Alcohol Use Therapists in Montréal, QC
Are you struggling with addiction and addictive behaviors? Have you tried to make changes in your life but keep falling into the same repetitive patterns? Whether it be alcohol, drugs, gambling, sex, video games, or any other addictive behavior, making positive changes alone can be very difficult.
Are you struggling with addiction and addictive behaviors? Have you tried to make changes in your life but keep falling into the same repetitive patterns? Whether it be alcohol, drugs, gambling, sex, video games, or any other addictive behavior, making positive changes alone can be very difficult.
As a registered drama therapist I combine creative interventions and verbal processing to help individuals process their thoughts, feelings, and emotions, develop coping skills and rehearse for life. Using a client-centred approach, I meet the person where they are, discover their strengths, and facilitate their growth and development. I also help clients foster creativity in their daily lives to encourage wellness. I have experience working with queer and trans folks, individuals living with HIV/AIDS, substance users, those experiencing grief or feeling lost and people having trouble regulating mood, behaviour, and anxiety.
As a registered drama therapist I combine creative interventions and verbal processing to help individuals process their thoughts, feelings, and emotions, develop coping skills and rehearse for life. Using a client-centred approach, I meet the person where they are, discover their strengths, and facilitate their growth and development. I also help clients foster creativity in their daily lives to encourage wellness. I have experience working with queer and trans folks, individuals living with HIV/AIDS, substance users, those experiencing grief or feeling lost and people having trouble regulating mood, behaviour, and anxiety.
If you're searching for a psychologist who combines the latest in evidence-based treatments with a deeply caring and supportive approach, I'm here to help. I have worked in various community and hospital settings, specializing in the treatment of depression (including self-esteem, perfectionism), trauma, substance misuse, and emotion dysregulation (including emotional avoidance, borderline personality). I believe that one size does not fit all, which is why I integrate evidence-based treatments, such as DBT and CBT, with new research and therapeutic approaches to meet the unique goals and needs of each individual.
If you're searching for a psychologist who combines the latest in evidence-based treatments with a deeply caring and supportive approach, I'm here to help. I have worked in various community and hospital settings, specializing in the treatment of depression (including self-esteem, perfectionism), trauma, substance misuse, and emotion dysregulation (including emotional avoidance, borderline personality). I believe that one size does not fit all, which is why I integrate evidence-based treatments, such as DBT and CBT, with new research and therapeutic approaches to meet the unique goals and needs of each individual.
I have spent my professional life working with individuals suffering from mental health issues. I am interested in helping to cultivate conditions that promote recovery. The ideal client would want to understand their role in this process and be willing to work collaboratively on a therapeutic plan. I am best reached by email.
I have spent my professional life working with individuals suffering from mental health issues. I am interested in helping to cultivate conditions that promote recovery. The ideal client would want to understand their role in this process and be willing to work collaboratively on a therapeutic plan. I am best reached by email.
Most people (or couples) reach out to begin psychotherapy when they are feeling lost, unhappy, lonely or that something needs to change. Often, they do not know what that is, but feel they need some assistance and guidance in examining the more hidden corners of themselves and their lives. Therapy is different with every person, and is therefore a very personal journey. I am a licensed psychologist who works with adults and couples struggling with depression, anxiety, eating issues, parenting struggles, or difficulties in any important domains of their lives. I help couples having a hard time reach each other in important ways.
Most people (or couples) reach out to begin psychotherapy when they are feeling lost, unhappy, lonely or that something needs to change. Often, they do not know what that is, but feel they need some assistance and guidance in examining the more hidden corners of themselves and their lives. Therapy is different with every person, and is therefore a very personal journey. I am a licensed psychologist who works with adults and couples struggling with depression, anxiety, eating issues, parenting struggles, or difficulties in any important domains of their lives. I help couples having a hard time reach each other in important ways.
Ressentez-vous que l’anxiété, la dépression, les dépendances, les difficultés relationnelles ou la perte de repères affectent votre quotidien, vos relations ou votre carrière ? Aujourd’hui plus que jamais, de nombreuses personnes ressentent de l’anxiété, de l’incertitude et un sentiment de déconnexion face à soi-même et les autres. Éviter d’adresser ces difficultés peut entraîner une détresse plus profonde, un isolement ou une perte de sens. Nous croyons qu’il ne devrait pas être aussi difficile de vivre mieux—le changement est possible, et il y a de l’espoir.
