Alcohol Use Therapists in 98118
I’m a licensed psychologist with over 30 years of experience; primarily providing behavioral health services in a primary care setting. I have a passion for helping people make changes to improve their psychological and physical health/wellbeing. I have a wealth of experience treating a wide range of behavioral and health issues.
I’m a licensed psychologist with over 30 years of experience; primarily providing behavioral health services in a primary care setting. I have a passion for helping people make changes to improve their psychological and physical health/wellbeing. I have a wealth of experience treating a wide range of behavioral and health issues.
As an organization we recognize that QTBIPoC folx tend to experience disproportionate amounts of mental health disparities due to large gaps in our current mental healthcare system. Here at MEND we believe that part of addressing those gaps is through the consistency of our intersectional feminist lens. In an effort to promote equity, we are expanding our team and client population to include members who hold identities that have not traditionally been offered at MEND. And while we center supporting QTBIPoC folx, we also offer services to those who do not hold these identities.
As an organization we recognize that QTBIPoC folx tend to experience disproportionate amounts of mental health disparities due to large gaps in our current mental healthcare system. Here at MEND we believe that part of addressing those gaps is through the consistency of our intersectional feminist lens. In an effort to promote equity, we are expanding our team and client population to include members who hold identities that have not traditionally been offered at MEND. And while we center supporting QTBIPoC folx, we also offer services to those who do not hold these identities.
Alford Counseling and Recovery, PLLC
Counselor, MA, LMHCA, SUDP
Verified Verified
2 Endorsed
Seattle, WA 98118
My approach is tailored to meet your goals and may include helping you solve your problems, develop your strengths, and provide skills to increase your daily life effectiveness. Often, this process involves giving attention to the thoughts, feelings, behaviors, and experiences that hinder living a balanced and meaningful life. My deliverance when working with clients is client-centered, collaborative, and non-judgmental.
My approach is tailored to meet your goals and may include helping you solve your problems, develop your strengths, and provide skills to increase your daily life effectiveness. Often, this process involves giving attention to the thoughts, feelings, behaviors, and experiences that hinder living a balanced and meaningful life. My deliverance when working with clients is client-centered, collaborative, and non-judgmental.
Molly Coffin Therapy
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LSWAIC, PMH-C
Verified Verified
4 Endorsed
Seattle, WA 98118
Being in relationship with others without losing ourselves can be challenging. It is especially hard during periods of transition, when we're taking on a new role or just getting used to living in a new place. I am a therapist who listens closely, with curiosity, and who will support you in processing loss, finding or amplifying your voice, and rebuilding your sense of self as you navigate change. With humor and compassion, I will guide you toward making conscious choices that align with your values and goals.
Being in relationship with others without losing ourselves can be challenging. It is especially hard during periods of transition, when we're taking on a new role or just getting used to living in a new place. I am a therapist who listens closely, with curiosity, and who will support you in processing loss, finding or amplifying your voice, and rebuilding your sense of self as you navigate change. With humor and compassion, I will guide you toward making conscious choices that align with your values and goals.
My treatment approach is rooted in my relationship with each individual, and blends client experience, clinical expertise, and evidence-based practices to move toward identified goals. It is collaborative, client-centered, and practical. My aim is to provide a context for healing and growth, so that clients can move toward what is most important and meaningful to them. I bring my personal values of compassion, curiosity, & present-centeredness to sessions. I am gentle & supportive, yet direct & goal-oriented. I am passionate about helping people suffer less and fully live their best lives.
My treatment approach is rooted in my relationship with each individual, and blends client experience, clinical expertise, and evidence-based practices to move toward identified goals. It is collaborative, client-centered, and practical. My aim is to provide a context for healing and growth, so that clients can move toward what is most important and meaningful to them. I bring my personal values of compassion, curiosity, & present-centeredness to sessions. I am gentle & supportive, yet direct & goal-oriented. I am passionate about helping people suffer less and fully live their best lives.
Do you sometimes feel like your emotions get the best of you, getting in the way of doing what is most important to you? Or do you have difficulty feeling or expressing emotions and communicating how you feel to other people? I help clients develop wise mind - the integration of emotions and intuition with reasoning and logic. I love to work with dreamers, people with the passion and purpose to remake our society. I am a good fit if you are a person who seeks out therapy because you understand that justice in the world begins with healing ourselves from the inside out.
Do you sometimes feel like your emotions get the best of you, getting in the way of doing what is most important to you? Or do you have difficulty feeling or expressing emotions and communicating how you feel to other people? I help clients develop wise mind - the integration of emotions and intuition with reasoning and logic. I love to work with dreamers, people with the passion and purpose to remake our society. I am a good fit if you are a person who seeks out therapy because you understand that justice in the world begins with healing ourselves from the inside out.
I work with you to uncover underlying self destructive belief/ behavior patterns, then move into more life-enhancing patterns. My approach is culturally aware, founded in understanding the relationships systems within which you live and work, and guided by my intuitive knowledge of change and growth acquired during over 20 years of experience. My advanced training in EMDR eases your movement through grief, loss or trauma. Accountability and "keeping an eye on the goal" is an important part of our work together. I also specialize in LGBTQ concerns as well as the specific pain of the adult adoptee.
I work with you to uncover underlying self destructive belief/ behavior patterns, then move into more life-enhancing patterns. My approach is culturally aware, founded in understanding the relationships systems within which you live and work, and guided by my intuitive knowledge of change and growth acquired during over 20 years of experience. My advanced training in EMDR eases your movement through grief, loss or trauma. Accountability and "keeping an eye on the goal" is an important part of our work together. I also specialize in LGBTQ concerns as well as the specific pain of the adult adoptee.
It's no small thing to ask for help. At whatever pace feels comfortable we'll look at your situation and try to sort out what might be keeping you from the kind of life you want. Together we'll map out short and longer-term goals, developing tools to help you cope with things that right now might feel too big to handle. I strive to create a safe place to be curious about what things in your life are working and what things may need to change.
It's no small thing to ask for help. At whatever pace feels comfortable we'll look at your situation and try to sort out what might be keeping you from the kind of life you want. Together we'll map out short and longer-term goals, developing tools to help you cope with things that right now might feel too big to handle. I strive to create a safe place to be curious about what things in your life are working and what things may need to change.
As a queer, trans, nonbinary therapist with thirteen years of experience, I’m dedicated to providing compassionate and inclusive support to LGBTQIA+ individuals. My work is grounded in an anti-racist framework, ensuring that every aspect of our sessions honors and addresses the complexities of identity and systemic inequality. My passion includes working with diverse identities and communities, from polyamory and kink to perinatal and family-building concerns, with a particular focus on queer and trans individuals. As a parent, I bring a deep understanding of family dynamics and the unique challenges faced during transitions.
As a queer, trans, nonbinary therapist with thirteen years of experience, I’m dedicated to providing compassionate and inclusive support to LGBTQIA+ individuals. My work is grounded in an anti-racist framework, ensuring that every aspect of our sessions honors and addresses the complexities of identity and systemic inequality. My passion includes working with diverse identities and communities, from polyamory and kink to perinatal and family-building concerns, with a particular focus on queer and trans individuals. As a parent, I bring a deep understanding of family dynamics and the unique challenges faced during transitions.
Wayne Allen Smith
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LCSW, LICSW
Verified Verified
1 Endorsed
Seattle, WA 98118 (Online Only)
In therapy, my approach is nondirective, genuine, warm, and empathic. I am nonjudgmental, accepting, and understanding. I follow my clients as they focus on whatever feels most important to them. I am experienced helping clients with anxiety mood problems, life transitions, discrimination bias, relationship conflict, career/work challenges, and healing from past trauma.
In therapy, my approach is nondirective, genuine, warm, and empathic. I am nonjudgmental, accepting, and understanding. I follow my clients as they focus on whatever feels most important to them. I am experienced helping clients with anxiety mood problems, life transitions, discrimination bias, relationship conflict, career/work challenges, and healing from past trauma.
Something’s not right, and maybe it hasn’t been for a while, but you know it’s time to make some changes. If you (or you & your partner) need help making that change, I’d be honored to work with you. I take a flexible approach, bringing thoughtfulness and creativity to the process to meet you where you are. Here are areas I help people with most often: anxiety & stress, depression, couples counseling (Gottman Method), trauma (Brainspotting), career counseling & life design, substance use & addiction, men's issues, life transitions, anger, mindfulness, and grief.
Something’s not right, and maybe it hasn’t been for a while, but you know it’s time to make some changes. If you (or you & your partner) need help making that change, I’d be honored to work with you. I take a flexible approach, bringing thoughtfulness and creativity to the process to meet you where you are. Here are areas I help people with most often: anxiety & stress, depression, couples counseling (Gottman Method), trauma (Brainspotting), career counseling & life design, substance use & addiction, men's issues, life transitions, anger, mindfulness, and grief.
Ann Marie Roepke
Psychologist, PhD
Verified Verified
3 Endorsed
Seattle, WA 98118
Not accepting new clients
I love helping people with anxiety, including panic, stress, social anxiety, OCD, and posttraumatic stress. I also help with issues that often come with anxiety, including insomnia, depression, alcohol/substance use, pain, and a desire for resilience. I primarily offer cognitive-behavioral therapies with good scientific backing, and I combine non-judgmental support + practical skills. Finding a therapist who is a good "fit” is important, so I offer a free 20-minute phone consult to help you decide if my approach is a good match for you. Apart from therapy, I offer professional coaching to help people do well + feel well at work.
I love helping people with anxiety, including panic, stress, social anxiety, OCD, and posttraumatic stress. I also help with issues that often come with anxiety, including insomnia, depression, alcohol/substance use, pain, and a desire for resilience. I primarily offer cognitive-behavioral therapies with good scientific backing, and I combine non-judgmental support + practical skills. Finding a therapist who is a good "fit” is important, so I offer a free 20-minute phone consult to help you decide if my approach is a good match for you. Apart from therapy, I offer professional coaching to help people do well + feel well at work.
Through my life and work experience, I learned to view my work through the lens of anti-oppression: I acknowledge the impact that systemic, cultural, and societal expectations have on our daily existence and sense of self. We all carry with us a unique set of intersecting identities, which, taken together, influence our life experiences and shape our worldview. I believe that the foundation of mental health exists in the exploration of these identities and the radical acceptance of our whole selves.
Through my life and work experience, I learned to view my work through the lens of anti-oppression: I acknowledge the impact that systemic, cultural, and societal expectations have on our daily existence and sense of self. We all carry with us a unique set of intersecting identities, which, taken together, influence our life experiences and shape our worldview. I believe that the foundation of mental health exists in the exploration of these identities and the radical acceptance of our whole selves.
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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.