Therapy for Substance Use & Recovery
What you may be experiencing:
You may feel as though you’ve lost total control. Or that something you used to do occasionally, has strengthened its grip on you. That even when you say you will stop, you end up giving in again and again.
You’re probably feeling remorse, shame, and self-pity after your urge wins again. You may feel ill and tired at times, and thinking you’re letting your loved ones down… letting yourself down.
Maybe you have have even started lying to hide some of the problems.
If you’re finding yourself making excuses, using a high volume of the substance, relying on the substance as a source of coping or a reward, you may have developed an unhealthy relationship, or dependency to that substance.
Substance use can rob you of the very things you are desperately trying to hold on to …. support, connection, love, career.
How we can help:
Will power alone is often not enough to make real change. Our skilled therapists can help you find and implement tools and strategies to beat your substance use dependency, and take control back.
Not only are some of our therapists trained in recovery, but some have walked this road themselves, and are years into their successful recovery. In therapy, you can expect to discuss things such as harm reduction, additional support systems, financial strategies, connecting to a higher power, challenging your thoughts, finding healthier replacement tools, seeing the big picture, focusing on your physical and mental health and well being, and drawing on the importance of your personal values and goals to further motivate you to make choices that serve you.
As Gabor Maté stated, we shouldn’t ask “why the addiction, but why the pain?” Behind every dependency there is often a lot of pain. During therapy you can also begin to understand the stressors, triggers, and even traumas that created an environment in which the substance use could thrive. Working through these issues can be an important step in prevention, recovery, and maintaining sobriety.
After working with us:
As you embark on your recovery, possible outcomes that you can look forward to can include small positive changes that later become steady lifestyle habits.
After reaching your goals of gaining back control over your life and over your substance use, you will be able to tap in to a more authentic you. You can begin to live a life more aligned to your goals and values. In doing so, it is our hope that your relationship with yourself changes. Making sense of who this new version of yourself is, can be both empowering and liberating.
The possibilities are endless to the life you can create, and your therapist can be there to support you on your journey from start to finish.
You are not alone on your path to recovery:
It is our hope that you will experience the same long-term benefits of the freedom from substance use dependency that they have enjoyed as well.
