Alcohol Use Therapists in Santa Rosa, CA
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Chanda Rankin
Psychologist, PhD, MA
Verified
Verified
I am a seasoned clinician with 25+ years of clinical experience. I see individual adults (18+) seeking help for a range of issues including: anxiety, depression, emotional trauma, relationship difficulties, partner betrayal, unresolved family of origin conflict, drug and
alcohol use
/addiction/recovery, grief and loss. Specialties: 1) substance use, from experimentation to long-term sobriety, including those affected by someone's use in the past or present, and 2) creativity and performing arts. I am a certified sex addiction therapist (CSAT), and partner betrayal specialist candidate (CCPS).

Dorothy Marie Mandel
Psychologist, PhD
Verified
Verified
Change is certain. How we respond to change, to stress, and to the challenges of life makes all the difference. Whether you suffer from anxiety, depression, PTSD, professional setbacks, creative blocks, family challenges, or marriage dissatisfaction, my job is to help you move forward. My intention is to provide a safe, and welcoming environment for you to gain the support you deserve. I invite you to learn new tools and strategies that can help you come away with more inner peace, clarity, resilience, and confidence. Together we can create a personalized and effective approach to help you quickly reach your goals.

Alyson Filippa, LCSW
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LCSW
Verified
1 Endorsed
Verified
1 Endorsed
The time has come do our healing. The world is changing rapidly and with force and we are being asked to show up and do our work. It is my belief and deep knowing that even though we may feel broken or lost, we are not. It is time to AWAKEN to your divinity and be fully alive! I am here to help you find your way to wellness, to your inner sense of wholeness and connection and to your ability to heal yourself. I am skilled in working with relationship issues, childbirth and parenting, grief and loss, divorce, depression, anxiety, and general personal growth. Let me hold space for you as you dive into your work. You've got this.

Keystone Therapy & Training Services
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LCSW
Verified
Verified
Sometimes looking for what you need is harder than you thought. Our Keystone team provides services that meet people in the different stages in their lives and goes along side you through your own self-determined growth process.

Reid Harper
Marriage & Family Therapist, MA, LMFT, CSRT
Verified
Verified
Are you ready to experience trust, intimacy, and love again? When these areas are compromised in any relationship, the health and vitality of that partnership suffers. When that relational damage is a result of infidelity, porn, affairs, on-line chats, or hook-ups, often, neither the partner nor the addict know where to turn for help. As a Certified Sexual Recovery Therapist, I am committed to providing a lifeline for both individuals and couples so that authentic communication and integrity can be restored.

Richard C Alongi
Marriage & Family Therapist, LMFT, CSAT, CPTT
Verified
2 Endorsed
Verified
2 Endorsed
In my practice, I attempt to address suffering: what makes us suffer, how we suffer, and how suffering can be alleviated. I enjoy working with clients who are struggling with life issues and are not afraid to take on the suffering consciously, with my support, in order to transform their lives. I specialize in the treatment of addictions of all kinds, but primarily chemical, co-dependency, sex and romance, and gambling. I also specialize in the treatment of trauma/PTSD, both from current life situations and from childhood experiences.

Richard H Von Feldt
Psychologist, PsyD
Verified
1 Endorsed
Verified
1 Endorsed
Dr. Von Feldt is a San Francisco Bay Area, licensed psychologist who specializes in addiction and prevention as well as dual diagnosis issues. In his practice Dr. Von Feldt works with adults, and families. Dr. Von Feldt offers a variety of empirically validated treatments to help his clients succeed. Through his friendly attitude, warm character and good sense of humor, Dr. Von Feldt fosters a sense of ease that helps clients focus on the changes they want to make.
Waitlist for new clients

Sean Rosas
Associate Clinical Social Worker, ASW
Verified
1 Endorsed
Verified
1 Endorsed
Is there something in your life that you want to change but are uncertain how to begin? I’m here to help. My goal is to help you get what you need by actively listening and providing you with the skills and tools to overcome your obstacles and make that change. Because every person is different, I offer a person-centered approach to exploring and tackling the unique challenges you’re experiencing. As an openly gay parent in a loving long-term interracial marriage, I provide a supportive, non-judgmental space for you to process and work through issues.

Todd A Hart
Marriage & Family Therapist, MA, LMFT
Verified
1 Endorsed
Verified
1 Endorsed
Life in today’s world is a challenge. Adding a worldwide pandemic, unprecedented unemployment, loss of a connection with family and friends, political uncertainty, civil unrest, and many other issues that we face daily has led many of us to a wide variety of issues. Does anxiety, depression, panic attacks, social isolation, drug and or alcohol problems, or any other issues sound familiar to you? You’re not alone many other people are currently struggling with these same issues. What you do now can and will affect your future.

Michael R. Newmark
Psychologist, PsyD
Verified
Verified
Life can be difficult, but you shouldn't have to take on its challenges alone. I'd like to provide a safe, supportive space for you to deal with those challenges, so that life feels manageable and even beautiful.

