What it is:  A weekly anonymous phone group, offering professional clinical therapy, 12-step work, DBT Skills (Dialectical Behavioral Therapy), Pat Carnes (gentlepath.com) work and more.

Moderator: Mrs. Zeva Citronenbaum LCSWR CSAT is the expert known to the Jewish Chassidic and Litvish world in recovery, offering clinical help to healing individuals, couples, and families facing addiction and trauma. She was trained by Carnes (gentlepath.com).

Moderator Contact Info:
Confidential Hotline: 845-222-0580
e-mail: acoachservice@yahoo.com

When: Once a week, Tuesday Evening 9 PM EST.

New cycle begining: Mid-August, 2010

Price: $200 for 10 sessions (comes out to $20 a session – for real clinical recovery!)

How to Join: Download this Zip file with the signup forms and rules here.

Notes: Addiction is an illness of escape. Its goal is to obliterate, medicate, and/or ignore painful reality. It produces an alternate route to feelings of betrayal, worry, loneliness, or any real type of problem solving. DBT skills can improve ones ability to handle distress without acting out destructively. They offer concrete behavior techniques that clients can integrate to help them stop unhealthy behavior patterns, i.e. internet, at risk…

Description: Through DBT techniques, clients can confront themselves and make changes they need to grow into healthy living. Individuals learn skills of mindfulness, emotion regulation, interpersonal effectiveness, and distress tolerance; all of which eliminate the urgent need to escape reality. They learn practical skills for coping within reality. The skills empower them, quality of life increases, and healthy living replaces the downward spiral of addiction.

DBT can improve one’s ability to handle distress without losing control and acting destructively. In order to make use of these techniques, skills need to be built in four key areas: (1) Mindfulness (2) Interpersonal effectiveness (3) Emotion regulation (4) Distress tolerance.

For More Info: Please see this page of the forum