Integrating Psychotherapy and 12 Step Programs

This page is written specifically to individuals and couples in recovery who are considering integrating psychotherapy and 12 step programs, or simply looking for some 12 step resources in Boulder County.

Millions have recovered from desperate and hopeless situations as a result of their participation in 12 step programs.

Finding a Boulder therapist who understands and respects the values of 12 step programs and its principles creates a powerful context to work together from.

While complementary, psychotherapy and 12 step programs each have different functions.

As the history of AA well attests, psychotherapy and psychiatry had no answers for those suffering from addictions.

Noted in The Language of the Heart: Bill W's Grapevine Writings, and well described by psychiatrist, David R. Hawkins in his book Power vs. Force, it was thanks to the famous psychoanalyst Dr. Carl Jung's humble acknowledgment of the limitations of psychotherapy that the 12 Step programs came to be.

Therapy is not a replacement for the healing power of 12 Step programs. It can, however, offer a powerful way to address some of the inner aspects of oneself that rise in one's awareness consequent to working a program.

12 Step Groups in Boulder/Denver Colorado

Boulder County AA: "The official web site for the Alcoholics Anonymous community in Boulder, Broomfield, Lafayette, Longmont, and the rest of Boulder County, Colorado."

Al-anon and Alateen of Colorado: Directory and info on meetings for friends and family impacted by the drinking of someone close to them.

Overeaters Anonymous (OA): OA offers is a program of recovery from compulsive eating using the Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions. Find a meeting directory for your town here.

Narcotics Anonymous (NA): N.A. Boulder area directory and info for this "non profit Fellowship or society of men and women for whom drugs had become a major problem."

Debtors Anonymous of Colorado: A 12 Step Meeting resource for those struggling with debt.

Colorado Sex Addicts Anonymous (S.A.A.): S.A.A. "is a Fellowship of men and women who share their experience, strength, and hope with sexual addiction problems that they may solve their common problem and help others recover."

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