Different populations need different support and forms of treatment.  Listen as Carol the Coach interviews Dr. Costine who is an expert at working within the lesbian population to treat love and sex addiction. She has done research to show how lesbians frequently "urge to merge" which creates specific relational behavoirs that lesbians suffer from. Her Book Lesbian Love Addiction:Understanding the Urge to Merge and How to Heal When Things Go Wrong is an excellent resource for the Lesbian Community or for psychotherapists working with lesbians in relational conflict.  

Caro the Coach will be interviewing Dr. Michael Barta who is the Founding Director of the Colorado Sexual Recovery Center. Dr. Barta has developed a new treatment modality to treat Sex Addiction from a trauma based attachment model TINSA. This model specifically addresses the origin of sexual addiction which lies in the damaged autonomic nervous system due to developmental traumas. TINSA finds and treats the damage to the ANS, allowing the individual to develop healthy emotional expressions, uninhibited authenticity, and non-guarded intimacy.

Carol the Coach will be interviewing Dan Morris, the creator of the 30 Tasks Recovery Map.  Recovery Tasks are essential to good treatment and having a laminated copy of the 30 Tasks of Recovery MAP is a simple check in with clients to assess where they are in recovery and where they need to focus in treatment to strengthen their program. I use it in group, individual and family sessions to get everyone's feedback and stay on track as a therapist. It is an empowering tool that keeps a client cognizant of his path to recovery. I recommend it to all CSATS and to clients as an invaluable and easy instructional tool! Listen as Dan talks about it's benefits for treatment!  

Listen to Carol the Coach as she interviews an expert who will speaking about the topic of addressing sexual topics with children who have experienced sexual trauma and who are drawn to ography. She will also talk about children who have been "accidently" exposed to inappropriate images via media. Listen as she shares that attunement, empathy and understanding will extinguish the behavior over punishing and implemementing consequences

What Is A Recovery Coach in Sexual Addiction with Carol the Coach

Listen as Carol the Coach interviews Beth Songer a mindfunesl expert who has found much success teaching meditation and mindfullness using the 12 Steps. She asserts that it can increase the recovery process. Carol will find out how mindfulness  meditation reduces stress and helps Addicts and Partners to focus on their recovery.

Triggers can be the worst thing imaginable when dealing with a sex addict. Partners of SA say that triggers are the most distressing problems for partners because they can ocur any time and put the partner right into panic and anxiety that feels uncontrollable. Tonight Carol interviews an expert who helps us understand how tirggers can assist a client in knowing what they need to feel safe again. Find out what you can do to control them and feel healthy and in control!

Resuming normal sex requires "a new normal" because there are so many difficult associations with the sexual act that has been compormised by sexual addiction. Listen as Carol the Coach interviews Dr Janet Hall is one of Australia’s foremost experts in the field of sex therapy and also hypnotherapy. Dr Jan will explain how she uses Hypnosis to help overcome the obstacles to seeking sex therapy and create positive changes in clients. Sex therapists face several major obstacles in delivering their craft including; Resistance to attendance (due to perceived stigma), Discussion difficulty (Due to embarrassment and the social taboo on sex), Scepticism and doubt, Resistance to in vivo practice and homework and Reluctance to admit to failure and incompetence. We will be talking to her about how to overcome the anger, sadness and betrayal that are the natural byproducts to the aftermath of sexual addiction. Hypnosis can be critically important as a tool for overcoming these obstacles. Hypnosis can greatly facilitate permission; reprogram past failure and program for future.

Values and courage are the requirements to find serenity and sobriety. Listen as Carol the Coach interviews Sara Schulting-Kranz who takes addicts to that place where they find their power to heal themselves and find sobriety. Listen as she discusses how the "hike" helps to empower them to heal the wounds and take their live to the next level!  

Carol the Coach will be interviewing Dr. Ken Adams a specialist on enmeshment between Sex Addicts and their Mothers.  It is not uncommon for men to be surrogate partners and then act out sexually to reenact the trauma. Listen as Carol finds out more about this family dynamic. The second part of the show we will be learning about the couples intensives that Dr. Adams is offering and organizing at The Meadow and how this can help to rebuild relationships. There is hope out there... find out what Dr.Adams has devised to help addicts and partners find intimacy again.