Guiding Steps Psychotherapy, PLLC provides counseling to adolescents, adults, couples, and families. We specialize in treating trauma that comes from adverse childhood experiences and other circumstances which disrupt individuals' ability to maintain healthful social connections. The circumstances that cause trauma arise in families, schools, and workplaces that often perpetuate limiting and oppressive messages inherent in our culture. Trauma alienates people from themselves and others, causing a variety of problems such as anxiety, depression and addiction. We help people to change how they view themselves and others so that they can regain a sense of connection and control in themselves and their relationships.
Guiding Steps Psychotherapy, PLLC provides counseling to adolescents, adults, couples, and families. We specialize in treating trauma that comes from adverse childhood experiences and other circumstances which disrupt individuals' ability to maintain healthful social connections. The circumstances that cause trauma arise in families, schools, and workplaces that often perpetuate limiting and oppressive messages inherent in our culture. Trauma alienates people from themselves and others, causing a variety of problems such as anxiety, depression and addiction. We help people to change how they view themselves and others so that they can regain a sense of connection and control in themselves and their relationships.
Recovery from substance use is a difficult process. Recovering as a queer person can be more challenging. This is an open therapy group for LGBTQIA+ individuals who are on their recovery journey and are looking for support and guidance from those with experiences similar to their own. The goal is to create a safe space for those to share their experiences, give and receive support from those going through similar challenges, and gain a better understanding of the best ways to navigate their journey in recovery. This group uses a harm reduction lens to best support one another.
Hosted by Prism Counseling & Advocacy
Marriage & Family Therapist, PhD, LMFT, LMSW, CASAC
Group meets in Albany, NY 12206
Prism offers a range of therapists with backgrounds in Marriage and Family Therapy, Social Work, Substance Use, and Mental Health Counseling.
Recovery from substance use is a difficult process. Recovering as a queer person can be more challenging. This is an open therapy group for LGBTQIA+ individuals who are on their recovery journey and are looking for support and guidance from those with experiences similar to their own. The goal is to create a safe space for those to share their experiences, give and receive support from those going through similar challenges, and gain a better understanding of the best ways to navigate their journey in recovery. This group uses a harm reduction lens to best support one another.
This ONLINE weekly support group is for adults looking to begin, re-start, or maintain their recovery from alcohol or other drugs. The focus of the group is on the intersection of a life of sobriety with emotional well-being. Topics discussed are generated by group members. These include, but are not limited to, emotional development, anxiety, depression, work, family, health, relationships, recreation/hobbies, communication, empathy, personal growth, change, and adaptation. This group fosters an inclusive environment and welcomes all genders, sexual orientations, religions, and races. Multiple insurances accepted.
This ONLINE weekly support group is for adults looking to begin, re-start, or maintain their recovery from alcohol or other drugs. The focus of the group is on the intersection of a life of sobriety with emotional well-being. Topics discussed are generated by group members. These include, but are not limited to, emotional development, anxiety, depression, work, family, health, relationships, recreation/hobbies, communication, empathy, personal growth, change, and adaptation. This group fosters an inclusive environment and welcomes all genders, sexual orientations, religions, and races. Multiple insurances accepted.
A group dedicated to overcoming the stigma and supporting people struggling in their relationship with pornography.
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A group dedicated to overcoming the stigma and supporting people struggling in their relationship with pornography.
This group is for individuals who grew up in families with addiction or dysfunction. The group focuses on helping members gain insight into ways their growing up years negatively affected relationships and choices later in life. We use a combination of psycho-education by briefly reading from various materials, including the Big Red Book of ACOA, the Laundry List and the Inner Parent Loving Guidebook. Members also share ways in which they see ACOA traits showing up in their own lives today and explore ways to change maladaptive behaviors and responses to stressors.
Hosted by Terence Hoyt, LCSW-R
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LCSWRNY, LCSW-NJ, PhD, MSW
Group meets in Albany, NY 12205
This group is for individuals who grew up in families with addiction or dysfunction. The group focuses on helping members gain insight into ways their growing up years negatively affected relationships and choices later in life. We use a combination of psycho-education by briefly reading from various materials, including the Big Red Book of ACOA, the Laundry List and the Inner Parent Loving Guidebook. Members also share ways in which they see ACOA traits showing up in their own lives today and explore ways to change maladaptive behaviors and responses to stressors.
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This group is open to women who enjoy speaking with other women about life issues and experiences. There is a component of those who have struggled with alcoholism, and how that impacts their daily lives.
This group is open to women who enjoy speaking with other women about life issues and experiences. There is a component of those who have struggled with alcoholism, and how that impacts their daily lives.
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Addiction Support Groups
What is the best therapy for addiction?
Addiction treatment will be tailored to the individual. People seeking help for addiction—whether with a psychotherapist, in an outpatient clinic, or in a residential program—should expect to engage in multiple types of treatments, sometimes including medication. For anyone recovering from addiction, avoiding situations in which one has typically used a substance is essential, as is the support of close connections. Since substance use disorders tend to co-occur with underlying mental health conditions such as anxiety or depression, those must also be addressed as part of any recovery plan.
How long does therapy for addiction take?
There is no set timeline for recovery from addiction. Patients and their families should expect the work to last several months, if not longer. Residential treatment programs may be based on a stay of 30, 60, or 90 days, with continuing work after release, but only about 1 percent of people are treated in such facilities. Ceasing use is just the first step; therapy to help maintain abstinence and effect behavior change must follow. The process of recovery, neuroscience has shown, involves brain cells recovering the capacity to respond to natural sources of reward and restore control over the impulse to use. Another definition of recovery is restoring voluntary control over one’s substance use and retaking all of one’s previous responsibilities.
How effective is drug addiction treatment?
Substance use disorders are treatable and remission is achievable for many who seek recovery; by some estimates, more than three-quarters of people who become addicted to alcohol or drugs recover. But that success rarely occurs quickly or on a set timeline; relapse is not only common, but many therapists and clinicians view it as a normal part of the process—not always a sign that a person has returned to addiction, but a signal that their treatment should be adjusted to help them regain control. Overall, research suggests, five years after the end of substance use, one’s risk of relapse is no greater than that of others who had not faced addiction. Other experts believe that complete abstinence is not the only measure of recovery, and that, through effective treatment, many people can learn to control their use.
How can you get addiction treatment for someone?
The most important factor in recovery from addiction is widely understood to be an individual’s commitment to change. For that reason,“interventions” in which friends and family gather to urge or force someone to begin immediate treatment often backfire; even when such efforts do lead someone to begin treatment, they may be less likely to stay than those who are self-driven. Still, family members can play an important role in supporting an individual who seeks help and can take part in family therapy as one element of a loved one’s treatment.