Intrapsychic offers the following treatment programs for consensual sexual behavior:
Infidelity counseling, Compulsive sexual behavior (sex addiction)
Consensual Compulsive Sexual Behavior
Infidelity Counseling
A patient will often seek treatment at Intrapsychic after a romantic partner discovers his or her infidelity. The relationship has been deeply damaged, and the person in question is often stricken with guilt and self-blame. While we do judge the behavior – in this case infidelity is a violation of a tacit or explicit promise to one’s partner, a betrayal – we do not judge the person behind the act. We are able to keep in one hand the transgression, while also hold in the other a sense of the person’s goodness.
Compulsive Sexual Behavior (Sex Addiction)
A program for those who have engaged in intense and frequent (or ‘addictive’) consensual sexual behavior and/or intense use of pornography. Our goal here is to ‘clean the machine,’ which is to say that we assume that the behavior in question has arisen from an internal psychological conflict. If we can identify the conflict, and reduce the pain associated with it, then we can reduce or eliminate the desire to engage in the problematic, though soothing, behavior.