MASSACHUSETTS ONLINE ADDICTION & CO-OCCURRING DISORDERS COUNSELING
You Can Be Successful—and Still Need Support.
You may be managing your career, responsibilities, relationships, and everyday life while privately wondering whether alcohol, substance use, stress, anxiety, anger, or coping patterns are beginning to cost you more than you want to admit.
Designed to Overcome provides private, specialized online addiction and co-occurring-disorders counseling for adults throughout Massachusetts. Whether you are questioning your relationship with alcohol or drugs, working to maintain recovery, concerned about relapse, or navigating substance use alongside anxiety, depression, trauma-related concerns, burnout, or other behavioral-health challenges, you do not have to wait until everything falls apart to seek support.
Dr. Esther Odamah, PhD, LADC-I, CAMS-II
Licensed Alcohol and Drug Counselor I, Massachusetts · PhD in Addiction Psychology · Certified in Co-Occurring Psychiatric and Substance Use Disorders · Certified Anger Management Specialist II
Secure Telehealth · Private Pay / Out of Network · Massachusetts Adult
YOU DON’T HAVE TO “LOOK LIKE” YOU’RE STRUGGLING
When Life Looks Successful From the Outside
High-achieving adults are often very good at continuing to perform. You may still be going to work, leading a team, caring for your family, meeting deadlines, and accomplishing goals.
Yet something may be changing underneath the surface. Drinking may have become the main way you decompress. Substance use may feel harder to control. Stress may be showing up as irritability or anger. You may keep promising yourself that you will cut back after this demanding season—or you may be maintaining recovery while pressure makes old coping patterns increasingly tempting.
Functioning does not always mean flourishing. You do not need to reach a crisis before seeking support.
“Success should not cost you your peace.”
— DR. ESTHER ODAMAH
SPECIALIZED ADDICTION & CO-OCCURRING DISORDERS COUNSELING
Support for More Than Substance Use Alone
Substance use rarely exists in a vacuum. Alcohol or drugs can become connected to stress, anxiety, emotional exhaustion, anger, loneliness, sleep difficulties, relationship strain, professional pressure, or efforts to escape thoughts and feelings that have become difficult to carry.
Counseling should consider the whole pattern—not simply the substance.
FOR HIGH-ACHIEVING ADULTS
When Your Strength Has Become Part of the Problem
The qualities that helped you become successful can sometimes make seeking help more difficult. You may be accustomed to solving problems alone, pushing through discomfort, remaining composed, being the dependable person, and keeping private matters private.
You may even find yourself thinking:
“It’s not that bad.”
“I can handle it.”
“I’ll cut back after this stressful period.”
“No one knows, so I must still have it under control.”
Counseling offers a confidential space to look honestly at what is happening before the consequences have to become catastrophic. Designed to Overcome has a focused commitment to high-achieving adults, professionals, leaders, and caregivers whose substance use or coping patterns may be affecting their peace, relationships, health, or ability to live the way they want to live.
People can change. Healing is possible. A different future is within reach.
— DR. ESTHER ODAMAH
Why Dr. Odamah?
Addiction Is Not One of Many Things I Treat. It Is My Specialty.
Your Next Chapter Can Be Healthier.
If alcohol, substance use, stress, anger, or old coping patterns are taking more from your life than you want to give them, it may be time to look at what is underneath.
Specialized online addiction and co-occurring-disorders counseling for eligible adults throughout Massachusetts.
Secure Telehealth · Private Pay / Out of Network · Eligible Massachusetts Adults
