Addictions therapists in Marysville, California CA
Addictions or Substance Abuse
Jeanette Abney
Marriage and Family Therapist, LMFT, SAP
I have over 20 years of experience with working in the field of substance use and dependence. I am knowledgeable with court referred drug and alcohol program and SAP Assessments with the DOT. I provide drug and alcohol educational services, relapse preventions, and interventions to assist individuals as well as their families.
25 Years Experience
Addictions or Substance Abuse
Patrick Kelly, Psy.D., LMFT
Marriage and Family Therapist, Licensed Marriage, Family, Therapist (LMFT)
Dr. Patrick works with clients whi are stuggling in all phases of addiction including dual diagnosis to deal with both the addiction and mental health issues. Clients learn behaviors that lead to self medication and sometimes leads to addiction. Dr. Patrick seeks harm reduction with his client as they learn new skills to reduce substance use until they can find new and healthier coping skills to deal with life's challenges.
12 Years Experience
Addictions or Substance Abuse
Cheryl Feldmann
Psychologist, Ph.D.
I work with people who are trying to find sobriety, or are struggling with whether they need to. I also work with parents, siblings, and children affected by someone else's substance use.
36 Years Experience
Addictions or Substance Abuse
Elaine Skoulas
Marriage and Family Therapist, M.A., LMFT
I have extensive experience and training with addiction and substance use including completion of education requirements of California Association for Drug/Alcohol Educators (CAADE) and years of working in substance use treatment. I bring my experience to help recognize and work with whatever stage you are in with your relationship to drugs and/or alcohol for you to get back to living your life.
9 Years Experience
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