Therapists in 02421
Marianne Parent
Counselor, LMHC, MA
Verified Verified
Lexington, MA 02421
Current space available - Recovery Group ($75Session). Call for intake. Embrace the Unknown with Certainty is a book I wrote following thirty years of clinical practice treating people with psychiatric, substance abuse, and dual diagnosis issues. I believe that when you learn from the past and use it as a stepping stone in the present, you can psychologically turn your past into a positive. I will teach you how create the life you desire by using the past to your advantage by overcoming historically painful experiences/regrets and challenging long held thinking and behavioral patterns.
Current space available - Recovery Group ($75Session). Call for intake. Embrace the Unknown with Certainty is a book I wrote following thirty years of clinical practice treating people with psychiatric, substance abuse, and dual diagnosis issues. I believe that when you learn from the past and use it as a stepping stone in the present, you can psychologically turn your past into a positive. I will teach you how create the life you desire by using the past to your advantage by overcoming historically painful experiences/regrets and challenging long held thinking and behavioral patterns.
Maggie Clune
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, MSW, LCSW, LICSW
Verified Verified
Lexington, MA 02421 (Online Only)
I am a caring, compassionate, professional therapist, highly experienced in providing individual, couples, family, and group therapy. My greatest asset is that I am highly committed to work with you in helping you experience relief from emotional pain, find fulfillment and love in your relationships with others, as well as peace, acceptance, and joy in your relationship with yourself. I consider my work my life's work. My clients find strength within themselves and in their relationships, as they seek to live with understanding and love more effectively each day. I am honored to be part of your journey.
I am a caring, compassionate, professional therapist, highly experienced in providing individual, couples, family, and group therapy. My greatest asset is that I am highly committed to work with you in helping you experience relief from emotional pain, find fulfillment and love in your relationships with others, as well as peace, acceptance, and joy in your relationship with yourself. I consider my work my life's work. My clients find strength within themselves and in their relationships, as they seek to live with understanding and love more effectively each day. I am honored to be part of your journey.
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Alcohol Use Therapists
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.