James M Strawbridge
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Office
- Contact:
- 561-364-5798
Treatment Offered
- Therapy Orientation:
- Coaching, Psychological Testing, Cognitive Behavioral (CBT)
- Age Focus:
- Seniors, Adults
- Specialities:
- Compulsive Disorders, Life Coaching, Addiction or Substance Abuse, Spirituality, Anxiety or Fears, Impulse Control Disorders, Relationship Issues
- Treatment Modality:
- Individuals, Families, Groups
- Ethnicity:
- Any Ethnicity
- Religious Beliefs:
- Any Religion, Latter Day Saints/Mormon
- Life Is Worth Living Because...
- “You can really live in line with what matters most to you on a daily basis.”
- About My Work
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“Activities: Hospital volunteer
The substance abuser is a person, a father, a mother, a son, a daughter with varying degrees of anxiety, depression, low self-esteem and an overblown ego at the same time. This makes for an interesting personality mixture.”
- My Story
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“As a trained counselor (masters level), I have completed two years of graduate study, clinical supervision, and field practice with an emphasis on providing treatment, prevention, and development services as opposed to the correction of severe disturbances. This education and experience included graduate courses as do psychologist.
I am familiar with many approaches and strategies for helping people to are experiencing anxiety, depression, loss of self esteem and more. Having a broad range of alternatives enables me to select those strategies most likely to meet the needs of a particular client, a particular emotional problem or client system.
Using the effectiveness of any given strategy is the level of trust between myself and the client that is developed during the first of helping , the relationship stage. Trust is developed using empathetic communication skills. Empathetic communications skills lead to trust, then, essential to the effectiveness of the whole counseling process.
As a trained specialist (psychologist), I have received training at the doctoral level in behavioral sciences and am particularly well versed in psychology (learning, developmental, and personality) theory. My unique contribution is in the field of psychodiagnosis and in research methodology.
A Consumer Reports' study asserts that psychologist, psychiatrist, and social worker do not differ in their effectiveness as helpers.
Over the years, I have worked and/or volunteered with well over 4,000 people from a variety of socio-economic backgrounds and under different circumstances. These are people who have abused substances and have experiences with trauma, abuse, violence and physical injuries that damaged their lives and led to the use of substances to numb the pain.”
Qualification
| Years in Practice: | 15+ Years |
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| Graduated from: | Capella University |
| Year Graduated: | 2007 |
| License issued in: | Florida |
| License Expiry: | Jul 2012 |
| Board Certification: | Board Certified Addiction Addiction Professional Cert #4587 as attested by the Florida CertificationBoard |
| Other Credentials: | Certificate, Florida Certification Board as attested by the State of Florida, Internationally Certified as an Alcohol and Drug Counselor Cert #126029as attested by the Florida Certification Board, 2010 |
Remote Therapy
| Phone Counseling: | Yes |
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Cost & Payment Modalities
| Avg Cost (session): | $80 - $119 |
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James Strawbridge's Most Recent Activity on Choose Help
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Q & A Reply: Facebook Share on Twitter 12:06 - May 22, 2012 Alcoholism: A Self-Preserving Disease
Hi, my name is Carla. I am writing to you about my 68 father. Today was a very bad day. We had a family day planned and again my dad had to ruin it by drinking rubbing alcohol. He is a very heavy drinker but now has turned to mouthwash, ...
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Q & A Reply: Facebook Share on Twitter 09:12 - Apr 30, 2012 Can Interventions Help with Codependency?
How can I convince my parents to stop enabling my brother? He is an alcoholic and he has never really had a job that he can stick with for longer than a few months. He is in his 30s now but he still acts like a child and relies on my parents for ...
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Q & A Reply: Facebook Share on Twitter 10:32 - Apr 30, 2012 Emotional Dysregulation / Borderline Personality Disorder
My 48 year old brother has borderline personality disorder and he also has diabetes and hepatitis C. He lives independently on a disability check in a room he rents near my home and since our parents passed I have been the person that kind of looks ...
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Q & A Reply: Facebook Share on Twitter 10:20 - Apr 30, 2012 Drug Abuse Can Be Prevented
Hello Dr. Strawbridge, As of September 2012 I will start taking classes in the field of Alcoholism and Drug abuse counseling. Can you tell me in what area there is the most need and demand; either in the field of prevention or cure? Also, how is ...
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Q & A Reply: Facebook Share on Twitter 12:06 - Apr 15, 2012 Paradoxes and Contradictions: Alcoholism
I am ready to quit drinking. I can say that I am an alcoholic. Over the last few years I have drank about 15 or 20 or more beers every day. There has not been one day over the last years that I have not drank. I am going to lose my family unless I ...
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Q & A Reply: Facebook Share on Twitter 03:05 - Apr 02, 2012 Planning an Intervention
My son is an extremely bad alcoholic. He is now on his 6th day of his latest binge. We are going to try and have an intervention with just the family tomorrow, but since we can not afford to pay we are doing it on our own. Are there any specific ...
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Q & A Reply: Facebook Share on Twitter 01:11 - Mar 20, 2012 Alcohol Works Even When You're Not Drinking
I am a recovering alcoholic. Right now I am having a lot of trouble with insomnia and I can’t take it anymore. I am thinking about trying some sleeping pills. I would not want to take any pills that can be ‘addictive’ or that can get me high because ...
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Q & A Reply: Facebook Share on Twitter 12:16 - Mar 15, 2012 Treatment of Alcoholism With LSD?
I recently read an article that was discussing the use of LSD for the treatment of alcoholism. What are your thoughts on this? When I was a kid (I'm 56 yrs old now) the use of LSD was illegal, how can a psychedelic drug be given by prescription ...
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Q & A Reply: Facebook Share on Twitter 07:45 - Mar 12, 2012 Symptoms of Alcoholism Are Deceiving
I am a bit confused about whether or not my brother is an alcoholic. He drinks a lot, like every night to the point of intoxication for 9 months of the year. Then, on January 2nd of every year he goes on the wagon for three months and he uses those ...
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Q & A Reply: Facebook Share on Twitter 11:09 - Mar 02, 2012 Socializing Your Children: Quality vs Quantity
My wife and I both come from families that with a lot of addiction and alcoholism. Neither she nor I drink alcohol or do drugs because of what we saw growing up. We now have 2 young children and the oldest one is about ready to start ...
