Addiction Treatment & Counseling in Spokane

Explore your relationship with substances & habits that aren’t helping.

You’re wondering if you need addiction treatment.

For decades, you have sacrificed yourself to make sure everything and everyone is taken care of. Some people call you Type-A, a workaholic or perfectionist. No one really understands that the weight you carry is more than just the endless todo lists. It's planning 15 steps ahead to make sure that everything is taken care of. It’s creating contingency plans for dozens of worst-case scenarios. It’s not being able to stop for two freaking minutes to just take a breath. 

Alcohol and other substances help you put it all down for just a few hours.

On one hand, a few drinks a night or really cutting loose on the weekends feels justified. At least counting down the hours until it’s time to break open a new bottle is something to look forward to. 

Herein lies the internal battle because your helping habits have started to hurt.

Over the last months or years, another part of you has started to question your relationship with alcohol or substances or other behaviors. Starting to see ways they may be interfering with your ability to live a happy+healthy and authentic life.

You’ve recognized that a few glasses of wine to chill out after work results in not waking up in time for that a.m. workout class. That marijuana keeps you comfortably distanced from seeing that your relationships aren’t meaningful and your life isn’t fulfilling.

The final straw is recognizing that substances allow you to ignore the fact that the fire in your belly has been replaced with depression. And, that’s just not how you want to live.

Your addiction treatment alternative in Spokane, WA

Hello, I’m Rachel a Spokane therapist who specializes in addiction treatment. In counseling, I help people explore their relationship with alcohol and other substances. Often this includes discovering or rediscovering who they are, what’s important to them and then seeing how alcohol fits or doesn’t fit within that. 

Alcohol and other substances (or behaviors) are one area that society is very vocal about. We are constantly bombarded by messages pushing us to drink and simultaneously condemning us for drinking.

Therapy is a place for all the outside noise and opinions to quiet down so you can learn to hear your own wisdom. To decide if alcohol, substances or other behaviors are standing in the way of your happy+healthy.

You don’t have to figure this out alone.

If you are looking for individual therapy to help you find the balance of habits that help you in your life, I can help. I am an alternative to other types of addiction treatment and don’t require abstinence for you to be successful. Contact me here for a free 15-minute phone consultation for addiction treatment in Spokane or virtually throughout Washington State and Idaho.

I specialize in helping overworked, overwhelmed and anxious professionals create peace+purpose.

  • Unfortunately, there isn’t a “one size fits all” method of therapy that works for everyone. However, one of the primary treatment modalities I use is Motivational Interviewing (MI).

    MI uses techniques which research has shown to be effective in helping people identify what behaviors are in line with their values and make sustained behavior changes where needed.

  • Something is a problem if it’s causing problems. I recommend people start paying attention to how alcohol or other substances are effecting their lives - what are the pros and cons. If the negative aspects are outweighing the positive aspects, it might be time to take a look at it.

    For more information, check out this blog post: Assessing Your Relationship with Alcohol.

  • The first session is really about getting to know each other and figuring out what the starting point is.

    I’ve found it most helpful to ask, “Where would you like to begin” and whatever comes up for you is perfect. I literally want to know everything about your entire life, but I know I can’t know everything in that first session.

    We will just start throwing things against the wall and see how to make sense of it.

    Click here for more information about me.

  • Sounds good! Therapy is a nonjudgemental space where you make the decisions. I simply help you explore what is and what isn’t working for you.

    This applies to any substance or behavior, in any combination. I do ask that people attend therapy sober or at least mostly sober.