Sonoma County Counseling
Marriage & Family Therapist
Verified
1 Endorsed
Verified
1 Endorsed
Sonoma County Counseling provides exceptional personalized counseling services for clients of all ages. Sonoma County Counseling was founded with an eye on providing supportive cutting edge therapeutic counseling services to individuals and families, in a professional, welcoming, mindful, inclusive, and enriched environment. We welcome individuals, couples, and families. Sonoma County Counseling specializes in child therapy services that help children (ages 3 - 12), teenagers, and families, as well as adults who are living with acute or chronic mental health challenges.
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Reyna Seminara
Marriage & Family Therapist, LMFT
Verified
Verified
My therapy approach is client centered and relational and helps to resolve childhood and adult traumas, decrease stress, lessen grief, clear phobias, free creativity and enrich relationships. I believe that therapy is a joint effort and a relational process. You will provide the material and we will work together to help you heal old or stuck emotions, beliefs and behaviors that impact your life today. Through your work in therapy, you can change negative beliefs to positive self concepts, find humor and change unwanted behaviors. I will witness, accompany and guide you on your journey.

Lauren Schneider
Marriage & Family Therapist Associate, MA, AMFT
Verified
1 Endorsed
Verified
1 Endorsed
My style of engagement is non-hierarchical and non-pathologizing, and is rooted in and guided by a spirit of loving curiosity, compassion, and camaraderie. I am candid and enjoy *keeping it real* in ways that invite the authenticity and honesty that fuel growth and change. At the same time, I work with sensitive awareness and caring of the many aspects of each individual, of each aspect’s unique needs and desires, and of the need of each to be seen, understood and supported. This approach is the foundation for the collaborative work I do with my clients.

Tina Sandoval-Dyer
Marriage & Family Therapist, MA
Verified
Verified
Making that first call to a therapist can be frightening. Feelings of pride embarrassment, shame and or financial issues can get in the way of living a more fulfilled life. My focus is to provide a welcoming and safe environment and to lend support to couples, individuals and families who are facing life's many challenges. My specialty is in working with couples and relationships. I strongly believe that providing an opportunity for one to experience intense emotions along with the ability to communicate these feelings in a non destructive and respectful mannor is the first step in healing and strengthening a relationship.
Waitlist for new clients

Cindy McCarthy
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LCSW
Verified
Verified
Congratulations on taking this step, especially at this difficult, pandemic time. We can speak via phone, zoom, or FaceTime. In nearly 40 years of treatment, I have assisted many clients on the spectrum which ranges from: curiosity about past lives, managing minor life changes or ADHD assessments, to more complex issues of depression, anxiety, grief, and trauma. Unexpected life events, difficult phase-of-life issues, loss, and trauma are often painful and intense. I can help you to explore and to understand the thoughts and feelings which underlie your current concerns, whether they are new or have existed since childhood.

Juan Maillo
Marriage & Family Therapist, LMFT
Verified
1 Endorsed
Verified
1 Endorsed
We all encounter moments where we don't know how to change, specially how to change our thoughts and feelings. We get trapped in a cycle trying to get better, one where our critical voice(s) ends up making us feel a like a failure. Or sometimes we just can't do it anymore, a part of us wants to give up. When you learn to turn around and dialogue with those parts of you instead of fighting with them, you will realize that these parts were just trying to help you or protect you the only way they knew. Then, it becomes easier to be kind to them, to ourselves, and the transformation begins: you will be able let go of unproductive worry

Emilee Kerr
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LCSW
Verified
Verified
I’m passionate about working with adults to support wellness and healing. My goal is to be effective and authentic as I offer space to reflect on your past and present, as well as explore the different parts of yourself in order to grow toward the future that you want. I believe that every person has the capacity for healing and growth and its my job to be your %100 partner in your process. I often offer an internal focus in the therapeutic process as I have seen it can provide a very impactful experience for clients.

Rosa Toral
Marriage & Family Therapist, MA, LMFT
Verified
1 Endorsed
Verified
1 Endorsed
In life we all have opportunities for growth and change, and no one person or challenge is the same. Therapy can be a place to gain awareness, insight, and most importantly find the confidence and personal power to make changes. I work to help clients identify and acknowledge what is not working for them as well as find their own path toward solutions.

Pat Mitchell
CHT
I work with clients who want to resolve childhood trauma, quit smoking or other undesirable habits. Also clients who have anxiety, depression, phobias or were subjected to sexual molestation and PTSD, can be helped through hypnotherapy. Hypnotherapy can help to heal and change the negative programs from childhood and adult trauma too. Freud, Adler, and Jung used hypnosis. All the great founders in the field of psychology used hypnosis because it had proven its effectiveness. Hypnotherapy is unique because by going to the core problem it can quickly help you heal emotional wounds and have a new, more positive life.

Maitri Joy
Marriage & Family Therapist, CHT, LMFT, CLC
Verified
1 Endorsed
Verified
1 Endorsed
I offer couples & individuals opportunity to heal difficult communications, overwhelming emotions and painful trauma, I borrow practices from several spiritual traditions, Native American, Buddhist, & Hindu; integrating them with cutting-edge coaching, energetic training, and shamanic practices to offer you a profound approach to personal growth, emotional intimacy and spiritual development. I support couples in finding a joyous sacred intimacy through the healing of their emotional, physical and spiritual pain. For individuals, I guide you in the deep knowing of yourself for emotional, mental and spiritual growth and awakening.
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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.