How to Quit Drinking

How to Quit Drinking

Why does a person need help to quit drinking?

Why does a person need help to quit drinking?

What kinds of help can make a difference to a person quitting drinking?

What kinds of help can make a difference to a person quitting drinking?

How can family support make a difference?

How can family support make a difference?

How can counseling help a person quit drinking?

How can counseling help a person quit drinking?

What kinds of counseling are available?

What kinds of counseling are available?

How can AA and Rational Recovery help?

How can AA and Rational Recovery help?

Does a person need to say that he or she is an alcoholic to attend AA or other support groups?

Does a person need to say that he or she is an alcoholic to attend AA or other support groups?

Why does a person need to develop their former and some new interests?

Why does a person need to develop their former and some new interests?

What kinds of interests and activities can help a person who is quitting drinking?

What kinds of interests and activities can help a person who is quitting drinking?

How can a person quit drinking during a holiday like Christmas or New Year's?

How can a person quit drinking during a holiday like Christmas or New Year's?

What if a person lapses after he or she has quit drinking?

What if a person lapses after he or she has quit drinking?

Is drinking a normal activity?

Is drinking a normal activity?

Why would a person consider quitting drinking?

Why would a person consider quitting drinking?

How to Quit Drinking

How to Quit Drinking

The Risks of Teen Drinking and Drug Use

The Risks of Teen Drinking and Drug Use

What can influence a teen to drink?

What can influence a teen to drink?

What do parents need to look for when considering teen alcohol abuse?

What do parents need to look for when considering teen alcohol abuse?

What is a protective factor with alcohol abuse?

What is a protective factor with alcohol abuse?

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Diabetes Treatment Options for Older Adults

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Judith Welles Cousins

Licensed Clinical Social Worker, private practitioner

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Judith has worked in the field of mental health and substance abuse since 1988,  She received her Masters in Social Work from Virginia Commonweatlh University in 1991 and was licensed as a clinical social worker in 1994.  In her private practice, Judith sees adults, families, children and adolescents, and couples. She addresses such issues as substance abuse, depession, anxiety, family discord, couple conflict, poor school performance, and  life transitions. Judith believes that within each individual, family, and couple are the resources to change, heal, and thrive.  Through the process of psychotherapy, she assists clients to identify and use these resources to gain personal and relational well-being.      

What kinds of counseling are available?

Host: What kinds of counseling are available?

Judith W. Cousins: There are a number of different kinds of counseling. One is individual counseling and that involves, an individual sitting with the therapist one-on-one typically, for fifty minutes and talking about their issues with drinking and what they need to do to quit drinking.

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Host: What kinds of counseling are available?

Judith W. Cousins: There are a number of different kinds of counseling. One is individual counseling and that involves, an individual sitting with the therapist one-on-one typically, for fifty minutes and talking about their issues with drinking and what they need to do to quit drinking.

There is also group counseling and group counseling has a therapist as a facilitator, but in group counseling, you are with other folks who are also in counseling, going through the same kinds of experience as you are and that provides support as well as challenge. There is residential treatment, which is for those individual who in quitting drinking cannot do that on their own without intensive counseling and also the safety 0.

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There is a 12 step support which is voluntary and it is available everyday, most hours of the day and there is also what is called Rational Recovery which is also an informal support group.

Are there rules about drinking?

Are there rules about drinking?

How does drinking contribute to a celebration?

How does drinking contribute to a celebration?

What are some family rituals that involve drinking?

What are some family rituals that involve drinking?

How does a person know if he or she is drinking to self-medicate?

How does a person know if he or she is drinking to self-medicate?

Why would a person consider quitting drinking?

Why would a person consider quitting drinking?

What kinds of problems can drinking cause?

What kinds of problems can drinking cause?

How can a person's finances be affected by drinking?

How can a person's finances be affected by drinking?

How does someone incur legal problems as a result of drinking?

How does someone incur legal problems as a result of drinking?

What does it mean that a person's spirituality has been affected by drinking?

What does it mean that a person's spirituality has been affected by drinking?

Why is it important to consider teen drinking a problem?

Why is it important to consider teen drinking a problem?