Treatment

Addiction Therapy — What Treatment Actually Involves

Addiction therapy is not primarily about stopping. Most people with a serious addiction have stopped many times. The question is not how to stop — it is how to build a life in which the addiction is no longer necessary.

What therapy addresses

Effective addiction treatment works at several levels simultaneously. The immediate compulsion. The psychological function the addiction has been serving. The patterns of thinking and relating that sustain it. The damage it has caused — to relationships, to self-esteem, to physical health. And the question of what recovery actually looks like for this particular person.

Eating Disorder Recovery — What It Actually Requires

Eating disorder recovery is frequently misunderstood — by the person experiencing it, by families, and sometimes by clinicians. It is not simply the restoration of normal eating. It is not the cessation of a behaviour. It is the construction of a different relationship with the self — one in which the eating disorder is no longer needed.