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Nicole Aldridge
Pre-Licensed Professional, MS, RMHCI
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1 Endorsed
Miami, FL 33110  (Online Only)
Welcome to a space where understanding meets empathy, marking the beginning of your journey towards emotional resilience. If you find yourself navigating the complexities of your thoughts, behaviors, and emotions, you're in the right place. Meet Nicole, your compassionate guide on this path to self-discovery and healing. Nicole is a dedicated and empathetic master's level clinician and Registered Mental Health Counselor Intern, possessing a rich educational foundation that includes a degree in Psychology, a Master's in Early Childhood Education, and a Dual Master’s degree in School Counseling and Clinical Mental Health.
Welcome to a space where understanding meets empathy, marking the beginning of your journey towards emotional resilience. If you find yourself navigating the complexities of your thoughts, behaviors, and emotions, you're in the right place. Meet Nicole, your compassionate guide on this path to self-discovery and healing. Nicole is a dedicated and empathetic master's level clinician and Registered Mental Health Counselor Intern, possessing a rich educational foundation that includes a degree in Psychology, a Master's in Early Childhood Education, and a Dual Master’s degree in School Counseling and Clinical Mental Health.
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Norman Goldwasser
Psychologist, PhD
Verified Verified
Miami, FL 33110
My experience of 30 years of clinical practice has encompassed a wide range of issues and clients, including Narcissistic Personality; Gottman-trained, goal-oriented marital therapy; divorce mediation and co-parenting; multi-modal treatment of OCD and other anxiety-related disorders; substance abuse and behavior addictions, including sex, gambling, spending, and internet addictions; Adult and adolescent ADD; and trauma, and trauma-related phobias. With 25 years of intensive training and experience as an EMDR clinician and consultant, I use EMDR extensively, and use it to achieve timely and effective achievement of clients' goals.
My experience of 30 years of clinical practice has encompassed a wide range of issues and clients, including Narcissistic Personality; Gottman-trained, goal-oriented marital therapy; divorce mediation and co-parenting; multi-modal treatment of OCD and other anxiety-related disorders; substance abuse and behavior addictions, including sex, gambling, spending, and internet addictions; Adult and adolescent ADD; and trauma, and trauma-related phobias. With 25 years of intensive training and experience as an EMDR clinician and consultant, I use EMDR extensively, and use it to achieve timely and effective achievement of clients' goals.
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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.