Level 1 package: £250
- Up to 3 hours of trained therapist support
- 3 x 50-minute sessions recommended weekly
- Delivered by a gambling therapist
Designed for:
- Individuals concerned about their gambling and wanting a general understanding of their problem
- Those seeking immediate support and brief, practical strategies
- Affected family members wanting a brief intervention to talk about their experience
Outcome for the affected individual:
- Increased insight into their gambling pattern, triggers and consequences
- Identifies the main reasons for change and a clear treatment goal
- Learn practical steps to reduce immediate access to gambling
- Develop an initial plan for managing urges and high-risk situations
- Understand lapse and relapse and plan for this
- Identify relevant supports and know what further treatment is available.
Outcome for the affected other:
- Explore the emotional impact and meaning of your loved one’s gambling
- Have a clearer understanding of gambling harm and how it can affect family/partners
- Feel heard, validated and less isolated
- Identify the main ways gambling has affected their own wellbeing
- Has an initial plan for managing immediate distress and protecting themselves
- Understands the difference between supporting the person who gambles and taking responsibility for their recovery
- Identifies appropriate boundaries around areas such as money, communication or contact
- Knows what further support is available and whether they would benefit from longer-term therapy.
Level 2 package: £490
- Up to 6 hours of trained therapist support
- 6 x 50-minute sessions recommended weekly
- Delivered by a gambling therapist
Designed for:
- Individuals and affected others who require more in-depth emotional and therapeutic support
Outcome for the affected individual:
- Gain a clear understanding of your gambling triggers and maintaining factors
- Ability to recognise urges and high-risk situations and use coping strategies more effectively
- Begin to challenge gambling-related thoughts
- Identifying alternative ways of managing triggers
- Improved awareness of the wider impact of gambling
- Develop a relapse-prevention plan and know what to do if a lapse occurs
- Identified ongoing sources of support and whether further treatment is needed.
Outcome for the affected other:
- Stabilisation, education and practical coping
- Managing immediate anxiety, anger, guilt and distress
- Improved communication and emotional connection
- Re-establishing own needs and support network
- Practical tools to support sustainable change and relationship repair
Level 3 package: £800
- Up to 10 hours of trained therapist support
- 10 x 50-minute sessions recommended weekly
- Delivered by a gambling therapist
Designed for:
- More complex gambling-related harm
- Ongoing therapeutic support
- Recovery planning
- Affected others requiring more extensive support
Outcome for the affected individual:
- A significant reduction or stop in gambling
- Detailed understanding of their gambling behaviour, including triggers, beliefs, emotions and reinforcing consequences
- In-depth exploration of underlying issues leading to gambling harms
- Development of healthier ways of managing difficult emotions, stress, boredom or interpersonal problems
- Repair areas of life affected by gambling, such as finances, relationships, employment and daily routine
- Has addressed important maintaining factors such as avoidance, low self-esteem, shame, impulsivity or emotional regulation difficulties
- Has strengthened motivation, confidence and self-efficacy for maintaining change
- Has a detailed relapse-prevention plan and clear longer-term recovery plan and knows when and how to seek further support.
Outcome for the affected other:
- Extensive interpersonal work, patterns of conflict and communication
- Address financial trauma, rebuilding security and decision-making
- Rebuilding and re-engagement with valued activities/relationships
- Scope to consider trust, intimacy, forgiveness, and separation/reconciliation decisions
- Consolidation, maintenance work and greater preparation for future setbacks