Men’s Sex Addiction Counseling Group
Sex addiction counseling groups form the foundation for healing from sexual compulsion, as well as for the partners and wives betrayed and traumatized by the addicts behavior. One of the primary advantages to sex addiction group therapy is it helps you meet others whose struggles are similar to your own.
Sex Addiction Therapy Group Goals
As trained sexual addiction therapists, we believe that recovery from sexual addiction comes about by working a specific, proven recovery program that includes both individual and group counseling. Individual counseling looks at the underlying wounds, past trauma, relational brokenness, and working through shame
Sex addiction groups serve a number of different and important purposes including:
- Providing accountability for the addict to be honest and follow through with commitments.
- Re-create unhealthy family dynamics in the now for therapists and clients to understand.
- Allow for learning new healthy family dynamics and intimacy abilities.
- Providing shame reduction through connection to others with same problems.
- Practice new tools and insights learned with peers.
- Build new and lasting recovery friendships and secure attachment bonds.
- Learning important psycho-educational and relational information to create insight
SAFE PLACE TO SHARE STRUGGLES
This sexual addiction counseling group provides a safe place to share your struggles, your secrets, and get support to make changes to your future. The other group members fully understand the struggle, the shame, and how to begin a new journey of freedom. When group members share, other group members often nod in understanding because they have similar experiences.
The addiction is about isolation, keeping secrets, shame, fear of rejection and struggling alone. The group is about getting the secrets out without shame or rejection, and you are never alone. Group members often state, “This is the one place I feel safe to share anything. I have confidence that other members of this group get me.”
The goal of the this counseling group is to have a place of accountability, support to work a recovery program, feel safe without the fear of shame or rejection, receive insights into your past trauma & pain that you are using the addiction to numb and medicate, sharing your story, and learning how to live a life with healthy sexuality. Our goal is not to stop sex but rather how to enjoy in a healthy and committed relationship.
Our sex addiction recovery groups for men addresses the following:
- FRCC sex addiction recovery group for men addresses the following:
- How sex addiction makes life unmanageable.
- Destruction of Sex Addiction
- Understanding the addictive cycle
- Healthy Self-care
- Relapse Prevention
- Family of Origins of Addictions
- Accountability to others in group
- Healthy Masculinity
- Forgiving and Making Amends
- How to respond to change and crisis
- How to manage life without unhealthy behaviors
Men Supporting Men
This is a men only group and the only requirement is a desire to work recovery to be set free from the unhealthy sexual behaviors. Sharing honestly and openly with other men is also a requirement. No one recovers by keeping secrets. You will quickly feel comfortable in the first session as you hear other men in the group share without fear of shame.
Group Information
The meetings are 90-minutes in length and usually begin with a reading from “Answers in the Heart” (daily reading meditation book for those recovering from sexual addiction). Then each group member has the opportunity to “check in” for their week by sharing what was good, bad, and if needed, ugly. Group members provide feedback after each check in and the last 30 minutes consists of one group member sharing his work from the workbook, “Facing the Shadow” by Dr. Patrick Carnes.
The Group Cost
The cost of the men’s counseling group is $50 per group session. You will also need to purchase the workbook, “Facing the Shadow” (either through our center for $30 or you can purchase via Amazon.com). We also require that you commit to attending a minimum of 12 group session with an option to continue attending the group beyond that minimum commitment. Most group members continue in the group for 1 to 2 years but that is completely up to you.
To Join Our Sexual Addiction Group
The sex addition counseling group requires a twelve week minimum commitment, with an option to continue with the group after the initial time frame has been met. This group meets weekly and costs $50 per group session plus an additional one-time payment of $30 for the Facing the Shadow workbook.
Click on the link below to find the group schedules. Spots are limited.
Individual sex addiction counseling is also available for those who prefer private sessions.
Group Member Testimonial
“To each group member, thank you for creating a safe place for me to enter every week. I showed up to group a broken man, unsure of my sanity or future. I was at rock bottom and felt like I was doomed to a life of sexual anxiety. The simple act of sharing my story with other men was the first step in the long journey of recovery.
You listened and watched with care and understanding in your hearts. You let me talk without judgment or disdain and then proceeded to hug me for just being me. There were many times that I was ready to give up, yet at that very moment one of you would reach out to see how I was doing, reaffirming my worth and confirming what a man of integrity looks like.
As I move forward, I hope to get quickly plugged into a new group in LA. They won’t be you, but I will learn to love them just the same. Thank you for coming each week and opening up. Your vulnerability has taught me so much. I will always remember your impact on my journey.”