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
My approach is interactive. After all, because I believe that healing comes through the caring and dynamic engagement created between two human beings, our time together would be a collaboration that encourages mutual presence and relatedness. Research confirms the importance of this. While no specific technique is consistently effective in eliciting change; certain therapists, who bring a...
When you are struggling, I want you to know that you are not alone. Whatever you are facing – depression, anxiety, pain from a breakup, grief from a loss – Safe Space Counseling Services, LLC provides home based therapy at your home to help you and support you. I have worked as a licensed psychotherapist for more than eight years, and in that time, I have helped people move past their struggles...
Dr. Fassieux integrates a variety of counseling techniques into her work, often focusing upon interpersonal relationships, utilizing principles of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and identifying individual strengths. She believes people are resourceful and often solve problems intelligently and creatively, especially when supported within the context of an encouraging and therapeutic relationship...
My primary goal is to help my clients find better ways to fulfill their needs. This is accomplished by evaluating maladaptive behaviors, making plans for change; and working towards healthy goals. As a therapist I provide person-centered cognitive behavioral therapy which focuses on helping my clients make better choices so they can live a quality life complete with well-connected relationships...
A primary goal of the recovery model is to facilitate resiliency, health, and wellness in the community of the individual’s choice, rather than to manage symptoms. 10 identified guiding principles of recovery: (1) hope, (2) person-driven, (3) many pathways, (4) holistic, (5) peer support, (6) relational, (7) culture, (8) addresses trauma, (9) strengths/responsibility, and (10) respect. The aim ...
Are you feeling isolated in your relationships? While romance may begin in an instant, long-term relationships are not easy to maintain alone. No matter where you are in your relationship, seeking guidance, opening the lines of communication, and establishing safety in emotional expression are the cornerstones of any lasting and fulfilling relationship. I aim to empower my clients to realize th...
Jennifer works with children, adolescents, adults, couples, and families by empowering and collaborating with them to make sustained changes to promote a healthy and well-balanced lifestyle. Jennifer works with clients presenting with anxiety, depression, low self-esteem, trauma, emotional dysregulation, relational and family difficulties, marital struggles, addiction, anger management, behavio...
I offer only virtual and confidential counseling services for individuals and couples. I will assist you with strategies that help you to; improve communication skills, strengthen interpersonal relationships, lift depression, relieve anxiety, reduce an overload of accumulating stress, and eliminate self-sabotaging habits. I pull from over 25 years of lived and practical experience as a Mental...
I am a marriage and family therapist who's been working with individuals, couples, and families on a broad range of challenges. I find that many times, my clients thought process and actions are what's keeping them stuck and unhappy. Their attempted solutions are actually making the problem worse, bringing forth feelings of frustration and hopelessness. Exploring how much of what they do is...
We are a group of compassionate and skilled therapists. When you contact us we will help identify which therapist is the best fit for you based on training and expertise, personality, payment options, time available and your goals for therapy. Each of us can help you identify "stuck points." These are conscious and unconscious beliefs that seem to be true but are actually a cognitive distortion...
In addition to working with adults struggling with early childhood neglect and abuse, I have experience in working with individuals experiencing life transitions and loss, dual diagnosis, self-harming behaviors and first responder experiences. I am trained in Trauma Recovery and Empowerment group work for female survivors. For individual work, I use a combination of techniques from EMDR Therapy...
When you counsel people you must do three things, make them feel heard, respected and safe. Know that is what you can expect when you enter into the house of therapy with me. I have many years of experience with young adults, (college students) middle-age adults, and the elderly. I work with a wide variety of disorders including, but not limited to anxiety disorders, depression, PTSD, domestic...
Are you feeling like something is lacking in your life? Do you want more from your day to day existence? Is depression, anxiety, stress and low self confidence a constant gnawing in the back of your mind? Are you tired of feeling this way? Therapy can help you throw off these self made manacles. You can gain a sense of resilience in the face of hardship to the point where you conquer and truly...
Courtney is a Licensed Holistic Psychotherapist and life coach. Her resume boasts more than eleven years of experience in the field of mental health and specializes in addiction therapy, co-dependency, trauma recovery, depression, anxiety and life transitions. Her life coaching focuses on rebuilding your self-esteem and restructuring your life to help you let go of negativity, generational...
For the past 12 years I have worked with adolescents and their families that have experienced many of the things facing a typical family in today's society. Anxiety, school refusal, lack of motivation, substance abuse/addiction, ADHD, bullying, peer struggles, self-harm, sexual orientation, suicide ideation, trauma, adoption, and much more. Even when parents have no idea what is going on, I...
