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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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Finding the Eye of the Storm: What Your Brain's Alarm System Is Trying to Tell You

Deep inside your brain sits a small structure called the amygdala. It has one job: spotting danger. When something feels threatening, it flips on like a switch, and your body floods with adrenaline before your thinking brain has any idea what's happening.

That is where fight, flight, freeze and fawn come from. None of them are choices. They are automatic ways of staying alive.

Read more: Finding the Eye of the Storm

Two Voices in One Room: Working with Ambivalence

How Motivational Interviewing helps when part of you wants to change — and part of you doesn't

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Finding the Courage to Change: Sarah's Story

A journey through alcohol dependency using Motivational Interviewing

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After the Fall: Working with Relapse and What Comes Next

Why relapse is not the end of the story — and how MI helps people find the thread again.

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  1. Being Mum
  2. Heroin, Hope,
  3. Which Part of You Is Saying Yes
  4. Breaking Routine: One Session at a Time
  5. When All the Parts Are Talking at Once
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