Motivation, urges, relapse, and the families that surround them.
Motivational interviewing and DBT skills for substance use, behavioral addictions, and the family systems that develop around them. Worksheets for cravings, HALT checks, and relapse prevention.
The therapies most relevant to this topic.
Evoke the client's own reasons for change instead of arguing for it.
Acceptance and change, held together — a skills-based therapy for emotion dysregulation.
Stop fighting your inner experience; start moving toward what matters.
Depression is treated by working on the interpersonal context that surrounds it.
First-line picks and clinical guidance for the presentations under this topic.
Problematic use across alcohol, opioids, stimulants, cannabis, or other substances.
Combined approaches outperform single modalities. Engagement and ambivalence work (MI) precedes change-focused treatment. Medication-assisted treatment (MAT) is essential for opioid and alcohol use disorders.
Compulsive engagement in non-substance behaviors (gambling, gaming, pornography, shopping) despite harm.
Gambling disorder is the only DSM-5 behavioral addiction, but treatment principles generalize. Combine motivational engagement, stimulus control, cognitive work on distortions (gambler's fallacy, escape coping), and relapse prevention.
Free, printable, Quick-Send to clients.
Anonymized vignettes with formulation across 2–3 modalities.
Step-by-step walkthroughs.