Addictions therapists in Laguna Niguel, California CA
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Addictions or Substance Abuse
Jean Wolfe Powers
Marriage and Family Therapist, M.A., L.M.F.T., International Life Coach, A.C.C.
Addictions thrive in times of intense stress. From eating to chemical dependency, to over spending, sexual addictions and anything that feels like extreme behavior, let me help you navigate your nervous system.
37 Years Experience
Online in Laguna Niguel, California (Online Only)
Addictions or Substance Abuse
Karen Rippy - Relationship Expert - office and online: Family, couple/marriage, extended family, students).
Marriage and Family Therapist, Ph.D., LMFT
I am a specialist in all relationship issues – 30 years of experience – let me help you.
40 Years Experience
In-Person Near Laguna Niguel, CA
Online in Laguna Niguel, California
Addictions or Substance Abuse
Alexandria Guerrero
Marriage and Family Therapist, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist
I specialize in helping people navigate the ups and downs of addiction and substance abuse with a mix of support, understanding, and maybe a little humor along the way. We’ll use evidence-based approaches like cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) to break old habits and build healthier coping strategies. Consider me your partner in the process, helping you make meaningful changes at your own pace. Together, we’ll take it one step at a time, and I promise—no judgment, just progress!
1 Years Experience
Online in Laguna Niguel, California (Online Only)
Addictions or Substance Abuse
Dr. Mitch Keil, PsyD
Psychologist, Keil Psych Group
"Its taken everything away from me that was important in life....but I can't stop"
There are lot of confusing definitions, stigmas, and ideas about addiction out there and just about as many approaches to treatment as there are theories. However, a ven-diagram center at the heart of all understanding and approaches exists. Let me explain. Essentially, addiction is manifested in any behavior that a person craves, finds temporary relief or pleasure in but suffers negative consequences as a result of, and yet has difficulty giving it up. Typically, when people hear “addiction,” they think of drugs, but addiction is better understood as a person’s rigid and compulsive relationship to a certain escapist-style of coping when a particularly difficult emotion, thought, or trigger presents itself. This can be as overt as a chemical addiction, like alcohol, or a behavioral addiction like shopping, food, porn, video games, or even exercise in excess. Yet still, more subtle forms exist, like an addiction to work, to being distracted, your phone, or even to your mind. Yes, it is possible to obsessively think and experience consequences in your emotional life and relationships. One thing is always certain, addiction starts in pain and ends in pain – over time the brain’s reward circuity is hijacked and little of the self that elected the faulty coping behavior in the beginning is leftover to resolve the problem at the end. Lies, secrecy, and shame continue to fuel the best-friend like romance between the addicted and their chosen drug or behavior. Here lies the basis for surrender to a program, a sponsor, or a therapist at the beginning of treatment - your brain isn't your own anymore, so you will need to rely on someone else's.
What is central to understanding addiction is that the real problem is the person's relationship to the given chemical or behavior, not the object or behavior itself. The addict faces an immense challenge in tolerating difficult feelings, and in my experience are constitutionally very sensitive people to begin with - hence the need to literally reach outside of themselves to regulate emotions or difficult feeling states. The pain they carry almost always has to do with pain born in failed relationships or trauma, either in childhood or from a series of knock-down events in life that were emotionally shattering and the pain was unaddressed in a healthy, therapeutic manner. A large part of healing an addiction has to do with coming back into relationship – first with others, like a therapist or 12-step community, and then through that process back into relationship with their own selves (learning to be at home in one’s own mind and feelings again). This is done both in psychotherapy and by attending a recovery-oriented program like AA or a non-religious program like SMART recovery. This is the best approach. They both work together to heal the whole person – psychotherapy's role is to attend to the wounds on a deeper level, work through trauma, and develop the skills to manage emotions all in the context of a real and healthy therapeutic relationship. The recovery program co-signs these changes as it simultaneously offers a basic framework and community for the self-revelation and honesty necessary to restore one to sanity and a meaningful life.
