Build a Healthier Relationship with Alcohol
Therapy for Women in Denver to Help You Navigate Your Relationship with Alcohol and Strengthen Confidence in Your Relationships.
Do you find yourself reaching for a drink to calm your worries or boost your confidence?
You’ve started to notice that alcohol is becoming a way to cope with the stress, tension, or self-doubt that shows up in your relationships. You reach for a drink to calm your racing thoughts, quiet your inner critic, or give yourself the courage to speak up. You don’t feel like you have a problem with alcohol, but you’re aware that it’s showing up more often than you’d like, and that realization leaves you feeling uneasy.
Even when life seems manageable, relying on alcohol to cope leaves you feeling less confident, more tense, and disconnected from yourself and the people around you. You feel restless in your body, notice your sleep or digestion disrupted, or feel like your emotions are harder to manage. These feelings create a cycle of temporary relief followed by unease, keeping you stuck between wanting change and relying on the coping habit you know is not serving you fully.
Therapy can help you find balance in your relationship with alcohol so that it doesn’t feel like your main coping tool.
How Our Work Together in Therapy Can Build a Healthier Relationship with Alcohol:
Exploring Underlying Thoughts and Emotions: We’ll examine what’s happening beneath the surface: what fears, self-critical thoughts, or uncomfortable emotions that you may be avoiding or soothing with alcohol. By identifying the triggers and patterns, we can start creating more conscious, compassionate ways to respond to stress and uncertainty.
Challenging the Inner Critic: Alcohol often becomes a way to quiet a relentless inner voice that questions your worth or competence. Together, we’ll uncover that inner critic, trace its origins, and practice ways to challenge it, helping you develop a stronger and more supportive internal dialogue.
Therapy provides a space to explore the role alcohol plays in your life and discover sustainable ways to manage anxiety and build confidence without relying solely on alcohol. Together, we’ll develop tools to manage stress, self-doubt, and uncomfortable emotions more effectively.
Building Confidence and Emotional Resilience: Through therapy, you’ll learn practical strategies to manage stress, regulate emotions, and navigate social or relational situations with greater confidence. You’ll cultivate self-compassion and trust in your ability to handle life’s challenges without relying on alcohol as a crutch.
Creating Sustainable Coping Tools and Boundaries: We’ll focus on building habits and routines that support your well-being –ways to relax, soothe, and connect that don’t involve drinking. I will support you in practicing setting boundaries, saying no, and caring for yourself in ways that feel grounded, balanced, and empowering.
Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.
– Carl Jung
What You Can Expect in Therapy:
In therapy, we’ll explore your relationship with alcohol and how it affects your confidence, comfort in relationships, and daily life.
Together, we’ll examine patterns that keep alcohol as a go-to coping tool and work to loosen their grip. You’ll learn to feel more comfortable asserting yourself in relationships, enjoy social interactions with greater ease, and challenge the messages of your inner critic. You will begin to recognize unhelpful and anxious thoughts earlier so you can respond to them with calm, practical strategies.
You’ll develop tools for self-reflection and build skills to navigate relationship stress and anxiety in ways that feel empowering and sustainable.
Sessions are available in 50- or 80-minute lengths, depending on your needs. I recommend meeting weekly for at least the first eight weeks to maintain momentum, strengthen our therapeutic relationship, and work toward your treatment goals.
Drinking as a Coping Tool: Understanding Your Habits Without Judgment
Drinking can feel like relief in the moment, but it often leaves us wanting more and takes power away from more healthy coping tools. In this podcast episode, I explain why this happens, why hating yourself won’t help, and how simple practices like mindfulness and journaling can help you respond to stress with curiosity and care instead of guilt.
Take Your First Step Toward Therapy
Ready to get started with counseling? Reach out today to book your first session for therapy in-person in Denver or online throughout Colorado and begin navigating a healthier relationship with alcohol.