Addiction Therapists in Phoenix, AZ.

Dr.Keller views Addiction as a serious and highly complex condition requiring a team approach. Dr. Keller frequently collaborates with psychiatrists and primary care physician with special certification in Addiction Medicine. Dr. Keller refers patients to 12 Step Programs and insists on patients working closlely with 12 Step Sponsors. At times Intensive Outpatient programs or Residential Treatment Centers are recommended. Cognitive Behavioral and Psychodynamic approaches are integrated into the psychotherapy as well as couples and family therapy. Harm reduction approaches along with psychiatric consultation are often recommended.

If you’re struggling with unhealthy habits or addictive behaviors, in some way it’s working for you. After all, they provide relief from stress and pain. But, if you’re reading this you also know that they aren’t a long-term solution. It’s common for successful men like yourself to use over-working, pornography, alcohol, technology, and emotional eating to cope with the stressful demands of life. As a Certified EMDR therapist, I won’t give you band-aid approaches to manage your stress or make you quit these behaviors. But if you’re actually ready for a change, I can help. Like an emotional surgeon, I'll help you identify the sources of your stress and pain, and heal them at the source.

We work with clients to understand how they may be using addictive behaviors to support them with regulation. Our goal is to work with clients to find other alternatives opposed to ignoring the need or the function that the addictive behaviors may have in supporting the client to feel more or less in their current situations. We believe that healing requires building a new life with new behaviors that serve you better but give you the same relief!

During my training, I was involved in dealing with all kinds of addictions in an in-patient setting. I have also directed an intensive out-patient program for substance abuse and, since 1985, have run a recovery program for men struggling with sex addiction and or infidelity. The program has been very successful by any measure. The men who remain in the group and gain a year of sobriety have done very well and many of them continue to return annually for an update and their next years' chip. The first 90 days are rather intense, with a combination of 1:1, Group and Couples counseling. Both the offender and spouse need help. It is much better if both parties receive help.

Sex addiction can cause problems in your daily life, relationships, career, health, finances and the law. Do you find yourself irritable if you do not have sex? Do you think about sex constantly? Have you tried to cut back unsuccessfully? You must identify your true needs and learn to get those needs met healthily. You must learn your addiction cycle and develop strategies to break that cycle. You must learn relapse prevention skills. Healthy living, including a healthy sex life, can be learned!

Helping those struggling with substance use is an underlying passion of mine upon which I have built much of my practice. Whether it's impulsivity, obsessive use, emotional dysregulation or numbing, I will work with you to maintain stability, increase vitality and rebuild connection in your life to loved ones, purpose and your inner sense of peace. I have several years in inpatient, outpatient, and residential treatment settings helping individuals and families put back in order, what addiction tore apart. I would be honored to hear your story and help you heal whether your course is abstinence, 12-Step or harm reduction. No judgment here. Only compassion and hope for your healing.

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.