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Mrs. Zeva Citronenbaum
Training in Addiction and/or Lust Addiction
86% of people with addictions suffer from more than one addiction. I have been formally trained and certified by Patrick Carnes, Ph.D., in multiple addiction treatment, specializing in lust and love addiction. My approach is non-judgmental and empathetic and I will respectfully challenge you to make appropriate behavioral changes and guide you steadfastly toward recovery.
Addiction affects the entire family. Therefore we encourage you to get individual treatment for family members, spouses as well as couple’s therapy. We also encourage your attendance at self-help groups for sex and love addiction that are modeled after Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) support groups which decrease isolation and help you maintain sobriety from addictive and compulsive behaviors anonymously.
The therapeutic model includes taking an extensive history, assessment and addressing all issues causing the addiction. We discuss how your life got out of balance and how to use your spiritual connection to live a life free of resentments, fear and anger.
When spouses agree to work on improving their relationship despite the addiction of one of the partners, we prepare the addict and spouse for disclosure, letter of atonement (teshuvah process), and turning your life over to a Higher Power. We set goals and expectations for improving your relationship and the use of mindfulness dialectal behavioral therapy (DBT) to deal with feelings, obsessive thinking and fantasizing.
I also use EMDR to rid clients of painful traumatic issues from old memories which can cause addictive patterns to reoccur subconsciously.
Clinical Experience with Orthodox Community
I have done clinical work in the Orthodox community for 26 years.
Certifications & Degrees
Association with organizations
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Intervention Model
The Gentle Path Model, created by Patrick Carnes, PhD, is the primary tool that I use for lust addiction intervention. This model, combined with CBT (cognitive behavioral therapy) and DBT (dialectal behavioral therapy) helps you achieve lasting recovery from addiction. Addiction is an illness of escape from reality. Its main goal is to obliterate, medicate, or ignore reality. It is an alternative to letting oneself feel hurt, betrayal, worry, and-most painful of all-loneliness.
The most challenging part of this illness is acknowledging the problem. Addiction cripples your core ability to know what is really real. Without this skill, the addict deludes himself with rationalizations that make it impossible to cope with jobs and families, and continues the use of the Internet or other addictive methods to escape from reality.
Internet images, technological distractions and escape from reality are the new drug of this century; a private means to produce endorphins, happy hormones which distort reality. Through this therapy model, you learn to recognize the extent of your problem and how to deal with it successfully.
As a trained Certified Specialist of Addiction and Trauma (CSAT) I assist you through the recovery process and further through regaining healthy stability while returning to your support system and community. Once recovery is established, you return as a healthy, functioning, responsible person, no longer isolated and free to be yourself in the world once again.
Client types
- Men
- Women
- Couples
- Teens
- Families
- Spouses of Addicts
Medium/s of Interaction with Clients
- Face to Face
- Phone
- Webcam
- Phone Group Therapy
Normal Fee per session
Call for pricingDiscount Fee for GYE members?
50% discount; GYE clients pay $20 per group sessionMedicare / Other Insurances
YesAccepting new clients?
YesRecommendations
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