Individual Sexual Behaviour treatment
Available to male or female clients who believe their sexual behaviour is negatively affecting their life. Clients may or may not be justice-involved.
Clients are supported to identify the patterns and ways in which their problematic sexual behaviours have unfolded in the past. Sexual behaviour problems are not seen as isolated events but are instead construed as a culmination of a chain of events. Identification of these events, referred to as a “behavioural progression” is considered to be important in an effort to establish risk factors and situations that increase the likelihood that they will engage in similar problematic behaviours in the future.
Each session includes activities and/or discussion to practice self-management skills. Skills covered include: mindfulness, self-monitoring, personal values, emotion regulation, healthy and unhealthy relationships, effective communication, healthy and unhealthy sex, sex and social media, healthy pornography and sexualized internet use, dating in the modern world, managing inappropriate sexual interests, coping skills, perspective-taking, and self-compassion. Skills are taught in the context of the cognitive behavioural therapy model, as is currently recommended in the risk-need-responsivity literature.
Each client develops a plan which identifies goals for improvement in several areas of their lives (i.e., Healthy Living; Sense of Purpose; Positive Relationships; Healthy Sexuality; and Managing Life’s Problems). Strategies for achieving these goals are identified with an emphasis on making them realistic and specific. Clients are encouraged to become self-determining agents in efforts to achieve lives that feel meaningful and worthwhile to them.
Clients can anticipate requiring between 12 to 24 1-hour sessions, depending on their level of needs. The hourly rate for private clients is $250/hr. Private insurance plans may provide partial to full coverage for registered clinical psychologists.
Individual Sexual Deviance treatment
Available to male clients who require specific intervention related to problematic (deviant) sexual interests.
Treatment for sexual deviance may be provided for individuals with few dynamic needs other than sexual deviance or who have previously received treatment but who continue to experience issues related to sexual deviance. The sessions include having participants keep sexual fantasy logs as a monitoring strategy, with discussions and exercises focused on managing sexual deviance, pornography use, social media use, masturbation, consent, and age appropriate relationships. Behavioural strategies are introduced that focus on the management of sexual arousal including healthy fantasy, satiation, and covert sensitization.
Clients can anticipate requiring between 6 to 12 1-hour sessions, depending on their level of needs. The hourly rate for private clients is $250/hr. Private insurance plans may provide partial to full coverage for registered clinical psychologists.
Group Treatment Sessions
Available only to clients referred through Probation & Parole
Group Sexual Behaviour treatment for men who have engaged in sexual offending behaviours (males only)
This group treatment program provides intervention to men who have been assessed as moderate to high risk for sexual reoffence. It is a cognitive-behavioural based program with a focus on skill development. The topics covered are similar to those described above for Individual Sexual Behaviour treatment, but are delivered in a group format with an emphasis on mutual support.
The Group Sexual Behaviour treatment program involves 12 to 16 2-hour sessions, depending on the number of participants. This group is only available to those referred by Probation and Parole.
Group “Healthy Intimacy” treatment (males only)
This program is tailored to individuals with needs in the areas of Intimacy deficits and/or Sexual Self-Regulation deficits who have already participated in group or individual sexual behaviour treatment but require more intervention, or individuals whose needs are limited to Intimacy/Sexual Self-Regulation and do not require intervention in more general problem-solving and coping skills. The program is designed to help participants:
- Develop skills to form and maintain healthy long-term relationships,
- Establish healthy sexual relationships,
- Manage problematic sexual thoughts, fantasies, and behaviors,
- Improve control over internet, social media, and pornography use.
The Group Healthy Intimacy treatment program involves 10 2-hour sessions. This group is only available to those referred by Probation and Parole.