Overview

Harm Reduction Psychotherapy is a humane and rational approach to treating people who misuse drugs and alcohol.  Based on sound public health principles and evidence-based models of treatment, harm reduction therapy aims to reduce drug and alcohol-related harm without insisting that the person quit using as a condition of getting help.

Harm reduction therapy reaches out to people, and their families, often well before they have decided to change anything about their drug use, in an effort to motivate the user to make healthy, life-promoting, choices.  Harm reduction therapy is a non-judgmental approach to keeping drug users alive while they develop the desire and the skills to help themselves.

People have used drugs for myriad reasons for 1000’s of years. In contemporary America, because we have declared a War on Drugs, decisions about substance use are often the least talked about yet the most difficult to make. At HRTC, we fully respect the strength, resilience and coping strategies that people have utilized in their lifelong decisions. We know that you bring that strength  with you to therapy.

Harm reduction psychotherapy is a non-12-step based approach that does not require participants to adopt the disease philosophy in order to change or quit substance use. Drug and alcohol problems are addressed along with other social, emotional, health and occupational concerns.

At HRTC, we believe that there are as many ways to change or manage substance use as there are individuals who use. Our goal is to help reduce the negative impact of drugs and alcohol on individuals, their families and their communities regardless of the ultimate decision the user makes.