Bethesda Workshops

The Healing for Women workshop is a short-term, intensive setting that maximizes your investment of time and money. The four-day workshop provides the equivalent of 8-12 months of weekly counseling and is a huge jumpstart or boost for recovery.The workshop is clinical, meaning all the leaders are at least master’s level, licensed counselors who are specifically trained in treating sexual addiction. We use a comprehensive approach that addresses not only the acting out behavior, but also its roots. Each person develops a specific recovery plan to guide her process after the workshop.Participation is limited to 12 attendees or less. For group processing, participants are divided into small groups of 6 women and work with the same leader throughout the workshop. Individual counseling is not part of the workshop. The workshop fee includes all lodging and meals. Insurance does not cover the cost, but a no-interest payment plan is available.

The Healing for Partners workshop is a short-term, intensive setting that maximizes your investment of time and money. The four-day workshop provides the equivalent of 8-12 months of weekly counseling and is a huge jumpstart or boost for recovery.The workshop is clinical, meaning all the leaders are at least master’s level, licensed counselors who are specifically trained in treating sex addicts and partners of addicts. We use a comprehensive approach that addresses not only the acting out behavior, but also its roots. Each person develops a specific recovery plan to guide her process after the workshop.Participation is limited to 18 people or less. The majority of attendees are female, but male partners are encouraged to attend. For group processing, participants are divided into small groups of 6 and work with the same leader throughout the workshop. Individual counseling is not part of the workshop. The workshop fee includes all lodging and meals. Insurance does not cover the cost, but a no-interest payment plan is available.

A Healing for Couples workshop provides the same boost for your coupleship that the individual workshops did for personal healing. Healing for Couples is the same intensive setting that maximizes your investment of time and money.Healing for Couples is geared for those who are relatively new in their process of recovery. Because the workshop’s focus is on building non-sexual intimacy, husbands and wives do not room together at the workshop. Husbands stay with other husbands and wives stay with other wives.The workshop is clinical, meaning all the leaders are at least master’s level, licensed counselors who are specifically trained in treating sexual addiction. This workshop uses a comprehensive approach that gets beneath the specific issues in the relationship to look at the roots of the problems.Couples are divided into small groups and work with the same Bethesda Workshops leaders throughout the workshop. The workshop fee includes all lodging and meals. Insurance does not cover the cost, but a no-interest payment plan is available.

Research and experience shows that families with a struggling teen benefit from family therapy as well as help for the teen individually and for the parents. For an adolescent to heal and that healing to last, parents must be part of the process. Struggling teens are much more likely to change in the context of family-based healing. That environment takes some of the pressure off, as they realize the treatment focus isn’t solely on them as the “problem.” It’s vital that the whole family be involved in a coordinated process of understanding, growth, and change. The program is a group process where multiple families attend at the same time (normally four to six families). The participants move between brief educational segments, activities, and group settings. Some of the groups are separate gatherings of the
teens and the parents, where each population has a safe space to share their challenges as a family. Other groups are family therapy (with the teen and parents together) in a multifamily group setting, meaning one or two other families will be part of the group. The intensive is active, experiential, and engaging for both the teen and the parents. Participation is limited to six families. Individual counseling is not part of the program, but each family gets significant dedicated attention within the group setting. A family greatly benefits from observing other families’ work, as well as from doing their own.