COUNSELING

ACIS's approach to substance abuse counseling integrates psychotherapeutic and coping skills-training techniques with abstinence-based addiction counseling. The primary goals of treatment are to enhance and sustain client and family motivation for change, establish and maintain client's abstinence from all psychoactive drugs, and foster development of (nonchemical) coping and problem solving skills to thwart and ultimately eliminate impulses to "self-medicate" with psychoactive drugs. The approach combines cognitive-behavioral, motivational, and insight-oriented techniques according to each client's individual needs. My therapeutic style is empathic, client centered, and flexible. Strong emphasis is placed on developing a good working alliance with the client to prevent premature dropout and as a vehicle for promoting therapeutic change. I attempt to work with and through rather than against a client's resistance to change. Aggressive confrontation of denial, the hallmark of..

Also known as: counseling and intervention

Primary location: San Jose United States