About Edinburgh Recovery House
Who We Are
Edinburgh Recovery House is a residential facility (often referred to as a safe- or dry-house) to support people affected by alcoholism, drug misuse and other addictions. We offer nurturing accommodation, supplemented by individually tailored therapy and wellbeing activities, to support relapse prevention and long-term recovery.
Here in our safe haven, you will discover a vibrant new world free from addiction as you gain strength and prepare for the return to regular home life at your own pace. Our highly experienced team is here to help you on your journey, throughout and beyond your time with us, solidifying the foundations of your recovery from addiction and creating a life of possibilities!
Edinburgh Recovery House, located in a quiet Edinburgh district, is recently refurbished and pleasantly furnished, offering a safe and comfortable environment where you can relax and recharge as you begin your new life, free from addiction. We want you to feel that this is truly your home for as long as you need.
Our programme allows you to rebuild your confidence and prioritise your recovery, without having to cope with all the challenges of every-day life. Together with our expert professional team, you will build a lasting recovery with all the tools you need to navigate life’s challenges, ensuring you return home with a new zest for life to truly cherish those special times ahead.
A wonderful life beyond addiction awaits!
Our House Mates
If you are committed to living a sober lifestyle and abstaining from any other addiction but are not ready to return to life at home just yet, Edinburgh Recovery House could be the perfect option for you.
Our residents are males aged 18 and over who have completed a detox. programme if necessary and are ready to begin the next phase of their journey of recovery from alcoholism and other addictions.
To ensure your stay at Edinburgh Recovery House is enjoyable and furnishes you with the necessary tools for lasting success, we encourage all our residents to embrace our programme, participating fully in recovery and wellbeing activities. With your commitment and our guidance, together we will create a healthy mindset and lifestyle that will allow you grow and thrive, free from addiction.
Our Mission
Our mission at Edinburgh Recovery House is to offer the best possible conditions to enable our family of residents to develop a healthy, fulfilling and lasting recovery, free from addiction. In doing so, we aim to be as impactful as possible in positively influencing the lives of those affected by addiction, empowering the community to recover and thrive.
Our Model
Recovery from addiction of any kind has many pitfalls and a particularly vulnerable time is during the transition from a detox program back to everyday life. Leaving a rehabilitation centre can be a relief and often creates a desire to return to the familiarity of home. Sadly, however, this is often the place that creates the most challenges for your new path to recovery. There are responsibilities to attend to, chores to be done and people to interact with, which can soon become overwhelming and lead to relapse. Understanding the challenges at this critical time in your journey, our highly experienced professional team have carefully designed Edinburgh Recovery House to help you safely and smoothly make this transition to your next chapter of a healthy and happy life in recovery, nourishing you with all the support you need in a caring environment, while providing you with the tools for a lasting recovery. Our model endorses a holistic programme of recovery. Its cornerstones are the 12-step programme and peer group support, supplemented by other activities to promote physical and mental health. This spirited blend of the most effective addiction treatment and wellbeing solutions is tailored to your individual circumstances and includes the following areas of support:
- Comfortable living space in a safe and nurturing environment
- Abstinence based programme
- Addiction therapy
- 12-step programme of recovery and related activities (e.g., AA meetings)
- Peer support
- Wellbeing activities
- Positive routine and structure
- Aftercare
Why Choose Edinburgh Recovery House?
Once you have completed a medical detox. or treatment programme, it is time to embrace the next phase in your journey of recovery from addiction. However, you may find the thought of going home too overwhelming. Coping in your daily home and work lives, with all the commitments and challenges they entail, can be immensely stressful in the early stages of your recovery. These are all things that can lead to relapse, especially if you live in a triggering environment or do not have a strong support system at home.
It is no surprise, therefore, that our vast experience proves that time in a recovery house can be a deciding factor in safely navigating the early period of your recovery and ensuring its lasting success. It allows time for you to adjust to your new life free from addiction, aiding a safe and smooth transition back to everyday life whilst developing the tools and a healthy routine to support long-term recovery.
