Integrative Relational Recovery Model
Overcome your compulsive sexual behavior and learn to achieve sexual sobriety, participate in healthy relationships, and build genuine intimacy.
Relational Recovery Awaits
Develop Emotional Regulation Skills
Live With Greater Honesty
Experience True Empathy
It’s More Than a Problem With Sex
You feel powerless and unable to control your sexual behaviors. Your relationships are in crisis, and your actions are hurting the people you love. You’re overwhelmed by sadness, anxiety, and frustration, yet you just can’t make yourself feel better.
As a result, you repeatedly turn to pornography, masturbation, or sex to get some relief from your emotions, but end up feeling shame and guilt in the fallout.
You may think that your sexual behavior is the problem, but it’s really an intimacy disorder that’s driving your struggles. In fact, so many people like you carry these challenges behind the scenes:
- Difficulties with emotional regulation, attachment, and relationships
- The inability to experience healthy vulnerability and connection
- Unresolved developmental and relational trauma from the past
- Problematic beliefs and strategies that support a sexual addiction
- Avoidance, control, dishonesty, and other unhelpful relational patterns
How Our Integrative Relational Recovery Model Helps
At Integrative Life Center, we focus on personalized, trauma-informed sexual addiction treatment. We know the overwhelmingly damaging psychological effects trauma can have on a person, and we want to help you re-establish your feelings of safety, intimacy, and authenticity. Our treatment approach, called the Integrative Relational Recovery Model, helps you:
- Uncover the why behind your addiction
- Process your trauma and learn healthier ways to regulate your emotions
- Experience a relational environment that allows you to receive feedback, recognize how your behavior impacts others, and develop more productive ways of connecting
- Develop a recovery community to reduce isolation, strengthen accountability, and practice seeking support from others
- Take responsibility for your addiction and build a personal recovery plan
- Create a relational recovery plan that promotes strong relationships moving forward
What to Expect in Our 6-Week Program
Week 1: Assessment & Understanding the Pattern
We help you examine your sexual and cross-addiction history, developmental and relational trauma, current symptoms, and the patterns that have contributed to the development and continuation of your compulsive sexual behavior.
Week Two: Triggers, Regulation & Trauma Processing
You learn to identify your trauma and sexual addiction cues, as well as the emotional and physiological activation can lead to compulsive behavior. We help you process your trauma using Brainspotting, EMDR, IFS, and other therapy modalities.
Week Three: Developmental Trauma & Cross-Addiction
You explore unresolved developmental experiences through the Trauma Egg while continuing trauma reprocessing. We’ll also address cross-addictive behaviors and the ways they function as strategies for avoidance, stimulation, or emotional regulation.
Week Four: Arousal, Beliefs & the Addictive System
We help you examine your arousal template and the emotional, relational, and psychological factors associated with sexual behavior. We also help you identify addiction-supporting beliefs and the relational patterns that reinforce them.
Week Five: Accountability, Empathy & Partner Impact
You understand the impact of addictive behavior on your significant other. You work toward greater empathy, accountability, and the ability to remain emotionally present with relational consequences rather than relying on defensiveness, minimization, blame, or avoidance. This involves a virtual session that includes your betrayed partner as you take accountability.
Week Six: Integration & Relational Recovery
You integrate what you’ve learned into your own trauma/addiction and relational recovery plans. This includes recognizing triggers, regulating the nervous system, challenging addiction-supporting beliefs, changing maladaptive relational patterns, establishing accountability and boundaries, and preparing for continued treatment and recovery after discharge. You also participate in a virtual session that includes your betrayed partner as you’re planning for recovery and safety for the family.
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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 you authentic self
- safety and grounding as you start your healing process