BREAKING COMPULSIVE PATTERNS
Behavioral Addictions Counseling In Boca Raton, Florida
Behavioral addictions can be overwhelming, isolating, and difficult to manage, especially when habits begin to interfere with your relationships, work, or sense of control. At The Renew Center of Florida, a trusted counseling & wellness center in Boca Raton, we provide compassionate behavioral addictions counseling to help you understand and change unhealthy patterns at a pace that feels right for you.
What Are Behavioral Addictions?
Behavioral addictions are compulsive, repetitive behaviors, such as gambling, gaming, excessive internet or social media use, shopping, or pornography, that continue despite causing emotional distress, relationship problems, or disruptions to daily life. While no substance is involved, these behaviors affect the brain’s reward system in ways similar to drug or alcohol addiction, reinforcing urges and making change difficult without support.
According to the World Health Organization, certain behavioral addictions, such as gambling disorder and gaming disorder, are formally recognized mental health conditions. Research published in peer-reviewed journals suggests that approximately 10–12% of the global population may experience some form of behavioral addiction at some point, with internet-related addictions alone affecting an estimated 6% of people worldwide, particularly adolescents and young adults.
Gentle, Judgment-Free Help for Behavioral Addictions
You don’t have to manage this alone. Schedule a confidential discovery call today to explore behavioral addictions counseling in Boca Raton. We provide a calm, supportive space to understand what’s driving the behavior, develop healthier coping tools, and move toward lasting change
Types Of Behavioral Addictions We Support
We offer supportive, nonjudgmental counseling for the behavioral challenges listed below, including gambling addiction counseling, internet and screen addiction therapy, video gaming addiction counseling, and other compulsive behaviors, helping you feel understood, regain balance, and move toward healthier patterns at a pace that feels right for you.
Gambling Addiction Counseling
Gambling addiction can take a serious emotional and financial toll, often leading to debt, relationship conflict and shame. Many individuals experience a loss of control, feeling compelled to gamble despite negative consequences. Gambling addiction counseling focuses on breaking compulsive patterns, understanding emotional triggers, and rebuilding a sense of stability and personal control.
Internet, Gaming, And Screen Addiction
Excessive internet use, gaming, or screen time can become a form of emotional avoidance, loneliness, or anxiety. Over time, this can interfere with relationships, work or school performance and mental health. Internet addiction therapy helps individuals set healthier boundaries with technology, reconnect with real-life relationships, and develop coping skills that support emotional well-being.
Shopping And Spending Addiction
Shopping and spending addictions are often driven by emotional triggers such as stress, low self-esteem, or the desire for temporary relief. While purchases may offer short-term comfort, they can quickly lead to financial strain, guilt, secrecy, and loss of control. Counseling addresses impulse control, emotional awareness, and healthier ways to manage stress without relying on compulsive spending.
Sex And Pornography Addiction
Sex and pornography addiction can involve cycles of compulsion, secrecy, and shame that strain intimate relationships and self-esteem. These behaviors are often connected to difficulties with emotional regulation, attachment, or coping with discomfort. Therapy focuses on understanding underlying patterns, improving emotional awareness, and rebuilding healthy intimacy and connection.
Food-Related Behavioral Addictions
Food-related behavioral addictions may include emotional eating, binge eating, or rigid control around food as a way to manage stress or emotions. These patterns are often tied to feelings of control, comfort, or escape rather than physical hunger. Counseling helps individuals explore the emotional relationship with food, identify triggers, and develop more balanced, compassionate coping strategies that support both mental and physical well-being.
How Behavioral Addiction Treatment Helps?
Behavioral addictions counseling helps by addressing what’s really driving the behavior, not just trying to stop it. In sessions, you work with a therapist to identify emotional triggers, such as stress, anxiety, loneliness, or past experiences, that lead to compulsive patterns. As these triggers become clearer, counseling helps you recognize early warning signs and pause before acting on urges, giving you more choice and control in everyday situations.
Counseling also helps you replace harmful habits with healthier, more effective coping strategies. Through ongoing emotional support, you learn how to manage discomfort and respond to emotions in ways that feel safer and more balanced. Over time, this process builds self-awareness, confidence, and skills that support meaningful behavior change, without judgment or pressure.
Identify emotional triggers and patterns.
Reduce shame and increase self-awareness.
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Behavioral Addiction Counseling With Personalized Support
At The Renew Center of Florida, we understand that no two experiences with behavioral addiction are the same. That’s why we offer concierge, personalized therapy designed around your unique needs, history, and goals. Our approach is warm, unrushed, and deeply supportive, creating a space where you feel genuinely seen, heard, and cared for from the very first session.
