About us
The DAPL emerged in the first half of the 1990's in responce to the drug and alcohol crisis that was affecting the local communities across Fife. Levenmouth was especially hard hit and local people engaged in a process to seek, fund and deliver much needed locally accessible support services. Following the community consultation and research process, it was clear that the community wanted a counselling service that would assist their community to heal from the multiple traumas it was experiencing. Over 30 years on, DAPL remain dedicated to helping people alleviate the harms of substance use and poor mental health through the delivery of localised, high quality, trauma informed one-to-one counselling services throughout Fifes communities.
Born in the community and remaining deeply rooted in the community.
To alleviate the distress and suffering caused by alcohol or drugs use, addictive behaviours or psychological distress by any reasonable and legitimate means.
To provide and to promote educational and support services to professionals working in the fields of alcohol or drug; addictive behaviours or psychological distress.
To work with other bodies, agencies and organisations in developing, promoting and delivering such education and support services.
To recruit, train, support and deploy volunteer workers to assist in the delivery of our aims. We have years of experience effectively supporting placement counsellors, qualified counselling volunteers and recovery volunteers to enhance skills and competences.
Those helping the cause.
Eleanor Bowman received a MBE in 2007 for her charity work. From Fife, Eleanor is well known for her tireless commitment and dedication to many causes, including supporting disabled children and cancer research. Along with her husband Sandy, Eleanor used to run the renowned Craw's Nest hotel in Anstruther.
Clive Russell was raised in Leven and attended Buckhaven High School. Russell has been working solely in film and television since 1991. He is best known for his roles as, Chief Inspector Frederick Abberline in Ripper Street, Angus O’Connor in Happiness and Brynden Tully in the HBO series Game of Thrones.
The people behind the scenes making it all work.
British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy.
DAPL is the only counselling organisation in Fife to become a British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) accredited counselling service. We are the only one of four counselling services in Scotland to achieve this award.
DAPL is an exemplary counselling service with excellent standards and I can’t praise the work the organisation does highly enough.”
Read what people are saying about DAPL.
DAPL has been such a brilliant support to me. I have improved more than I could ever have imagined when I was in some really dark places mentally. I am pleased to say that I no longer take any drugs and this has been the case for a while now.
Since I started using DAPL they couldn’t have been more helpful. I have never been turned away from DAPL and have always been helped by the staff there. The work they do for me and the community is above and beyond. Please continue the exceptional work you do. You make a huge difference. If you weren’t here it would leave a very big problem for so many people in so many ways. Thank you.
I didn’t think I would ever get over my problem with drugs. I kept trying loads of different things but nothing helped that much. I then got an appointment with DAPL and my counsellor was top class. My life has changed loads and I am holding down a job which is good as I hadn’t worked for a long while.
