The Most Important Skill in Addiction Therapy Isn’t What You Think

When therapists think about working with addiction, they often focus on interventions. How do we reduce cravings? How do we prevent relapse? How do we increase motivation? How do we help clients stop engaging in self-destructive behaviors? These are important questions. But after decades of research on psychotherapy outcomes, one finding continues to emerge again […]

What If Addiction Isn’t the Problem?

For decades, addiction treatment has largely revolved around one central question: How do we get people to stop using? Stop drinking, stop using drugs, stop engaging in compulsive behaviors, stop relapsing, stop self-destructing… And while this approach may seem logical on the surface, it often leaves therapists and clients trapped in the same painful cycle: […]