Concierge, boutique-level therapy with support
Integrated treatment for co-occurring issues
ADDICTION COUNSELING METHODS
Therapy Approaches We Use In Behavioral Addiction Treatment:
Our behavioral addictions counseling in boca raton, florida uses evidence-based therapy approaches designed to support real change while honoring your emotional experience. Treatment is personalized, collaborative, and focused on helping you understand patterns, strengthen coping skills, and build healthier relationships with yourself and others.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps identify the thoughts, beliefs, and habits that fuel compulsive behaviors. By recognizing these patterns, you can learn how to challenge unhelpful thinking, interrupt urges, and replace reactive behaviors with healthier choices. CBT is practical, structured, and effective for building long-term skills that support behavioral change.
Trauma-Informed Counseling
Many behavioral addictions are connected to past or ongoing emotional pain. Trauma-informed counseling approaches addiction with sensitivity, safety, and respect, recognizing how trauma can shape coping behaviors. This approach focuses on building trust, emotional safety, and empowerment while gently addressing underlying experiences that may contribute to compulsive patterns.
Emotion Regulation And Mindfulness-Based Strategies
Emotion regulation and mindfulness-based strategies help you become more aware of emotional triggers and bodily cues before behaviors take over. These approaches teach skills to sit with discomfort, reduce impulsivity, and respond to emotions with greater calm and intention. Over time, mindfulness can increase self-control, emotional balance, and resilience.
Relationship-Focused And Family-Informed Care
Behavioral addictions often affect, and are affected by relationships. Relationship-focused and family-informed care looks at how communication patterns, boundaries, and attachment dynamics influence behavior. When appropriate, therapy may include relational work to strengthen trust and support healing not only for the individual, but for the relationships that matter most.
MEET YOUR COUNSELOR
Dr Lisa Palmer
LMFT, CHT, CRRTT, Phd
With over two decades of clinical experience, Dr. Lisa Palmer provides compassionate, trauma-informed behavioral addiction counseling for individuals struggling with habits such as gambling, gaming, shopping, or digital overuse. Her calm, non-judgmental approach focuses on understanding the emotional triggers and stress responses behind compulsive behaviors, helping clients move beyond shame and willpower alone.
Over Two Decades of Counseling Experience
Trauma-Informed, Relationship-Focused Care
AT THE RENEW CENTER OF FLORIDA
What To Expect In Behavioral Addictions Counseling
Behavioral addictions counseling is designed to feel supportive, clear, and non-judgmental from the very first session. The process focuses on understanding your experience, building trust, and creating steady progress, without pressure or shame.
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Initial Discovery & Assessment
The first step is a brief, supportive discovery call where you can share what you’re struggling with and ask questions in a low-pressure setting. This call helps determine whether behavioral addictions counseling is the right fit for your needs and allows you to feel comfortable before moving forward.
Personalized Treatment Planning
Next, you and your therapist work together to set clear, realistic goals based on your needs. Treatment is personalized to your habits, stressors, and life circumstances, focusing on practical strategies that feel manageable and supportive rather than overwhelming.
Ongoing Support Focused On Progress
Counseling then focuses on steady, meaningful progress over time. Sessions are centered on building awareness, strengthening coping skills, and adjusting support as needed. Setbacks are met with understanding, helping you develop confidence, balance, and healthier patterns that last.
WHY PEOPLE TRUST US!
Why Choose Us For Behavioral Counseling?
Choosing the right support matters. Our care is designed to feel personal, respectful, and results-focused from the very beginning.
Results-focused, Not Endless Therapy
We believe therapy should have purpose. Sessions are goal-driven and structured to support real progress, not ongoing conversations without direction.
Judgement Free Support
You’ll be met with empathy and understanding, never blame or labels. We create a safe space where you can speak openly and work through challenges at your own pace.
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Trauma-informed, Personalized Care
Our trauma-informed approach tailors treatment to your experiences, helping address underlying triggers while supporting lasting, healthy change.
SCHEDULE YOUR CALL NOW!
You Don’t Have To Face This Alone
If certain habits feel harder to control than you’d like, you don’t have to keep struggling in silence. Your first step into behavioral addiction therapy begins with a gentle, no-pressure discovery call where you can talk openly about what’s been weighing on you, without judgment, labels, or expectations to “fix” anything right away.
This conversation is a calm space to explore how behavioral therapy can help you understand triggers, break repeating patterns, and feel more in control again.
Gentle, Personalized Behavioral Counseling
Boutique Level - Concierge Care
Initial Discovery Call
15 min • Free
