You don't have to have a label to ask questions.
Maybe you've started wondering whether your drinking has become more than you intended. Maybe cannabis has become your primary way of managing stress. Maybe someone you trust has expressed concern. Or maybe you've already made changes and want help making them sustainable.
You don't need to arrive with a diagnosis or a decision about what recovery should look like. Therapy can be a place to understand what's happening, examine the role substances are playing in your life, and determine what you want to change.
Understanding the function before deciding what needs to change.
I believe repeated behaviors have a function. Before deciding what needs to change, I want to understand what the behavior is doing for you.
That means we may look at patterns of use, triggers, consequences, expectations, coping strategies, and the circumstances surrounding your substance use.
We can then work together to determine realistic goals, whether that means reducing use, pursuing abstinence, strengthening recovery, or simply understanding your relationship with substances more clearly.
What can we work on?
Questioning Your Use
Understanding patterns, consequences, motivations, and whether your current relationship with substances aligns with your goals.
Making a Change
Developing realistic goals around reduction, abstinence, or other changes you want to make.
Maintaining Recovery
Strengthening relapse prevention, coping strategies, and the systems that support long-term recovery.
Substance use can look different in high-achieving professionals.
Professionals often develop sophisticated ways of managing problems before they ever reach the point of asking for help. Substance use can become intertwined with stress, performance, sleep, social expectations, or the need to decompress after demanding work.
Therapy provides a confidential place to examine those patterns without judgment while still being honest about consequences and risk. I work with adults throughout Colorado who are questioning their substance use, exploring change, or maintaining recovery.