Ressentez-vous que l’anxiété, la dépression, les dépendances, les difficultés relationnelles ou la perte de repères affectent votre quotidien, vos relations ou votre carrière ? Aujourd’hui plus que jamais, de nombreuses personnes ressentent de l’anxiété, de l’incertitude et un sentiment de déconnexion face à soi-même et les autres. Éviter d’adresser ces difficultés peut entraîner une détresse plus profonde, un isolement ou une perte de sens. Nous croyons qu’il ne devrait pas être aussi difficile de vivre mieux—le changement est possible, et il y a de l’espoir.
My services cover a wide range of issues, including LGBTQIA2S+, polyamory, intimate partner violence, sexual violence, eating disorders, exploration of and guidance in the process of affirming one's gender, as well as support in managing stress, anxiety and many other psychosocial and mental health issues.
My services cover a wide range of issues, including LGBTQIA2S+, polyamory, intimate partner violence, sexual violence, eating disorders, exploration of and guidance in the process of affirming one's gender, as well as support in managing stress, anxiety and many other psychosocial and mental health issues.
Over the years as a helping professional I realized that people care less about clever language and elaborate techniques and more about receiving sincere love and compassion, living hope and courage, honest feedback, and new perspectives. What proved to help is having the mutual trust to explore and work on intimate, sometimes painful topics, step-by-step. Together, we invite your strengths and natural wisdom to take the steering wheel of your life, letting go of the grasp of your fears and limiting self-beliefs. Together, we also help you chose and create new habits towards a better ways of being.
Over the years as a helping professional I realized that people care less about clever language and elaborate techniques and more about receiving sincere love and compassion, living hope and courage, honest feedback, and new perspectives. What proved to help is having the mutual trust to explore and work on intimate, sometimes painful topics, step-by-step. Together, we invite your strengths and natural wisdom to take the steering wheel of your life, letting go of the grasp of your fears and limiting self-beliefs. Together, we also help you chose and create new habits towards a better ways of being.
Struggling with depression, anxiety, interpersonal challenges, feeling caught between cultural expectations and your own identity? I help individuals and couples find inner peace, healing, and resilience so they can feel more grounded and fulfilled. For over 13 years, I have been providing support to clients in private practice, hospitals, and NGOs, drawing on both Western psychoanalysis and Eastern perspectives. My collaborative approach affirms all aspects of identity — including gender, culture, race, and spirituality — while creating a safe and supportive space for LGBTQ+ voices.
Struggling with depression, anxiety, interpersonal challenges, feeling caught between cultural expectations and your own identity? I help individuals and couples find inner peace, healing, and resilience so they can feel more grounded and fulfilled. For over 13 years, I have been providing support to clients in private practice, hospitals, and NGOs, drawing on both Western psychoanalysis and Eastern perspectives. My collaborative approach affirms all aspects of identity — including gender, culture, race, and spirituality — while creating a safe and supportive space for LGBTQ+ voices.
You may be here because you’re feeling stuck, overwhelmed by emotion, unsure of your next steps, or sensing that you’re not living the life you’re meant to live. A part of you knows that something needs to shift—not through quick fixes, but through a deeper, more meaningful journey. Therapy can be a place to slow down, make sense of your inner world, and reconnect with yourself. Together, we’ll explore what lies beneath the surface—patterns, wounds, beliefs—and help you move toward clarity, wholeness, and a life that feels aligned. My approach blends gentle inquiry with compassionate challenge, allowing insight to arise organically.
You may be here because you’re feeling stuck, overwhelmed by emotion, unsure of your next steps, or sensing that you’re not living the life you’re meant to live. A part of you knows that something needs to shift—not through quick fixes, but through a deeper, more meaningful journey. Therapy can be a place to slow down, make sense of your inner world, and reconnect with yourself. Together, we’ll explore what lies beneath the surface—patterns, wounds, beliefs—and help you move toward clarity, wholeness, and a life that feels aligned. My approach blends gentle inquiry with compassionate challenge, allowing insight to arise organically.
La croissance est un voyage nécessitant soutien et confiance. Thérapeute bilingue depuis plus de 25 ans d’expérience, j’offre une approche chaleureuse et créative, axée sur les forces, adaptée à vos besoins. J'utilise diverses méthodes pour développer des compétences émotionnelles et relationnelles durables.
Growth is a journey needing support and trust. As a bilingual therapist with over 25 years of experience, I offer a warm, creative, strengths-based approach, tailoring interventions to your needs. I use diverse methods to help you build emotional and relational skills for lasting change.
La croissance est un voyage nécessitant soutien et confiance. Thérapeute bilingue depuis plus de 25 ans d’expérience, j’offre une approche chaleureuse et créative, axée sur les forces, adaptée à vos besoins. J'utilise diverses méthodes pour développer des compétences émotionnelles et relationnelles durables.
