Addiction Therapists in Aylmer, ON.

Counselling for addiction and codependency in Aylmer, ON. Help for alcohol and substance abuse, pornography, sex and internet addiction, gambling, and compulsive spending.


Michelle Gibson, MSW,RSW
Addiction Counsellor

Michelle Gibson, MSW,RSW

Registered Social Worker and Psychotherapist

In N6C 1A3 - Nearby to Aylmer.

When we experience difficult times, it can be easy to turn to substances and distractions to numb the pain. This is a natural protective strategy. Some clients seek to stop this completely, while others seek to find a way to better manage their current use. Our aim is to find out what is best for you. If you feel stuck and could use support, read out to use and let's explore where to start.

Monika Georgieva, RP
Addiction Counselor

Monika Georgieva, RP

Registered Psychotherapist

Available for Online Therapy

Addiction is a multifaceted challenge, and understanding its roots is key to recovery. While I do not offer therapy sessions for addiction, we have several addiction specialists at Psychotherapy Collective who are available to schedule a free 15-minute consultation with you to ensure they are the proper fit for your journey. Visit our profiles at https://www.psychotherapycollective.ca/our-team

Michelle Iacobucci, RP
Addiction Counselor

Michelle Iacobucci, RP

Registered Psychotherapist

Available for Online Therapy

Addiction is a multifaceted challenge, and understanding its roots is key to recovery. While I do not offer therapy sessions for addiction, we have several addiction specialists at Psychotherapy Collective who are available to schedule a free 15-minute consultation with you to ensure they are the proper fit for your journey. Visit our profiles at https://www.psychotherapycollective.ca/our-team

Ryta Marie Peschka, RP
Addiction Counselor

Ryta Marie Peschka, RP

Registered Psychotherapist

Available for Online Therapy

While substance use typically begins as recreational activity it can become habit forming and often develops addictive behaviors interfering with other areas of our lives, such as relationships, jobs, and finances. To increase awareness and insight into the reasons for using, I offer evidence-based treatment while providing you with options along the continuum of the Harm Reduction approach towards abstinence. We will explore any underlying emotional needs and relationships. By gaining insight to any ambivalent thoughts and feelings around changing patterns of substance misuse I will support you in the setting and achieving of personal goals. Schedule a free consultation today.

Jade Rabley, M.A
Addiction Counsellor

Jade Rabley, M.A

Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying)

In N6P 1E6 - Nearby to Aylmer.

As a therapist, I recognize the intricate web of challenges that addiction presents. Therapy offers a vital pathway to recovery where individuals can delve into the underlying factors driving their addictive behaviors. Through evidence-based techniques and personalized interventions, we work collaboratively to identify triggers, develop coping mechanisms, and cultivate resilience. Therapy also addresses co-occurring mental health issues, offering holistic support for healing. By fostering self-awareness and empowering clients to make positive choices, therapy facilitates profound transformations, guiding individuals towards lasting sobriety and a life of fulfillment.

Christine Court, SSW, BAHons, BSW, MSW, RSW
Addiction Counsellor

Christine Court, SSW, BAHons, BSW, MSW, RSW

Registered Social Worker/Psychotherapist

In N5H 2R3 - Nearby to Aylmer.

Addiction counselling sessions can explore the reasons why the addiction happened such as the behaviour and your motivations. This then helps you to become more aware of your actions and understand yourself better. This is very important in the process of recovery. Here are the ways that addiction counselling can help YOU recover. - It can strengthen your self-worth. - Help in developing healthier ways to manage stress. - Teach you how to properly react to triggers. - Strengthen your skills to deal with cravings - Assist in mending broken relationships because of addiction. - Encourage you to take your life back.

Amelia Holden, M.S.W., R.S.W.
Addiction Counsellor

Amelia Holden, M.S.W., R.S.W.

Registerd Social Worker

In N6C 3H1 - Nearby to Aylmer.

Addiction can be a mask to coping with other complicated issues and emotions in your life. I would assist the indivudal through therapy by giving them distress tolerance skills, validating but not always agreeing with their views, and help them to accept what they cannot change while changing what they have control over. Together we will unveil and understand their triggers thereby empowering them to battle against the addiction. Creating short term goals to build their confidence by utilizing other health coping mechanisms and then long term goals to develop a pathway to new transformation.

David Grand, MSW, RSW, PhD(c)
Addiction Counsellor

David Grand, MSW, RSW, PhD(c)

Registered Social Worker

In N5Y 5K7 - Nearby to Aylmer.

I view addiction from a holistic perspective, taking the entire person into account when providing therapeutic support. While addiction can emerge through a biological predisposition, it is also often related to how we have learned to cope with and navigate life’s challenges. I approach intervention from a trauma-informed perspective, helping clients to understand where addictive behaviour is being used to cope with unresolved emotional challenges. I also help clients to identify new ways of coping and develop healthier behaviours that contribute positively to well-being.

Mia Pintus, MSW RSW
Addiction Counsellor

Mia Pintus, MSW RSW

Registered Social Worker

In N6K 3N5 - Nearby to Aylmer.

