is a weekly space for you to give us your feedback, to improve what we can offer. We would love to hear from you. This group is about you having a voice.

This group is held on Zoom and at Richmond House, Richmond Road, Brighton, BN1 3FT. To join online, please contact Richmond House for a copy of our timetable for links to the meetings.

Self-Management and Recovery Training uses motivational and cognitive behavioural therapy techniques to get out from under dysfunctional behavioural habits that form addiction. The model uses a 4-point programme: Building Motivation, coping with urges, Problem Solving and Lifestyle Balance. This group is about behaviour change and goal setting.

This group is held at Richmond House, Richmond Road, Brighton, BN1 3FT.

Speakeasy is a drop-in, informal mutual aid support group, facilitated by peer mentors. The group offers a safe, non-judgemental space to explore recovery; the challenges, the successes, what helps, and everything in between. Exchanges with others who have been in similar situations can provide valuable insights and new perspectives on how to navigate your own journey. This group is about support and connection.

This group is held at Richmond House, Richmond Road, Brighton, BN1 3FT.