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Welcome to my website, here you’ll find information about me as an actor, writer, director, and as an addictions counsellor granted “accredited practitioner” status by Fdap (the Federation of Drug and Alcohol Practitioners). If there is anything you can’t find or would like to know then please contact me.

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I returned to college in 2006 to study for a Fd.Sc. degree in Addictions Counselling. I graduated in the summer of 2008. I worked briefly as an addictions counsellor in Rhoserchan, the drug and alcohol treatment centre above Penrhyncoch, near Aberystwyth.  On the 1st of October, 2008 I started in my new post as Chief Executive Officer of the Welsh Council on Alcohol and Other Drugs. I have been awarded the Winston Churchill Memorial Trust Fellowship for 2010 and will visit some of the new recovery community centres in the U.S. which achieve long-term recovery from severe alcohol and/or drug-related problems. A network of such centres is to be found in Vermont, Connecticut, Philadelphia and Virginia. Visiting these centres will provide me with very useful ideas on how to better build a strong “peer culture” into The Living Room Cardiff project, a free, bilingual day-care rehabilitation centre, which will be established in Cardiff by June 2011

 

I have three books published to date.

‘No Room To Live’
‘No Room To Live’ is my English language autobiography and self-help book and offers a positive way out from the hell of addiction, told through my personal experiences and thoughts. All profits from the sales of this book go towards setting up The Living Room Cardiff. A free, bilingual day-care rehabilitation centre that offers help to anyone experiencing difficulties relating to alcohol, drugs (prescribed or illicit), or any other dependency such as eating disorders, sex addiction, gambling, self-harm, etc.

Buy online now at www.gwales.com or www.noroomtolive.com

‘PORC PEIS BACH’
traces some early stories from my semi-autobiographical television comedy series, and my award-winning film, ‘PORC PEI’. Buy online now at www.gwales.com

‘RASLAS BACH A MAWR!’ is my autobiography and traces my journey to Hell and back, and my recovery (one day at a time) from alcoholism and drug addiction – and every other ‘ism’ you care to imagine! Buy online now at www.gomer.co.uk