Avoid all mental health professionals when it comes to your drinking problem. Never allow anyone to enter into any legal or medical record that you are an alcoholic. Never tell anyone you are an alcoholic or abuse alcohol. The legal ramifications can follow you for decades.
Mental health professionals who have never been addicts are clueless and cannot be trusted, they all believe in Oprah recovery group crap and will prescribe group recovery and automatically dismiss self help, as they incorrectly view excessive drinking as a disease.