Addiction is a treatable, chronic disease. Genetics, brain chemistry, environmental factors, and life experiences all play a role in the disease, and past trauma is often at the root of many addictions. For many who struggle with addiction, it can be helpful to know that risk factors and levels vary by person, but like any chronic condition, focusing on the cause and the symptoms in treatment offer the best chance for recovery.
Begin Your Search for a Mental Health Professional Who Specializes in Addiction
As a Licensed Professional Counselor and Licensed Clinical Alcohol and Drug Counselor, I offer thoughtful client-centered, goal oriented therapeutic services to adults, children, adolescents, and families who feel unhappy or stuck in painful patterns that they cannot explain. I strive to make my clients feel respected and comfortable through a client-centered and a direct therapeutic approach t...
**Offering video/phone sessions** I am a UCLA assistant professor of psychiatry and a vibrant clinical psychologist who is sensitive and caring. My practice is mainly focused on treating individuals who struggle with depression, anxiety, and life change, and I also work with couples and families who want to improve communication. I work by helping people find inner strengths, acquire new...
"The hero's journey is inside of you: tear off the veils and open the mystery of your self" - Joseph Campbell. Are you feeling that urgency that there has to be more and the desire to search for more in life? I believe that the best therapy holds up a mirror to help us see what we could not on our own. My goal as a therapist is to help create an awareness of patterns that are holding you back a...
Deciding to partake in therapy is a difficult decision to make. My goal initially is to fully explain to you the therapeutic process as well as establish a solid therapeutic foundation. Together, we will identify goals you want to meet and I will assist in anyway possible for you to reach them! I am a core-emotional based therapist that wants to target the uncomfortable emotions and situations ...
I believe that our relationship is a partnership and that my role is to get a better understanding of how you approach life and how that approach either helps or hinders what you want. It is my experience in working with clients that all behaviors, thoughts and feelings are rational given past experience. Challenges in relationships and well-being are often developed when previously effective...
Hearing people's stories is what I truly love to do. That is why I became a counselor. That is what I would want to spend my time doing even if it wasn't my career. Human beings are complex, that is true. And we are beautiful in endless ways, good when all is stripped away, and valuable beyond anything else in all of creation. To know and be known is one of the sweetest experiences of life. Alo...
Healing Hoof Steps is committed to improving lives, one foot and one hoof step at a time, using a broad range of equine assisted therapy sessions. By empowering individuals, couples and families, to define their own successes through working with horses, Healing Hoof Steps continues to improve the mental, emotional, behavioral, social and physical well-being of the NWF Community. Equine assiste...
My mission as a therapist is to provide a supportive and safe environment for my clients in order to address their issues. My approach is honest, straight-forward, and compassionate. I help people explore their inner strengths, decrease negative symptoms, increase coping skills, and have a fulfilling life of well-being. I provide individual therapy to assist people in dealing with current crisi...
Hello and welcome! As a licensed Marriage and Family Psychotherapist I provide an empathetic and trusting space to share your concerns. Working together we will uncover blocks to peace and contentment, identify and build upon strengths, alleviate symptoms, build more satisfying relationships and move towards bringing balance to your life. I have worked in community mental health for adults,...
Eden Therapy Center ~ a place for new beginnings, is a holistically oriented mental health clinic where the Integrative Behavioral Health Model is the guideline for client care. This model respectfully incorporates the biochemistry of the body, the psychology of the mind, and the effervescence of the spirit. Employed professionals in the Mental Health and complementary wellness fields such as...
Before I was a therapist, I was an educator. For one course, my job was to teach first responders how to get important information from potentially traumatized witnesses/victims. I often wondered what I would do if I were permitted to see the crisis through. I believe it's my combination of a solid background in communication-which includes relationships, gender-speak, assertiveness and...
I've been a clinical psychologist for 34 years, giving clients the support and strategies they need to deal with anxiety, depression, negative self-esteem, stress management, organizational skills, motivation, trauma and tragedy, and grief and loss. I have had the best results by using COGNITIVE-BEHAVIORAL THERAPY (CBT), and Mindfulness Meditation. I also use HYPNOSIS if and when appropriate. I...
I enjoy working with people from all walks of life, and provide counseling for depression, anxiety, relationship issues, grief, anger, trauma, self-esteem, transitional issues and addiction. My approach is personalized to your needs, utilizing a variety of therapeutic strategies to help foster greater self-insight and well-being. Life can be challenging, and I view the therapeutic relationship ...
For many of us, the hardest challenge to overcome is to ask for help. If you're reading this, you've already found the courage to start becoming the best version of yourself. While as an individual you are unique, none of us are perfect and we all experience conflict, hardships, and a variety of emotions. I believe our life experiences as well as cultural background influence the way in which w...
I specialize in working with children, adolescents, and families. I take an eclectic approach to therapy and focus treatment based on the needs of the family or individual. I have special training in trauma treatment with families, children, and adolescents that has been proven to be extremely effective with persons with trauma, mood disorders, anxiety, substance abuse, and behavioral issues....
