Group Therapy for Addicts
Realizing that group therapy offers the most successful and effective form of treatment, we offer two levels of sex addiction groups. Through the group therapy process, addicts learn how to live in sexual sobriety, accountability, and grow in personal integrity.
Recovery Foundations Group: Meets Wednesdays, 5:30pm to 7:30pm.
Recovery Foundations Group
is our initial group for sexual addiction recovery. This group is a 9-month group whereby addicts complete Tasks 1-7 of Dr. Patrick Carnes' task-centered model.
This group will help you:
- Understand the basic tenets of addiction and the addiction cycle
- Obtain and maintain sexual sobriety
- Create a clear recovery plan with accountability
- Identify core triggers and vulnerabilities
- Learn coping skills to understand and manage feelings as well as obsessive thinking
- Reduce shame and gain self-acceptance
- Build healthy, appropriate relationships with others in recovery
- Establish honesty, openness, and accountability as a foundation for rebuilding trust with spouse/partner
- Understand how addiction has caused trauma for your spouse/partner
Life Recovery Group: Meets Mondays, 5:30pm to 7:30pm and Thursdays, 6:30pm to 8:30pm
Life Recovery Group
is a long-term group lasting one or more years. Addicts who have completed the Recovery Foundations Group are eligible for this weekly two-hour group. This group offers recovering addicts the ability to create intimate bonds by engaging in intimate discussions about sex, life struggles, social skills, trauma, body image, and personal relationships.
This group will help you:
- Understand addiction interaction disorder
- Integrate understanding of abuse and how this has fueled addiction
- Set boundaries to manage shame and shaming situations
- Restructure relationship with self by building self-acceptance, self-determination, and autonomy
- Identify losses and build skills to grieve them
- Create lifestyle balance
- Build and sustain supportive personal relationships
- Develop and practice a daily spiritual life through conscience contact with God
- Work through family of origin issues and/or traumatic events
- Return to dating or heal pre-existing relationship