Growth is a journey needing support and trust. As a bilingual therapist with over 25 years of experience, I offer a warm, creative, strengths-based approach, tailoring interventions to your needs. I use diverse methods to help you build emotional and relational skills for lasting change.
I provide clients with a space in which they feel safe, valued, comfortable, and heard. As someone with lived experience, I am all too familiar with the challenges of addiction and the destructive tendencies that accompany them. I want to validate your experiences: You are not alone. Let's take the first step together.
I provide clients with a space in which they feel safe, valued, comfortable, and heard. As someone with lived experience, I am all too familiar with the challenges of addiction and the destructive tendencies that accompany them. I want to validate your experiences: You are not alone. Let's take the first step together.
The Centre for Psychodynamic Insights is a virtual psychotherapy clinic based in Toronto, Ontario, specializing in Psychodynamic psychotherapy. This approach focuses on revealing, understanding, and resolving underlying emotions and root causes of symptoms through evidence-based interventions and a comprehensive treatment plan. With an in-depth collaborative discussion and analysis of unconscious thoughts and emotions from childhood until the present day, we can explore how they inform us today to help relieve symptoms and develop targeted strategies to foster change.
The Centre for Psychodynamic Insights is a virtual psychotherapy clinic based in Toronto, Ontario, specializing in Psychodynamic psychotherapy. This approach focuses on revealing, understanding, and resolving underlying emotions and root causes of symptoms through evidence-based interventions and a comprehensive treatment plan. With an in-depth collaborative discussion and analysis of unconscious thoughts and emotions from childhood until the present day, we can explore how they inform us today to help relieve symptoms and develop targeted strategies to foster change.
Tom Caplan, MSW, MFT is a licensed Social worker (OTSTCFQ), Marriage and Family Therapist and Supervisor (AAMFT/CAMFT), and psychotherapist (OPQ) in private practice who works with individuals, couples, families and groups. He was an Adjunct Professor at McGill University (Ret.) in the School of Social Work and consultant to the McGill Domestic Violence Clinic, Montreal Anger Management Centre and the Caplan Therapy Centre. He is also a designated expert in Domestic Violence and Generalized Violence for the Quebec Court System. Tom is on staff at the Cree Baord of Health and is a contractor for KSCS.
Tom Caplan, MSW, MFT is a licensed Social worker (OTSTCFQ), Marriage and Family Therapist and Supervisor (AAMFT/CAMFT), and psychotherapist (OPQ) in private practice who works with individuals, couples, families and groups. He was an Adjunct Professor at McGill University (Ret.) in the School of Social Work and consultant to the McGill Domestic Violence Clinic, Montreal Anger Management Centre and the Caplan Therapy Centre. He is also a designated expert in Domestic Violence and Generalized Violence for the Quebec Court System. Tom is on staff at the Cree Baord of Health and is a contractor for KSCS.
My approach can be described as strength-based and client-centered. I believe that the client must feel empowered, supported and dignified at all times. Clients who have had complicated lives, will often have trouble envisioning positive outcomes to their life story. This can impede and prevent growth and self- fulfillment. My job is to help clients to identify obstacles, work through impeding emotions, and arm them with new strategies. The effort should be collaborative. With my guidance, clients can shed their "negative narrative" and thus feel a sense of renewed hope. The future should seem one of possibility.
My approach can be described as strength-based and client-centered. I believe that the client must feel empowered, supported and dignified at all times. Clients who have had complicated lives, will often have trouble envisioning positive outcomes to their life story. This can impede and prevent growth and self- fulfillment. My job is to help clients to identify obstacles, work through impeding emotions, and arm them with new strategies. The effort should be collaborative. With my guidance, clients can shed their "negative narrative" and thus feel a sense of renewed hope. The future should seem one of possibility.
If today seems like an interminable day, and sets the stage for a profound apprehension for tomorrow, whether individually, within your couple or your family; it is maybe time to consult. Whomever you choose, be sure to be comfortable and feel safe. If you are interested in someone who has a compassionate ear and a reassuring expertise, perhaps we could work collaboratively at finding ways to foster harmony, confidence and peace for you and your close ones. Trained as Couple and Family Therapist at Syracuse University, I work as much with couples, families as individuals.
If today seems like an interminable day, and sets the stage for a profound apprehension for tomorrow, whether individually, within your couple or your family; it is maybe time to consult. Whomever you choose, be sure to be comfortable and feel safe. If you are interested in someone who has a compassionate ear and a reassuring expertise, perhaps we could work collaboratively at finding ways to foster harmony, confidence and peace for you and your close ones. Trained as Couple and Family Therapist at Syracuse University, I work as much with couples, families as individuals.