Sometimes it's hard to see when something we enjoy is beginning to get out of control. It's not uncommon that loved ones are the first to point out that our use of something has become problematic. Alcohol, opiates, sex... if you are not sure if your use of something has crossed the line, call me. I offer non-judgemental counselling for people who struggle with symptoms of addiction. While social work cannot diagnose, I can most certainly assist you as you continue to explore your challenges at this time.

Barry Johnston-Spooner, M.Ed., R P
Addiction Counsellor

Barry Johnston-Spooner, M.Ed., R P

Registered Psychotherapist

In N6C 1Z7 - Nearby to Aylmer.

Sadly, addiction is more than a surface issue. It’s any habit that controls you - your own healthy perspective or behaviour compromised. It can be: smoking, drinking, drugs, gambling, gaming, shopping, fetishes, cutting, porn, unsafe sex, unhealthy eating, self negating, bulimia, compulsive message checking, even too much time online. Elimination or control of such a habit is only a partial answer. There’s more going on. What led you to develop the addiction in the first place? In therapy a key issue I will help you look into is what you can do instead. You can realize why you came to lean on an unhealthy behaviour, then learn to Mindfully notice other options you have in the moment.

Lynda Martens, MSc. RP, RMFT
Addiction Counsellor

Lynda Martens, MSc. RP, RMFT

Registered Psychotherapist, Registered Marriage and family Therapist

In N6C 2H9 - Nearby to Aylmer.

While I'm not an addiction specialist, I do have training in this area, and I can work with you to reduce or stop your use of addictive substances. We will work together to find the deep drives that feed the addiction. For example, is your addiction helping you feel less alone, less worthless, less powerless, or is it numbing some specific pain. We would look at how the addiction is affecting your life and how to use the supports around you to change your habits.

Emily Beeckmans, B.A., B.S.W., M.S.W., RSW
Addiction Counsellor

Emily Beeckmans, B.A., B.S.W., M.S.W., RSW

Emily Beeckmans

In N6C 3P4 - Nearby to Aylmer.

All of us experience addiction as part of our daily routine. However, when that addiction takes over and we loose sight of our priorities, it can destroy our lives. When a substance or habits interfere with our logical thinking and we prioritize our need to satisfy that craving over everything else it can ruin our life. Our relationship, families, friends and work can suffer and we often isolate ourselves to feed our addictions without judgment. I offer a safe place to honestly explore the impact of your addiction and to find ways to manage your urges to set you free. An addictions eliminates your ability to choose your actions, I can help you regain your strength to choose a healthy life

Kelly Appleby, MSW, RSW
Addiction Counsellor

Kelly Appleby, MSW, RSW

Registered Social Worker, Psychotherapist

In N6B 2M4 - Nearby to Aylmer.

As the great physician and teacher Gabor Mate states, "the opposite of addiction is not sobriety. The opposite of addiction is connection". People often develop an addiction as a way to cope and manage distressing feelings and thoughts. Addiction is a form of escape from what otherwise can feel very painful and uncomfortable, therefore addiction serves as temporary relief but unfortunately can cause longer term suffering. In counselling, you can explore the experiences which tend to lie at the root of an addiction, put voice to the things that have been hard to talk about, learn how to cope with uncomfortable emotions and sensations, and develop alternative coping tools.

Peter Dikih, H.B.Sc., M.Ed., R.P.
Addiction Counsellor

Peter Dikih, H.B.Sc., M.Ed., R.P.

Counsellor and Registered Psychotherapist

In N6A 1A8 - Nearby to Aylmer.

I have been helping individuals overcome their addictions since 1996. I have helped individuals who were addicted to drugs, alcohol, gambling and pornography. Given my experience working with addictions, I am able to determine if my counseling can be sufficient and or when other interventions would be more appropriate. If it is determined that outpatient or residential treatment is required, I have provided the support and assistance to individuals in preparing for and applying to appropriate treatment centres.

Sarah Graham, MA, RP
Addiction Counsellor

Sarah Graham, MA, RP

Registered Psychotherapist

In N0L 1G0 - Nearby to Aylmer.

There are many forms of addiction. In therapy we will explore your history, your values, and seek out an understanding of what has been missing for you. When we lean into substances or behaviours that become addictive there is often a sense of loss or absence. My clients begin to understand what they have missed out on and we identify what it is that they are truly seeking in their lives.

Yasmin Goldie, RP, RN
Addiction Counselor

Yasmin Goldie, RP, RN

Registered Psychotherapist, Registered Nurse

Available for Online Therapy

Substance Use Disorder (SUD) and Alcohol use disorder (AUD) can affect mental and physical health, relationships, work, and quality of life. There are many factors that contribute to drug and alcohol use and addiction counselling can help a person explore these factors as well discuss motivation to change the cycle of addiction. I use a blend of CBT and DBT to help give practical skills to help with cravings, emotional regulation and thought processes. Addiction counselling works to: • Strengthen a persons self-worth • Develop alternative ways to manage stress • Prepare and manage triggers • Develop skills to help manage cravings • Help with broken relationship

Chris Chmielewski, MSW, RSW,MA
Addiction Counsellor

Chris Chmielewski, MSW, RSW,MA

Psychotherapist; Registered Clinical Social Worker

In N6A 1M1 - Nearby to Aylmer.

