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1. Effective,
Compassionate
and Discreet
Counseling for
Drug and Alcohol
Addiction
Drug and Alcohol
Addiction

2. For professionals who have a lot of people
relying on them, the impact of addiction can be
widespread, hurting families, colleagues and
professional reputations that have taken years to
build. At Positive Sobriety Institute, we
understand that it can be difficult for
professionals to keep all of those balls in the air –
especially when coupled with addiction, mental
health or behavioral health issues.

3. During addiction treatment at PSI, our
experienced and multidisciplinary team
considers you as an individual and the
many roles you have as a professional,
parent, partner or spouse. In addiction
counseling, you will have the support of
other adults and professionals who also
know what it’s like to have many
responsibilities in life and to face similar
struggles.

4. Addiction counseling helps replace
self-destructive behaviors with
positive thoughts, feelings and
emotions so individuals can regain
control and develop healthy,
productive lives.

5. • The addiction counseling team at Positive
Sobriety Institute works to achieve the
following goals:
• Increase the individual’s motivation for
change. Teach how to break the addictive
cycle and establish abstinence.
• Teach the individual coping and problem
solving skills required to maintain sobriety over
the long-term. Teach how to cope with
cravings and how to avoid triggers that can
lead to relapse such as people, places and
things.
GOALS OF ADDICTION
COUNSELIN

6. GOALS OF ADDICTION
COUNSELING…
• Involve family members in the addiction
recovery plan. Family members who are
involved in the recovery process and who
participate in treatment activities can greatly
improve the success of treatment for the
addicted individual.
• Encourage participation in recovery support
groups. 12-Step groups such as Alcoholics
Anonymous, Narcotics Anonymous, and
Cocaine Anonymous are extremely valuable
support systems for recovering individuals.

7. Evidence-Based Addiction
Counseling Methods: Group
Therapy
Group therapy is an important, though often
misunderstood, component of addiction treatment. Group
therapy’s restorative effects emanate from the powerful
social bonds that form through shared experience. Group
therapy is a place to nurture healthy relationships, and to
demonstrate respect, compassion and empathy for others.
All are necessary for maintaining sobriety, and for
embarking on a happy, healthy life with fulfilling
relationships after treatment.

8. BENEFITS OF GROUP
THERAPY
• Learning that you’re not alone in your
struggles. Others have similar issues and
problems.
• Seeing the growth and learning from others
who are at different stages in recovery.
• Having the freedom to express feelings and
receive caring and objective feedback from
others.

9. BENEFITS OF GROUP
THERAPY…
• Taking responsibility for one’s choices
and behavior, and demonstrating
respect, compassion and empathy for
others.
• Having a safe place to take emotional
risks by trusting others and showing
vulnerability.

10. Specific Counseling Techniques: Cognitive
Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Motivational
Interviewing (MI)
In both individual and group therapy, talking
about issues and expressing thoughts, feelings
and experiences is a key element of treatment.
But addiction counseling isn’t just a time to chat.
Our team of board-certified psychiatrists,
licensed counselors and therapists uses
evidence-based, therapeutic approaches to
guide discussion and encourage self-discovery.

11. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) for
Addiction
CBT is a form of therapy utilized to treat a wide variety of mental
and psychological disorders, including depression, anxiety
disorders, addiction, chronic pain and eating disorders. CBT
asserts that what we think about our lives and circumstances
greatly influences our feelings and behavior. Negative or irrational
beliefs lead to poor behavioral choices. CBT has been shown to
help those with addictive disease more effectively recognize
stressors, triggers and practice self-regulation and self-monitoring
techniques.
Self-monitoring helps individuals tune in to feelings, behavioral
patterns or situations associated with drug or alcohol use. Being
aware of these triggers can help individuals plan changes to help
avoid relapse.

12. • In CBT, clients and practitioners form a therapeutic
alliance and begin to identify and understand problems
in terms of the relationship between thoughts, feelings
and behavior.
• In contrast to other forms of therapy which delve deeply
into early life experience, previous trauma, and family
dysfunction, CBT is here and now focused.
• CBT involves identifying distorted or irrational thinking,
defenses and unresolved wounds, and assists in
reframing beliefs, and changing maladaptive and
destructive behaviors.
Characteristics of CBT…

13. Characteristics of CBT…
• CBT emphasizes putting newly learned ideas
and behaviors into practice in the form of
behavioral “homework,” such as trying new
things.
• CBT assists in identifying situations and
environments that trigger the desire to use and
how to employ adaptive coping strategies.
• CBT helps with understanding biological and
emotional cues and sensations of craving and
self-defeating thoughts and behaviors

14. Motivational Interviewing (MI) for Addiction
Motivational interviewing strategically identifies
what a patient values the most, and uses that as
a catalyst for positive change. Motivational
interviewing techniques were developed
specifically for the treatment of substance use
disorders. The technique involves using an
empathic, nonjudgmental and supportive
approach to explore a patient’s values, beliefs
and personal goals. MI also examines any
ambivalence, or reluctance, about the changes
needed to live a sober life.

15. MOTIVATIONAL INTERVIEWING (MI)
FOR ADDICTION…
For example, many addicted persons are
unaware or only partially aware of the impact of
their disease on their loved ones. Motivational
interviewing openly and honestly examines the
issue, without judgment or harsh confrontation.
When a patient fully understands that their drug
use is causing shame and embarrassment for
their children, the motivation to change increases
and ambivalence about making those changes
decreases.

16. CHARACTERISTICS OF MOTIVATIONAL
INTERVIEWING
• Motivational Interviewing helps individuals
discover their true motivation for change, and
to make a personal commitment to invest in
treatment. MI has been used successfully in
addiction and eating disorder treatment, and
has been shown to increase adherence to
treatment.
• Counselors ask open-ended questions,
engage in reflective and empathetic listening,
reframing, and encourage questions and
dialogue.

17. CHARACTERISTICS OF
MOTIVATIONAL INTERVIEWING
• MI helps patients see how their drug and
alcohol use or other problematic behaviors
interfere with their personal goals and values.
• Instead of telling a patient how, or what to
change, the MI approach builds internal
motivation and elicits ideas from the individual
as to why they need to change.
• MI encourages self-efficacy and the power to
choose a different way of life.

18. Our unique blend of ongoing, effective therapies in a
private, comfortable setting, along with integration with
the larger professional recovery community, provides an
ideal environment for a lasting recovery.