Marisa Sullivan, MA, LCPC, CADC, Arlington Heights, Buffalo Grove, Addiction & Substance Abuse Help

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Over the past twenty years, Marisa has been a special education teacher, addictions specialist, psychotherapist and Reiki Practitioner. She has accumulated a wealth of education, experience and skills, which she applies to each and every one of her psychotherapy clients. Her patient, compassionate, and empathetic counseling style fits well with her serious get-the-job-done sensibilities. She is able to disarm her most defensive, frightened, and hard--to-reach clients, while inspiring them with hope. Marisa is the consummate substance abuse and addictions therapist (CADC) whose 13 years of experience has facilitated many a successful outcome. Her thoughtful, supportive and collaborative treatment style promotes mutual respect and commitment in the difficult battle against substance abuse and addictions. She leads her clients on a journey to solve the problems that preceded the addiction/substance abuse, while addressing the here and now struggles in building a solid, stable and enduring recovery program, which can include disease concept, a 12-Step program, and Cognitive Behavioral therapy and treatment for Post-Acute Withdrawal Symptoms (PAWS). Marisa is keenly able to evaluate problems and break through denial systems, while providing supportive education and guidance. She is able to gain her client’s trust, while helping them overcome their anxious ambivalence about transitioning away from an out-of-control addiction that they paradoxically believe they need, to a sober and productive future. She gets her clients to tap into their long-forgotten positive strengths of character or their poorly developed healthy side, so they can independently negotiate the twists and turns on the path to long-term sobriety/recovery. In addition to her substance abuse and addictions work, Marisa provides a full range of individual psychotherapy/counseling services to adults and adolescents. Her specialties include depression, anxiety, grief, self-esteem, academic struggles, educational decisions, poor self-love, low self-worth, and failure to launch. Also included in her specialties are assessing the strengths and needs of a patient, addiction education and prevention, assisting patients to move from grief/loss to health and resolution, and helping patients learn and actively use healthy coping skills. Marisa is especially adept with teenagers who she is uniquely able to engage in a collaborative problem-solving process, while also making them feel respected, understood and appreciated. She helps them adapt to difficult environments, establish and learn healthy coping skills, become more engaged in school and/or family, and re-balance their needs to find new leisure activities to have fun and experiment, while staying safe and sober. Since few teen problems happen in isolation, she also works with the parents to provide support, guidance, and important resources. As a former special education teacher, Marisa is well-versed with school systems and the IEP process, which provides services for students with emotional/behavior disorders, educable mental handicaps, and traumatic brain injuries. As a Reiki practitioner, Marisa practices and teaches the benefits of spirituality to enhance one’s well being and mental health. Marisa's specialties include: Teens with Self-Esteem Challenges Teenagers Parenting Challenges Substance Abuse Alcohol/Drug Addictions Behavioral Addictions: Gambling, Spending, Love, etc. Self-Esteem Challenges Spirituality Challenges Reiki Therapy CADC, substance abuse, drugs, alcohol, alcholism, alcoholism help, addict, gambling, addiction, addiction treatment, addictions counselor, substance abuse counselor, substance abuse treatment, counselor, psychotherapist, arlington heights, buffalo grove, palatine, arlington heights counselor, buffalo grove counselor, palatine counselor, palatine therapist wheeling counselor, wheeling therapist, christian counseling, spiritual, spirituality, expert psychotherapist, anxiety, depression, Mt. Prospect, Mt. Prospect counselor, Schaumburg counselor, Hoffman estates counselor, spiritual guidance, teens, teenager help, teen counseling, parenting, depression. Mindfulness

Marisa Sullivan, MA, LCPC, CADC, Arlington Heights, Buffalo Grove, Addiction & Substance Abuse Help

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• published: 31 May 2016
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Over the past twenty years, Marisa has been a special education teacher, addictions specialist, psychotherapist and Reiki Practitioner. She has accumulated a wealth of education, experience and skills, which she applies to each and every one of her psychotherapy clients. Her patient, compassionate, and empathetic counseling style fits well with her serious get-the-job-done sensibilities. She is able to disarm her most defensive, frightened, and hard--to-reach clients, while inspiring them with hope. Marisa is the consummate substance abuse and addictions therapist (CADC) whose 13 years of experience has facilitated many a successful outcome. Her thoughtful, supportive and collaborative treatment style promotes mutual respect and commitment in the difficult battle against substance abuse and addictions. She leads her clients on a journey to solve the problems that preceded the addiction/substance abuse, while addressing the here and now struggles in building a solid, stable and enduring recovery program, which can include disease concept, a 12-Step program, and Cognitive Behavioral therapy and treatment for Post-Acute Withdrawal Symptoms (PAWS). Marisa is keenly able to evaluate problems and break through denial systems, while providing supportive education and guidance. She is able to gain her client’s trust, while helping them overcome their anxious ambivalence about transitioning away from an out-of-control addiction that they paradoxically believe they need, to a sober and productive future. She gets her clients to tap into their long-forgotten positive strengths of character or their poorly developed healthy side, so they can independently negotiate the twists and turns on the path to long-term sobriety/recovery. In addition to her substance abuse and addictions work, Marisa provides a full range of individual psychotherapy/counseling services to adults and adolescents. Her specialties include depression, anxiety, grief, self-esteem, academic struggles, educational decisions, poor self-love, low self-worth, and failure to launch. Also included in her specialties are assessing the strengths and needs of a patient, addiction education and prevention, assisting patients to move from grief/loss to health and resolution, and helping patients learn and actively use healthy coping skills. Marisa is especially adept with teenagers who she is uniquely able to engage in a collaborative problem-solving process, while also making them feel respected, understood and appreciated. She helps them adapt to difficult environments, establish and learn healthy coping skills, become more engaged in school and/or family, and re-balance their needs to find new leisure activities to have fun and experiment, while staying safe and sober. Since few teen problems happen in isolation, she also works with the parents to provide support, guidance, and important resources. As a former special education teacher, Marisa is well-versed with school systems and the IEP process, which provides services for students with emotional/behavior disorders, educable mental handicaps, and traumatic brain injuries. As a Reiki practitioner, Marisa practices and teaches the benefits of spirituality to enhance one’s well being and mental health. Marisa's specialties include: Teens with Self-Esteem Challenges Teenagers Parenting Challenges Substance Abuse Alcohol/Drug Addictions Behavioral Addictions: Gambling, Spending, Love, etc. Self-Esteem Challenges Spirituality Challenges Reiki Therapy CADC, substance abuse, drugs, alcohol, alcholism, alcoholism help, addict, gambling, addiction, addiction treatment, addictions counselor, substance abuse counselor, substance abuse treatment, counselor, psychotherapist, arlington heights, buffalo grove, palatine, arlington heights counselor, buffalo grove counselor, palatine counselor, palatine therapist wheeling counselor, wheeling therapist, christian counseling, spiritual, spirituality, expert psychotherapist, anxiety, depression, Mt. Prospect, Mt. Prospect counselor, Schaumburg counselor, Hoffman estates counselor, spiritual guidance, teens, teenager help, teen counseling, parenting, depression. Mindfulness