A complex issue requiring discerning assessment. The most severe entail extensive brain changes however all have neurological aspects and individual susceptibility is an important factor. Yet esp non-substance based (eg, porn, gambling, food, sex, gaming) addictions are reversible through therapy . The approach in practice calls for amending this broad general term and defining it by how it functions: as a selected ‘reward system’ for managing past stressors that is now habituated, or for relieving current stressors impulsively/efficiently. However resulting in unrewarding consequences. From this perspective, many accurately focused interventions can be applied to change one's reward choice.

Robert Simms, MSW, RSW
Addiction Counsellor

Robert Simms, MSW, RSW

Registered Social Worker

In N5Y 3H5 - Nearby to Aylmer.

Addiction often occurs because of some other underlying issue, which could be ADHD, trauma, abuse, neglect, etc... We will work together to try and uncover what you are trying to bury or not acknowledge with the addiction. I will work with you on developing coping skills and strategies to reduce or stop the addiction (your choice), but until we get at the reason underneath, they are only going to provide a band aid solution. If you are ready to dig deep and more fully understand yourself, I'm ready to go on that journey with you.

Russell Stagg, MA, MC, LCT,RP
Addiction Counsellor

Russell Stagg, MA, MC, LCT,RP

Licensed Counselling Therapist, RP

In N6B 3J4 - Nearby to Aylmer.

If you come to me because YOU want to end your substance use or behaviour, I can help you. If you are still struggling with whether or not you want to quit, I can help you with that as well! I may suggest a rehab if that is what seems best. If you are already sober and are trying to remain that way, I will offer you the numerous tools of relapse prevention, including self-care, having a sponsor, and practising mindfulness.

Kristie Brassard, MSW, RSW
Addiction Counsellor

Kristie Brassard, MSW, RSW

Clinical Director, Registered Social Worker, Psychotherapist & Guide

In N5V 0A2 - Nearby to Aylmer.

One of our lovely psychotherapists, Cher, has spent the majority of her career supporting folks struggling with addiction and addictive behaviours. It’s something she’s passionate about! Using a variety of therapeutic interventions and a harm reduction approach, she supports her clients to discover and develop their version of a happy and healthy life. This may include helping people gain new perspectives and strategies for addressing struggles with interpersonal relationships, facing difficult emotions, healing past wounds, and exploring and understanding one’s self in new ways. She greets each of her clients with non-judgment and meets you where you’re at.

Patricia Berendsen, RMFT, RSW, RP, SEP
Addiction Counsellor

Patricia Berendsen, RMFT, RSW, RP, SEP

Psychotherapist, Registered Marriage and Family Therapist

In N6B 1T1 - Nearby to Aylmer.

Addictions can help us get through some challenges and maybe even have saved our life. Then there comes a time when addictions seem to get in the way and cause more trouble and more problems. Therapy can help to find different ways of coping. Learning other ways of handing stress and conflict helps quiet the compulsions. Counselling will help you take charge of your life.

Magdalena Karakehayova, RP
Addiction Counselor

Magdalena Karakehayova, RP

Registered Psychotherapist

Available for Online Therapy

Substance use can often feel like the only effective way of coping with traumatic events or challenging life circumstances. I believe that therapy should open space for clients to discuss their experience with substance use and what purpose this serves in their lives. I take a de-pathologizing stance and work collaboratively with clients to explore what substance use means to them and see how this fits with their ideas and hopes for their life and future. Schedule a free 15-minute consultation to ensure we are a good fit.

Kathy Nyman Counselling & Psychotherapy, M.Ed., RP
Addiction Counsellor

Kathy Nyman Counselling & Psychotherapy, M.Ed., RP

Registered Psychotherapist

In N6P 1B6 - Nearby to Aylmer.

I have offered support to those experiencing various addictions since 2010. My particular focus and specialty is supporting those who have experienced trauma and other negative life experiences that have driven them toward coping with substances. I offer a supportive and evidence based approach to people looking to reduce or discontinue using substances.


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Thank you for visiting our Ontario page of therapists in Aylmer who specialize in addictions in all forms- internet addiction, pornography and sex addictions, gambling, alcohol and drug abuse, shopping, and food addictions.  An addiction can destroy lives and relationships. Often times there is a codependent person somewhere in the sphere of an addict. Professional therapy from an addiction specialist in Aylmer, ON is a vital part of recoverey and healing. We are ready to help, let's get started.

Aylmer is located in Ontario, Canada. It has a land area of 6.26 square kilometers.  The population of Aylmer is 7,492 people with 2,961 households . The population ranking for Aylmer is #528 nationally and #182 for the province of Ontario with a density of 1197.60 people per sq km. Aylmer therapists serve postal code: N5H.