Addiction Therapists in Scott, NY.

Life has never been free of challenges - some anticipated and some not so much. Counseling is an opportunity to confidently talk about these life challenges with a compassionate, trained and objective professional who can provide insight, reflection, and objectivity. We provide a safe environment free from judgment, criticism, shame, and guilt. We offer kindness, compassion, safety, and confidentiality away from the onslaught of the world for your healing. Therapy is designed to help you find insight, support, and new strategies for life's struggles. Personal responsibility, self-awareness, objectivity, healthy communication skills, healthy boundaries are some of the benefits for you.

Alcohol and drug over use, abuse, and addiction is an area we specialize in. Serenity Life director Mattye has worked in this specialization for 13 years and is a Certified Alcohol and Substance Abuse Counselor. Many others on our staff have specific training on how to treat both substance and behavioral addictions (gambling, sex, co-dependency, shopping, eating, gaming, etx). We take a whole person approach to counseling for people. We also believe in harm reduction strategy and 12 step, whatever works for the individual. We offer peer coaching, in community services, as well as creative arts interventions for addiction. We partner with private psychiatry and inpatients for severe needs.

Recovery looks different for everyone and can result in different outcomes. Clients have the choice to become completely sober or go back to what is considered a normal level of substance use. It depends on the client’s wants and needs. Using peer counselors in addition to a primary therapist can be beneficial. I take a harm reduction, person centered approach and have helped many overcome dysfunctional behaviors of addiction.

Addiction is a mental health condition and I treat addiction by a multi-pronged process predominately from a Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) model. I help my clients understand the reasons they use a substance or engage in an addictive behavior, teach them skills regulate their emotions and tolerance distress that might otherwise lead them to engage in their addiction, and address any underlying issues that contribute to their addiction. I also help clients with with concerns about their substance use or compulsive behavior to avoid developing addictions.

When working with someone with an addiction, it will be important to discuss the many facets of their addiction, including their triggers for use, the life they are living currently, and how their addiction has impacted them. We will talk about each of these concepts when working together, and discussing what the future would look like for them. When reducing or abstaining from use, it involves a loss of familiarity, of people, places, and it would be important for us to work together to discuss that change, and how to process it together.

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Amy has her Credentialed Alcohol and Substance Abuse Counselor license and has extensive work providing assessments, referrals, and counseling for those who experience issues related to substance use. She is client-centered, letting individuals, couples, or families be the driver in their own therapy, and is particularly drawn to attachment-based therapies, solution-focused therapy, and experiential therapy.

Addiction Recovery is one of the primary specializations at Courage to Change. Many of our coaches identify as recovered or as family members of recovered people. We take a very indepth approach to the treatment of both substance and behavioral addictions (gambling, sex, media, co-dependency) looking at the whole person and how addicted brain effects each area of life. We embrace both harm reduction and traditional 12 step approaches as well as Christian based approaches to healing. We are not here to judge, we've been through it, we recovered, and now we're here to help in any way possible. We work in office, telehealth, and in community to serve those who are struggling.