Addiction Therapy

Addiction is almost never about the substance.

It is about what the substance is managing. The anxiety that never fully quiets. The grief that never got to land. The shame that found a home somewhere deep and stayed there. The part of you that discovered something that worked, for a while, and did not yet have anything else.

I do not approach this work with a protocol. I approach it with curiosity about what your particular pattern has been protecting and what it would take to find another way through.

I have worked with people navigating addiction for over two decades. What I have learned is that willpower is almost never the issue. People who struggle with substance use are often some of the most resourceful, creative, and deeply feeling people I know. The problem is not weakness. It is that the nervous system found a solution before it had better options.

That is what we work on together. Not just stopping, but understanding. And from that understanding, building something more sustainable than white knuckling it alone.

We do not stay at the level of talking things through. We work more directly with what your body has learned to rely on, so that new options can actually begin to take hold.

The people I work best with are not looking for more to analyze, but are open to a more direct, body-based way of working.

You do not have to have it figured out before you come in. You just have to be willing to show up.

If that resonates, you are in the right place.

Andrew J. Heinz, MSW, LCSW, Intermediate III Student with Somatic Experiencing International, offers addiction therapy in Fort Collins, Loveland, Greeley, and the greater Northern Colorado and Denver area, supporting adults navigating substance use, compulsive behaviors, trauma, shame, and recovery through integrative, somatic, and evidence-based care.