Counseling Services
All sessions are collaborative. Initial assessment will be coproduced between clinician and client. This process will look different for each person but in general, therapeutic processes can include narrative, cognitive and somatic informed techniques aimed at addressing the core concerns of the client.
Individual and Family Coaching
Coaching is distinct from counseling. The coaching process is geared towards support and education regarding harm reduction informed perspectives modeled towards empowering people to make pragmatic and evidence based choices regarding the benefits and harms of ongoing drug use. This can include coaching those with friends or family members who are experiencing addiction, or potentially risky behaviors related to drug use. Coaching can focus on topics such as understanding evidence based models of treatment. This can include insights regarding Medication Assisted Treatment (MAT), risks related to different forms of drug consumption and general harm reduction education. Coaching can also include addressing any of the existential and moral dilemmas individuals or family members maybe facing in the face of the politically charged landscape of illicit drug use. Understanding these modalities and dilemmas is notably important in the context of the on going opioid and covid 19 crisis.