Addiction & Recovery Therapy in Oceanside (Telehealth)
For the person in North County who is quietly ready to stop pretending this is under control — and who does not want their car parked outside a clinic to be the way people find out.
A lot of the recovery work I do with Oceanside clients starts long before anyone would call it "bad enough." The nightly wine that turned into a nightly bottle. The stimulants that started as focus and ended up as personality. The scrolling, the shopping, the porn, the food, the phone — the thing that used to soothe you now runs you. And around here, in a coastal community where everyone knows everyone's kid's coach, privacy is not a small ask.
Telehealth is the honest answer for a lot of that. You can do serious recovery work from the same room you drink coffee in. There is no lobby, no sign-in sheet, no chance of running into a neighbor. There is a laptop, a closed door, and a therapist who will not perform shock and will not hand you a script.
What this looks like
We start with the truth: what you're using, how often, what it's costing, and what it's still doing for you. Substances and behaviors are almost always doing a job — regulating a nervous system, muting a memory, holding down grief, buying you a minute of "off." If we only take the thing away without seeing the job, the job just hires another employee.
- You minimize your use in your head and it still keeps escalating.
- Nobody in your life knows the real number.
- You are "fine" until a Sunday night.
- Your body is starting to tell you the story your denial won't.
- You are exhausted from being the one who keeps saying "this is the last time."
How I work
I'm Katelin Hanhart, LCSW, licensed in California (#92638) and New Jersey (#44SC05665400). I hold recovery goals honestly — whether that's abstinence, moderation with structure, or harm reduction while you decide. I integrate relapse-prevention skills, parts work, trauma-informed care, and EMDR when the wound underneath the use needs its own attention. I am trained in EMDR.
If you need a higher level of care — detox, IOP, PHP, medical stabilization — I will say so plainly and help you find it. Individual therapy is one piece of a recovery ecosystem, not the whole thing.
I don't have an office in Oceanside. Oceanside recovery clients meet with me by secure video anywhere in California. For a lot of people in a tight-knit coastal community, that privacy is the reason they actually start.
Common questions
- Is telehealth private if I live in a small community?
- That is exactly why a lot of Oceanside and North County clients prefer video. Nobody sees your car outside a treatment center. Your appointment lives on your laptop, not on your grocery-store block. HIPAA-compliant platform, closed door, headphones — that is the whole footprint.
- Do I have to be sober first?
- No. You can come in while you're still using, still deciding, still ambivalent. What I will ask is that you're safe to be in session — not actively intoxicated on our call and not in a medical situation that needs a higher level of care. We can name where you actually are.
- Is this 12-step based?
- It doesn't have to be. 12-step works beautifully for some people and I'll support that. Others do better with harm reduction, SMART, medication-assisted treatment plus therapy, or a plan we build from scratch. My job is not to pick your path — it's to help you build one that keeps you honest.