Clays Addiction Counseling

• I put real effort into understanding what’s actually happening at the core. I’m here to be useful, not just reassuring.

• My work is active and results-oriented. I help guide you through the kind of hard work that creates lasting change.

• I’m direct but collaborative. I bring an outside perspective to gently reality-check thoughts and beliefs, without harsh judgment.

• This work is values-guided. If you’re not sure what your values are yet, we’ll discover them together.

• Compassion matters here. Real change sticks when it’s paired with self-kindness, not self-criticism.

• Therapy with me is hard work. It means looking closely at yourself, kindly challenging thoughts and beliefs, and sometimes sitting with discomfort.

• Avoidance can feel protective in the short term, but it keeps patterns locked in.

• Flexibility—especially when things feel uncomfortable—is what opens the door to lasting change.

• I work with trauma/PTSD, chronic pain, psychosis-related challenges, anxiety, and depression when they are intertwined with drugs or alcohol. That intersection is my specialty.

Availability: Sessions are Sundays only (this is a part-time practice).
Free in-office consultation: Schedule here → https://claysaddictioncounselingpllc.as.me/

Evidence Based Treatments

• Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy: We can work together collaboratively in softly challenging distorted unhelpful/exaggerated/unrealistic harsh judgements/thoughts/beliefs that appear during your distress. Just because we have a thought doesn't make it true. We can work together to accept uncomfortable emotions/physical symptoms rather than act harsh towards them. Our emotions, although sometimes misguided, are trying to help us and we can take a more thankful/flexible attitude of allowing them to be there even though they are very unpleasant. Self compassion is powerful!

  • Treats chronic pain, psychosis, anxiety, depression, and addiction.

• Cognitive Processing Therapy: The average CPT-treated participant fared better than 89% of those in inactive control conditions at posttreatment and 82% at follow-up. CPT is a well-researched, manualized therapy proven to significantly reduce symptoms of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. It is generally delivered over 12 sessions and helps clients learn how to challenge and modify unhelpful beliefs related to the trauma. Other than the first session, 7 sheets of homework are assigned between each session. Videos to explain the therapy are available on https://cptforptsd.com/cpt-resources/

  • Treats PTSD

• Motivational Interviewing: Part of us leans towards a new path, while another part likes things just as they are. This approach acknowledges that clients are the expert of their own lives and looks to roll with both sides without pushing any agenda onto the client. Thus, the client can look to see how actions may or may not match their unique values.

  • Treats addiction

• Harm Reduction or Abstinence: Addiction is the compulsive use of drugs/alcohol despite significant negative consequences. Some clients are in a place in their lives in which they are not open to full abstinence from drugs/alcohol. If your goal is to either reduce or completely abstain from drug or alcohol use, I can help.

  • Treats addiction

About Me

I hold a Master’s in Addiction Counseling (2021) and have worked across crisis services, individual therapy, case management, and residential/homeless services. I frequently support licensed professionals and deeply value privacy and discretion. I aim to be caring, authentic, and relentlessly helpful.

This is a supervised private practice. It is owned and/or managed by a master’s level, non-independent licensee under Board-approved clinical supervision pursuant to A.A.C. R4-6-211. The Board-approved clinical supervisor of this practice is:

Name: Jill Fabian LISAC LCSW

Phone Number: (520) 661-6445

Email: fabianjill@hotmail.com