Addiction and mental health counseling with the option to keep everything completely private. You choose how your records are handled. We just help you get better.
Led by Belle Morey, a clinical substance abuse counselor and addiction survivor who built this practice around one belief: getting help should never cost you your privacy. Use insurance or keep it off the record. You choose.
We provide licensed clinical substance use counseling and non-clinical recovery coaching for substance use, behavioral addictions, and mental health challenges. Every session happens through secure video, so you get professional support from wherever you are without walking into an office, sitting in a waiting room, or explaining to anyone where you are going.
We are not a general-purpose counseling platform that treats everything the same way. Different addictions have different neuroscience, different shame profiles, and different recovery strategies. That is why we have built specialized programs for each area we treat, staffed by virtual counselors with real training and clinical experience in that specific condition.
Alcohol, prescription medications, illicit drugs, and polysubstance use. Our substance abuse program helps you understand what drives your use, build practical strategies for managing cravings and triggers, and address the anxiety, depression, or trauma that often lives underneath the substance use. If a substance is running your life, this is where you start.
Pornography, gambling, sex addiction, social media compulsion, and workaholism. These addictions run on the same dopamine reward circuitry as substances, but they carry unique stigma and are frequently dismissed as weakness by people who do not understand them. We take them seriously. Each has its own dedicated counseling program because each one requires a different therapeutic approach.
Anxiety, depression, burnout, workaholism, trauma, and the emotional weight that often accompanies addictions to substances or behaviors. Whether your primary concern is one of these addictions, a mental health struggle, or both challenges tangled together, our online counselors work with you to address the full picture, not just the most visible symptom. We get to know you on a deeper level to serve you better.
Some people know they need a defined structure with milestones and accountability. Others want flexible, ongoing support without a clinical framework. We offer the best online counseling programs for both approaches, and you are never locked in. You can start with one and transition to another as your needs evolve.
Intensive, structured support over three months with your online counselor. Weekly sessions, clear milestones, and a proven timeframe for building lasting change. The 90 day recovery program is designed for people who are ready to commit and want a defined path forward with a concrete endpoint. It is focused, it is disciplined, and it works.
Deeper work over a longer timeline. The 6 month recovery program is for people with more complex needs, longer addiction histories, or those who have tried shorter programs and relapsed. Six months gives your counselor time to understand you at a level that short-term work cannot reach, and it gives you time to practice new behaviors with a safety net still in place.
Practical, action-oriented support for people who want accountability and real-world guidance without a clinical framework. counseling is ideal for maintaining momentum after completing a program, navigating a difficult period, or simply having someone in your corner who understands addiction and whose only job is to help you succeed.
Every program is virtual. Every program is confidential. And in every program, you choose whether to use insurance or keep your sessions completely private.
Belle Morey is not the kind of counselor who learned about addiction from a textbook and stopped there. She learned it from living it. Before she held a degree, before she earned her clinical credentials, before she built this practice, she was on the other side of the conversation: struggling with addiction, surviving overdose, and fighting her way back to a life she did not think was possible.
That lived experience is the foundation of everything she does. When you tell Belle something you have never told anyone, she does not flinch. She does not judge. She gets it, not because she studied it, but because she has been where you are and she knows what the way out looks like.
Belle holds a Bachelor of Science in Substance Abuse and Addiction counseling from Ottawa University and is a certified Clinical Substance Abuse Counselor (CSAC) in Wisconsin. She has provided direct clinical care at the Family Health Center of Marshfield’s Alcohol and Drug Abuse Recovery Center, served as an EMT in rural northern Wisconsin, and is a certified IGNTD Recovery Coach. She sits on the Editorial Advisory Board of Vital Voyage Blog and is the author of two published books: “The Circle Stays Unbroken” and the “Progress Is Progress Codependency Workbook.”
She built Progress Is Progress because she saw firsthand how the system fails people. Clinicians burning out. Clients falling through cracks. Good people avoiding help because they were terrified of what a record would do to their career, their family, or their reputation. She created a practice where the counselor actually understands addiction from the inside, where privacy is a choice you control, and where progress is measured in real terms, not clinical abstractions.
She has been where you are. She knows the way forward. And she is ready when you are.
Getting started takes less time than you spent reading this page. Every step is private and confidential. We are here to help you with any issues you are struggling with and be the listening ear you need.
Yes. All sessions at Progress Is Progress are confidential regardless of how you pay. If you choose private pay, nothing is reported to insurance companies, medical databases, or any third party. If you use insurance, standard confidentiality protections apply, though your insurer will have a record of the claim. Either way, we never share your information without your explicit consent.
Yes. When you choose our private pay option instead of billing insurance, no record of your counseling appears on your medical file. No diagnosis is reported, no claims are filed, and no documentation is created that anyone outside our practice can access. You make this choice during intake, and you can change it at any time.
We are in the process of becoming credentialed with insurance providers. We also offer a private pay option for clients who prefer to keep their sessions completely off the record. During your free consultation, we will walk you through both options so you can decide what makes sense for your situation.
We provide virtual counseling for substance abuse (alcohol, drugs, prescription medications), pornography addiction, gambling addiction, sex addiction, social media addiction, and workaholism. We also offer mental health counseling for anxiety, depression, and burnout, counseling for ongoing accountability, and family therapy for addiction.
When you use insurance, your sessions may cost less out of pocket, but your insurer receives a record of the claim, including any clinical diagnosis. When you choose private pay, you cover the full session cost directly and nothing is reported to any insurer, database, or medical record system. Both options include the same quality of care and the same confidentiality within our practice.
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