Rachele McGowanTherapist in NJ
LPC, LLADC, ICGC-I
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Healing Waters Counseling & Wellness, LLC is a counseling practice offering comprehensive mental health and substance abuse services using a holistic approach. The practice incorporates psychotherapy with a wellness model addressing mind, body, and spirit. Services include individual counseling, couples therapy, family therapy, and group therapy. The practice treats issues ranging from anxiety and depression to addiction struggles, couples and family difficulties, trauma, grief, mood disorders, personality disorders, and life transitions. The practice specializes in substance abuse counseling, marriage and family therapy, child and adolescent therapy, women's issues, men's issues, and trauma-informed care. Staff include licensed professional counselors and certified substance abuse counselors with experience in diverse clinical populations.
Credentials
LPC, LLADC, ICGC-I
Role
Therapist
Specialties & focus areas
Recovery focus
Evidence-based approaches
CBT
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. Spots the thought-feeling-action loops that fuel urges, then rewires them with practical skills you take into the moment.
DBT
Dialectical Behavior Therapy. Pairs acceptance with change. Especially useful when emotions feel too big to ride out without acting on them.
Mindfulness
Mindfulness-Based Relapse Prevention. Practices noticing urges without acting on them, building the gap between trigger and choice.
Solution-focused
Solution-Focused Brief Therapy. Spends less time on the why and more on what already works, then does more of that on purpose.
Psychodynamic
Psychodynamic Therapy. Explores the older patterns and unconscious dynamics underneath the surface behavior. Slower than skills-based work, deeper on the questions of why you reach for the thing you reach for.
Family systems
Family Systems work. Brings the people closest to you into the recovery picture, since urges and relationships rarely live in separate boxes.
Group therapy
Group Therapy. A small facilitated circle where people working on similar struggles practice naming what is hard, hearing themselves in others, and learning skills together. The room is the medicine.
Trauma-informed care
Trauma-Informed Care. Approaches addiction as something layered on top of unprocessed trauma, not in isolation. Pacing matters more than confrontation.
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