Thank you for your interest in addiction treatment — and
Harm Reduction–based care

If this talk resonated, you’re not alone.
Many people—patients and clinicians alike—have learned to expect judgment, pressure, or
rigid demands around substance use. When that happens, people don’t open up. They hide their
use, disengage from therapy, or never seek help at all.
This training was created to address that problem directly.

What this training offers

This course teaches a flexible, progressive goals model (often called mixed-goals or harm
reduction psychotherapy) that works with ambivalence instead of against it.
You’ll learn how to:
• Invite openness rather than secrecy around substance use
• Work effectively with any level of use, not just abstinence
• Use language and relational tools that reduce shame and fear
• Keep therapeutic connection intact while real change unfolds
• Help clients reduce harm, increase control, and clarify what they actually want

Rather than demanding immediate change, this approach supports incremental progress—the
way humans really grow.

 Who this is for

• Clinicians who were never formally trained to treat substance use
• Therapists who suspect clients are hiding or minimizing use
• Practices that want to attract—and keep—clients who avoid abstinence-only care
• Clinicians who want their work to feel more honest, ethical, and effective

This training treats substance use as part of normal psychotherapy, not a separate specialty that
requires referral elsewhere.

Learn from the pioneer of this work

The course is taught by Andrew Tatarsky, the leading figure in progressive-goals addiction
psychotherapy.
He has trained thousands of clinicians worldwide and developed the clinical framework that
underlies modern harm-reduction psychotherapy.
Participants can earn:
• An official certification
• Continuing education credits
• Practical language for client work and public-facing practice materials that signal safety
and flexibility to prospective patients

This is not just education—it changes how clients find you, stay with you, and refer others.

Start here

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See how this approach sounds and feels in practice.
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