You’re not pouring a drink the minute you get up. You’re not hiding bottles. You’re just uncorking a wine bottle at the end of the day to take the edge off, and honestly, you’re starting to wonder if that’s something worth looking at.

You’re not what people picture when they think of someone struggling with alcohol.

You’re functioning and capable. You show up for your kids, your job, your life. No one looking at you would see anything wrong.

Inside though, something has shifted for you. Maybe you can’t get through a stressful day or week without it. Maybe there’s a little voice in your head that starts thinking about when you can have a drink way earlier than you want to. Or maybe, its that you’ve tried to take a break, and found it way harder than you expected.

You’re not in crisis, but you are drinking more often than you think you should.

• Alcohol has become your primary way of decompressing at the end of the day
• You’ve googled “am I drinking too much”, and closed the tab before actually seeing the answer
• You tell yourself you’ll take a break, but then you dont
• You feel kind of guilty about it, but you’re not even sure why or who you’d talk to about it anyway
• You’re not ready to call it a problem, but you don’t think everything is fine, either.

I’ll tell you this: you don’t have to know what to call it before you ask for help.

The drinking isn’t the problem. It’s the solution to another problem. One that you haven’t gotten help for yet.

Most of the Moms I work with aren’t drinking at the end of the day because they love it. They’re doing it because they feel overwhelmed, under-supported and carrying a mental load that could topple the Empire State Building. The booze is the only thing that clears their mind and allows them to relax.

The real problem is that you’ve never had anywhere to lay down the weight you’re carrying without feeling like something bad was going to happen. No one ever really asks how you’re doing, because you’ve gotten so good at handling it all that they don’t think they need to.

But then the only thing left was the alcohol.

We’ll look at the life underneath the exhaustion. The pieces that keep you from asking for help. The stress that has nowhere to go.

What you'll find here

• No labels. I’m not here to force you into a category you may not fit in.
• I won’t require you to give up alcohol. If that’s what you want- let’s do it. But if not, we’ll figure out what you really want, and work toward that.
• Shame. What you’re doing makes sense when we look at where you are.
• One-size-fits all therapy. We work at your pace, on your goals.

What we work on

• The stress underneath- let’s look at what is driving the overwhelm and start building ways to decrease stress and manage life in ways that don’t leave you exhausted.
• Your relationship with alcohol: Non-judgmental exploration of what role alcohol is playing, and what you want that to look like in the future.
• The patterns underneath: Hyper independence, people pleasing and the belief that needing things makes you a failure and a burden.
• What comes next: A life where you’re not white knuckling to bed time.

I don't think it's bad enough to need help"

Listen, you don’t have to be at “rock bottom” to deserve support. You’re here, reading this page and that means something. That is worth listening to. You don’t have to have the answer, you just need to be willing to ask the question.