Gambling Disorder
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Gambling Disorder Treatment
Compulsive gamblers experience repeated negative impacts on their well-being and happiness.
Club Recovery offers gambling disorder treatment to support anyone who may be struggling. Please reach out to us to learn more!
Do any of the following concerns relate to you or someone you know?
- Trying to escape life’s problems by gambling
- Trying unsuccessfully to quit gambling
- Lying about money and/or time spent gambling
- Thinking about gambling becomes an obsession and is affecting family, employment, or other significant areas of life
- Taking increasingly greater risks in order to capture a “high” from gambling
- Gambling has become the main or only outlet for enjoyment and passion
- Depression, anxiety, or thoughts of suicide become familiar feelings
Gambling Disorder: a hidden addiction
Family, friends, and even the gambler may be slow to identify compulsive gambling as an addiction. The signs can be more subtle, and often do not show in the same physical ways as someone with substance use disorder.
- Gambling addiction is a disease of impulse. The gambler becomes preoccupied with thoughts of gambling. This obsession creates an overwhelming and powerful compulsion to gamble.
- Gambling addiction is a disease of denial. Gamblers usually believe that eventually, a change in luck will result in winnings and that they can stop gambling whenever they decide to quit.
If these symptoms describe a family member or loved one, the risk must be recognized. People with a gambling disorder often have major financial issues before being motivated to seek treatment.
Club Recovery understands that a gambling disorder is a serious, medically recognized disorder. Most importantly, effective treatment for a gambling disorder is available and works
Treatment to manage a gambling disorder
At Club Recovery, we offer a variety of services to help individuals, families and family members come to terms with this disease. We offer a total person-focused, 16-week group therapy. During this time, clients will learn to understand their seemingly uncontrollable impulse to gamble, recognize how gambling has been used to avoid other life issues, and come to understand the underlying physical and psychological aspects of this chronic disease. From there clients can then begin to cultivate the types of relationships and habits that lead to healing.>Club Recovery’s gambling disorder treatment program helps clients understand their impulse to gamble. We recognize that a problem gambler may use gambling as the band-aid for coping with other serious issues. Relationship issues, financial problems, legal problems, and dysfunctional lifestyles may all be underlying causes or consequences of the addicted gambler’s behavior. Abstinence from gambling alone is not enough. Therefore, Club Recovery helps our clients identify the underlying issues in the recovery process. All areas of a person’s life are considered and addressed as a part of the individual treatment plan.
Our gambling treatment program utilizes a cognitive-behavioral model that focuses on raising awareness of one’s emotions, thoughts, and behaviors. This new self-awareness helps individuals to recognize their triggers and urges to gamble and develop techniques to manage impulses and make positive changes in life.
Gambling disorder treatment at Club Recovery is under the direction of Craig Johnson, MA, Post-Masters Fellow, LADC, IGCCB-II Certified Gambling Treatment Provider.
At Club Recovery, we provide both individual and group therapy for people with a gambling disorder, as well as family therapy and interventions. We welcome all people who are seeking help to address their problems and would like support to begin making positive changes in their life.
Your finances will not prevent you from receiving treatment
Your financial situation may be severely impaired as a result of gambling debts. Fortunately, the Minnesota State Gambling Fund is available to provide for your treatment and recovery. The cost of treatment can be covered 100%.
Please contact us for additional details and to schedule a consultation.
Contact Club Recovery for Your Assessment Today
As a leading alcohol abuse and addiction treatment center serving the Twin Cities area in Minnesota, we will provide information and insight to help you begin your journey to recovery.
Contact us to learn more or to schedule a professional Chemical Dependency Assessment. Assessments can be scheduled within 24 hours.