Addiction Therapists in Stonegate, CO.

Has your use of drugs or alcohol inhibited your life. Are you feeling your addiction is out-of-your control? People use substances to numb past or current pain. Substances can be very addictive as they alter your mental status almost immediately as they enter the body. We work towards growing your life beyond your addiction. Feel free to contact me to further discuss your situation.

I work with clients with sexual addictions, such as compulsive pornographic internet consumption. Research on the impact of such addictions is used to determine if or how this information fits with client experiences. This information is combined with the client's unique experiences to determine the level of honest commitment to change. If change is sought, we then work to identify triggers and devise coping strategies to intercept the chain of events leading to relapse. When relapse is an issue, we address it deliberately but delicately, understanding the toxic and unhelpful nature of shame and it's impact on addictive cycles.

True Happiness and Stability Stems from the Quality of our Significant Relationships! I provide therapy for children, adolescents, individuals, elders, couples, and families. I focus on people's strengths and possibilities while addressing their real life difficulties. I provide a wide variety of evidence-based treatment approaches. Which means that all the therapy that I implement is highly researched and therefore, proven to work, if followed correctly. I believe in a holistic approach to the therapeutic process that incorporates biological, psychological, social, and spiritual dimensions empowering a person or family towards mastering life to its fullest.

Have you gotten sober only to realize the healing in your family has just begun? Do you struggle to talk about your addiction in a way that feels productive, and just end up arguing about it instead most of the time? Here at Thrive, we specialize in helping people put the pieces of their life back together once sobriety has been achieved. Your loved ones can be a huge support to you in your sober journey, but most likely, they need you too. We can help you learn to communicate with each other about your history and rebuilding your life in ways that bring closeness and healing. If you are still struggling to maintain sobriety, you need your family more than ever. We can help!

In working with Addiction, I use a combination of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and EMDR. EMDR is traditionally seen as a technique specifically used in working with trauma. This is true and most of the time, addiction is rooted in trauma so it can be helpful as a dual diagnosis approach. However, EMDR can also be used specifically to help with addictions because it can be used to desensitize triggers for using and help clients maintain sobriety.

With 10 years direct experience as an art therapist in a CD treatment center, I believe in the medical model of addiction and the 12 steps. I also believe in personal responsiblity and decision making. I look for and treat any underlying emotional problems, using talk and art tasks based on where the client is in recovery. A lot of self-image and self-confidence work may be needed. New choices.

Addictions are always a statement of personal entitlement, "I can do this and I do not care how it affects you." When acting through your addiction you give the people around you the message that you are important and they are not. I deal with people who live with addictions with firm, clear, loving confrontations. I can help you deal with your grandiosity even if you do not recognize it when you first come in. I can help you find your humility and accept responsibilty for the pain and harm you have caused in relationships. When you deal with it straight on you can have access to the deepest layers of your self-esteem and to your core value. You will move from pretense into authentic life.

The way I work with addiction is to meet you where you are at with addiction. This means I could use one of multiple techniques. Those techniques are cognitive behavioral therapy, humanistic theory, and/or Jungian psychotherapy. I will do my best to work on what you will need. I can also work within your own personal belief system. Please feel free to ask me what may work best for you.

Addictions are about worship. Recovering addicts are the most enjoyable people to be around. Why? They worship. Maybe not in the traditional sense but they are grateful, humble, relaxed. They know their place and they are not full of themselves. Prior to recovery addicts were taught or taught themselves that certain feelings were impossibly dangerous to feel. They found a substance/activity that transported (worship) them to a place where they did not have to feel. They did not have to suffer. Addictions is a refusal to suffer and the discovery of an idol to worship. The story must be explored: Who taught you it was so dangerous to feel? Who taught you that you can not suffer?

It is critical that an individual understand the various factors driving the addictive behavior in order to find resolution to the addiction. Dr. Rumsey is a master addiction counselor (MAC), and trained in Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing (EMDR) to assist you with any trauma that may be a part of driving the addiction. Having effectively helped individuals resolve alcohol addiction, drug addiction (marijuana, cocaine, heroin, prescription drugs, methamphetamines), sexual addiction, spending addiction, & gambling addiction, Dr. Rumsey has the experience to find tools that will work for you. Schedule your FREE 50 In-Office consultation at (303) 868-7246

I have done everything for my spouse. I have tried to be there for him and stay calm and do all these things. And yet he's still looking at internet porn. Our sex life is in the pits. He keeps talking about his co-worker Katie. I'm getting more and more paranoid that he's being unfaithful to me. While I am digging into church, he doesn't want to go to there anymore. I am too embarrassed to talk about it with my friends because I don't know if this is all in my head or if this is really happening.

Addictions flow out of pain and suffering. Grace and perseverance are needed. Addictions in the basic sense flow out of bodily adjustment/dependence issues. Yet addiction issues also (if not more so) flow out of emotional and spiritual issues. Depending on the degree of severity different approaches will be taken to help the client overcome and reclaim themselves. Breaking of addictions can be extremely hard yet change and healing are possible. Through the therapeutic relationship we will explore and build together.

While most treatment approaches to addiction include 12 step programs, rehabs, and now sober living houses, Grey Matters International, Inc. provides a wildly successful alternative to traditional models of addiction treatment----that keeps the brain in mind. That is, talking to the conscious brain while the primal brain is deciding things even before you are consciously aware? Well, that is the problem to solve in addiction. We have the solution utilizing a new cutting edge neuroscience-centered brain rebalancing system. Contact kevin@kevinflemingphd.com or call 877-606-6161.