These patterns and characteristics are offered as a tool to aid in self-evaluation. They may be particularly helpful to newcomers as they begin to understand codependence and may aid those who have been in recovery, in determining what traits still need attention and transformation.
Los Angeles, CA (Businesss Wire) August 10, 2010 – Starting Thursday, August 19, 2010 SRI will begin offering a “lunch hour” support group for spouses and partners of sex addicts from 12 p.m. to 2 p.m.
The sessions will take place on Thursdays from 12 p.m. to 2 p.m. at the Sexual Recovery Institute (SRI), facilitated by treatment specialist, Korina Jochim, M.A., one of the primary SRI staff. They will focus on building social support, understanding triggers, and creating healthy boundaries for partners of addicts. Korina will also integrate grounding and meditation techniques as a management tool for those suffering from trauma.
By Sharon O’Hara MFT
Historically speaking, women have always been overlooked or underrepresented in addiction studies, whether the compulsive behavior studied had to do with alcohol, drugs, gambling, or sexual acting out. It has been 70 years since the founding of AA, 60 years since the American Medical Association recognized alcoholism as a disease, and yet it was not until the late 1980s that significant findings regarding very powerful gender differences in the development of alcoholism surfaced in research studies for other diseases, such as heart disease or AIDS, where women have also been underrepresented as research subjects.
The media is buzzing with the latest news on Tiger Woods allegedly checking himself into “sex rehab.” People Magazine called our Clinical Director, Sharon O’Hara, to ask for her expert opinion on whether or not therapy is right for Woods and if he’s even a sex addict at all:
At SRI, 2010 is in full swing with our Two-Week Intensive Programs for Sex and Porn Addicts. January has already sold out, February is one space away, and we are already filling dates in March and April. The low cost, highly effective, 10-day intensive provides a personalized program of daily individual therapy, group education and structured support.
