Addiction Treatment in NJ. Untangled.
Medication-assisted treatment & integrative psychiatric care for substance use. Without judgment and with minimal complexity.
The substance was solving something.
Our job is to figure out what, and find a better solution.
Addiction is rarely just about the substance.
Most people dealing with alcohol, opioid, or other substance use have been managing something underneath: anxiety that won’t quiet, sleep that never comes, pain that never fully resolved, a mood that medication hasn’t quite touched. The substance did something. That’s worth understanding, not dismissing.
Untangling addiction means looking at the whole thread. What drove the use? What’s kept it going? What does the body and brain need now to stabilize? These questions can lead to treatment that works and sticks.
I bring more than three decades of clinical experience, and a dual background in psychiatric medication and whole-body physiology to addiction care. The goal isn’t just to stop the substance. It’s to address what was underneath it, stabilize what was disrupted, and build a foundation that makes sobriety genuinely sustainable.
Addiction Treatment That Works.
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You Got This.
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Addiction Treatment That Works. 〰️ You Got This. 〰️
My Strategies
Medication-Assisted Treatment. Thoughtfully Prescribed.
I take an integrative, whole-person approach: Your psyche. Your physiology. Your lifestyle. Your health.
I have a broad toolkit, developed over decades. Here’s a sampling:
Alcohol use disorder: naltrexone, acamprosate, and other evidence-based options
Opioid use disorder: Suboxone, Sublocade, and Brixadi
Cannabis, stimulant, and benzodiazepine use: evaluation and integrated treatment planning
Treatment of co-occurring psychiatric conditions: anxiety, depression, PTSD, ADHD, and mood disorders often drive or complicate substance use
Medication simplification for patients whose current regimen has grown complicated, counterproductive, or hard to manage
A Different Kind of Addiction Care
What I Bring that Most Psychiatric Providers Don’t
Many addiction treatment programs focus almost entirely on the substance abused: prescribe the MAT, monitor compliance, discharge. What’s frequently missing is a careful look at the psychiatric and physiological picture underneath.
Dual diagnosis is the rule, not the exception. Anxiety, depression, ADHD, PTSD, and bipolar disorder co-occur with substance use at very high rates. I treat both, not in sequence, but together.
Hormonal and physiological awareness. My background in midwifery and whole-body medicine means I look at how the body’s systems, cortisol, thyroid, sex hormones, interact with psychiatric symptoms and recovery. This layer of care is rarely offered in standard addiction settings.
Medication minimalism. The goal is the lowest effective dose of the most appropriate medication, not adding prescriptions to manage the side effects of other prescriptions.
Coordination with your existing care team. I work collaboratively with therapists, primary care providers, and addiction counselors. I add psychiatric precision to what’s already in place, I don’t replace it.
Deep experience treating women navigating hormonal transitions, both as a midwife and a psychiatric provider. Perimenopause, postpartum, and menstrual cycle fluctuations all affect how substances interact with mood and craving. This is an often-overlooked dimension of addiction treatment in women.
Use The
Always
100% Free
STEADY
Recovery App
A companion for the in-between,
developed by Linda Perry.
The work of recovery doesn't only happen in our sessions. It happens at 2am when the craving comes out of nowhere, on the Sunday afternoon when the boredom feels louder than it should, in the quiet half-hour before a hard conversation. I built Steady for those moments: a small, private app you can keep on your phone, free for my patients.
Steady walks you through cravings step by step. It tracks how you're sleeping, eating, and feeling, and quietly surfaces the patterns underneath. It holds the safety plan you wrote on a calm day, ready for the day that isn't. It logs the meetings you attended, the meds you took, the small wins that add up. And when you don't know what to do next, there's a button to help you figure that out.
Steady is a personal self-help tool, not a clinical service. What Steady is not: a substitute for treatment, nor a way for me to monitor you. Everything you write stays only on your phone, on your web browser. I have no access to any of it, and neither does anyone else. That privacy is the architecture, not a setting you have to trust me about.
Steady does not replace your psychiatrist or therapist. If something on Steady contradicts what your psychiatrist or therapist has said, please follow the advice of your psychiatrist or therapist.
Steady is meant as a personal tool to supplement care, not replace it.
If it helps, use it. If it doesn't, that's fine too.
