Programs

Patrick B. McGinnis, PhD, LMHC

Psychotherapy, Sex Therapy, Couple's Counseling, Addictions Counseling, Psychological & Psychosexual Assessment and Polygraph Testing

SEXUAL RECOVERY PROGRAM

The program consists of a combination of group, individual and couples counseling. A treatment plan is developed that incorporates some or all of these modalities as appropriate for the individual and/or couple.

Group therapy is almost always a part of the treatment plan. These four groups are available:

SEX ADDICTS GROUP

SEX OFFENDER TREATMENT GROUP

SIGNIFICANT OTHERS OF SEX ADDICTS GROUP

PARTNERS RECOVERING TOGETHER GROUP

Sex Addiction Recovery Handout/Exercise materials are available for individuals and couples to access during the treatment process.

SEX ADDICTS GROUP (SA)

Has your sexual behavior resulted in consequences such as: damage to your relationships, affected your job, resulted in arrest, or financial problems, etc.?

Do you repeatedly make promises to limit your sexual behavior but can’t keep them?

Do you feel hopelessness to control your sexual activities and/or desires?

	Do you feel shameful about your sexual behaviors?
	Are relapses in other addictions connected to your sexual behavior?

If you answered yes to one of these questions you could be sexually compulsive. This group may be of value to you.

This group’s purpose is to assist those suffering from sexual compulsivity to begin and maintain the recovery process.

The groups offer techniques for sexual recovery, while promoting healthy sexuality and functional relationships in a safe and confidential setting.

Groups are limited in size and the same members attend weekly until completion. This allows self-defeating relationship issues to emerge between group members for examination and possible change.

Anger and other emotions that contribute to the addiction are addressed. Self-worth and esteem increase during the group process.

SEX OFFENDER TREATMENT GROUP

Program Goals
Although specific treatment objectives are tailored to individual needs; general goals include the following:

Offender Goals include:
٠The offender recognizes and acknowledges that he does have a problem. He becomes willing to accept help.

٠He accepts responsibility for his actions and is willing to gain insight into the causative factors. He recognizes that he must develop better ways of dealing with his problems.

٠He re-evaluates his attitudes and values toward sexuality and aggression. He understands the serious consequences of sexual aggression to himself and to others (especially victim impact).

٠He realizes that sexually abusive behavior is often aggressive, repetitive, and progressive. He has a problem which cannot be cured, but can be treated and he can learn to control himself.

٠He learns to redirect arousal to appropriate sexual objects and fantasies.

٠He faces and corrects his faulty attitudes and beliefs about sexuality and healthy intimacy. He works to overcome his fears of healthy intimacy.

٠He learns appropriate social/sexual skills, and works toward overcoming feelings of anxiety, inferiority and inadequacy. He develops pro-social, responsible interpersonal attitudes, behaviors, and thinking. Thus he develops self-esteem, self-confidence, self-reliance, and assertive behaviors that communicate self-worth involving moral consideration of other-worth.

The offenders involvement in a therapy group teaches him the value of interdependent relationships, and provides a base for maintaining his new attitudes and behaviors.

Individual therapy is used as needed to deal with underlying core issues as needed.

Family Goals include:
٠Understanding of the offender's patterns of sexual behavior, warning signs, interventions, and how they may aid the treatment/recovery process.

٠A readjustment of unhealthy family interaction patterns and dysfunctional belief systems.

٠Participation in discharge planning and continued support group activities.

٠Provide for safer reunification of the incestuous family, whenever this is acceptable to the Criminal Justice/Child Protection System, and is the goal of all family members (this is a long term process requiring specific goal achievement by all family members).

These (and other family specific) goals are accomplished through group, individual, couples, and family therapy as appropriate.

SIGNIFICANT OTHERS OF SEX ADDICTS GROUP (SOS)

	Are you (or have you been) in a relationship with a sex addict?
	Are you undecided about staying in the relationship?
	Do your emotions feel out-of-control?
	Do you feel isolated with no one to talk about what is going on?
	Do you desire to understand the addiction, co-dependency, and recovery?
	Are you concerned about your issues or beliefs that may have contributed to the relationship problems, and do you want to have better relationships in the future (whether with your current partner or not)?

If you answered yes to one of these questions this group may be helpful.

Partners of sex addicts suffer the pain of betrayal and loss of trust. They may wonder if the relationship was ever based in love. Confusion results from one’s inner-conflict about
personal values, morals and the need for resolution. Often partners choose to leave the relationship because the pain and
anger is so great and the possibility of healing so remote. External pressure from family or friends, to either leave or stay, adds to the confusion. Partners need to be able to express their confusion, pain and anger freely and then reach their own decisions.

If partners choose to stay they need to understand the addiction and the recovery process. It is also important to look at how they contribute to the relationship dynamics and
what it is in them that has lead them to tolerate pain in the past.

The group also offers insight, support, and a safe place to make personal changes in the way members relate to themselves and to others. This process promotes self-esteem, assertive behavior, and healing.

PARTNERS RECOVERING TOGETHER GROUP

Is sexual addiction a problem for you or your partner?

Do you want to rebuild trust?

Do you find yourselves fighting the same old battles?

Do you feel unheard and misunderstood?

Has passion died?

Do you desire to have a more satisfying relationship?

Do you long for true intimacy?

If you answered yes to any of these questions, this group could be for you.

Research has documented that relationships where both partners work on themselves and actively work on healing their relationship do much better than those where only the addict is working on recovery. This group is designed to facilitate healing and help partners co-create a healthy satisfying relationship.

Participation in one of the other groups listed is required of at least one member of the relationship (participation of both partners in some type of recovery or self-growth modality is highly recommended).

Last modified: 10/12/09