Substance Abuse Counseling for People in Recovery
In Greenacres, FL, and Online Throughout Florida
What If Your Recovery Wasn't Just About Staying Sober?
Recovering from addiction is not just about staying abstinent or getting rid of the thoughts and behaviors that led you to use substances or act out on your addiction. True recovery is about learning and practicing new thoughts and behaviors that help you rebuild your life, repair emotional wounds, and find purpose.
Maybe you’re at a point where you’re thinking:
“I’m in recovery and doing my best to stay sober, but I still feel emotionally overwhelmed. I’d like more support than I can get at a meeting.”
“My self-esteem took a real hit in active addiction. Now that I’ve been abstinent for a while, I want to start focusing on how to be happy and like myself again.”
“I’m taking life without alcohol or drugs one day at a time, but some days are harder than others. I need better coping skills for dealing with triggers.”
“I’d like to work through the mental health issues that led me to start using in the first place and understand why I do the things I do.”
“I need help to repair the relationships that I damaged while I was drinking.”
If any of these thoughts sound familiar, you might benefit from addiction counseling tailored for people in substance abuse recovery.
Have any questions? Send me a message.
When You Need Extra Help in Recovery
During early recovery, when you're moving from active addiction to recovery, life can present challenges that can be difficult to navigate alone.
In the beginning, your life may still feel dominated by frustration, resentment, anger, irritability, and conflict—and you’re looking to take back control. Maybe your relationships with friends, family, and colleagues have suffered, but guilt and shame is making it hard to be honest with yourself and find peace. Or perhaps you’re worried about recurring use and need a higher level of support than you’re currently getting to help you thrive.
Finding my website may mean you’re ready for extra support to get off the constant emotional rollercoaster. With the help of therapy, you can take the extra steps you need — dissecting the reasons behind your substance abuse, restoring manageability to your life, and moving forward toward your dreams and goals.
Addiction Affects All Areas of Your Life
Life is full of negative situations that cause stress, sadness, frustration, and difficulty. But you may have realized that using drugs or alcohol to make all that go away does not create a life worth living — it only creates more problems.
When we find ourselves grappling with habits we wish we could shake, we often begin to recognize that addiction has impacted every facet of our lives. The guilt and shame. The impulsivity and out-of-control reactions. The emotional numbness and physical exhaustion. It all becomes overwhelming, and we carry that with us into early recovery.
Learning the skills to deal with stressors in any situation can give us the key to balancing life’s challenges with life’s pleasures. When we improve our state of well-being, we can function and thrive no matter what is going on in our lives.
Nonjudgmental Support to Reclaim Your Life
At the heart of addiction and substance use are feelings: On one hand, there are the feelings you think you see others having and wish you could have too — like feeling confident, being more social, or simply having fun. And on the other hand, there are the feelings that are either too intense or too difficult to face.
If you're looking for stability, confidence, and peace of mind without turning to substance abuse, counseling with me provides nonjudgmental addiction support, coping strategies, recovery tools, skills training, and encouragement.
Taking Recovery to the Next Level with Comprehensive Substance Abuse Counseling
If you’ve been sober one day, or you’ve already achieved some time in recovery but find yourself feeling stuck, I have the specific tools and insights to help you take your recovery to the next level.
My approach is deeply informed by my experience as a substance abuse therapist and a person in long-term recovery. Clients often tell me my lived experience helps them feel more comfortable trusting our work together because they know I understand what they’re feeling.
I specialize in working with:
Adults in early recovery who need guidance and support.
Adults who are returning to recovery after a recurrence of use.
Adults in recovery who feel like something is missing in their recovery.
Adults whose loved ones are struggling with addiction.
As a clinician who's also in long term recovery, I understand what it’s like to want all the answers and to want them now. I also know how important it is to feel seen, heard, and validated, so I always prioritize direct communication and accessibility.
Therapy Helps All Forms of Addiction
Whether you have struggled with substance addictions, such as alcohol, illegal drugs, and prescription medications, or behavioral addictions, such as codependency, compulsive shopping, and excessive internet use, I can help you. These addictions share many of the same symptoms and potential consequences and the same solutions work for both.
In therapy, we will use your time in active addiction to better understand how you got here, not to create blame or shame. There’s a huge difference between taking responsibility and living with a mindset of blame and shame.
Together, we will acknowledge the feelings and actions you don’t like while helping you accept the past, forgive yourself, and move forward. Our focus will be on finding solutions by identifying the strengths you already have, even if they’re hard to see right now.
My Unique Approach to Substance Abuse Recovery
A core belief guiding my work is empowering you to exercise greater control over your life by fostering resilience, self-awareness, and self-efficacy. In counseling sessions, I incorporate a variety of approaches and evidence-based, research-supported methods specifically tailored for addiction recovery.
If you’re open to it, we can explore 12-step programs with the added benefit of my lived experience and clinical insights. In sessions, you can then process meeting experiences, ask questions, work through resistance, and learn how to apply recovery tools in daily life.
My approach ensures you receive exceptional, personalized attention, with all sessions conducted online for ultimate convenience, privacy, and accessibility across Florida. This means you can get the help you need for your addiction from an experienced counselor without having to take time off from work, leave your home, or put your life on hold.
Additional approaches I draw from in counseling to help you learn coping skills, make healthier choices, focus on solutions, stay present and in control in the face of challenges, fortify your personal strengths, and build resilience are Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), Strength-Based Therapy, Solution-Focused Therapy, Mindfulness-Based Therapy, and Positive Psychology.
Throughout your recovery journey, you can expect meaningful positive changes.
As you apply what we worked on in session in real life, you’ll learn to get comfortable with your feelings, manage your emotions, and repair damaged relationships. You may also notice improvements in memory, focus, and physical health, leading to greater stability, confidence, and profound peace of mind.
Considering Substance Abuse Counseling, But Still On The Fence?
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Yes.
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Depends on what you’re looking for. If that’s your jam, I do. If it’s not, we’ll go in a different direction. I will say that in my experience, 12-step programs work, but only if you’re actually doing the 12-step work. If all you’re doing is going to meetings and filling a chair, you’re missing out on most of the benefits. If you’re turned off by the religious overtones, I can help you compartmentalize that aspect of 12-step recovery so it works for you too.
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Sure.
How I can help you specifically:
In addition to working with adults who have problems with substance use, I also work with family members who need recovery of their own, sometimes providing psychoeducation, sometimes helping to deal with the toll their loved one’s addiction has taken on their lives. In cases like those, you will be my client rather than the family member who has an addiction.
How I can help your loved one:
If you’re contacting me to work with your family member, they must be over 18 and located in Florida. Although you are welcome and even encouraged to ask questions about my services, if you decide to go with me, your family member will need to reach out to me themselves to start the intake process.
NOTE: If you are financially responsible for your loved one and wish to pay for their therapy, they will need to complete an authorization for disclosure and release of information, and you will need to complete a third-party payer agreement and credit card authorization prior to scheduling the first session. Use my contact page to request the link to that form and to start the intake process itself.
Your Journey Of Healing And Recovery Starts Here
It's time to step out from under that "black cloud" and start living a full life. If you're in substance abuse recovery and feel ready for a more personalized journey to a happier, healthier future, I offer addiction counseling for people living in Greenacres or anywhere else in Florida.