PAMELA
DOBBIE
Dobbie Wellness · Pamela Dobbie, LPC
INTENSIVE ALCOHOL USE THERAPY
An 8-week intensive for the pattern you understand but still can't seem to change. Group therapy three times a week and one individual session every week.
Real support, at the pace real change requires.
You can see the pattern clearly after the fact.
You know when you're reaching for a drink. You know what it costs you: the morning after, the promises you've made yourself, the things you keep meaning to change. In the moment, though, it can feel as if your body has already made the decision.
That's not a failure of willpower. It's your nervous system doing what it learned to do. This intensive works with what's underneath the pattern, not just the drinking itself, whether or not you've decided to stop entirely.
The Program
Eight Weeks. A Full Structure of Support.
Virtual — join from anywhere I serve
Mon · Wed · Thu, 5:30–7:00 pm MT
Evergreen - new members join on Mondays
8
WEEKS
A defined arc with a beginning, middle, and end, long enough for new patterns to consolidate, short enough to commit to
3x
Group Per Week
A small, consistent group meeting three times each week for 90 minutes per session.
You'll practice responding differently with people who get it in real time, not just in hindsight.
1
Individual / Week
A private session every week to work your own story
CBT, EMDR, and somatic work targeted to what drives your pattern.
That's 24 group sessions and 8 individual sessions over eight weeks — 36 hours of group therapy alone, far more than most people get in a year of weekly therapy.
FEE
$795 per week
or $5,900 for the full eight weeks, paid in full
Private pay.
A superbill is provided for possible
out-of-network reimbursement.
The Approach
Beneath the explanation, there's a nervous system.
This is clinical work, and it uses methods with evidence behind them. The intensive draws on Pamela Dobbie, LPC's 22 years of experience, a career that began in residential treatment and continued in outpatient substance abuse and trauma therapy.
It combines:
CBT: identifying and changing the thought patterns that drive the drinking.
Brain retraining: practicing new responses until they become your default.
EMDR: reprocessing the experiences that still have a hold on you.
Trauma and attachment work: tending to the relationships and experiences that shaped how safe connection feels.
Somatic work: working with the alarm your body sounds before you've "decided" anything.
Education: how alcohol, stress and the nervous system actually work, so your choices make sense.
Recovery nutritional education: rebuilding the physical baseline alcohol and stress have been drawing down.
We'll choose a focus and a pace that fit you, and you'll practice responding differently in your actual life, not just in session.
"You may understand exactly why you reach for a drink and still find yourself doing it again. In our work, we pay attention to the pattern as it happens: in your thoughts, your choices, your relationships and your nervous system." Pamela Dobbie, LPC
What We Work On Together
Change that holds, because it goes deeper than the habit.
The moment before the drink. Learning to notice the alarm, the shutdown or the relief your body is seeking, early enough to choose differently.
The experiences underneath. Old experiences and relationships can still drive present behavior. EMDR, attachment work and somatic work help set them down.
What drinking has been doing for you. Alcohol usually solves something, badly. We find out what, and build responses that actually work.
Life around the pattern. Relationships, work, sleep, food and stress: the conditions that make the pattern more or less likely.
Pamela Dobbie, LPC
Your Therapist
Pamela Dobbie is a Licensed Professional Counselor with 22 years of experience. Her career began in residential treatment, then continued in outpatient substance abuse and trauma therapy. Her work brings together CBT, brain retraining, EMDR, somatic work, trauma and attachment work, recovery nutritional education and education, matched to how each person actually responds to stress and trauma.
"I've had experiences that changed how I understand this work, too. I won't presume to know yours. I will take it seriously."
Ready to begin?
New members join on Mondays. Start with a short, private screening form so I can see whether the intensive is a safe and good fit. I review every response personally and reply within 2 business days. If it's a fit, I'll send you a link to book your intake. New members join on Mondays.
A 15-minute consultation is a chance to tell me what's bringing you here, ask about the intensive, and see whether working together makes sense. No pressure, no commitment.