I have helped many on this journey and have great success in helping people overcome addictions. Each recovery is as unique as the person and I approach it as such. Sometimes this starts with simply helping people to find their own willingness and confront patterns, others come in as an after-care plan who are craving the deeper work psychotherapy has to offer after making meaningful progress in their sobriety. I look forward to hearing from you, shame-free, and answering any questions you might have. This absolutely includes the friends and family of those suffering from addiction! Psychotherapy and ALANON are great resources for you. You or your loved one really can get well and stay well. I'm here to help.
16 Years Experience
In-Person Near Laguna Niguel, CA
Online in Laguna Niguel, California
Addictions or Substance Abuse
Dr. David Shapiro
Psychologist, California Licensed Psychologist (License# PSY17495)
My approach to use of substances or compulsive behaviors (such as gambling, sex, shopping, etc.) is to view them as efforts to find pleasure or more often to avoid pain. My approach then is to understand what they client is trying to accomplish with the addiction, and then to help them find the healthiest ways to fulfil what they are attempting to accomplish. Some of my clients decide to abstain from the substance or behavior, but so too do others explore trying to manage their addiction through approach like risk reduction, controlled use, etc. I don't try to force those I work with to adhere to a particular decision about that but rather to empower them in continually evaluating the consequences of their decisions and to move toward solutions that will be healthiest for them, their loved ones, and their lives in general. Some of my clients find value in participating in 12-step recovery programs, but this is not something I require. I find am very comfortable supporting 12-step programs but so too am I also adept at supporting Rational Recovery, Smart Recovery, Mindfulness Based Relapse Prevention, Risk Reduction, Trauma Informed Addiction Treatment, and other such approaches.
25 Years Experience
In-Person Near Laguna Niguel, CA
Online in Laguna Niguel, California
Addictions or Substance Abuse
Barry Ross
Psychologist, Ph.D.
I am a psychologist, marriage family therapist, bioenergetic analyst, and psychoanalyst with more than 30 years of clinical experience in treating adolescents, adults, and marital couples. I am skilled in helping a person to feel understood and related to in a new and helpful way.
41 Years Experience
In-Person Near Laguna Niguel, CA
Online in Laguna Niguel, California
Addictions or Substance Abuse
Tanya Desloover
Marriage and Family Therapist, LMFT, CADCII
My background of 20 years spent as therapist and Clinical Director of a southern CA program, and in private practice, treating clients and their families with substance use disorders, has informed my practice to help others address, not only that issue, but the underlying disorders that accompany substance use (codependency, anxiety, depression, transitions). I admire your courage to face your fears, and offer a nonjudgmental, secure holding place to heal. As an EMDR therapist, my perspective is helping clients get past their limiting beliefs, negative thoughts and feelings about themselves that contribute to ongoing use of substances to manage stressors. We will work together to support you becoming empowered to courageously face your challenges.
20 Years Experience
Online in Laguna Niguel, California (Online Only)
Addictions or Substance Abuse
Dorrie Robles MFT
Marriage and Family Therapist, LMFT
We specialize in treating addictions due to drugs, alcohol, and self mutilation.
26 Years Experience
In-Person Near Laguna Niguel, CA
Addictions or Substance Abuse
Mary Knoblock
Hypnotherapist, Licensed RTT Practitioner, Clinical Hypnotist, Duke Certified Health Coach, Spiritual Counselor
With the use of RTT and other tools like emotion code and health coaching and hypnosis, I find that clients respond favorably and find their addiction lesson in and their coping skills increasing to deal with addictions/substance abuse etc.
10 Years Experience
Online in Laguna Niguel, California (Online Only)
Addictions or Substance Abuse
Dr. Lynne Logan
Marriage and Family Therapist, Ph.D., Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist
Addiction problems play havoc in families, relationships and one's health. Often, depression, anxiety and PTSD are underlying problems in addiction. No one wakes up one morning saying to themselves, "I want to become an addict." Most addicted people would turn back the clock if they could. But there is hope. One day at a time, a person can change their life for the better -- and forever. I worked in the Addiction Medicine Dept at Kaiser and did a residency at Betty Ford.
40 Years Experience
In-Person Near Laguna Niguel, CA