About Associates in Professional Counseling – Palos Heights
Located in Palos Heights, Illinois, Associates in Professional Counseling offers mental health and addiction services to adults and adolescents. The staff will help you to establish healthier coping strategies, identify unhealthy behavior patterns make positive changes. In addition to treating drug and alcohol addiction, the facility also offers services for process addictions, sexual addictions and eating disorders.
One of the first things that a certified substance abuse specialist will help you with is determining the factors that trigger your addiction. Common triggers for substance use include boredom, stress, relationship issues and anger. Once the trigger has been identified, your counselor will guide you in developing strategies to manage your triggers.
Additional things that may be discussed in counseling sessions include developing lifestyle changes and restoring areas of your life that have been negatively impacted by substance use. Individual and group therapy sessions are available to both individuals struggling with addiction and loved ones who’ve been impacted by a client’s substance abuse.
Palos Heights is just a half hour outside of the city of Chicago. In between your treatment sessions, you can make a quick day trip and see attractions such as Millenium Park and Riverwalk.
APC understands that relapse is common with individuals who are addicted to opioids due to the unpleasantness of the withdrawal process. The therapists on staff are connected with physicians to be able to refer a client for medication. One other thing that stands out to me about this location is that the substance abuse specialists are also trained to treat a variety of process addictions. The facility can receive treatment for addictions to shopping and spending, gambling, internet use and gaming.
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