Pathway offers individual substance abuse counseling for teens with potential substance abuse issues. Weekly or bi-weekly meetings with a substance abuse counselor will assist teens in evaluating drug and alcohol use, consequences, progression, possible outcomes, effects of use within family or other relationships, and will help teens to find alternatives to substance abuse. Individual counseling is helpful both as a preventative measure and in helping a teen who needs treatment but is reluctant to enter a treatment program.
Program Summary
Weekly or bi-weekly appointments with counselor in one hour sessions
Highly effective with early users as a preventive measure
Assists reluctant teens to become willing to seek treatment
Helps teens evaluate consequences
Educates teens about drug and alcohol addiction
Addresses teen-specific issues
Helps teens respond to peer pressure
Substance Abuse Counseling for Parents of a Teen Who is Using Drugs:
Parenting a teen who is using drugs is difficult and frustrating. Individual counseling is helpful to a parent whose teen is using drugs, providing education, support and strategies for placing appropriate boundaries and interventions. Substance abuse counseling provides tools for parents to cope with their own reactions to the problem and provides ways to be a part of the solution. Many parents attend counseling sessions even when their children refuse and are able to implement new strategies in the home.
Pathway's substance abuse counseling services are availbale in both the Gilbert and Phoenix Arizona locations. Our locations are asily accessible from Scottsdale, Phoenix, Chandler, Gilbert, Tempe, Mesa, Glendale and Peoria.
Pathway offers individual substance abuse counseling for teens with potential substance abuse issues. Weekly or bi-weekly meetings with a substance abuse counselor will assist teens in evaluating drug and alcohol use, consequences, progression, possible outcomes, effects of use within family or other relationships, and will help teens to find alternatives to substance abuse. Individual counseling is helpful both as a preventative measure and in helping a teen who needs treatment but is reluctant to enter a treatment program.
Parenting a teen who is using drugs is difficult and frustrating. Individual counseling is helpful to a parent whose teen is using drugs, providing education, support and strategies for placing appropriate boundaries and interventions. Substance abuse counseling provides tools for parents to cope with their own reactions to the problem and provides ways to be a part of the solution. Many parents attend counseling sessions even when their children refuse and are able to implement new strategies in the home.
