Healing from Addiction and Family Dysfunction

Breaking the Cycle: Healing from Addiction and Family Dysfunction  Addiction doesn’t just affect the individual—it creates ripples that impact entire family systems for generations. Whether you’re struggling with your own substance use, are in recovery, or grew up in a home affected by addiction, I offer specialized support to help you heal and create lasting change. Addiction Recovery Support As a Licensed Clinical Alcohol and Drug Counselor (LCADC), I provide compassionate, evidence-based therapy for adults navigating recovery from substance use disorders. My approach recognizes addiction as a complex condition affected by biological, psychological, social, and often spiritual factors.
Recovery work in my practice includes:

• Processing trauma that may underlie addictive patterns
• Developing healthy coping skills and emotional regulation
• Rebuilding trust in relationships damaged by addiction
• Finding meaning and purpose beyond substance use
• Supporting long-term sobriety through sustainable life changes

I collaborate with other recovery resources including 12-step programs, SMART Recovery, medication-assisted treatment providers, and other supports that can help you on your personal recovery journey. Adult Children of Alcoholics (ACoA) Growing up in a home affected by addiction and other family dysfunction creates unique challenges that often persist long into adulthood. As an adult child of an alcoholic or addict, you may struggle with:

• Difficulty trusting yourself and others
• People-pleasing and approval-seeking behaviors
• Hypervigilance and anxiety
• Difficulty identifying your own needs and feelings
• Over-responsibility for others and under-responsibility for yourself
• Feeling different from others or like you don’t belong

These patterns made sense as survival strategies in your childhood environment, but they may now be limiting your ability to thrive. Our work together helps you recognize these patterns, understand their origins, and develop new ways of relating to yourself and others that better serve your adult life. Codependency Recovery Codependency often develops in response to living with addiction or dysfunction, creating relationship patterns where your sense of worth becomes tied to caring for, rescuing, or controlling others. This can lead to:

• Exhausting yourself meeting others’ needs while neglecting your own
• Difficulty setting and maintaining healthy boundaries
• Feeling responsible for others’ emotions and behaviors
• Fear of abandonment and rejection
• Seeking external validation rather than self-validation
• Compromising your values to maintain relationships

Through our work together, you’ll learn to recognize codependent patterns, develop healthy boundaries, reconnect with your authentic self, and build relationships based on mutual respect rather than caretaking or control. How My Approach Helps The integration of multiple evidence-based approaches creates a comprehensive healing experience for addiction and family dysfunction:

• Motivational Interviewing helps explore and resolve ambivalence about change, enhancing your internal motivation rather than imposing external pressure. Unlike outdated confrontational methods that can actually increase resistance and the likelihood of continued substance use, this respectful approach honors your autonomy and wisdom about your own life.
• EMDR helps process traumatic experiences and negative beliefs that often underlie both addiction and codependent patterns.
• Internal Family Systems therapy helps you understand and transform the protective parts of yourself that took on those roles in response to family dysfunction.
• Sandtray therapy provides a powerful way to externalize and work with family dynamics and relationship patterns that may be difficult to put into words.

While these specialized approaches form the foundation of my work, I also incorporate Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) techniques when helpful and offer supportive counseling for those simply seeking a compassionate listening ear during difficult times.
This flexible, integrative approach allows us to tailor your therapy experience to your specific needs, preferences, and goals—recognizing that healing isn’t one-size-fits-all. Are you ready to heal? Take the first step towards breaking the cycle of addiction and family dysfunction. Call or text 410-888-0590, or email JenniferBeall.LCPC@gmail.com to schedule an appointment today.