Addiction and dependence aren’t a finality. With online therapy, you can change your behavior and get to the root causes of your anguish.

The challenge to altering addictions is the belief that you can’t change, which can push one into denial and cause him/her to minimize the consequences of his/her excessive behaviors. Whatever you discover about yourself and however painful your discovery is, dramatic breakthroughs are always possible. Addiction is a treatable condition. The first step in changing an unhealthy habit is to understand it. Patients use their addiction to manipulate their feelings away from fear, anger, jealousy, or sadness.

Because co-dependency is usually rooted in a person’s childhood, treatment often involves exploration into early childhood relationships and the reconstruction of family dynamics.

Treatment focuses on helping patients rediscover themselves and identify self-defeating behavior patterns. With the support of the therapeutic alliance, they can get in touch with feelings that have been buried during childhood.

The goal is to allow them to experience their full range of feelings again. Desire is part of being human, but sometimes we cling to our suffering as the archaic link for something that lies out of our grasp, that ought to be or should have been, or that has already passed away.