Substance use · LCADC · CASAC-2 · Licensed in NJ & NY
Substance use counseling — from crisis to the long rebuild.
Therapy for individuals at every stage of recovery, and for the families whose lives have been reorganized around someone else’s addiction.
The work
Recovery is the part that follows the rescue.
As a Licensed Clinical Alcohol and Drug Counselor (LCADC) and CASAC-2 — credentials that are rare in private practice — I work with adults and families across the full arc of substance use. This includes people in early recovery who need ongoing clinical support, people years into sobriety working on what the substance was managing, and families whose daily lives have been built around someone else’s addiction and who have lost track of their own.
This is not a detox or intensive-outpatient setting. It is the long-form psychotherapy chapter that comes after — when the immediate crisis is past and the slower work begins. We look at the relationships, identities, and feelings that the substance had been managing, and we build the structures that make a different life durable.
When this is the work
When the work is the rebuild.
What the substance was managing.
Alcohol and drugs almost always do work. They quiet a feeling, hold a relationship together, make the day survivable. Sustained recovery requires meeting the feeling itself — and finding other ways to live with it.
The relationships, on the other side.
Sobriety changes who you are in your marriage, your family, your friendships. Some relationships deepen. Some have to be renegotiated. Some have to end. The work is to do this carefully, and not alone.
The life you are rebuilding toward.
Most clients in this work are professionals who have stabilized and are integrating sobriety into the rest of their lives — career, family, the quieter inner experience that recovery makes available.
Families of people with addiction.
The people closest to addiction are often the most neglected by treatment systems focused on the person using. This work is for the spouse, the parent, the adult child who has organized their life around someone else’s crisis and needs to find their way back to their own.
What to expect with substance-use counseling.
A slower-paced, more reflective treatment than early-recovery work. We move at the pace your sobriety can hold.
- 01
A free 15-minute call.
We talk briefly about where you are in recovery, what you are looking for, and whether this is a good fit.
- 02
An initial session.
A longer first conversation. We talk about the history, the current sobriety, and the parts of your life the substance had been holding together.
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Ongoing sessions.
Typically weekly to start. Many clients move to longer cadences as the work matures. Coordinated with other recovery supports — sponsor, AA/NA, psychiatry — when relevant.
“Sobriety opens the door. The work is figuring out what to walk toward.”