  | Addiction derails the unfolding of the gifts we bring to the world. Only by truly understanding its lessons can we find freedom.
-Eileen Fitzpatrick | |
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Addiction Recovery: Helping you achieve freedom from a dependency on harmful substances or behaviors
Services:
- Individual Sessions: Private sessions designed to establish your unique recovery goals and the individualized action plan for achieving them
- Family Sessions: Working within your family system to set, support, and reach your recovery goals
- Classes and Groups: Information, inspiration, and support in a group setting to assist your recovery
In your struggle with addiction, do you experience:
- Discomfort at the thought of conventional rehabilitation treatments that you fear may be impersonal and ineffective?
- Feelings of confusion, hopelessness, or low self-esteem that leave you depressed?
- Jumbled, obsessive, or suicidal thoughts that frighten you?
- Guilt and shame over your inability to avoid behaviors that are harmful?
- Irrational or "crazy" behaviors that you worry might get you into trouble?
- Regret over the harm caused by destructive patterns?
- Fears about possible damage to your physical health?
Then Eileen's personal and private approach offers real solutions:
Meeting Eileen for the first time, you immediately feel at ease. Unlike a conventional treatment setting, her office invites comfort, engaging discussions, and even laughter - the perfect place to experience new possibilities. With hope lighting the way, Eileen's warm and loving presence guides you toward a sense of restored faith in your life and, most of all, in yourself.
In the spirit of a fellow explorer, Eileen begins with an invitation to share your fiercest challenges, gently helping you examine these pieces one by one. Using a timeline to prioritize the work ahead, she works with you to develop a treatment plan - a tool to help you stay focused on your highest aspirations. Based on the premise that progress rests on your readiness to change, this collaborative plan illuminates your goals and the action plans for achieving them. During your course of eight to 12 sessions, you find that Eileen fully supports your courage, welcoming frank discussions and recommending appropriate support groups to help you stay motivated. With Eileen's expert guidance, you are empowered to reclaim a quality, authentic, and healthy life.
Working with Eileen, you will find:
- A sense of privacy and honor surrounding your recovery.
- A feeling great accomplishment, wisdom, and renewed faith in yourself.
- The ability to think clearly, make good decisions, and find direction in your life.
- A personal awakening that allows you to forgive yourself.
- A feeling of safety in knowing your behaviors are positive and safe.
- The ability to begin repairing those relationships that are most dear to you.
- The confidence to regain your good physical health.
The fundamentals of addiction recovery:
Addiction is one of the toughest problems facing our culture today. It has two elements that must be understood to grasp the true nature of it. The first element is tolerance. A person is drawn to an addictive behavior or substance because of the way it affects his or her emotions. Emotional pain is reduced momentarily. Tolerance means that over time, more and more of the behavior or substance required to produce the desired effect. The second element that is important to understand is withdrawal. Withdrawal means that an individual has a very painful physical and/or emotional reaction when the substance or behavior is stopped. A good recovery program usually includes an emphasis on learning how to meet one's personal needs for intimacy and emotional health along with therapy to address the issues in one's life that put the addiction in place. (Courtesy of HealthyMind.com http://healthymind.com/addictions.html) Given the debilitating nature of addiction, its resolution is a crucial component of pursuing a happy and productive life.
Education, Training, and Credentials:
- MA in Depth Psychology, Pacifica Graduate Institute; Chemical Dependency Professional, Seattle University; BA in Depth Psychology, Antioch University
- In practice since 1987
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