Addiction Therapy

Many therapeutic approaches, including cognitive behavioral therapy and psychodynamic therapy, can benefit people suffering from addiction. Addiction therapy helps clients to overcome their addiction and find healthy ways to cope with the problems. Addiction therapy will also treat any underlying issues that may be contributing to an addiction. Addiction therapy can help people suffering from many types of addiction, including drug addiction, alcohol addiction, gambling addiction, sexual addiction, and Internet addiction.

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Matt Newey (he/him)

Licensed Professional Counselor

MA, LPC

Specialized training and experience with TCU Node Mapping substance use treatment

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Quinn Bailey (he/him)

Professional Counselor Associate

MA, NCC

My graduate program included a specialization in addiction treatment. I also worked for the last two years in problem gambling treatment, working with individuals struggling with gambling, often in addition to substance abuse. I also identify as being in recovery from numerous forms of addiction.

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Ryan Kopyar

Professional Counselor Associate

Professional Counselor Associate and LMHCA

I have worked through my own addiction issues, and it was through my own healing that I learned so much about the root causes of addiction. I don’t focus on treating the “what” and instead focus on the “why?” You can't change the fruit until you change the root. Helping people truly overcome addiction means truly getting to the root cause of the problem and making a change there.

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Daniel Roa (He/Him)

Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner

PMHNP, AGNP

I bring expertise in addiction therapy, with a history of working within renowned treatment centers. I've helped countless individuals overcome substance use and behavioral addictions. My approach is compassionate, collaborative, and focused on empowering patients. I develop personalized strategies for sobriety and relapse prevention, incorporating evidence-based therapies and holistic techniques. I connect patients with supportive resources and foster a safe space for their healing journey

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Benita Munson (she/her)

Licensed Professional Counselor

LPC

Motivational Interviewing is a tool used in addiction therapy which helps to address ambivalence in a person's quest to reduce substance use. There is a part of you that knows you need to cut down usage...yet you also need that substance as a security blanket or a coping strategy. Motivational interviewing helps us to address this. I am comfortable working with clients with both abstinence and moderation management/harm reduction models.

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Steve Harper (He)

Professional Counselor

LPC, MCOUN, MED

A deeper connection to ourselves can reduce our need for immediate gratification. Dialectical Therapy compares the margins in between our thoughts and feelings. Gaining new awareness helps us work through challenges by allowing us to consider our experiences more accurately. Increasing awareness to our own experience has everything to do with how we relate to ourselves and others.

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Lawrence VENASKA (He/Him)

Licensed Clinical Social Worker

LCSW

I have had a major focus on treating addictions and codependency issues in the 20 years I have been doing psychotherapy. I enjoy supporting clients to assess thei rown behaviors to determine what is a problem for them and what may not be to develop treatment particularly suited to them , their environment and facing the situations they are dealing with.

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Beverley Duke-Young (she/her)

Licensed Marriage Family Therapist

B.S, M.S.

Many people are caught up in some destructive patterns that can be very difficult to change. Understanding other options to intervene on our habits that have us rather than us having them is necessary to being able to act in our own best interest. Learn with me what it takes! Attachment issues play a huge role in why we become so addicted and attempt to control what we have no real control over.

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Amy Newman (she/her)

Professional Counselor Associate

MA, CADC-R, QMHP-R

I have focused on addiction in my graduate work and post graduate internship. In addition to private practice, I also work in Residential Substance Use Disorder treatment. I will help you understand your relationship to substances, how trauma could be a factor, and addressing any ambivalence to change.

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Aaron Kelsay (he / him)

Licensed Professional Counselor

LPC, CADC I

After years of working in intensive residential treatment, I have extensive experience working with groups, individuals using a number of modalities / interventions -- I am able to custom design a treatment plan for you, no matter where you are in your recovery journey, based on both my professional and personal, lived experience in mental health / substance use recovery.

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Kelly Washam (she/her)

Marriage and Family Therapist Associate

MA, MAC, MFTA

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Rhys Pasimio (He/Him)

Licensed Professional Counselor

C3730

My addiction therapy is a combination of Internal Family Systems, Somatic, Narrative, ACT, and mindfulness approaches that emphasize daily practices to sustain the sober way of life. The goal of addictions therapy is for a person's whole life to be transformed, and all their relationships to be healed. This takes time, diligence, and community.

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Maria Bonacci (she/her)

Licensed Professional Counselor

LPC

with a specialization in harm reduction. I have worked in various roles as a harm reductionist, including in syringe exchange and injection drug user health services, as a safer sex counselor, and in HIV/STD prevention and care work.

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Catherine Cooney (she/her)

Licensed Professional Counselor

MS, LPC, CSAT

Certified Sex Addiction Therapist under the Board of the International Institute of Trauma and Addiction Professionals . Over 15 years of training and experience as a drug and alcohol counselor.

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Christine Finucane (She/her/hers)

Licensed Clinical Social Worker

LCSW, SUDP, LICSW, SEP

I believe there are many approaches to healing addiction. The disease model is one of the most prevalent models for understanding addiction. There are helpful components of this model such as issues of control centered around the object of addiction and the thinking that accompanies this. Addiction can also be a response to unprocessed trauma. Developing a mindful approach to treating addiction allows for a different relationship with it. Change is possible when we learn to live in the present.

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