Transform Your Life with Addiction Therapy Support

You've made the decision to quit or limit the amount of use for drugs and alcohol.  Perhaps you called up a residential rehabilitation facility through an online directory and learned new coping skills to start your foundation. 

Maybe you attended a local Alcoholics Anonymous meeting, met a sponsor, and have just started working the steps.

Perhaps you'd tried to work the steps before and it just wasn't your thing. 

You might have benefited from SMART Recovery, an abstinence-based program that utilizes a cognitive-behavioral therapeutic model to support its members.  Or you may have employed Refuge Recovery, a Buddhist path to achieving sobriety.

Or you might be getting by through pure grit.

However you've decided to sober up you can expect a roller coaster of new feelings and emotions.  It can be difficult to explain to friends why you're no longer drinking.  You might feel excluded as others enjoy BBQ's or football games.  Insomnia is common for people in early recovery, just as taking up new addictive behaviors such as workaholism or eating is.

By normalizing these new feelings and experiences, a psychotherapist like me can help guide you through the tunnel. 

You're halfway there, perhaps at the darkest point, and you can either turn around and go back to where you've been or keep moving forward with me to the other end!

Patrick M. DeCarlo offers addiction therapy support in Florida.