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What to expect from Gambler's Help Counselling
- Professional, confidential and free service
- A thorough assessment of your gambling and other related issues
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- Referral to other agencies if they can help
- Counselling for gambling
- Counselling for other issues
Counselling can be individual, couple, family or group based. Goals are worked out with you. You decide whether to stop or control your gambling and which other issues to address.
Gambler's Help counselling is available at different locations and you don't have to see a counsellor where you live - if you would prefer to talk to someone in an area away from your home and work, you can choose to do so. Call now to talk to someone about your issues with gambling.
What is counselling?
Counselling is an opportunity for you to discuss issues or concerns with a professional in a safe, confidential, non-threatening, accepting environment.
We believe the counsellor's role is to assist you to resolve your own problems and explore options to make life choices clearer.
All it takes is a call to someone who is ready to help you work out your issues.
Call 1800 858 858 now.
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i have been gambling since i arrived in melbourne 1.5 yrs ago
my sister now suspects that i have lost lots of money
she knows i take great care of my kids
but i really want to stop
recent mishaps to my children from police
and police rasism has made me think iam worthless but i have a wonderful son who is a god sent
so thats why i want to stop
i need help
i've been gambling on poker machines for about 12 years and have lost more money than i even want to think about. i have a good job and always thought it was my enjoyment, even though i was running my credit card debts up to the sky to cover what i was losing. i told my 18y.o daughter that i was addicted and had a problem 6 months ago and she was wonderful and so supportive and got lots of information for me but i said i didn't need counselling, i could do it myself - and i did, but 3 months ago i went on sick leave from work due to a problem with my vision. i couldn't go anywhere, except locally, and i coudln't do the normal things i enjoy, so i went to the pokies, thought i could control it, couldn't, went every day even though i knew i was betraying the person who loved me the most. i've lost everyhting, have only a couple of hundred dollars left in the bank, with bills due in less than one week. i finally got the guts to tell my daughter that i was doing it again, she had suspected, but she is my angel and i know if i didn't have her i couldn't survive. i feel so ashamed and worthless that i can't even get on a phone to get help, my daughter has done it for me, isn't that pathetic. now we are waiting for a coulselling appointment, but we have been waiting for 3 days and i know there are other people who are worse off than me, but i desperately need help and everything on the internet says immediate help, but it isn't. it's so hard to admit to having a problem and needing help and then you have to wait. i can't tell my husband as he is super conservative and i know he would leave me and luckily he's away on business at the moment. please, i'm desperate and i'm scared, i need help to stop this help to sort out my financial mess
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