Dr Robert Lefever M.A., M.B., B.Chir,

 
Founding Director of the PROMIS Recovery Centre

Dr. Robert Lefever is a world leading addictions specialist. He is the foremost expert for addiction treatment. He has personally been in recovery from all substances since the 12th October 1984.

He created the first rehab in the UK to look at all addiction in 1986. Dr. Robert Lefever wrote with Professor Geoffrey Stephenson the masters degree course in addiction psychology at London South Bank University, this was the first of its kind and one of the most highly regarded courses that a therapist can do today.

Dr Lefever has worked with over 8,000 addicts and their families in the last thirty years and, until recently, ran a busy private medical practice in South Kensington (PROMIS Recovery Centre). He now uses his considerable experience to provide intensive private one-to-one care for individuals and their families.

He specialises in the treatment of eating disorders, alcohol dependence and drug addiction. He was also the first doctor in the UK to treat compulsive gambling, nicotine addiction and workaholism.

Robert is also a TED speaker, is the author of Break Free From Addiction, composer and still remains an addiction treatment counsellor.