Sexual Addiction and Couples - Part 2 Advanced Course

Presenter: Paula Hall

Location: Lesbian & Gay Foundation, Number 5, Richmond Street, Manchester. M1 3HF

Dates: Wednesday 15th February 2012, 10am - 4pm

Course Description

An estimated 6% of the population are sexually addicted and many counsellors are seeing a growing number of clients presenting with this issue.  This training day assumes counsellors have already done sex addiction awareness training and are able to recognise addiction and refer to appropriate recovery services.  This day will give counsellors the skills to focus on the couple relationship and help clients move on from disclosure to healing their relationship whether or not they decide to separate.  It includes practical strategies for building commitment to individual as well as couple recovery whilst avoiding the common pitfalls that can fuel relapse.

Aims and Objectives

• To understand the impact of sexual addiction on the couple relationship

• To identify the therapeutic needs of the addict, the partner and the couple and develop a contract with the couple to focus on the relationship needs

• To move clients from focussing on the survival of the relationship to focussing on the journey to reaching a decision

• To help counsellors manage disclosure therapeutically 

• To identify and recognise risks to relapse and co-dependency 

• To provide tools and therapeutic strategies to support relationship recovery 

• To provide tools and therapeutic interventions to support healthy couple separation

Outcomes

Attendees will have a thorough understanding of the impact of sex addiction on couples and therapeutic strategies to work with the relationship issues that arise whilst ensuring the work won’t increase the risk of relapse or co-dependency.

Paula Hall is a Relate trained couple counsellor, psychosexual therapist, young people’s counsellor and family counsellor. She currently works in private practise and works for the Relate media team. She is also author of the Relate guides ‘Help Your Children Cope with Your Divorce’ and ‘How to Have a Healthy Divorce’. She has a special interest in working with young people and also in sexual addiction. She provides a sexual addiction treatment group in Warwickshire as well as working with individuals and couples and is a founding trustee of ATSAC (Association for the Treatment of Sexual Addiction & Compulsivity).

Audience

Couple counsellors and psychosexual therapists from Relate and also in private practise who may be registered with BASRT, BACP and UKCP. Attendees will need to have attended the one day ‘Recognising and Understanding Sex Addiction’ CPD day or similar.

Fees

Relate Practitioner £90

Relate Student £60

External Candidate £130

How to Book

To book a place on this course please contact Kellie Langford on 01302 553582

Or download and complete an enrolment form and forward to kellie.langford@don.ac.uk