Here to listen, support, and guide
You’ve taken the first step…
Seeking help is hard enough; getting help shouldn’t be difficult.
Has substance abuse or sexual behavior become the primary focus of your life?
Do you find yourself prioritizing these behaviors over your relationships, work, health, or other significant life areas?
As a Master Addiction Counselor and Certified Sex Addiction Counselor, I specialize in helping individuals navigate trauma and addiction. My approach involves helping you identify and recognize the patterns of addiction that lead to relapse or the inability to quit successfully. In this process, I will help you heal the relationships with yourself and others that have been negatively impacted by addiction.
Please know that I also offer counseling for individuals seeking help with issues outside of substance abuse and sexual behaviors as well.
I am here to offer a discreet, safe, and supportive environment where you can experience highly personalized therapy online or at my private office in East Hampton Village.
If you are ready to begin this work, please let me know how I can best support you.
Safely Facing the Past and the Present
Opportunities for positive mentorship are scarce in our current society. My goal is to foster a secure therapeutic relationship with you in our protected office, or telehealth environment that gives you the tools to grow and mature into the person you want to become. Joshua Turner Counseling is a place where painful experiences and beliefs can be shared in an environment without judgment or shame. It is a place for you to examine the expectations placed on you by yourself and others (parents, church, society, significant others, etc.) I am here to help you end your sense of isolation and re-emerge with your true self-identity.
How COUNSELING helps us develop Mature relationshipS
Becoming a mature partner in intimate relationships means learning how to appropriately take responsibility for outcomes. A mature relationship evolves from mature partners. Mature partners are able to:
Commit to the work that healthy relationships require
See one another’s needs
Comprehend how personal childhood experiences play into current relationship dynamics
Mutually respect one another’s decision-making, ways of doing things (e.g. driving) , individual tastes, feelings, strengths, weaknesses, family relationships (e.g. in-laws), personal histories, and challenging or annoying behaviors (e.g. collecting things or not putting clothes away)
Develop insight and relationship skills in order to not take unwanted feelings out on others (e.g. partner, child, friend, parent)
Stop the baggage of past relationships from interfering with those in the present
Notice patterns of blame, frustration, anger, and resentment, and take responsibility for changing the dynamic
Support one another’s growth
Take responsibility for personal growth and self-care, maintain a sense of self inside of a relationship
Learn to accept one another unconditionally
A mature relationship is one where each person takes responsibility for themselves, how they show up, and how they behave. In mature relationships we are able to build trust and experience true intimacy.
