How often does alcohol consumption impact therapeutic process if the diagnosis and focus of treatment are NOT focused to address substance use disorder? In this Brown Bag, you’ll learn the symptoms and red flags of drinking in the gray area (the area between abstinence and alcohol addiction).  You’ll learn not only the importance of assessing for gray area drinking habits, but also the new language forming around this topic to help you and your clients better understand a “healthy” consumption of alcohol.  Finally, you’ll leave knowing exactly which brainspotting setups to use if and when a client’s progress is being hindered by the Groundhog Day repetitive cycle of unhealthy drinking in the gray area.

Carolyn Robistow helps high-achieving, health-minded perfectionists squelch brain blocks and unhelpful habits.