Addiction

The goal of treatment for sex addiction is to help you develop self-esteem, define boundaries, identify and invalidate excuses for relapsing, learn to regulate emotions that have contributed to relapsing, develop alternative coping strategies, live a life of self-control over unwanted behaviors, and restore trust and intimacy with a partner or spouse. A Recovery Tool Kit of practical tools will be developed in counseling so that you will leave therapy with a tremendous number of resources .

I draw from the 12 step and harm reduction models in order to help Clients in this area. I can help you change your relationship with alcohol or get sober. I encourage a collaborative approach with primary care doctors and / or psychiatry to ensure best practice and safety.

Maybe you're drinking a little more than you would like. Drinking can temporally take away our worries or stress, as well as providing comfort and confidence. However, drinking can also numb our feelings and affect relationships, our sleep, cognition, and our health. Together we can explore what you're drinking is providing you, while looking at a moderation management program or becoming sober.

Welcoming people in all stages of alcohol misuse and addiction recovery, I support healthy inquiry into your relationship to alcohol. Parts of this process inevitably include releasing shame about unhealthy use, finding compassionate insight in order to make changes that will ultimately help deeper healing of the root of this behavioral pattern. I welcome harm reduction and abstinence goals as well as encourage finding a path that works best for you while supporting self honesty and awareness.

I am a Certified Alcohol and Other Drug Counselor (CADC) in the state of Illinois, having completed a specialized addiction counselor training program in graduate school and accumulating years of experience in the addiction treatment field. I recognize that addiction is most often the result of deep-seated pain, and I work with my clients to reduce the harms associated with substance use, clarify and connect with their substance use goals, and alleviate the pain that underlies addiction.

I know that drinking and drugging hits peoples self esteem pretty badly. Regardless of the timeframe you have been drinking or been sober, people often feel the crippling shame of what they have been through. Addiction takes and emotional and physical toll. I help you decide what you need to in order to move forward in focusing on what's important. For some people that is not full sobriety and for some it is. You need to try something new. Give me a call.

You don't ever have to drink or use again. If you're ready to heal, you can do it, and I can help. If you're NOT ready to heal, I get it, and I'll still be on your side. My own experiences with addiction and recovery have equipped me with more tools to help others than my master's degree ever could. I'm ready when you are.

As a person in long term recovery, I incorporate the 12 step principles in my therapy. I have 7 years of experience in treating substance use disorders, and how depression and anxiety are often underlying mental health conditions that affect achieving long term recovery.

My approach to substance use is rooted in a harm reduction framework and an acknowledgement that many people are curious about making changes to their substance use without having a goal of abstinence. I offer a nonjudgmental, caring setting to explore your relationship with substances, understand the role they have played in your life, and clarify what kind of changes you want to make.

I've spent years of my career developing recovery program for people who use substances to escape or feel better. We will assess the degree of the issue. We do not require abstinence; we move toward harm reduction using motivational interviewing.

Many times addiction at its core, is a result of a behavior that is used to get relief, replacing a bad feeling with a good feeling, or numbing the bad feeling so that there is nothing to feel at all. Having specialized in this field for years, I understand what works and what doesn't. I will help get to the root cause and provide discovery to independence from the binds of addiction. If talk therapy or AA is not giving you sustained results, my work is for you.

I have worked with many individuals encountering addiction. Using a humanist approach that doesn't further shame the individual.

I am a licensed addiction professional with a view that everyone’s journey is unique and that there is not a one size fits all approach to recovery.

I have treated substance use disorders since 2018, with an internship prior to that. I gained experience working in residential treatment programs for substance use disorders, and have worked at all levels of care to treat clients (residential, intensive outpatient, outpatient, detox, and transitional living). I work with clients to learn more about substances and their impact on living, identify triggers, and to evaluate their relationship with substances. I can also help provide resources.

Learn how substance abuse and addiction impact your brain, so you have a solid understanding of how to master sobriety through strategies and skills. Reconnect with what matters most in your life.

Addiction often presents itself in various forms. The impact of addiction results in cycles of negative behaviors affecting the individual and those they love. As a licensed addiction specialist, I provide clinical services to support and guide you through the process of recovery and change in a caring and non-judgmental atmosphere.

Through deep listening, engaged support, humor, and compassion, Carol strives to be an ally at every step to individuals as they cultivate their unique and individual choices and lives their lives more fully.