Sex, Porn & Love Addiction taster day

Description

In August 2024, BACP published its Addictions Competence Framework, identifying specialist knowledge, skills and abilities that counsellors require to effectively support adults living with addictions. What better time to gain insight and better understanding of this specialist area of compulsion and Addiction work?

Thinking of adding Sex, Porn, Love addiction counselling to your skillset? This is a “taster” one day event to give you increased knowledge; not competency to work with this client group. This client group includes, women, men (young and elderly), children and those who have crossed legal boundaries and face criminal proceedings. They are all present in our caseload.

The Kairos Centre has a separate Video-on-Demand training course for those who want to work with this client group and be trained to acquire the skills to work with this client group. This is not that course.

Here is what this taster one day course will cover:

Sex addiction – what is it?

Love addiction – what is it?

Porn addiction – what is it?

Love of sex or a true addiction?

How prevalent?

Errors of well-meaning helpers?

Definite “No, No’s”; Support for the affected partners/wives.

The role of shame and Narcissism; Sexual map, sexual preferences and sexual templates set up in childhood development; Why don't they just stop it?

What age groups and types of persons are affected?

It could happen to me – really!

Why are Ministers and Carers prime candidates for sex addiction?

Overview of a sex addiction program, Resource and Reading; “....and women do it too”;

“What I wish I’d known before watching porn”; Harmful consequences; Its role, purpose and function; The Recovery Process; Motivation to change and the Stages of change; Should I tell her everything?

It cuts across all social classes (from Judge to Labourer); The Cycle of Sex addiction; The role of the brain and self manufactured biochemical; The role of Attachment/Rejection/Childhood development; Maintenance and Relapse prevention tools; Identifying and managing Triggers.

Who is this workshop aimed at?

All Therapists, Youth workers, Pastor workers, Ministers and others who want to better understand the dynamics of this issue - as a Compulsion/Addiction impacting age 9 to 75 years old.

Presenter - Gary McFarlane

Gary McFarlane BA, LLM, Dip, Certs Therapist, Supervisor & Trainer EMDR Europe Accredited Practitioner www.Kairos-centre.com

A Relate trained and experienced Relationship counsellor, Mediator and undertakes Sex Therapy & Sex/Porn/Love Addiction treatment - all undertaken by various secure online modes including webcam such as Zoom & Bilateralbase, with clients from all parts of the country and abroad. Working Online for some 12 years and holds a certificate in Online

Therapy. Accredited EMDR (Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing) Practitioner. Attachment Informed EMDR (AI-EMDR), Group EMDR Trauma (G-TEP), Recent Event EMDR Trauma (R-TEP) and uses The Advanced Flash Technique, for PTSD, Trauma, Complex Trauma, Depression, Anxiety and related issues.

Bring back colour to life, without shame

Gary has created what may be the world’s first comprehensive Online webinar Sex/porn/love addiction Video-on-Demand Recovery Programme, being used by many clients throughout the world. His Podcast is “The Sex Porn and Love Addiction Podcast”, with nearly 45K downloads in just over 4 years.

In July 2023 he launched a comprehensive Video-on-Demand Online Course (for Singles Pre-Married prep, Partnerships, Couples, Marrieds, long, long time Marrieds/Partners) bring together is experience with hundreds of Singles and couples over 19 years and a few books written on the subjects. See the website.

Cost

Early Bird - Standard £105 / Trainee Counsellor £85 until 9 August 2025

Thereafter Standard - £125 / Trainee Counsellor £105

(There is the option to pay in 3 instalments via PayPal)

Handouts and CPD certificate are included in the price.

Please note that a delegate space is not guaranteed until payment is received.