Chances - Gambling Support Service

Delivered by Cyrenians
Cyrenians, 57 Albion Road, Edinburgh, EH7 5QY View on Google Maps
Note: Our premises are not open to the public.
cyrenians.scot/chances
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Ages 16+ Free
  • Benefits advice
  • Budgeting advice
  • Housing and homelessness
  • Family Support
  • Addictions
  • Other Advice
  • Other Mental Health / Wellbeing
  • Other Social Activities

What we offer to those impacted by their own gambling:

  • Practical support: self-exclusion, setting spending & time limits, budgeting & harm reduction planning

  • Cognitive support: CBT tools focused on managing cravings, urges, triggers and using external resources

  • Emotional support: wellbeing tools and coping strategies to improve emotional & mental health

  • Holistic/community support: improves community connection & encourages meaningful use of time

  • Psychoeducation: understanding the gambling industry and the psychology of gambling behaviour.

To support those impacted by someone else’s gambling - we use the Community Reinforcement Family training approach that:

  • Promotes self-care and independence by focussing on the recovery of the affected other

  • Improves well-being through emotional and mental health support strategies

  • Helps to understand gambling triggers and the psychology of gambling behaviour through psychoeducation tools

  • Increases communication, relationship building & trust by implementing positive reinforcement techniques

  • Equips the affected other with tools to encourage the person gambling to reduce the harms associated with this behaviour.

Service availability

Closed or limited service during Easter & Christmas/New Year
Monday
9am to 5pm
Tuesday
9am to 5pm
Wednesday
9am to 5pm
Thursday
9am to 5pm
Friday
9am to 5pm

How to access this service

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