Edinburgh Recovery House’s unique blend of relaxing accommodation, coupled with wellbeing activities and individually tailored addiction recovery programmes, nurtures more integration back to everyday life than inpatient treatment programmes, while providing more structure and support than you would receive at home. Our experienced team will nourish you with all the care and support you need at this important time when you are new to recovery and committed to a life without addiction.
The Edinburgh Recovery House team have extensive experience in successfully treating a wide variety of addictions, ranging from alcoholism, illicit and prescription drugs to gambling and other behavioural addictions. We understand that everyone is unique, therefore your care plan is designed around your own individual circumstances, helping you to harness your strengths as you rediscover your passion for life and look forward to a long and fulfilling recovery, free from addiction.
When you settle in at Edinburgh Recovery House, you will join our extended family. Our team of professional experts, housemates, graduates and vibrant network of campaigners are all on hand to support you at this critical time to help you regain your strength and confidence as you learn to embrace everyday scenarios (not just endure them!) in time for returning home to your new life in recovery. Our aftercare ethos is ‘once a housemate, always a housemate.’ When you leave Edinburgh Recovery House, your tailored aftercare plan will include robust relapse prevention tools, and our many channels will keep you connected with the Edinburgh Recovery House family. With an exceptional success rate, our housemates are note only staying clean and sober, but they are truly thriving in recovery.
Meet the Team
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Director / Co-Founder
Peter is a very approachable and helpful person who is considerate in his role as guide and mentor. He has helped numerous people find recovery throughout the years and is always keen to provide his unique and holistic guidance. He is also very thorough in his aftercare as he realises how important it is to receive honest and caring support at this critical stage of the journey to a new life. He is always happy to lend a listening ear and to gently guide the residents through any dilemma in their recovery process.
He is passionate about the concepts practiced at the Edinburgh Recovery House and is an essential part of the program. He believes that with the right tools and support it is possible to stay on the path of recovery and to create a new healthy and meaningful life.
Peter has 10 years experience as an addiction recovery sponsor and mentor, holding a diploma in Counselling and CBT from the Glasgow Institute of Counselling and a BA(Hons) in Hospitality Management, plus a 30 year track record of business start-ups and operations where he has held many prominent roles in various capacities of leadership and entrepreneurship. Peter also gives talks about gambling addictions in schools, colleges, universities as well as various organisations and institutions.
Peter is keen to create the best possible environment for a lasting recovery and knows how important it is for those participating in the recovery program to receive the spiritual and practical support so vital for a successful recovery. The Edinburgh recovery house focuses on giving residents the support they need transition back to normal life at their own pace. This part of recovery is not without its complications and people will often need extra care and support for a prolonged time to be able to rebuild their lives and find inner peace.
Roles
With his many years of experience as a sponsor, Peter has a great deal of knowledge and wisdom to pass on and is keen for everyone in his care to do well and thrive. He wants everyone staying at Edinburgh Recovery House to feel at home during their transitioning from a detox programme to every day life. He is keenly aware that this transition may come with many challenges and setbacks and is always happy to offer a listening ear and give his support and guidance.
Edinburgh Recovery house has been created to provide a safe haven for anyone transitioning from a detox program to a normal home environment. Peter is always eager to help residents create a new life for themselves where they can begin to thrive and start living a healthy lifestyle.
Apart from being a mentor and guide, Peter is also in charge of the operation of Edinburgh Recovery House, as well as overseeing finances and raising funds and ensuring various project targets are met.
His role also involves hiring the senior team and leading the healthcare consultants; managing and motivating staff for optimum care while looking after the wellbeing of staff and residents alike.
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Senior Therapist / Director / Co-Founder
Tony is a friendly and knowledgeable person who is always keen to help and inspire people. He has a wide variety of experience within recovery and therapy and has been a practising Senior Psychotherapist at Castle Craig hospital for the last 10 years. He is a BACP member and practitioner.
