Personal Addiction Counselling in Elsternwick

Are you seeking help in overcoming an unhealthy behaviour that’s having a negative impact on your relationships and lifestyle? Sometimes we need professional assistance to free ourselves of an unhealthy cycle or pattern that characterises addictive behaviour.

At Your Psychologist in Elsternwick, we will work closely alongside you to discuss your relationship with a problem substance or behaviour, and how it’s affecting your life and the lives of those you care about. 

This process allows us to explore and identify the sources behind this unhealthy and addictive behaviour, so that you can reach a level of self-understanding that paves the way for a healthy recovery.

At our Elsternwick clinic, we help people overcome unhealthy behaviours like addictions with the following substances or behaviours:

• Alcohol

• Drugs

• Gambling

• Gaming

• Internet/social media

• Pornography

• Smoking

• Work

These unhealthy or addictive behavioural cycles or patterns relate to coping mechanisms or modes called detached self soothing that are maladaptive ways to avoid uncomfortable thoughts and feelings.

From our Elsternwick clinic, we use schema therapy to help you overcome your unhealthy and addictive behaviours:

Building your Healthy Adult self by using a range of approaches including: cognitive, experiential and behavioural techniques or methods.

• Cognitive techniques are methods that we use in sessions that challenge our thinking and reason

• Experiential techniques are methods that help you to connect with and experience your emotions.:

• Behavioral techniques are methods to break our old habits and develop new skills.

These approaches will help to:

• Strengthen your sense of self-worth

• Identify positive and more adaptive approaches for managing stressful events and emotions

• Discover how to react to common substance and behavioural triggers

• Develop a practical approach for overcoming cravings

• Assist you with rebuilding wholesome relationships with those important to you

Franco Greco – Your Psychologist for personal addiction counselling in Elsternwick

My name is Franco Greco, and I have more than 20 years’ experience helping people who are struggling in their careers, relationships and lifestyles.

I create individual treatment plans that examine and address the unique behaviours, thoughts, emotions and environmental factors that contribute to your addiction. This usually involves working together to determine the origin of your addiction, any real-life triggers that maintain your addiction, and (most importantly) developing skills and techniques for achieving sustainable change.

It’s often the case that addictive behaviours stem from a deeper-seeded issue that can be traced back to your past, such as feelings of abandonment, vulnerability, defectiveness, emotional deprivation, unrelenting standards and other negative schemas.

By identifying the underlying issue or deep-seeded trigger that is initiating this addictive behaviour, together we can take action as to what needs to be done. Achieve a better quality lifestyle and stronger relationships with your loved ones, with results-driven personal addiction therapy at Your Psychologist in Elsternwick.

Book your consultation

If you have any questions about the process behind our counselling services, please don’t hesitate to get in touch. Otherwise, if you are ready to start the journey towards overcoming your personal addiction, you can book your initial consultation online today.