In 1983, Patrick Carnes described addiction as "a pathological relationship with a mood-altering experience" in Out of the Shadows. In Chapter 2 of Facing the Shadow he further describes sexual addiction:
"For sex addicts, sex becomes the priority for which they sacrifice everything. They put sex before their children, spouses, and friends, despite the great costs to themselves. Just as an alcoholic has an affair with the bottle, the sex addict's relationship is with sex and romance. Distorted fantasies and satiating behaviors are obsessive to the point of physical harm are used in an attempt to resolve the addict's desolate loneliness." –Page 21, Facing the Shadow.
Facing the Shadow has exercises that allows the reader to truly gain introspection into heir own addictive cycle by examining issues of preoccupation, ritualization, compulsivity, and despair. Further, readers can also look at other possible issues of sexual anorexia and binge-purge cycles. This book not only tells you how professionals know that you may have a problem, but the exercises also let you do a self-examination through the exercises. Finally, there is a segment to aid the reader about options for outpatient or inpatient therapy.
At this time in your recovery, you may feel a little overwhelmed by the new insight or with making a decision about what level of therapy you may need to aid your recovery. Just remember, this is your recovery and there is hope. The goal of this journey is to learn to live a happy, joyous, and free life that includes healthy sexuality.
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Category: Residential Treatment
Pine Grove's Gentle Path is a program for those suffering from sexual addiction, relationship addiction, and sexual anorexia. It is under the direction of Patrick Carnes, Ph.D., world-renowned speaker and author on addiction. Dr. Carnes' 30-task-model serves as the basic curriculum for treatment. The staff on-hand is multi-disciplinary and includes psychiatrists and addictionologists. The Gentle Path program consists of two components: a comprehensive diagnostic assessment (one-to-two days) and a residential treatment program.
Category: Residential Treatment
Opening Spring 2012 - www.FocusHealthcareCalifornia.com
Focus Healthcare of California (FHCA) is a multi-addiction treatment center providing progressive assessment, diagnosis and treatment for chemical and process addictions for adults. Our whole person care approach supports a memorable healing experience for patients and families.
Our gender specific programming provides a safe space for exploration of self. Core issues that underlie addiction will be identified by breaking through denial, resolving trauma, reestablishing healthy emotional expression, and looking deeply into an individual's grief and loss. Our experience reinforces our belief that by treating the whole addiction; we are healing the whole person.
Category: Residential Treatment
Prescott House is an extended care treatment facility in Arizona for men who need further treatment beyond primary inpatient treatment for a wide range of personal issues. We offer a supportive environment that embraces the principles of 12-Step programs to treat alcoholism and other drug addictions, PTSD, codependency, sexual recovery, adult children of alcoholics, self esteem issues, severe entitlement, relapse prevention, depression, gambling issues and dual diagnosis including: depression ADD, ADHD, Bi-Polar Disorder and Anxiety.
Category: Residential Treatment
The Refuge - A Healing Place is an adult residential extended care rehab facility located in Marion County, Florida, specializing in addictions and post-traumatic stress disorder resolution that's based on the premise of healing with care, spirituality, and gentleness. The addiction rehab services at The Refuge are designed for those whose unresolved trauma leads them to relapse; The Refuge is for those whose pain feels insurmountable; The Refuge was founded on being able to provide our clients with the restoration of Hope, Recovery, and Healing.
Category: Outpatient Treatment
Psychological Counseling Services, Ltd. (PCS) is a group practice specializing in intensive outpatient therapy. We are experts in relationship problems, marriage and family issues, compulsivity, depression, codependence, anxiety, eating disorders, and trauma resolution. In addition, we specialize in providing help for sex therapy and sexual addiction; issues often rooted in childhood trauma stemming from deprivation or abuse (physical, emotional, or sexual). Consequently, all of our therapists are trained to deal with family of origin issues. In addition to the intensive outpatient program, Intensive Steps to Health and Wholeness, PCS provides regular outpatient psychotherapy services for most mental health concerns.
Category: Residential Treatment
Nestled in the foothills of the Santa Catalina Mountains near Tucson, Arizona, lies a unique treatment center dedicated to the prevention, education, and treatment of addictions and behavioral disorders. Sierra Tucson is multi-licensed to facilitate healing for psychiatric issues as well as many types of addiction and chronic pain. A comprehensive Family Program is included for all patients and their invited family members. Sierra Tucson provides individualized treatment for a wide range of addictions, mental health issues, and chronic pain.
Category: Residential Treatment
Cradled in the peaceful hills above Santa Fe, New Mexico, Life Healing Center embodies the hope of recovery from emotional trauma, mental health disorders, addictions and the complex, very human problems that so many of us face. At Life Healing Center we understand how hard it can be to reach out for help and how important it is to find the right kind of care. Our treatment focus is on the specific, individual needs of each and every client, encouraging an individualized, comprehensive approach to recovery and emotional well-being.
