Co-occurring Therapy
When looking for co-occurring treatment in San Diego, it is important to find care that both stabilizes and looks beneath the role of substance use. These behaviors come in many forms and require compassion and understanding to safely support recovery. Patterns may be the way that you seek to cope with overwhelming emotional states. Often co-occurring substance use results in a disrupted life and sometimes significant health, functioning, and relationship distress.
No matter where you are in your recovery journey, Create Wellbeing will help you get the support needed to stabilize these patterns and habituate to new ones. We will help you calm the distress you are experiencing through the cultivation of self-care practices to reduce and replace substances. We will help you engage lovingly with the hurt parts of you to process trauma, grief, or any other challenging emotions using cutting-edge integrative techniques. We will determine how best to help you integrate progress with a support system to secure your healing.
Treatment Approach
We always start with curiosity. Sometimes substance use begins socially, but gradually increases in frequency and quantity—and starts happening when you are alone. Maybe you were prescribed a medication for an injury or concentration issue, but you began using it more or more frequently than prescribed. You might notice cravings increasing and a sense of dependence, physical or emotional on the substance. It can be discomfort with the impact of the substance on your body, a mini-scare about the potential impact of substance use, or a significant crisis that leads you to seek help. No matter where you are in your readiness to make a change, you will be met with compassion, curiosity, and strategies for effective engagement and support.
Supportive Dual-Diagnosis Recovery Care
One of the primary approaches utilized in integrative psychotherapy for substance use disorders is the provision of psychoeducation about the potential outcomes of ongoing use, as well as what the research suggests is most effective in reducing and stopping altogether. It is helpful to understand what you value most, and explore how substances fit into this or hinder this. You will also be guided to find a path that will work for you. It may be one that involves daily tracking and accountability, scientific and spiritual resources, or connection with a sober community.
Compulsive Behavior Therapy
Compulsive behaviors, such as the use of social media, gambling, pornography, or excessive internet searching. These can be stand-alone issues or occur in combination with substance use disorders and eating disorders. These are behaviors that engage the reward systems of our brains and can be difficult to stop without structured help. These patterns can also increase when trying to stop a substance, a phenomenon we refer to as “whack-a-mole” in the recovery community. These behaviors can function as way to cope with more uncomfortable emotions that the mind and body find difficult to resolve. Integrative psychotherapy provides effective strategies for reducing problematic behaviors as well as working through underlying issues.
