Drug and Alcohol Counselling
Your Nomadic Psychologist can help you manage your alcohol and other drug behaviours through evidence-based video counselling.
Your Nomadic Psychologist can help you manage your alcohol and other drug behaviours through evidence-based video counselling.
In therapy, the consumption of Alcohol and Other Drugs (AOD) is often used by individuals as a way of coping with the various stressors in
ones life. Life regularly presents us all with challenges, and sometimes they become overwhelming. To manage the overwhelming
feelings we turn to AOD as they can help us to de-stress, relax and forget about our problems. AOD use can also enable us to feel less
inhibited and experience pleasurable feelings. While these benefits sound good, they can also be unhealthy...
AOD use is recognised as unhealthy/unhelpful when we use these substances to avoid a problem that is causing us emotional distress. By avoiding the problem, we don't allow ourselves an opportunity to resolve the internal emotional conflict. Thus, the problem remains, until we become so overwhelmed that we fail to cope and our emotions burst through like a volcano. This is where therapy helps..
At Nomadic Psychology we can help with AOD misuse in the following ways:
