What are Additictions?

Addictions to alcohol or drugs are symptoms, not a causes, and not a diseases. 

My counsel utilizes a biochemical heightened conscious perspective balancing approach to treating addictions.  Alcohol or drug addiction can be triggered by mental or physical pain that comes from a lack of an over all healthy perspective and perception of all things.  Alcohol and drugs can be used as a way to cope with pain that comes from an unrealistically developed perspectives and the lacks that constantly bombard an individual because of their service to faulty perspectives and unrealistic expectations from from. 

So to heal one's alcohol or drug addiction one must look to this underlying cause.  With proper applied new perspectives and heightened conscious insites, the addiction can lessen as the perspective changes causing the pain can be made to subside. With this effect, so can the abuse alcohol or drugs subside.

What are the Underlying Causes that can trigger Alcohol or Substance Addiction?

Many of the underlying causes that trigger addiction are:

Low self-esteem,
Depression,
Anxiety,
Panic attacks,
Loss of loved ones,
Trauma,
Molestation,
Headaches,
Insomnia,
Many sorts of physical pain,
Chemical imbalance,
Overall perspective imbalance,
Weak drive,
Attention Deficit Disorder,
Lack of purpose
Family turmoil.

There are many more underlying causes, but those are some of the most common. Underlying problems like these can drive people to use drugs and alcohol.  When these causes are addressed and one has time to heal they have just accomplished a major component in obtaining the alcohol and drug free healthy lifestyle that they deserve.

What can one expect from my private counsel?

There will be Intake Questions for new clients such as:
How long have you been drinking/using alcohol or drugs?
Who else in your family drinks/uses alcohol or drugs?
What happened the last time you used alcohol or drugs?
What emotions do you suspect you are you trying to tranquilize or avoid from using alcohol or drugs?
What loss/emptiness are you trying to fill with extra use of alcohol or drugs?
What would you focus on if you didn’t obsess about alcohol or drugs anymore?
How would you spend your time if you didn’t use alcohol or drugs compulsively anymore?
What is the downside of not using alcohol or drugs?
What is the upside of not using alcohol or drugs?

Support is provided in a safe therapeutic environment for clients who need help with an addiction problem.  A nonjudgmental approach is taken for all clients.  There are no harsh labels applied to a person with an addiction.  The problem is separated from the person.  Instead of labeling someone an alcoholic or addict, the person is merely said to be experiencing a problem eaxcerbated by the use of alcohol or drugs. 

Treatment is provided from within the person, not to the person.  True healing takes place from within.

Clients can expect a wholistic approach to address any nutritional needs which should be addressed from a prolonged exposure to alcohol and drugs.

The goals for what the client wants to achieve is where I start with my counsel.  Abstaining from alcohol and drug use is always the best choice to make, opting for a healthy lifestyle but actually may not be necessary, once free from the pains addictions can create in every area of one's life.

Another primary goal in treatment for addictions would be to look for and treat the emotional themes which need to be addressed.  Some of these themes include:

1. Deprivation
2. Abandonment
3. Loss
4. Loneliness/Emptiness
5. Anxiety
6. Guilt
7. Fear
8. Anger
9. Depression

How Long does my counsel take when dealing with Addictions?

Each individual in Addictions Counseling will need to take the time necessary in treatment based on what the addiction is and how long the person has been using alcohol or drugs.  Each person’s treatment is Individualized to best meet their needs.  Two components are looked at to help determine the length of treatment to include:

1. How strong is the person’s willingness to learn through altered perspective adaptation
2. How strong is the person’s willingness to change.

Every person deserves to have the optimal, healthy lifestyle free from any addiction and they deserve a respectful, nonjudgmental, and supportive approach throughout their time in treatment.

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