Alcohol & Drug Counselling & Therapist Darwin

Happy Peeps Alcohol & Drug Counselling & Therapist Darwin provide alcohol and other drugs (AOD) support for people who use substances and are dependent or have an addiction. The first step on your road to recovery is acknowledging that you actually have a problem. Our services are non-judgemental, supportive, caring, and compassionate and we provide a holistic harm minimisation approach. We work together to set goals to motivate you towards reducing your use or if you choose not to use alcohol or drugs anymore. Substance use may include cannabis, cocaine, heroin, amphetamine-type stimulants including ecstasy and designer drugs, inhalants or non-prescribed sedatives or sleeping pills, hallucinogens, or opioids.

Our psychotherapists will help you do this by discussing the underlying causes of your harmful habit or addiction and your attachment to your substance of use. Our practitioners will look at your negative thought patterns and behaviours around your use and set goals to develop coping strategies to help you take control and cope when you are not using substances and go back to living a happy and fulfilling life. We will work with you to find quick stress relief strategies that will work best for you to help you return to your quality of life.

The signs your substance use may be affecting your daily functioning:

• Difficulties in managing your responsibilities at home, work, school or university
• Difficulties in managing the parenting of your children
• Difficulties in managing the relationships with the people you love
• Difficulty with managing your mental health and emotions
• Use the substance to calm after an argument or the pain from a bad day
• Use the substance to numb any difficulties or trauma
• Health is spiralling down and out of control
• Career and work performance is affected
• Driving under the influence of alcohol or other drugs (legal issues)
• Using drugs at your place of work or at an office
• Cannot stop thinking about alcohol and drugs
• Increasing levels of usage to numb the painful emotions
• Increasing levels to achieve the same feeling or result
• Has alcohol and other drugs become your hobby
• Having unprotected sex with strangers
• Body withdrawal symptoms when trying to stop or reduce intake
• Feeling sick and unwell when you have withdrawal
• Signs of deceptions when asked about consumption quantities

Reasons to reduce your Alcohol or other Drug Substance Use

• Improve health and safety, self-care and quality of life
• Improved relationships
• Save money for other hobbies
• Improve at home, school, work, university
• Control of your own behaviours
• No more hangovers or feeling unwell
• Improved personal hygiene
• Lose weight and be more active
• Be fit and health and love life

If you find that alcohol and other substance use is affecting your daily functioning it is time for you to access professional counselling and therapy services. Your alcohol and other drug intake behaviour is likely to increase over time and this may result in more severe and complex concerns with your mental health and this will make the habit and patterns extremely difficult to break.