addiction counseling
Dependency treatment sessions
Addiction counseling is professional guidance for people struggling with substance abuse or compulsive behaviors.
A counselor helps clients understand their addiction, develop coping strategies, and work toward recovery.
Sessions may be individual or group-based, often combined with medical treatment or twelve-step programs: She started addiction counseling after her third relapse.
- drug dependencyCompulsive substance reliance
- 12-step programsGuided addiction recovery fellowships
- group therapyCommunal psychological treatment
- alcoholismAddiction to drinking
- traumaLasting psychological wound
relapse prevention · cognitive-behavioral therapy · detoxification · cold turkey · peer support groups · support system · emotional regulation · psychoeducation · dual diagnosis · anxiety · attachment theory · family therapy · AA · mental health stigma · sponsor · triggers · shame · cravings
- therapypsychotherapy, therapist, session, counselor, group therapy
- counselingpsychotherapy, family therapy, group therapy, counselor, couples therapy
- recoveryrecovery, sobriety, rehab, recover, recovery room
- support servicestherapy, tutoring, mentoring, coaching, scholarships
- addictionsubstance abuse, drug dependence, substance dependency, substance use disorder, alcoholism
- substance abuseabuse, drug abuse, alcohol abuse, substance use, substance misuse
addiction counselingenabling
Making something feasible
drug dealing · codependency · bartending · predatory lending
addiction counselingabandonment
Act of leaving permanently
neglect · indifference · denial · looking the other way · willful blindness
addiction counselingenabling
Making something feasible
codependency · making excuses · covering up · bailing out · denial