Tony currently leads a gambling, gaming and cryptocurrency trading behavioural addiction therapy programme in Edinburgh. He also has 10 years experience as an addiction recovery sponsor and mentor. Tony gained his Diploma in integrated Counselling from Edinburgh College in 2010 and is presently working as a therapist at a private addiction recovery centre where he began training and working in 2013. He attained a Postgraduate Diploma in Person-Centred Psychotherapy in 2014.
Tony also has a 32 year track record of various business start-ups and operations and is a co-founder of John Hartson Gambling and Addiction Workshops. In this capacity he also runs an outreach program visiting football clubs on a monthly basis to talk about gambling addiction.
Tony works with a wide range of issues in his capacity as a therapist and gently guides his clients to find new and meaningful ways in life where they can thrive and enjoy a healthy lifestyle. Some of his areas of expertise are within addictions, body image, anxiety, depression/low mood and stress as well as substance and alcohol abuse. He also specialises in anger issues as well as grief and bereavement.
He is particularly interested in attachment disorders in connection with addiction including issues such as trauma, childhood emotional neglect, childhood abuse and bullying. Tony also has expertise in post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and borderline personality disorder (BPD) and is keen to help anyone with underlying issues to find peace and recovery in a way that is appropriate for them. Tony’s understanding and caring nature has a calming effect and he is a keen listener. His own lived experience gives him a unique understanding for those he is helping.
Roles
As an experienced therapist, mentor and sponsor with a long-standing experience of recovery, Tony has a lot to offer and cares deeply about each and every individual he helps.
Edinburgh Recovery House is especially close to his heart as he knows how important it is to find the right kind of support after receiving treatment for any addiction. The aftercare and support a person receives after the first stage of recovery is crucial for the long-term outcome of the treatment.
Tony is proud to be part of a team of experienced people who can guide you in your recovery process and help you go from a situation of striving to one of thriving and he can tell you from experience that no one can do it all by themselves!
Tony is very keen to help create healthy goals and expectations for anyone in the process of resuming their normal life and his guidance often proves invaluable. It is perfectly normal to need some help and support to achieve a profound lifestyle change and the time this transition takes is different for everyone.
Tony is a keen mentor who can identify the various seen and unseen effects of addiction and trauma; he is deeply involved in the well being of those he mentors and is there to offer support and guidance throughout the recovery process. While he expects everyone to put in the effort required for their own recovery he recognises the internal and external obstacles that may lie ahead and he understands what you’re going through.
Tony has his own lived experience of addictions and recovery and can relate to anyone on this path. He knows recovery can seem lonely and frightening at times but he wants you to know that you are not alone on this journey!
Our Facilities
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Edinburgh Recovery House is a charming Victorian building situated in a quiet area of central Edinburgh. The light and airy décor creates a serene setting to host relaxing private and communal living space, secluded gardens, and comfortable areas for recovery activities. The property is recently refurbished, offering beautifully decorated accommodation with modern facilities to help you feel very much at home during your stay.
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Here at Edinburgh Recovery House, we have created an oasis where you can focus on your ongoing recovery and treatment without having to deal with the challenges of home life. You will be welcomed in a homely environment where you can unwind as you grow in mind, body and spirit, making Edinburgh Recovery House the ideal transitional living space where you can recover and rebuild yourself at your own pace.
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The bedrooms are furnished, spacious and include comfortable study areas. We offer a choice of private or shared rooms.
Discover the Charm of Edinburgh Recovery House
Local Area & Amenities
Nestled within private grounds, ERH offers a peaceful retreat close to essential services and amenities.
A short 10-minute walk to Camerontoll Centre for shopping, dining, medical care, and fitness.
Explore nature trails, Arthur Seat, and Craigmillar Castle for tranquility and adventure, all within walking distance.
Edinburgh's vibrant city centre, rich in culture and history, is just 1.5 miles away—easily accessible by a leisurely stroll or a quick bus ride.
Enhance your well-being with a gym membership at nearby facilities like the Royal Commonwealth Pool and David Lloyd Shawfair.