Jeremy Frank, PhD, CADC

About Me

I’m Jeremy Frank, and I oversee Jeremy Frank and Associates (JFA). I am both a psychologist and certified alcohol and drug counselor. I have been sober from alcohol and hard drugs for over 33 years.

For the JFA practice I carefully select the most compassionate, caring, kind, and flexible addiction therapists I can find.

I have extensive addiction and mental health treatment and supervisory experience. My background includes serving as the Coordinator of Campus Alcohol and Substance Awareness at Tuttleman Counseling Services at Temple University and the Assistant Director of Health and Counseling and the University of the Sciences in Philadelphia.

I also held positions at Drexel University, The University of Pennsylvania, The University of Florida, Hahnemann University, and Jefferson University.

While I’m a credentialed provider with Lawyers Concerned for Lawyers, which focuses on Pennsylvania attorneys with drug and alcohol problems and an approved provider of clinical services to the National Basketball Association (NBA) and the National Basketball Players Association (NBPA), my real passion is helping others see the value in reducing their addictive behavior and working with other therapists who love to do the same work.

I practice more than I preach. I live in Philadelphia with my wife, and our two smart, kind, and creative children. I love my family more than life itself. I play soccer, swim, run, hike, garden, and cook. These activities are part and parcel examples of my ability to trade compulsive behaviors for healthier options. They are a testament to choosing positive addictions, structure, social support, and ritualized dependency on healthy alternatives in my life.

I grew up in a family of therapists. My dad is a psychiatrist and my mother is a social worker who is still plugging away at age 85. Like them I plan to still be helping folks into my 80s as well. Everyone in my family has been in therapy (a few times).

My Approach to Therapy

As a therapist I encourage clients to lead what we talk about in sessions. Unless they have questions or are unsure where to begin. If you steer our session I find that we will get to where we need to go. Likewise if the therapist asks all the questions the result is often that your sessions are about what the therapist wants to talk about.

Here are all good places to start for clients that will all work:

• Some people might want to discuss why they came for therapy in the first place.
• Some people might want to discuss how to get to where they are headed, what they want, and where they want to be in a few months or years etc.
• Some might want to discuss their past, traumas, family of origin issues, what happened to you and what influenced you to make the decisions you make, and to think the way you think.
• Sometimes, you want to talk about how you feel right now in the room and with me as the therapist. You may have an interaction during the week you’ll want to discuss.
• Other times you may have a relapse, need to make a decision about your drug or alcohol use or recovery.

As long as you are leading us, we’ll get to what is important. It’s OK if you are coming because someone else thinks you need therapy. But if you are going to stay in therapy it will be because you find a way to get what you want to get out of our sessions.

I was trained cognitive behaviorally, but good therapists are integrative and eclectic and usually end up helping by using stuff they learned in kindergarten. I was that kind and helpful kid back then. I’m also comfortable explaining evidence based, empirical, and scientifically tried and tested approaches if you’re into that too.

I attend Alcoholics Anonymous meetings regularly, have a sponsor and work a program. But I also understand that AA isn’t for everyone. It is my firm belief that in order to significantly change behavior we have to connect with others in fresh, new, real, and exciting ways. I want to help others find meaning and purpose in their lives, and to support connection in intimate relationships with friends and family.

Qualifications

• PhD in Psychology, Drexel and Hahnemann University Clinical and Health Psychology
• Certified Alcohol and Drug Counselor (CADC)
• Trained in Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction and Relapse Prevention

Specialties

• Addiction
• Harm reduction
• Depression
• Anxiety
• ADD
• Couples
• Families
• Professionals Attorneys Athletes and High Profile Discreet Cases

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Availability and Fees

My availability is limited. My fee is $270 per session (sliding scale fees are occasionally available).