https://www.covecounselling.com.au/projects daily 0.75 2025-08-12 https://www.covecounselling.com.au/what-we-do daily 0.75 2025-08-12 https://www.covecounselling.com.au/home daily 1.0 2025-12-09 https://www.covecounselling.com.au/aboutus daily 0.75 2025-08-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/602112e350254e747a668b78/1613896340152-AD2J63GZ6IXWDHVEO0V5/971703_10151823673613619_1244099672_n.jpg About Us https://www.covecounselling.com.au/in-the-media-1 daily 0.75 2025-08-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/602112e350254e747a668b78/9f13a06f-f153-4686-88ce-5d370871cf0a/unnamed.png In The Media Few are more qualified to delve into the severity of the scars that State of Origin has inflicted on Mitchell Pearce than Josh Rosenthal. A nobody to almost everybody. But a somebody to Pearce. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/602112e350254e747a668b78/abc372e9-54ab-4722-bda5-9e67a0056e22/unnamed.jpg In The Media Josh Rosenthal, senior counsellor at Sydney addiction treatment centre The Cabin, says: “A lot of our clients prefer abstinence-based programs like AA or NA. There are misconceptions it’s a religious program — it was written in the ’30s and states you have to hand yourself over to a ‘higher power’ — but that doesn’t have to be a religious God. I believe alcoholism is an illness — if you stop treating it, eventually you’ll relapse.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/602112e350254e747a668b78/3e7a402c-76da-42d0-9d8a-f211c2fc9dc4/unnamed+%281%29.jpg In The Media “With cocaine, people expect different treatment,” he says. “They might sit in the room with someone on heroin or ice and think they’re not that bad. But we treat addictions as addictions.” The self-deception that there is a certain “prestige” associated with coke needs to be broken down in the addict, says Mr Rosenthal. That is part of the treatment, but it is also becomes evident when they look around and see who is participating in group therapy. More and more, these days, it’s ordinary blokes. “They’re working to use coke, so they’re spending all their money,” says Mr Rosenthal. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/602112e350254e747a668b78/b5f28a63-9a28-410a-9f84-559b5d1b6d62/unnamed+%282%29.jpg In The Media “Especially with tech addiction, it’s like ‘I’m not a cocaine or heroin addict so I’m not that bad’,” Mr Rosenthal said. “Yet they’re spending just as much, if not more, time engaging in addictive behaviour.” Mr Rosenthal said technology facilitated other addictions such as sex and gambling. Technology addiction can also be difficult to treat because, unlike drugs, alcohol or gambling, it is an integral part of daily life. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/602112e350254e747a668b78/4853669f-bc40-4fb8-8a03-d2b22fb505c8/unnamed+%283%29.jpg In The Media The courtyard outside The Cabin, Australia’s self-proclaimed “leading outpatient addiction treatment centre”, is a mixture of pale brick and concrete. Beige bleeds into grey and then into cream. There’s a smattering of meticulously sculpted plants and well-groomed senior citizens in the vicinity – unremarkable given the Edgecliff location, in the marrow of Sydney’s eastern suburbs https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/602112e350254e747a668b78/df0c7ed7-5dd4-48b6-a477-cfa3248f60d5/unnamed+%281%29.png In The Media Digital Addiction https://www.covecounselling.com.au/faqs-1 daily 0.75 2025-08-12