Addiction & substance use therapists

Licensed Professional Counselor, MEd, LPC, CSAT, EMDR

Jermaine Sullivan is a Licensed Professional Counselor in Sandy Springs with nine years in practice. He works with preteens, teens, adults and couples facing anxiety, panic, trauma, depression, OCD, relationship distress and life transitions. He has a specialty in compulsive sexual behavior recovery and betrayal trauma, and he also helps with substance use. His approach combines EMDR, clinical hypnosis and Gottman-based couples work with other evidence-based treatments such as CBT, REBT and Internal Family Systems, with the aim of easing distress, building inner resources and improving relationships. He offers sessions in person in Sandy Springs and online.

Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LCSW

Valarie Smith is a licensed clinical social worker in Decatur with 14 years in practice. She works with adults and older adults who want to understand themselves and their relationships more deeply, notice the patterns that keep repeating in their lives, and handle change with more ease. She helps with anxiety, depression, trauma, grief, life transitions, self-esteem, stress, substance use and LGBTQ+ concerns. Her work explores how past experiences and unconscious thoughts shape the present, using psychodynamic, relational, attachment-based, CBT and DBT approaches tailored to each person. She describes herself as kind, genuine and a little offbeat. She sees clients in person in Decatur and online.

Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LICSW, MSW

Andrea Cooke is a licensed independent clinical social worker based in Boston, licensed in Massachusetts and Illinois, with more than 15 years of experience. She works with teens, adults, couples and families on anxiety, depression, trauma, relationship challenges, substance use, stress and life transitions, and also supports people who simply want a fuller life. She aims to make therapy feel real and even something to look forward to, addressing worries about the process early and focusing on lasting growth. Her methods include ACT, CBT, DBT, emotionally focused and family systems therapy, mindfulness and motivational interviewing. She works with clients online.

Psychologist, PsyD

Dr. Julion Marrinan is a licensed psychologist in Cambridge with nine years in practice, focused on clinical health psychology. He works mainly with adults, and also teens, who are struggling with anxiety, depression or substance use, and who want to build a life that reflects what matters to them. He is deeply trained in ACT and motivational enhancement, and also uses CBT, exposure and response prevention, and compassion-focused methods. His background includes an internship in a partial hospitalization program serving adolescents and adults, and he is part of clinical efforts addressing the opioid crisis in southeastern Massachusetts. He sees clients online.

Psychologist, PsyD, LMHC, LMFT

Dr. Tim Ridge is a licensed psychologist in Wellesley, also holding LMHC and LMFT credentials, with 23 years in practice. He works with teens, adults, older adults and couples dealing with trauma, anxiety, depression, shame, grief, low confidence and harsh self-criticism, as well as relationship, family and substance use concerns. He sees much of everyday anxiety and stress as rooted in past experiences that still drain people emotionally. His approach is collaborative and nonjudgmental, using EMDR, Brainspotting, hypnotherapy and attachment-based, trauma-focused work alongside talk therapy. Clients describe him as empathic, genuine and quick to laugh. He sees clients in person in Wellesley and online.

Clinical Social Work/Therapist, MFA, LICSW

Sarah Stone is a licensed independent clinical social worker in Boston. She often works with adults who look capable from the outside yet feel anxious, unsure of themselves or worn down by perfectionism and the habit of keeping others happy. Her focus areas include anxiety, trauma, low self-esteem, people-pleasing, OCD and substance use, and she also works with women's issues, family conflict and writers and other creative artists. Her style is integrative and experiential, drawing on Internal Family Systems, somatic work, Deep Brain Reorienting and attachment-based, psychodynamic methods, with attention to feelings and body responses in the moment. She sees adults and older adults in person in Boston and online.

Counselor, MEd, LCPC, LPC, C-IAYT

Tessa Mandala is a Licensed Professional Counselor in Phoenix with 11 years in practice. She is also licensed as an LCPC in Illinois, holds a Florida telehealth license, and is a certified yoga therapist. She has worked in substance use treatment from inpatient to outpatient care, and she helps adults with addiction and recovery, anxiety, depression, trauma, grief, life transitions and stress, with a welcoming approach for LGBTQIA+ clients. Seeing mind, body and spirit as connected, she blends talk therapy with mindfulness, somatic practice and bodywork, along with CBT, attachment-based work and motivational interviewing. She sees clients in person in Phoenix and online, and offers a free 15-minute consultation.

Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LMSW

Ryan Roels is a licensed master social worker in Scottsdale who works with preteens, teens, adults and families. Many of his clients spent years holding everything together, often growing up where showing emotion did not feel safe, and now struggle with self-doubt, exhaustion, feeling flooded in close relationships, or old wounds that keep resurfacing. He also helps with anxiety, depression, identity questions, life transitions, family conflict and substance use. His work is warm and reflective, drawing on psychodynamic, relational, family systems, compassion-focused, CBT and DBT methods to help clients understand their history and respond to pain in new ways. He sees clients in person in Scottsdale and online.

Licensed Professional Counselor, LPC-S, RPT-S, Sprvise, ICST, NBCC

Kathleen Costello is a Licensed Professional Counselor and clinical supervisor in Scottsdale with 17 years in practice. A former classroom teacher, she is also a Registered Play Therapist Supervisor, a credentialed sandtray therapist and a nationally board-certified counselor. Much of her work supports parents worried about a child who is acting differently, worrying a lot or struggling at school, and she sees toddlers through teens, adults and families. She helps with anxiety, depression, trauma, grief, ADHD and family stress. Her child-centered, tailored approach uses play and sand tray therapy, EMDR, IFS, CBT, DBT and expressive arts, with Christian counseling available. She sees clients in person in Scottsdale.