Treating Sexual Addiction Using the Recovery Capital Model
- Understanding Sexual Addiction
- Defining Sexual Addiction What It Is and What It Is Not
- Assessment Tools for Accurately Assessing Your Clients
- Helping Your Clients Create Recovery Capital for Long-Term Healing
- What is Recovery Capital and Why it Matters
- Outlining Recovery Capital with Your Clients
- A Treatment Plan Based on Recovery Capital
- The Importance of Understanding Your Client’s Story
- How to Use Your Clients Attachment History to Create Change
- Why We Can’t Ignore Adverse Childhood Experiences and How They Influence Sexual Behaviors
- Introducing Benevolence Childhood Experiences
- Mapping Out a New Attachment Pattern with Your Clients
- Phases of Sexual Addiction Treatment
- Awareness Building—Looking at the Painful Truth
- Addressing the Pain Driving Sexual Addiction
- Developing a New Identify: A Vision for the Future
- Creating New Connections
- Part #1: Reducing and Eliminating the Barriers to Recovery
- How Trauma Drives Addiction
- Trauma of Addiction: Dealing with the Demons
- Loneliness
- Part #2: Reducing and Eliminating the Barriers to Recovery
- Strategies for Dealing with the Voice of Shame
- Fear of Intimacy
- Structure and Secrets
- Part #1: The Essentials of Treating Sexual Addiction
- Creating an Effective Recovery Plan
- Succeeding in Crucial Moments
- Sobriety, Slips, and Relapses
- Part #2: The Essentials of Treating Sexual Addiction
- Learning to Connect Again
- Accountability
- Social Connections
- Mental Maturity for the Addicted Brain
- Emotional Regulation
- Healthy Habits
- Coping with the Stress of Recovery
- The Key Ingredient of Recovery: Self-Compassion
- Why Self-Compassion is Essential for Long-Term Recovery
- The Karpman/Compassion Triangle
- Building Compassion for Self and Others
- Key Strategies for Helping Your Client’s Improve Their Quality of Life
- Finding and Living Their Values
- Being True to Themselves
- Becoming the Chain Breaker
- Recovery Capital in Action
- Inspire Recovery and an Improved Quality of Life
- The Deepest Bonds and Connections
- Creativity