If you are struggling in your life, and want a safe, supportive environment in which to gain insight and coping skills, I would like to help you achieve that. My clients tell me they feel heard and empowered to make meaningful changes in their lives, whether it be in their behaviour (addictions, impulsivity, activation), thinking and emotional patterns (anxiety, depression, stress) or relationships (couple difficulties, parenting, family of origin).
If you are struggling in your life, and want a safe, supportive environment in which to gain insight and coping skills, I would like to help you achieve that. My clients tell me they feel heard and empowered to make meaningful changes in their lives, whether it be in their behaviour (addictions, impulsivity, activation), thinking and emotional patterns (anxiety, depression, stress) or relationships (couple difficulties, parenting, family of origin).
Yes , you can get better and live a happier and healthier life! In my work with my clients I am committed to helping and encouraging individuals and couples to find healthy and successful ways to become directors in their own lives.Clients are offered therapies that promote understanding, self expression, and self esteem which will ultimately lead you to being in charge of your own life. In a safe, supportive and non-judgmental environment we can build unique relationship that could transform your lives. Therapy is a journey of self- discovery and growth - let's embark on this journey together.
Yes , you can get better and live a happier and healthier life! In my work with my clients I am committed to helping and encouraging individuals and couples to find healthy and successful ways to become directors in their own lives.Clients are offered therapies that promote understanding, self expression, and self esteem which will ultimately lead you to being in charge of your own life. In a safe, supportive and non-judgmental environment we can build unique relationship that could transform your lives. Therapy is a journey of self- discovery and growth - let's embark on this journey together.
For over 20 years I have worked with adults facing difficult life stressors including relationship difficulties, separation, divorce, trauma, substance abuse, medical issues, grief issues. I work with clients in an empathic way which fosters self-awareness and positive change. I integrate resilience principles and insight oriented/interpersonal strategies with cognitive-behavioral therapy, to promote coping skills and build self esteem. My specialties include depression, anxiety, trauma, relationship difficulties and grief.
For over 20 years I have worked with adults facing difficult life stressors including relationship difficulties, separation, divorce, trauma, substance abuse, medical issues, grief issues. I work with clients in an empathic way which fosters self-awareness and positive change. I integrate resilience principles and insight oriented/interpersonal strategies with cognitive-behavioral therapy, to promote coping skills and build self esteem. My specialties include depression, anxiety, trauma, relationship difficulties and grief.
Life transitions and relationships mixed in with capitalism, colonialism and climate crisis can be a whirlwind to navigate. Our sessions will acknowledge systemic barriers to mental health, ways in which your body has adapted and survived and assess what your nervous system needs to move through these muddy waters.
Life transitions and relationships mixed in with capitalism, colonialism and climate crisis can be a whirlwind to navigate. Our sessions will acknowledge systemic barriers to mental health, ways in which your body has adapted and survived and assess what your nervous system needs to move through these muddy waters.
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Are there specific medications for alcohol use?
There are oral medications approved to treat alcohol use disorder—such as disulfiram, acamprosate, and naltrexone, which also comes in an injectable form. These medications do help people reduce their drinking as well as avoid the problem of relapse. Naltrexone helps reduce cravings, disulfiram can make a person feel sick when they drink, and acamprosate may help ease symptoms like poor sleep and anxious feelings.
How do alcohol recovery or rehabilitation programs work?
In inpatient programs, individuals live in a facility with other patients in recovery; in outpatient programs,individuals live at home. These facilities are staffed with healthcare professionals including physicians, nurses, psychologists, counselors, and psychotherapists. Staff can also include people who have recovered themselves, serving as mentors and guides. These programs may use abstinence, harm reduction, detoxification, psychotherapy, and other tools for recovery.
How do 12-step programs combined with psychotherapy work?
Members of 12-step programs help each other reach abstinence and work to maintain it. These programs promote complete change in the individual’s emotional, mental, physical, and even spiritual perspectives. Some programs require that new members attend 90 meetings in 90 days. Many people do attend these programs in conjunction with their work in psychotherapy; the combination of therapy along with 12-step can be extremely effective.
How does harm reduction combined with psychotherapy work?
According to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, harm reduction prevents death, injury, disease, overdose, and substance misuse. People who choose harm reduction for alcohol use reduce the amount of alcohol they intake. It is not abstinence-based like a 12-step program, but combining harm reduction with psychotherapy proves to be effective for many people.