Simi Warah
Dr. Simi Warah is a UKCP and HCPC-accredited integrative psychotherapist and art therapist with over 25 years of experience in addiction treatment across the NHS, prisons, communit...
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Who are you?
Hi, I'm Sim Hura. I am the therapy services manager at Prior e Hospital Woking. I'm an integrative psychotherapist and an art therapist, and I manage the addiction and general psychiatric therapy teams at the hospital. I've worked in addiction for 25 years in a variety of settings and outside of my work life, I'm a mom. I enjoy arts and crafts and spending time with my friends.
What are the different types of addiction that someone might be faced with?
So the different types of addiction can fall under two categories. So you have substances or behavioural. Substances would be alcohol or drugs; and drugs could be anything from heroin, cocaine, speed to also prescription drugs, whether they are prescribed to you or bought illegally. And then you have behavioural addictions such as gambling, compulsive shopping, online porn, gaming. Anything behaviourally that you are doing as a way of coping with something and that you can't stop would be a behavioural addiction.
What is your experience of treating different types of addiction?
My experience of treating addiction mainly lies within drug and alcohol addiction. It's what I've worked with mostly throughout my career. It's what I'm most comfortable with and it's what I feel most knowledgeable in. I have worked with gambling and shopping addiction, and I have a team of experts who specialise in other areas as well.