Addiction and Recovery Therapy
Addiction impacts EVERYONE,
not only the person struggling with the addiction, but also their parents, children, spouses, and friends. Addiction and recovery therapy can be an important component in helping someone to maintain sobriety and experience lasting recovery or to support the loved ones impacted by the addiction.
There are many paths to recovery and if you are here on this page I want to commend you for your bravery in taking a first step or the next step for yourself or someone you love. “Getting clean” or stopping the use of a substance, alcohol, gambling, sexual addiction, food addiction etc. is really only the first step. Recovery cannot and will not be long lasting if further steps are not taken to address the mental health symptoms, past trauma, current or past unhealthy relationships, environment, friendships, legal consequences, or other circumstances that trigger, reinforce or maintain the addictive behavior(s). Addiction and recovery therapy can do just that! Schedule a free 20 minute consultation today to see if I can help!
Therapy for the addict
There are many forms of addiction treatment including detoxification, inpatient treatment programs, outpatient treatment programs, multiple therapeutic approaches and support groups including 12 step, SMART recovery, Celebrate Recovery etc. Resilience Family Therapy supports all of these approaches and offers individual and/or family therapy to help deepen recovery by addressing the underlying causes of continued addiction. About 20% of Americans who have depression or an anxiety disorder also have a substance use disorder. I believe that treating both the substance use disorder AND the mental health disorder is key to lasting recovery and freedom.
Using individualized behavioral approaches including Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Leah Miner, LMFT, helps people struggling with addiction to explore triggers, thoughts, and feelings that lead to addictive behaviors and learn coping strategies to maintain recovery and supplement their treatment in outpatient or 12 step programs. She is also trained in Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) which can be a beneficial treatment in helping to teach the regulation of emotions to prevent reactivity and self-destructive behaviors that can lead to relapse and the ongoing cycle of addictive behaviors.
Therapy for those who love an addict
Not everyone is open to recovery. You can’t save someone who doesn’t want to be saved. I say all of the time to my clients that “I can’t want your recovery more than you do” and “I can’t work harder at your recovery than you do.” It simply won’t work! The same goes for friends, family members, spouses and children of those struggling with addiction and THAT can be a devastating and heart-breaking truth to face. Finding therapy for yourself can be a very freeing and healthy decision to help you to manage the impact of a loved one’s addiction while also finding support for making the difficult decisions to set healthy boundaries to not enable your addict or inadvertently contribute to their addictive behavior(s).
The addict you love may also BE in recovery and you find yourself confused that you are conflicted with feelings of joy and gratitude that they are finally sober, but also struggling with lingering hurt, resentments, and wounds from how they treated you in their active addiction. Having a safe and non-judgmental place to process ALL of those feelings - the good, bad and ugly - is something you owe yourself so that you can move forward in a healthy manner and enjoy your loved one finally walking in the recovery you have hoped or prayed for for so long! Give me a call today to see how I can help! I have helped countless families through the trenches of addiction, have developed and overseen recovery programs, and have experienced firsthand the impacts of addiction in my own life and am here to help!