Compassionately assisting any willing men and their families to transition from the daily, often internalized, struggles of addiction, to embracing the newfound challenges of recovery. David Gust offers an innovative counseling program that has helped numerous people to live happy, healthy, and sober lives.
A key component of the counseling process is to emphasize what is necessary to achieve and maintain lifelong sobriety. Relapse prevention is focused on throughout the process as well as total body health through mindfulness, proper diet, exercise, and sleep hygiene practices. David Gust founded his group practice specializing in substance use, addiction, codependency, and dual diagnosis issues after recognizing a need in the community.
A key component of the counseling process is to emphasize what is necessary to achieve and maintain lifelong sobriety. Relapse prevention is focused on throughout the process as well as total body health through mindfulness, proper diet, exercise, and sleep hygiene practices. David Gust founded his group practice specializing in substance use, addiction, codependency, and dual diagnosis issues after recognizing a need in the community.
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David Gust, LAADC, NCAC II, CADC II began his career at the esteemed Hazelden Foundation Chemical Dependency Counselor Training Program in 1977 as the youngest participant ever to complete their program. Upon graduation David chose to move to California to work for an inpatient treatment facility for adults.
David's responsibility is to compassionately assist any willing men, and their families, in their transition from the daily, often internalized, struggles of addiction, to embracing the newfound challenges involving recovery. David's counseling process is rooted in the most current information on addiction and recovery methods which recognize addiction as a threefold illness affecting the body, emotions, mind and spirit.
David Gust has been a consultant to private and public institutions throughout his career, helping to develop both inpatient and outpatient programs for adolescents and adults. As the founder and creator of New Directions Program, he is recognized for program development in outpatient treatment for adolescents.
David was the instructor at the Breining Institute Addictions Studies Program for over twenty years. He also taught a course on Adolescent Addiction Issues for several years at California State University Sacramento Extension Program. In his role as a board member of the Forum on Chemical Dependency, David brought the first three day conference on Adolescence Addiction with national speakers to Northern California.
Mentoring new and seasoned counselors has been a passion of David's. He feels a sense of responsibility to share his knowledge and skills and works closely with other counselors to help them provide the most effective treatment to their clients. David has mentored many counselors working directly with him at New Directions Program and many more at other facilities or in private practice.
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