DRUG & ALCOHOL ADDICTION
Addiction Recovery With A Recovered Addict and Therapist
Newly clean and sober needing help to stay that way? Have lengths of sobriety with periodic relapsing? Completed addiction treatment and want to further your recovery? Worked the 12 Steps but still feel restless, irritable, and discontent? Sober but still reacting to life and relationships as if you were still using? Wanna work with a therapist who’s been there?
Specializing in Emotional Sobriety For Long-Term Addiction Sobriety
Whether newly sober or years of sobriety staying sober is not just about not using drugs and alcohol. It’s about not using substances when you feel. Drugs and alcohol are mood altering substances and we use them because we want to change how we feel. The Big Book explains ‘precisely how we recovered from a seemingly hopeless state of mind and body’. When recovered we have learned to consistently and instinctually respond to people, places, and situations in an emotionally balanced way – without using drugs and alcohol. However many recovering people are in emotional kindergarten. We grew up never feeling safe enough to talk, trust, or feel. We learned to repress our feelings when responding to life and used substances to alleviate the anxiety from our unexpressed feelings. To become recovered we have to heal our fears of talking, trusting, and feeling to achieve emotional sobriety which supports the process for long-term addiction sobriety.
How Will You Help Me?
As an Addiction Therapist I’ll help you stop your shame and know your brain! You’ll learn the neurobiology of addiction and the concept of powerlessness to understand that staying clean is not about character or willpower. I’ll demystify the Big Book and the 12 Steps so they’re applicable in your life in real and livable way. We’ll also use Depth Psychotherapy and Brainspotting to heal all the hidden parts of you that’ve been afraid to talk, trust, and feel.