ISH provides comprehensive assessment and treatment for sex addiction and compulsive sexual behavior. We utilize a sexual health model that integrates sex addiction treatment with specializations in human sexuality and expertise in sex addiction-induced trauma. Our goal is to help people move towards integrity, intimacy and integration.
Sex Addiction Treatment Services:
14-Day Intensive Outpatient Program for Sex Addiction-Compulsivity (IOP)
Personalized Intensive Treatment Options
Sex Addiction-Compulsivity Assessment, Evaluation, Consultation
Individual Psychotherapy
Sex Addiction-Compulsivity Psychotherapy Groups
Treatment and Support for Partners and Spouses
Treatment and Support for Couples
ISH provides treatment for the spectrum of problems related to:
• Internet Pornography
• Cyber-Sexual Behaviors and Relationships
• Emotional and Sexual Infidelity
• Compulsive masturbation and use of fantasy
• Compulsive engagement of fetish or paraphilic sexuality
• Strip clubs, massage parlors, prostitution
• Problematic patterns of love, sex and relationships
• Professional sexual misconduct (see Professional Boundaries Program)
• Sexual offending behaviors (see Sex Offender Treatment)
Sex Addiction and Compulsivity Specific Treatment Goals:
• Immediate help to stop problem behavior patterns
• Create clear behavioral plan with accountability
• Identify situational, emotional, and core triggers and vulnerabilities
• Learn specific alternative coping mechanisms
• Gain insight into underlying dynamics and trauma
• Shame reduction and self-acceptance
• Education on sex addiction-induced trauma
• Education on the impact on the partner/spouse and family
• Create a cohesive long-term treatment strategy and program
Why ISH?
The Growing Necessity of Clinical Sexology in Sex Addiction Treatment
ISH utilizes a sexual health model and treatment approach, based on formal education and grounding in clinical sexology and an appreciation for the complexities of human sexuality. Our unique sexual health treatment approach addresses the behavioral, psychological, sexual and relational complexities of compulsive sexual behavior.
The advent of the Internet and the cultural exposure to new and wide-ranging forms of sexual content, arousal and social expression has resulted in a growing necessity for the treatment of sex addiction requiring specialization in human sexuality – not just sex addiction training. ISH is one of the few sex addiction and compulsivity programs in the field that integrates specialization in transgender dynamics, sexual identity development, arousal templates, BDSM and fetish sexuality, sexual offending dynamics, pedophilia, paraphilic sexuality, sexual dysfunctions, cyber-sexuality and cyber-relationships.
The Sex Addiction-Induced Trauma Model
The Institute for Sexual Health is a founder of the sex addiction-induced trauma model for the treatment of the sex addict, the partner and the coupleship. ISH leads the way in challenging the traditional sex addiction model and the alarming lack of clinical understanding and treatment of the trauma experienced by partners of sex addicts. Recognizing sex addiction-induced trauma actually changes the way the addict, the partner and the couple is understood and treated, ushering in a new generation of sex addiction and compulsivity treatment approaches. Learn More…
Please call for more information about our programs: 310-286-1300.
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