Drinking, drug use & other behaviors
You decide what change looks like.
Understand the role a behavior plays in your life—without labels, lectures, or pressure to quit.
An example—not live coaching—of how Ninebark’s AI helps you explore what’s beneath a behavior before talking about change. Developed by psychologists at The Center for Motivation and Change.
- Your goals, your pace
- Curiosity before judgment
- Understanding before change
Clarity before advice
Understand the pattern. Choose what you want to change.
Begin with a question, a difficult moment, or a pattern you want to understand better. Your goal can take shape as you go.
Notice the pattern
See when it happens, what leads up to it, and what tends to follow.
Understand the need
Explore what the behavior does for you, both the benefit you get from it and the costs.
Choose what to change
Cut back, stop, try something different, or nothing at all. The goal and pace are yours.
Why Ninebark?
A name with layers.
Ninebark is a resilient native shrub whose bark peels back in layers, revealing what’s underneath. Behavior change can work that way too: the more clearly you see the needs, patterns, and tradeoffs beneath a behavior, the better equipped you are to choose what you want to change. Ninebark helps you explore those layers without assuming there’s one right answer.
Built by psychologists
Grounded in evidence. Built around you.
Ninebark draws from established approaches—including Motivational Interviewing, ACT, DBT, mindfulness, and self-compassion—to support insight, motivation, and self-directed change.
- Jeff Foote, PhD & Carrie Wilkens, PhDCo-founders, Center for Motivation and Change · Co-authors, Beyond Addiction
- Josh King, PsyDDirector of Intensive Services, Center for Motivation and Change
Ready when you are
Understand more. Change on your terms.
You don’t need a perfect plan. Start with the behavior you want to understand, and let your goal take shape from what you learn.