Hi ed, you might discuss with your c private therapy geared on an unbiased view of the human being, that is, not a person with chronic relapsing brain disease; rather, a person responsible for their their behavior and fully capable of meeting the challenge(s) presented by habitual substance abuse.
In order to successfully personalize your own health care in terms of 'alcoholism' a guy needs to be a consumer.. just like with other health care.. a person tries to find the right doc and right tx, cost and so on..
same with substance abuse 'treatment'.. a counselor/therapist, at best, is a reliably educated and vested consultant..
25 gave you a good thought with the CBT (cognitive behavioral therapy) that is also confrontational.. but not so constrained as the disease --all or nothing-- proposition wherein denying a label, e.g. "alcoholic" is denial..
and you might ask about ME (motivational enhancement) therapies, that more strongly delineate against a biased view of the substance abuser (a person with a disease)..
in the end tho, just like common sense would tell ya, if a guy really wants to end a destructive behavior, he'll use most every/and everything toward that end.. if not.. it's moot, and nothing 'works'
