Addictions therapists in Santa Maria, California CA
Addictions or Substance Abuse
Jonathan Kruger Therapy
Marriage and Family Therapist, LMFT
Addiction of any nature is a profoundly challenging constellation of behaviors to understand, address, and ultimately replace with healthier choices. Addiction is further complicated by the strong likelihood that co-occurring conditions will accompany the addictive behavior: anxiety, depression, and other mental health challenges often go hand in hand with compulsive behavior. As a result, grasping the full breadth of the patient’s behavior and background is vital to treatment, but that is just one piece of a holistic approach. Fundamentally, addiction treatment must address the fact that at the heart of compulsive behavior lies a sense of self.
The truth is, at some level we are all wounded or, indeed, fractured. The challenge for those suffering addictive behaviors is that the wounds are so profound that the only way to find relief is to engage in maladaptive behaviors. In fact, the truly nefarious aspect of addiction is that while it is rooted in a fractured sense of self, the addictive behavior itself blocks the patient’s ability to empower and re-structure their internal narrative. Addiction is not only the crutch that soothes the fractured self, it is also the barrier that prevents a new self-empowerment to emerge. This creates a vicious cycle, and the common emotional aspects of addiction then dominate the addict’s self-narrative: guilt, shame, hopelessness and despair.
The essence of overcoming addiction, and the core of my treatment philosophy, is the desire and ultimately the decision to live your life in a new and different way. This decision is extraordinarily difficult and requires a comprehensive set of tools to sustain it over a lifetime. The good news is that the scientific underpinning of addiction treatment is making extraordinary progress. My practice for addiction seeks to understand and suggest new therapeutic options, and to pair those with a deep exploration to the source of your maladaptive behaviors and the experiences that fractured your original sense of self. My goal is to create a safe, trusting and healing environment to explore these core issues and to re-create a new self-narrative, replacing addictive behaviors with new coping mechanisms and actions. Ultimately, my goal is to re-assemble the fractured self, leading to a newly empowered individual with the skillset to begin a completely new, nourishing, and rewarding life.
11 Years Experience
Addictions or Substance Abuse
Dr Pamela Helen Polcyn
Marriage and Family Therapist, Phd, MFT
Addictions can take over your life and keep you from focusing on what is really important to you and your family. Recovery can be achieved with the steady step by step uncovering of real issues. Regain control over your life and your choices with a new understanding of what addiction means to you..
33 Years Experience
Addictions or Substance Abuse
Christina L. Gietzen-Haraden
Psychologist, Psy.D
Multimodal approach treating a variety of addictions. 12-step knowledgeable. Use Neurofeedback, HeartMath and Mindfulness to support recovery. Spiritual. CBT. Help uncover, discover, discard underlying reasons underlying addictive behavior.
23 Years Experience
Addictions or Substance Abuse
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12 Years Experience
Addictions or Substance Abuse
Newport Academy
Licensed Mental Health Counselor
If you don’t know much about the realities of teen substance abuse, you are not alone. That’s what we’re here for. Hence, the Newport Academy teen substance abuse Treatment Team can help. In response, we effectively focus on the underlying issues that lead to teenage drug abuse.
16 Years Experience