Alcohol & Drug Counselling

Are you struggling with an alcohol and/or drug problem?

• Use alcohol or another kind of mood-altering drug regularly until you are high, intoxicated or passed out.
• You can’t stop your use or cut down despite wanting to do so.
• Your health is being negatively affected.
• Experience denial even though there is direct feedback and evidence from your partner, friends, family, and/or employer that use of the substance is negatively impacting him or her, and work.
• Missed out on important family, recreational, or work activities, because they interfere with you using a substance.
• Experience blackouts, where you can’t remember what happened.
• You are experiencing physical symptoms such as nausea, shaking, headaches, sweating, anxiety, depression, when you are withdrawing from the substance.

Benefits of counselling and therapy include:

• Learn more about chemical dependence and assess if it is causing problems in your life.
• Actively participate in a program of recovery and establish and maintain recovery, which is free from the use of addictive substances. Increase your knowledge about the process of recovery.
• Heal your past trauma, hurts, grief, or betrayals.
• Withdraw successfully from mood-altering substance and stabilize emotionally and physically.
• Learn to cope with stress more effectively.
• Improve your overall psychological health.
• Heal and improve your relationships – romantic, social, family, and/or work.
• Increase success in the main areas of your life.

Read about Making Life Changes

Ian Bond, MA, BA, RCC, Professional Counselling & Psychotherapy services in Vancouver. Areas of practice include: Marriage counselling, couples counselling, relationship problems, affairs, anger management, depression, professional burnout, parenting issues, anxiety, panic attacks, trauma, PTSD – post traumatic stress disorder, acute stress, childhood traumas, phobias, obsessive-compulsive disorder, generalized anxiety, addictions, alcohol & drugs, smoking cessation, individual growth and development, stress management, and others.

Serving clients in the Lower Mainland including: Vancouver, West Vancouver, North Vancouver, Burnaby, Richmond, Surrey, Delta, Coquitlam, Port Coquitlam, Maple Ridge, White Rock, Tsawwassan, Langley, and New Westminster.