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Mindful Psychology Associates

Licensed Clinical Psychologists in Evanston, Illinois

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Substance Use Disorders

substance abuse therapy

Exploring your relationship with substances can be challenging and overwhelming for a variety of reasons. In some cases, you might be beginning to identify how your substance use is impacting your ability to show up at school, work, and in your relationships in the ways you would like to. Or, you may be exploring how to continue to maintain your sobriety while you navigate mental health symptoms with work, school, relationships, and life demands.

Identifying the ways your substance use is impacting you can be complicated by any current mental health symptoms, the way substance use was modeled for you in your development, and/or any pressure from peers or systems you are a member of that encourage your use. Whether this is the first time you have begun to have curiosity around your substance use or you are years into your sobriety, our goal is to create a safe space and meet you wherever you are at in your recovery journey.

Within therapy, we work to create a nonjudgmental space where you can begin to explore a variety of substance-related concerns, including, but not limited to:

  • Developing curiosity surrounding your use of substances and the impact this has on various areas of your life
  • Identifying triggers for your use, such as specific emotions, thought patterns, people, mental health symptoms, or environments
  • Strengthening healthy coping skills to implement during increased urges to use substances
  • If dual diagnosis is a part of your experience, beginning to tease apart the intersection between substance use and mental health symptoms
  • Exploring the impact of any stigma related to mental health and substance use that you have experienced from your immediate support system and the larger world

At Mindful Psychology Associates, PC, we know that recovery work is complex, whether this is your first step in exploring your substance use or you are deep in your recovery. We are here to help support you through that journey, assist you in developing healthy coping skills for when times are challenging, and work on breaking down stigma in the process.

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Local therapist friends! Come join us this Friday Local therapist friends! Come join us this Friday morning in our Evanston office for networking and as we welcome Rachel Moore who will he discussing how meditation can make divorce less terrible. Free but please RSVP! #mindfulpsychologyevanston #mindfulpsychologyassociates
8 more MPA staff completed the Basic Accelerated R 8 more MPA staff completed the Basic Accelerated Resolution Therapy (ART) training this week! ART is a phenomenal brief treatment model for trauma, phobias, sleeping issues, self esteem and more!  Congrats to Michelle, Michelle, Amanda, Alayni, Briyanna, Amy, Jena, and Brittany and special thanks to our trainer Trisha Jarnigan and MPA founder Jennifer Panning for assisting! Please contact us if you are interested in scheduling an ART session or learning more about this!  #mindfulpsychologyevanston #mindfulpsychologyassociates #evanston #acceleratedresolutiontherapy #traumarecovery #psychologistsofinstagram #chicagotherapy #eyemovements
In person event! Join @familyactionnetwork as the In person event!  Join @familyactionnetwork as they welcome author and therapist @nedratawwab who will be discussing her new book about family drama.  This should be an informative and heartfelt evening, as always free and open to the public! 7pm, March 13 at Evanston Township High School. Hope to see you there! Mindful Psychology Associates is a proud sponsor of FAN.  #mindfulpsychologyevanston #mindfulpsychologyassociates #familyactionnetwork #evanston #familydrama
It’s National Eating Disorder Awareness Week! Th It’s National Eating Disorder Awareness Week! Thank you @equiphealth and @projectheal for this helpful graphic describing how eating disorders can be so difficult to treat and why many don’t get help until symptoms have progressed. At Mindful Psychology Associates, we have several eating disorder specialists who are experienced in treating the whole spectrum of eating disorders and disordered eating, and we work collaboratively with physicians, dieticians, and psychiatrists who are also trained to work within a collaborative treatment team. Help is available!  Reposted using @withregram  #mindfulpsychologyassociates #mindfulpsychologyevanston #eatingdisorderawareness #eatingdisorderawarenessweek #eatingdisorderhelp #psychologistsofinstagram
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