I saw an addictions therapist the first year of my recovery, and then moved on and have been using SR ever since. Therapy is different for everyone, and may not be for everyone....but it helped me enormously. I made a promise to myself and my therapist that I would be 100% honest in my therapy. No topics were off limits. It was the only way it would work for me. I had more issues than just alcoholism that I was dealing with. I can't tell you what a therapist would charge you, because again, that's different from therapist to therapist . Thankfully, My insurance covered mine. Maybe yours would as well?