Gambler's Help services operate from around 100 locations across Victoria. You can contact a Gambler's Help service to make an appointment with a Gambler's Help therapeutic or financial counsellor. All services are free and confidential.
- Connecticut Council On Problem Gambling
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- Free Gambling Counselling Sydney
- Free Gambling Counseling
Connecticut Council On Problem Gambling
Gambler's Help is a free service for people who are affected by gambling. The services provided by Gambler's Help include:
The Arizona Division of Problem Gambling is kicking off their latest media campaign in an effort to get the word out regarding the resources our agency has available to problem gamblers as well as those affected by problem gambling. The campaign highlights our confidential 24/7 helpline 1-800-NEXT-STEP. Gambling addiction—also known as pathological gambling, compulsive gambling or gambling disorder—is an impulse-control disorder. If you're a compulsive gambler, you can't control the impulse to gamble, even when it has negative consequences for you or your loved ones.
- Professional, confidential counselling for people who have been impacted by gambling
- Counselling for the family and friends of people who have been impacted by gambling
- Financial counselling can help by providing information, options and practical assistance to minimise the financial impacts from gambling
- Community education to improve community awareness and knowledge about gambling, the potential risks and how to recognise risky gambling behaviour.
Anybody impacted by gambling (your own gambling or someone else's), can call the Helpline, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week on 1800 858 858. This service can give you the contact details for your nearest Gambler's Help service or, if you prefer, a service away from where you live. Calls to the Helpline are free from landlines, and won't be listed on your phone bill (though may be listed on mobile bills).
24/7 support
Support, information and counselling services are available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. To speak to a professional immediately, you can:
Phone Gambler's Help on 1800 858 858.
Gambling services in Victoria
Gambler's Help services operate from around 100 locations across Victoria. To find out where your closest service is located, phone 1800 858 858 or, visit Gamblers Help. You can contact a Gambler's Help service to make an appointment with a counsellor.
Self-exclusion
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Self-exclusion is a gambling industry based program which allows individuals with a gambling issue to ban themselves from the gaming areas of nominated hotels, clubs and the casino. In Victoria, it is a requirement that all venue operators have a self-exclusion program.
Information on the self-exclusion programs operating in Victoria can be viewed as follows:
Information in other languages
View information about gambling support services available in other languages.
Non-English speakers.
Free Gambling Counselling Sydney
A new state-funded program has been created to help Californians battle their gambling addiction, the North County Times reports.
More than 1 million Californians battle gambling addiction. The state's Office of Problem Gambling, in connection with the Gambling Studies Program at UCLA, has created a program which will offer problem gamblers and their family members eight counseling sessions with a licensed therapist at no cost, the NCT said.
'It's a godsend,' said Suzanne Graupner Pike, a psychologist who treats gambling addicts in North County told the paper. 'I didn't think I'd live long enough to see this.
Gambling addiction creates chaos. Problem gamblers usually end up losing their jobs, leaving them without money or health insurance to help them deal with their problems.
Some insurance companies do not cover gambling addiction. Pike says this is why the state needed to step in.
As of right now, there are four state-licensed therapists offering free counseling sessions for gambling addicts in San Diego County.
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