Our online intensive outpatient program is unique, includes psychoeducational training, practical recovery tools, small group sessions and more. It’s designed to support CSATs, CPTTs, and CMATs with the excellent work you are currently doing in your one on one sessions with your clients.
This IOP does not replace your work, rather it serves as an adjunct; additional support for our colleagues who may find it challenging to provide all of the moving parts of recovery in a 50 minute weekly session.
Charlene Lewis (LCSW, CSAT, CST) and Joshua Lewis - CRSS, Recovery Coach. A couple with 40 years of combined experience with sex addiction recovery.
"The Return to Intimacy" IOP is a collaborative program that every CSAT needs. The IOP provides daily support and accountability that's hard to achieve in weekly therapy sessions alone. This program truly puts the ‘intensive’ into ‘intensive outpatient’ treatment, offering an affordable alternative to inpatient rehab for clients who are committed but time-strapped.
Welcome to our site CSAT's! My husband (Josh) and I have spent the better part of the last three years putting together an online program for sex addicts. It is based off of the Recovery Start Kit, and techniques/tools that we have seen work with recovering sex addicts over the years.
We started the process for several reasons.
(1) There are very few affordable treatment options for sex addicts.
(2) Covid had just hit, and the idea of an "E-Hab," with clients doing individual and group therapy online, was becoming a very real possibility.
(3) I was trained in the Recovery Start Kit process when I became a CSAT, yet the thought of coordinating the program with my clients....beyond the one-on-one work we were doing seemed overwhelming.
(4) I have had fantastic success with clients who commit to doing the work, have accountability, structure, and a support system.
This program aims to check all of those boxes.
I have had much better outcomes with clients that become, and stay, very engaged in the process, using these tools.
About Us
We are a couple who has been together for 15 years and share a love of recovery, service, and helping people navigate life with sex addiction. We also have two beautiful children, Julia (9 years old) and Jacob (5 years old).
Charlene is an AASECT certified CSAT , specializing in addiction and trauma. She has been working with sex addicts almost exclusively in her private practice for a decade.
Josh is an entrepreneur, who has actively participated in the South Florida recovery community for the last 20 years, and has finished his CAC (certified addiction counselor) training, and now needs to take his exam! He has helped market our group practice which now includes 4 therapists. Below, we have video's that speak to our own personal journey's in recovery.
Please do not hesitate to contact us by email (support@return2intimacy.com) or phone (in the website header) if you have any questions or suggestions for this program. It is a work in progress, and needs your support!
If you would like a one on one demonstration of how this program works, please feel free to book a time with us
Deluxe
Delux
*May eventually be substituted for second Small Group at our discretion. Purchase of Facing the Shadow textbook required.
