Clinical Considerations When Treating Sexual Addiction and Betrayal Trauma
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Date & Time
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Educational Goal
Participants will gain competency in treating sexual addictions and betrayal trauma.
Description
While Compulsive Sexual Behavior Disorder (or sexual addiction) has not been entered into the DSM, the World Health Organization has identified it in their International Classification of Diseases as an impulse control disorder. As this disorder makes movement into our collective awareness, we must become informed about its diagnosis and treatment. In this training, some basic clinical considerations will be identified for treating those with sexual addictions and their traumatized partners. We will take an introductory look at assessment and diagnosis, a task model for treatment, betrayal trauma, and relationship repair.
Target Audience
- Counselor
- Marriage & Family Therapist
- Psychologist
- Social Worker
- Substance Use Disorder Professionals
Presenters
Lynette is an LPC-S and Certified Sexual Addiction Therapist (CSAT) who has practiced in various capacities in the mental health field since 1993. Lynette has worked with domestic violence survivors, foster children, military families, sexual addicts, and betrayal trauma. She has experience helping people heal themselves and their relationships after trauma, betrayal, loss, and addictions. She understands problematic relationships with food, sex, money and religion and enjoys helping people create new relationships with those behaviors.
Her integrative approach is informed by cognitive behavioral therapy, mindfulness-based practices, systems thinking, attachment theory, a feminist ideology, and equality of all humans. She has been trained in Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) and Accelerated Resolution Therapy (ART), both of which can be used to treat trauma, anxiety, depression, and other adverse life experiences. She uses her training in Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) for Couples, which uses attachment theory to understand relationships and help them heal, and she has been a Certified Sexual Addiction Counselor (CSAT) since 2012, treating compulsive sexual behavior disorder (or sexual addiction) and the betrayal trauma experienced by partners of the chronically unfaithful/sex and love addicts/porn addicts.
Currently, Lynette works as an independent private practitioner in New Orleans, treating individuals and couples. She is enjoying developing her skills in Emotionally Focused Therapy, using mindfulness-based practices to help people live better lives, and studying the Internal Family Systems Model.
Financially Sponsored By
- Imagine Recovery