Top addiction therapists in 64747: Garden City, MO.

Addiction is the continued use of a mood altering substance or behavior despite adverse consequences. Therapy provides a safe and honest look at behaviors and thoughts leading up to where you are today, a step by step guide to begin to make changes, develop new social skills, and tools to repair broken relationships and a new community of supports. .

I utilize DBT skills to help clients dealing with addictions. Looking at addiction from an impulse issue helps clients to realize there is a reason for what they do. Addictions can range from drug, alcohol, food, gaming/electronics, gambling, sexual and spending to name a few. Learning to use DBT skills can help the client manage impulsive behaviors.

Debra Neal specializes in working with problem and compulsive behaviors--compulsive or problem gambling, alcohol and substance abuse, sex/pornography, internet gaming, debting, and eating disorders. Using motivational enhancement techniques and best practice therapies, Debra helps individuals, couples and families find hope, solutions, and freedom better way to live day to day.