Addiction & Recovery Therapy in San Diego (Telehealth)
For the high-functioning San Diego adult whose weeknights have quietly changed shape — the second glass that became a bottle, the work that became a way not to feel, the phone that became a hand.
A lot of San Diego recovery work does not look like recovery work from the outside. You are still showing up. You are still delivering. Your calendar is still color-coded. And when the door closes at the end of the day, the very quiet negotiation begins — about how much, about when, about whether tonight is different, about how you'll feel tomorrow, about whether "tomorrow" is when you finally stop.
You can be a good partner, a good parent, a good clinician, a good lawyer, a good founder, and still be running on a habit that is slowly editing you. Nobody in your life needs to see it for it to be real. Your own body knows.
What this looks like
- Two versions of the number — the one you tell people and the true one.
- Mornings you swear it's the last time. Evenings that argue back.
- Work as the acceptable addiction underneath the other addictions.
- A private life that has gotten smaller in a way you never quite announced.
- A body starting to add up the bill.
How I work
I'm Katelin Hanhart, LCSW, licensed in California (#92638) and New Jersey (#44SC05665400). I hold recovery goals plainly and without contempt — abstinence, moderation with structure, or harm reduction while you decide. I do not run a 12-step ideology and I don't shame it either. If 12-step is right for you, we integrate it. If it isn't, we build something else.
Underneath most sticky addictive patterns is something that hurts. Grief, unrecognized trauma, a nervous system with no other exit. We work at that layer too, using parts work, somatic approaches, relapse-prevention skills, and EMDR when relevant. I am trained in EMDR. If a higher level of care is what you actually need — detox, IOP, medical management — I'll tell you clearly and help you find it.
No San Diego office. San Diego recovery clients meet with me by secure video anywhere in California. For a lot of professionals in this city, that privacy — no lobby, no drive, no visibility — is the reason therapy actually starts.
Common questions
- My use isn't 'bad enough' — should I come?
- Probably yes. Most of the people I see for recovery work do not fit the movie version of an addict. They are functional, respected, well-paid, and quietly building a case against themselves that they can't outrun. If your use is costing you sleep, honesty, or self-respect, that qualifies.
- Telehealth or in person?
- For San Diego clients: telehealth. I don't have an in-person option in San Diego. That's a feature for a lot of professionals — no lobby, no risk of running into a colleague, no explaining why you're leaving the office at 2 p.m. on a Tuesday.
- Do you work with the family too?
- In the sense that partners and family are often part of the picture and part of the recovery, yes. Formal family therapy is not what I focus on — for that I can refer. But we will talk about your relational system, because trying to change your use without changing the ecosystem around it rarely holds.