Category: Outpatient Treatment
The Sexual Recovery Institute in Los Angeles (SRI) offers confidential, state-of-the-art, intensive relationship and sexual addiction treatment in an intimate, affordable, short-term outpatient setting. The SRI program provides a structured, focused multi-dimensional therapy process designed to disrupt and eliminate problem patterns of sexual behavior, while offering concrete direction and hope toward change to both clients and loved-ones alike.
Category: Residential Treatment
Capstone is a licensed residential treatment program serving troubled young men (14-24) who struggle with chemical dependency, substance abuse, sexual addiction, trauma, family conflict, and personal problems including loss, hurt, anger, abuse, depression, low self-esteem, defiance and a rebellious attitude.
The Center for Sexual Recovery at The Ranch (CSR) provides dedicated, residential, gender-separate, relationship and sexual addiction treatment. Our primary goal is to help clients confront and eliminate secretive, destructive patterns of sexual and romantic behavior, while simultaneously addressing past trauma, relationship and emotional stability concerns, all of which lie at the heart of most intimacy disorders. The Ranch is also strongly committed to the emotional health and healing of those spouses, partners and families whose lives are disrupted by the consequences of sex and romantic addition.
Category: Residential Treatment
The Keystone Center Extended Care Unit was established in 1994 by Patrick Carnes PhD, the leading expert in sex addiction treatment. Since that time our treatment team has adapted Carnes' wisdom to address the emotional, intellectual, and relational needs of the people who pass through our doors. It has become known to many as 'the house of pain" in reference to all of the painful yet healing work that goes on here.
Category: Residential Treatment
The Meadows' legacy extends over 35 years with more than 20,000 clients and another 25,000 workshop attendees who have chosen us to support their hopes and dreams for a sober and fulfilling life.Whether you're entering treatment for the first time or find yourself in relapse, The Meadows' treatment model is unparalleled in producing successful outcomes for recovery, as well as a renown, time tested, holistic practices designed to heal the mind, body, and spirit.
Category: Outpatient Program
Center For Healthy Sex is a sex addiction treatment and sex therapy team in Los Angeles California. We've helped people from all walks of life with sex addiction in L.A. County. Face and conquer your sexual addictions or dysfunctions today.
Category: Outpatient Treatment
Effective, results-based therapy treatment for people living with sex addiction in the New York area.
Category: Residential Treatment
Decision Point Center is a long term addiction treatment center. Our long term drug rehab addiction treatment center is designed to meet the needs of those who continually struggle with Chronic Relapse Behaviors, Substance Abuse Disorders, Process Addictions, Compulsive Behaviors, Mental Health Issues, Co-Dependency, and Trauma Related Issues. Our addiction treatment program is also designed for those who need a continuum of care beyond the traditional 30 day drug rehab addiction treatment center.
Category: Outpatient Treatment
Bellwood Health Services is a Centre of Excellence and an internationally recognized leader in evidence-based treatment of addiction and mental health problems. Through a customized regimen of medical care, support and education, we work with each client to restore their physical, psychological, social, and spiritual balance.
Category: Outpatient Treatment
Millennium offers state-of-the-art recovery opportunities for persons struggling with sexual addiction and compulsivity. This cutting-edge program bridges the gap between inpatient treatment and weekly therapy and is a valuable tool for addicts of all kinds and their families. We offer the Recovery Start Intensive (RSI), an intensive outpatient program offered within schedule options that keep the constraints of the professional in mind. Our Recovery Start Groups (RSG) are cohort groups that require a six-month commitment.
Category: Residential Treatment
Santé Center for Healing offers hope and treatment to those suffering from alcohol addiction, drug addiction and other behavioral health issues. Patients at Santé receive a spectrum of therapeutic addiction treatment addressing the whole person; mind, body and emotions.
An adult, dual diagnosis, residential treatment center, Santé specializes in the treatment of Substance Use Disorders, Process/Behavioral Addictions, Compulsive Behaviors, Trauma Related Issues, Co-Occurring Psychiatric Disorders, Professional and Safety Sensitive Issues, Medical Detoxification and Chronic Relapse. Treatment at Santé is an integrated approach (a multi-disciplinary team utilizing behavioral, cognitive, and interpersonal therapy) that is solution focused rather than problem focused. Santé offers Individual, group, family counseling and small sized process groups in Primary and Secondary Residential Care Treatment settings. Santé also offers Mirror Imaging, Transitional Living, Aftercare and an Intensive Outpatient Program.
Santé is located on a serene hillside, in North Texas, just outside the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex. The 14 acre property offers a tranquil environment for individuals suffering from the disease of addiction. Santé is a place where one can turn their life around. A place to learn how to live life on life's terms. A place to examine one's life, stop unproductive behavior patterns and cultivate inner resources.
Category: Education
Hope & Freedom U (www.hopeandfreedomu.com) is an educational website that provides sex addiction recovery resources. Their first course, I Can STOP is a 30 day streaming video course that parallels the workbook Thirty Days to Hope & Freedom From Sexual Addiction, by Gentle Path Press. This course is a good way of getting started in recovery and also a way to supplement the ongoing work a client does with a CSAT therapist.
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