Individual therapy follows the initial assessment and is continued for a minimum of the first 6-8 weeks. It provides a continuation of the evaluation and goal-setting process.

One contributor to sex addicts’ problem behaviors is their difficulty establishing healthy intimacy and boundaries in personal relationships. Individual treatment encourages clients to take a good look at how they manage their personal relationships, speaking openly about their fears and challenges with intimacy, while in a safe, clearly boundaried therapeutic relationship. Many clients, not comfortable or ready for the dynamics of a group, will continue their self-education, personal growth and sexual sobriety in individual treatment.

Individual work offers patients an opportunity for a one on one relationship with an expert in sexual addiction who will help develop an individual plan for sexual behavior change and support accountability to that plan. For some, individual treatment will transition to a group process. Other patients may require or choose a longer individual process. Patients already in individual therapy with outside clinicians are encouraged to continue with those therapists if they wish to do so, seeing our therapists specifically for help with their sexual addiction problem.