Join Katie McCabe, LCPC, and Resource Connect Clinical Director Marie Collins, LCPC, to learn more about what recovery looks like as you relearn how to fulfill some basic needs. From drug dreams to diet, Of Substance jumps into part two of three: healing the body after addiction.

In the first episode of Of Substance’s three-part series, Elliott Driscoll, LCSW-C, and Katie McCabe, LCPC, go inside the mind to talk about how it works, what substance use does to it, and what recovery looks like with a mental addiction.

Where do substance use and mental illness meet? What looks like mental illness but gets more complicated on closer inspection? Elliott Driscoll, LCSW-C, and Katie McCabe, LCPC, go back inside the mind to talk about how addiction can get wrapped up in a tangle of neurons. Because for as complicated as recovery is, it might’ve met its match next to the brain!

As kids become teens, there’s almost always likely to be some changes in how they act. But how do you tell the difference between “teens being teens” and when there’s something else there? Join Katie McCabe, LCPC, for a talk about adolescent substance use, what it looks like, and how to talk about it with your teen.

Addressing addiction, abuse, and the prevalence of alcohol in our society.

DBT was originally designed to help treat patients with suicidal thoughts and borderline personality disorder. As it’s grown in effectiveness and popularity, it has been adapted to treat a wide variety of mental health matters, especially ones that cause increased emotional distress such as anxiety and depression.