Men’s Residential Intimacy Disorders Program. – Opening March 2021

“Treating the cause, not the symptoms.” – Dr. Michael Barta, Program Creator

Our Men’s Program for Intimacy Disorders and Sexual Addiction is a residential level of care for men struggling with intimacy disorders, attachment disorders, love addiction, pornography addiction, relationship issues and problematic and compulsive sexual behavior. The program is the only one in North America that includes a simultaneous virtual Partner Support Program.

Program Highlights

  • 35-hours of gender separate group programming per week, including weekends
  • Two individual therapy sessions per week with an assigned masters-level clinician
  • Catered meals via the ‘Healing Foods’ program

  • Nutritional support
  • Spiritual guidance
  • Personalized treatment plan including evidence based, trauma-focused modalities, adventure therapy, somatic therapies and more

  • Nursing supervision, psychiatric care and medication management
  • Gender-specific campus with 24/7 awake residential staff
  • 8-bed lodge-style home on a 10-acre estate

Virtual Partner Support Program included at no additional cost

How We Treat Sexual Addiction & Intimacy Disorders

  • TINSA® model (Trauma Induced Sexual Addiction)
  • Brainspotting
  • EMDR
  • Sweat Lodge
  • Somatic Therapies

  • Breathwork
  • Music Therapy
  • Art Therapy
  • Equine Therapy
  • Internal Family Systems (IFS)

  • Adventure Therapy
  • Ancient Ceremony
  • Labyrinth Meditation
  • Psychodrama
  • Intergenerational Trauma Work

HOUSING

The Men’s Intimacy Disorders Program house is tucked away on a sprawling 10-acre campus west of Nashville. An oasis for healing and recovery, the grounds contain three spring-fed ponds for fishing, swimming and recreational water activities. The 5,000 square foot, eight bed home features multiple seating areas, two dining rooms, a fire pit and group therapy rooms.

MEALS

Clients in our Men’s Intimacy Disorders program benefit from our Healing Foods Program. Meals are thoughtfully crafted and planned by our Director of Nutrition Services in conjunction with our local vendors, providing clients with delicious food, much of which is locally sourced and conducive to overall wellness of the mind, body and spirit. To learn more about our Healing Foods program, click here. 

CLINICAL

Our program is based on an integrative and holistic treatment model utilizing a multi-disciplinary team approach while providing integrative, experiential, group and individual services.

Our 28-Day residential Intimacy Disorders Program is founded on the “Trauma Induced Sexual Addiction Model” (TINSA®), created and developed by Dr. Michael Barta, CSAT- S. TINSA® identifies and treats the cause of Sexual Addiction through a neurobiological approach that looks at how the brain became disordered through early developmental trauma experiences, which, in turn, predisposes individuals to compulsive thinking and behaviors around sex, pornography and relationships.

The program focuses on treating trauma and addiction, as well as the impact on the partner and relationship. This is a trauma and cause-focused treatment approach, enabling us to ensure a more lasting recovery than symptom-based approaches.

ILC’s stand-alone intimacy disorders program is limited to eight men and is the only program in North America that includes partner support while the men are in treatment.

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a labyrinth at ILC

“Breathing in light and breathing out fear, we raise each other up.”

~ Lee McCormick, Co-Founder

 

This is an invitation to take that next step if you need…

  • a hand to help lift you up
  • a warm, intimate environment to help you feel connected
  • someone to walk the journey with you as you reconnect to your authentic self
  • safety and grounding as you start your healing process

Trauma Treatment Programs

Hope Lives Here.

You may have decided that residential treatment is right for you. Or perhaps you’re helping a client or loved one sort out their options. Regardless of where you are, that next step can be daunting. Integrative Life Center team members are here to help. If our Men’s Residential Program for Intimacy Disorders feels like the right fit, please give us a call today.

Hope Lives Here.

You may have decided that residential treatment is right for you. Or perhaps you’re helping a client or loved one sort out their options. Regardless of where you are, that next step can be daunting. Integrative Life Center team members are here to help. If our Morningstar Residential program feels like the right fit, please give us a call today.