Addiction can cause feelings and behaviors that prevent you from living a happy life. However, overcoming addiction doesn’t have to be a challenge you face alone.

Instead, consider addiction counseling. Covina’s Dr. Raymond Jones has long experience in helping patients separate the compulsions that drive them from who they are as people. As a result, they can better understand their addiction and control their behavior.

Neuroscience and Addiction Counseling

Covina patients are often surprised to learn that the complex feelings driving their behavior are actually simpler than they appear. Recent research into neuroscience suggests that we have three different “brains”:

  • The base, or reptilian, brain.
  • The middle, or mammalian, brain.
  • The higher, or executive / spiritual, brain.

In counseling Covina patients, Dr. Jones shows how these brains drive behavior.

Our Base Brain

This set of motivations is solely focused on survival. When we are threatened, we go to the behaviors that are supposed to protect us, whether the behavior is to fight or to flee. The base brain acts in ways that we do not always perceive at the time, and as a result, we feel powerless to its whims.

From an addiction counseling standpoint, Covina patients can think of the base brain as a defense against change, even when change is for the better. For example, when they try to move past their addiction, this brain reacts, threatened by a change to the life that the patient knows. It could be a reaction to someone suggesting that they seek counseling. It could be running away from a healthy relationship.

Our Middle Brain

The middle brain allows us to feel emotions in a deep and powerful way. In counseling, Covina patients learn how the middle brain can give us strength or can make us weak. People who are going through addiction counseling in Covina will come to understand the importance of control over this brain. They must be mindful and centered, even when the emotional brain is storming.

Our Higher Brain

This part of ourselves governs the “who am I” in each situation and lets us act in a spiritual or self-reflective way. When Covina patients go through crisis, we see the higher brain in its truest form. These situations make some people mean and bitter, and each crisis that follows creates more negative feelings. Understanding it is very important to addiction counseling. However, counseling also teaches Covina patients that crisis can strengthen them. Facing crisis with class and compassion allows them to become the person they want to be.

PHD IN PSYCHOLOGY

Dr. Jones’ psychotherapeutic training helps him to manage the client-doctor relationship, to evaluate the progress of his patients, and to allow them to see a future with an improved mental state and spiritual well-being. Patients begin with an initial 90-minute consultation.

During this time, Dr. Jones will provide:

  • An assessment of the severity of your concerns.
  • An analysis of your readiness to address these problems.
  • An outline of the potential treatments and resources available to you.

LICENSURE AS A MARRIAGE FAMILY THERAPIST (LMFT)

This state-assigned certification is evidence of Dr. Jones’ advanced training in marriage counseling. Covina couples who turn to Dr. Jones for work will benefit from a unique blend of relationship exercises and traditional therapy. He avoids the “blame game” and works with couples to break out of the hurtful patterns that have trapped them in the past. In addition, he assists couples in rekindling the romance that their relationships may have lost. The result is a more loving, more intimate marriage.

MASTER OF DIVINITY DEGREE (MDIV)

Dr. Jones is the provider of choice for those who are interested in Christian counseling. Through Christian counseling, Covina patients can participate in treatment that is based on religious tenets such as compassion and perseverance. Dr. Jones’ advanced religious training provides Christian clients with a shared foundation of morality and faith. Clients will find judgment-free support and a guide to help them through their most difficult challenges.

This does not mean that patients will be proselytized or forced into believing in a specific worldview. What it does mean, though, is that patients will be treated with understanding and will find the spirituality and support they seek during their most difficult challenges. When a patient decides to work with Dr. Jones, he or she can trust that they are being treated by someone with great faith and morality who will help them find success.

CERTIFICATION AS A SEX ADDICTION THERAPIST AND SUPERVISOR (CSAT-S)

With sex addiction counseling, Covina residents who have been uncomfortable with general therapy can find a specialist who understands the nature and challenges of their problems. Dr. Jones provides clients with a safe environment for exploring their problems, understanding their motivations, and overcoming the power that these issues possess over them.

CERTIFICATION AS A TRAINED HYPNOTIST (CHT)

Often, the greatest challenge that people face when they attend therapy is that they must commit to weeks, months, or years of sessions. These sessions can be painful and frustrating, especially if the patient has no clear indication that his or her time with the doctor is producing results.

Dr. Jones understands these problems and, years ago, began to identify ways to improve the therapeutic process. Hypnosis and guided imagery are two ways in which he is able to work directly with the unconscious part of a patient’s mind. Through this interaction, Dr. Jones can identify the traumas that are motivating unwanted emotions and behaviors within a person. He alleviates these concerns through a safe, effective treatment. Often, patients see results within one or two sessions and are able to overcome trauma much more quickly than if they had participated in traditional psychotherapy.

Dr. Raymond Jones Helps Patients Overcome Addiction through Substance Abuse Counseling

Glendora patients come to Dr. Raymond Jones with addictions to drugs, alcohol, cigarettes, and other substances and walk away with hope. Hope is what we unconditionally guarantee to every person who picks up the phone and calls our office—but if you are committed to and invested in healing your addiction, we can offer so much more.

Your treatment begins by removing the craving for whatever it is that is keeping you from living a healthy, fulfilling life. In many traditional substance cessation programs, this is the most trying and traumatic part of the recovery process. But with Dr. Jones, you can confront your addiction from a place of comfort and relaxation that lets you release your cravings on your own terms. As a Master Hypnotist, Dr. Jones helps you surmount the first hurdle of addiction recovery while minimizing the physical, psychological and emotional fallout associated with withdrawal. Hypnotherapy has proven incredibly effective for Dr. Jones’ substance abuse counseling patients—oftentimes, the cravings can be removed in just a few sessions.

Once this is achieved, Dr. Jones begins working on the underlying character issues that gave rise to your addiction. These are the events, anxieties, and fears that created the void in your life that opened the door to addiction in the first place. Dr. Jones helps you close it by addressing the root cause of your abusive behavior so that you won’t relapse or backslide. With Dr. Jones, you can repair the emotional damage that brought you to this place of pain and gain the spiritual strength and awareness you need to rejoin your friends, family, and the rest of society on the other side as a healthy, whole person.

Addiction recovery doesn’t happen overnight—it’s a journey. As you begin that journey—whether it’s with a tentative first step or a leap of faith—Dr. Jones can comfort, support, and guide you so you don’t stumble or fall along the way.

GET IN TOUCH TO SCHEDULE A CONFIDENTIAL DISCUSSION ABOUT DR. JONES’ APPROACH TO PSYCHOTHERAPY AND ADDICTION COUNSELING. CALL (626) 827-8997 TODAY.