Alcohol and other Drugs

EASA Alcohol & Other Drugs (AOD) program provides a specialist counselling service for people affected by alcohol and other drugs. EASA delivers two programs funded by the NT Department of Health and Community Services to assist people living in the NT.

The first program provides Territory-wide education and counselling for employees and members of their immediate families. The second program covers services specifically in the Katherine Region and extends arrangements to include access by members of the public.

AOD counselling and therapeutic treatments are FREE, culturally sensitive, completely confidential and easily accessible. Session limits do not apply in these programs.

EASA Psychologists and Counsellors delivering the AOD program are professionally registered/accredited, trained and experienced in the field of AOD. Both male and female counsellors are available.
The program helps to support, encourage and reinforce actions taken by individuals to reduce alcohol and other substance related harm. The program is flexible and is tailored to meet the needs of the individual, children, couples, families, groups, communities or organisations.

What does AOD Counselling involve?

Counselling can help deal with AOD issues in various ways. Typical assistance with AOD issues includes:

Examining effects on how alcohol and other drugs affect the body, lifestyle and relationships
Assessing the costs and benefits of using alcohol and other drugs
Establishing reasons and methods for change
Identifying goals of behaviour change
Planning and implementing change
Strategies to deal with obstacles to change
Helping a person to learn how to be self responsible and manage their behaviours
Developing new perspectives for a healthier lifestyle

A fresh start for smokers

The fresh start course is a structured 4 session course designed to help smokers make and confirm the decision to quit, and to support their efforts to become a non-smoker by providing them with useful information and strategies.

The course is delivered by an Accredited facilitator using video, written materials and discussion to provide information and essential strategies to assist smokers to recognise and understand issues including:

Reasons why you smoke and how smoking affects you
What part smoking plays in your life
How to quit
Dealing with barriers to stopping
Managing withdrawal symptoms
How to stay stopped

Participants also learn strategies to deal with commonly experienced difficulties such as withdrawal, stress and weight gain. They are also able to attend individual counselling and hypnosis sessions may be offered to help them quit.

Organisational Consulting

EASA Consultants assist organisations to manage AOD issues in the workplace and to deal with employees affected by AOD issues. EASA can assist with:

Policy development and implementation
Education for greater understanding of the problem
Skills training for employers, managers and co-workers in addressing these concerns.