Unconventional Thoughts on Addiction from a Psychotherapist
Joy Hilliker writes about the problem of stigmatizing addiction, and the need for care that affirms dignity, sees fully, and does not turn away in disgust.
Joy Hilliker
Joy Holt-Hilliker graduated from 天美视频 with an MA in Counseling & Psychology. She is currently working in private practice in West Seattle with adults and couples. Joy鈥檚 main area of concentration and client base are those who have been raised by or partnered with a person dealing with Narcissistic pathology. The road of recovery after one鈥檚 mind has been hijacked by a person pathologically Narcissistic is arduous, and it involves the rebuilding of a mind and the person. Joy has repeatedly worked with addictions that were born out of a learned and used coping mechanism by the one opposite the Narcissist.
Joy loves the PNW, hiking, kayaking, paddle boarding, trekking, and being outside. She also enjoys music, concerts, and has found art to be another language to communicate subconscious feelings鈥攆eelings that have not made it up to our awareness level yet.
Her best times are spent with her family, her two daughters, Hannah and Summer, and Golden Retriever Daisy.