Addiction Therapists in Baltimore, MD.

To help you manage addictive behaviors and dependence on any mood altering substances, we will start with reviewing the history of your addictive behavior and the impact it has on your relationships, health, employment, and functioning. Sometimes addictive substances or behaviors have served to mask underlying sources of pain, such as mood instability, anxiety, relationship stressors, or emptiness and loss of meaning. These underlying factors can be addressed in psychotherapy along with learning new resources for managing addictive behaviors, such as educational lectures, family therapy, 12 step groups, and/or referral to a medical doctor for medication that aids your overall recovery.

Addictions range from alcohol and drugs to internet, money, gambling and many other challenges. Do you find yourself struggling to get back on your feet only to fall right back down on your face even harder than the last fall. You cannot do it alone. Willpower is helpful but it is not enough for many forms of addiction. It is time for you to admit that you need help and support to get to recovery.

Utilizing my past experience working with substance use disorder clients, I can help chart a path from ambivalence to motivation. One of the primary and initial focuses in addiction counseling will be to create a safe space free of judgment or expectations of abstinence-only. My philosophy is to help you work to build your own motivation to recognize the ways that becoming sober will positively impact your life. This harm-reduction model meets you where you are at, and is a proven research-based method at engaging addiction.

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.

You will be more successful at abstinence, and a healthier lifestyle, if we can teach you alternate ways to take care of yourself and feel good. Substance use must be replaced with something positive - and abstinence does not qualify as that. Thus, we work hard to help you discover ways in which you can attain greater serenity, fulfillment, and self appreciation, even as we work on eliminating the destructive patterns.

Addiction isn't a choice most people make for themselves. I treat the person not the addiction. I make no judgments and only ask that individuals be sober when they engage in therapy. I believe one can treat the addiction while treating possible underlying mental health concerns. I incorporate different techniques such as motivational interviewing, expressive techniques, and CBT to help an addict reach their dream- that of either harm reduction or sobriety.