Substance Abuse Counseling
“Recovery is not just about breaking free from addiction; it’s about rebuilding your life, one step at a time.”
– Unknown
Are You Struggling With Substance Abuse Or Any Other Form Of Addiction?
Has an unhealthy addiction taken over your life, negatively impacting your health, your career, or your relationships? Have you been unable to regulate or control your relationship with any of the following:
- Alcohol?
- Drugs?
- Sex?
- Shopping?
- Gambling?
Perhaps you’ve experienced a continual cycle of losing relationships with family, friends, or significant others, along with an inability to rebuild, repair, or create new relationships. Maybe you’ve noticed a decline in professional performance or an inability to gain traction in other areas of life because of your dependency. As a result, you may be thinking it’s time to seek extra support.
Addiction Can Quickly Make Life Difficult Or Unmanageable
You may find that life often feels completely unmanageable, that getting out of bed can seem like a huge chore. You may have noticed significant negative impacts on your physical, mental, emotional, social, or financial health.
It may also feel as though your addiction is happening to you, and that you lack any ability to positively influence your own life. You may have realized that you are no longer actively pursuing joy in your life but are instead merely mitigating disappointment and decline. Perhaps you even feel helpless and hopeless to change by now.
You should know that you are neither helpless nor hopeless, though, and substance abuse therapy with Wild Ethos Counseling can help you regain control of your addiction and your life. Although the road to recovery will likely be a challenging one, we believe that the life you want can actually exist for you, and we can help you make it a reality.
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Substance Abuse Is Incredibly Common Yet Also Treatable
Although the experience of addiction is often a lonely one, those experiencing difficulties with substance abuse are never actually alone. Not only is substance abuse incredibly common, but there are vital resources out there to help you recover from it.
In fact, according to the CDC in 2020, “40.3 million people aged 12 or older in the United States (14.5 [percent] of this population) had a substance abuse disorder (SUD) within the past year” (1). And yet, many never seek treatment or external support for their addiction. Oftentimes, they’re simply not aware of all the communities, support groups, and helpful resources for addiction recovery.
Addiction And Self-Medication Are Woven Into Our Culture
So many of us self-medicate with alcohol, drugs, food, sex, or media consumption. When faced with life’s difficulties, individuals in crises often resort to unhealthy habits to navigate uncomfortable emotions or experiences. And in a culture of instant gratification and consumption, these patterns can catch up with us over time and overturn our entire lives.
At Wild Ethos Counseling, we know that addiction and substance abuse are emotional in nature and only become chemical dependencies by extended exposure. The core of these issues, however, are unresolved emotional wounds. And the work of substance abuse counseling can actively help you identify, address, and heal those wounds.
Substance Abuse Counseling Can Help You Overcome Your Addiction
Addiction can wear you down in so many ways at once that you completely lose hope for recovery, with your story turning into a self-fulfilling prophecy. But with an experienced and empathetic therapist in your corner, substance abuse therapy can offer you something vital: a new sense of hope and optimism for the future.
Instead of demanding perfection, let’s strive for progress. The fight will not be any easy one, but so long as you’re willing to fight, there is hope. And with the right form of support and encouragement, we’re confident that we can help you get to a better place.
Before you begin substance abuse counseling, you will connect with your addiction therapist so you can fill them in on your situation and your ultimate goals for therapy. From there you will build a treatment plan together that incorporates your specific needs.
During your counseling sessions, we will do the necessary emotional work in order to yield the desired physical results. We will seek to process any unresolved grief and trauma that may have led to your addiction, allowing us to treat your struggles at their core.
An Approach To Counseling That Will Meet You Where You Are
Your substance abuse counselor will incorporate multiple modalities to treat your addiction, including:
- Internal Family Systems Therapy (IFS) – As a treatment for substance abuse, IFS addresses how different parts of your personality cause and reinforce your addiction.
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) – A more traditional therapeutic approach, CBT helps reframe negative thoughts, beliefs, and behaviors that contribute to your substance abuse.
- Narrative Therapy (NT) – An evidence-based method, narrative therapy helps you create and live a new and more empowering story about yourself and your addiction moving forward.
Through this approach to counseling, you can take control back over your thoughts, habits, and behaviors. And you can repair a lot of the aspects of your life that addiction has damaged, including your physical health, your peace of mind, and your most important relationships.
For many, addiction means the loss of control over their own life and actions—in essence, the loss of their own personal narrative. But through substance abuse therapy with Wild Ethos Counseling, we can help you rewrite your story and become the hero of it once again.
You May Still Have Some Questions About Substance Abuse Counseling…
How much does substance abuse counseling cost?
Counseling is an investment in your well-being, and like anything else, it does have a cost. But the reality is that the daily physical, mental, emotional, and financial costs of addiction are already exerting a negative impact on your life. Counseling is a conscious choice to invest in your own recovery and healing, rather than just continuing to feed your addiction.
How effective can virtual substance abuse therapy be?
We may meet virtually but our work will be tangible and actionable in the physical world. Virtual therapy is actually extremely effective with this type of work, as we can meet anywhere, at any time. And while results and timelines will vary from person to person, I think you’ll be surprised at how quickly we can achieve positive changes in your behaviors.
How long will it take for counseling to make a difference?
Regardless of your original intent, behavioral patterns like substance use typically become engrained over long periods of time. And just as it took time for those behavioral patterns to form and harden, it will likely take some time to change and reverse them. But with the right form of support and encouragement, you can absolutely get there (and we can help).
You Can Break Free From Your Addiction And Thrive
If you’ve been struggling with the impacts of addiction and you need some external support, substance abuse therapy with Wild Ethos Counseling can help you recover and heal.
Please call us at 931-539-0373 or utilize our contact page to set up a complimentary, 15-minute phone consultation session to start rewriting your story today.
(1) https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/travel/yellowbook/2024/additional-considerations/substance-use
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