INTIMACY DISORDER GROUP

You are worthy of healthy relationships.

EVERYTHING YOU NEED FOR HEALING THAT LASTS

  • Guided Journaling

  • Mindfulness & Breathwork

  • Group Therapy

Learning how to build trust and connection with your own sexuality doesn’t have to be driven by shame.

This group will: 

  • Provide clarity regarding what intimacy disorders are and what they look like in real life.

  • Explore how your intimacy disorder developed.

  • Offer practical ways to move toward healthy relationships.

Consciously wanting intimacy, but struggling to tolerate healthy closeness, is real for women with intimacy disorders.

Assigning a disproportionate amount of time, attention, and value to another person to the point of being obsessed can be a symptom of codependency, love addiction, sex addiction, or trauma.

Losing finances, physical health, employment, or your reputation can cause you to operate from a place of fear within your vulnerability.

In this group, you will be strengthened by new boundaries and restored by engagement in a community of women who understand.

You are worthy of healthy relationships.

for women facing

 

Intimacy Disorder

The loving nature of women thrives on authentic connection with others and the security of true love with a partner. Women who struggle with Intimacy disorders have difficulty developing, maintaining, and expressing appropriate levels of emotional, intellectual, spiritual, and sexual intimacy in relationships due to deeply rooted insecurities driven by fear of vulnerability, rejection, and abandonment. For women, the trauma of childhood attachment injuries can lead to a lifelong search for intimacy and value in the brokenness of Codependency, Love Addiction, and Sex Addiction. Learning to speak, behave, and self-protect in open and honest ways is the mark of healthy vulnerability and provider of intimacy in a relationship.

Codependency

An immature emotional dependency on relationships is defined by patterns of compulsive caretaking, rescuing, and attempts to control, in response to deep-seated fears of losing someone (being abandoned) or not getting something important from them (rejection). The great need to be needed is translated into repeated acts of giving time, emotion, energy, and resources that are not reciprocated. The inability to set boundaries and identify one’s own needs can lead to years of neglect, abuse, and inability to find worth and value outside of relationships where you are the “GIVER”, and they are the “TAKER”.

Sex Addiction

Sex Addiction is a behavioral or process addiction that is characterized by a pattern of excessive sex-related acts that take priority in daily life, an inability to limit time dedicated to sex-related acts, attempts to hide the extent of involvement in sex-related acts from friends or loved ones, and continuations of sex-related acts after exposure or serious medical, legal, or relational consequences. The rituals of seeking and securing means to engage in sex-related acts are equally important and become the organizing factor for each day.

Love Addiction

A behavioral or process addiction that is characterized by an obsession with romance and compulsion to seek out romantic partners to increase a sense of security and self-worth. The intensity and infatuation felt in the early stages of a romance are fueled by the seductiveness and power of the person being pursued. Sadly, the fantasy of commitment is met with realities of loneliness, emptiness, and abandonment. The emotional withdrawals of unfulfilled “LOVE” led to new obsessions and pursuits to find “TRUE LOVE”.

 

“The compassion I felt from the therapists was amazing. I really enjoyed the small group setting. Hearing from other women and their experiences contributed to my own self-acceptance and healing. As I continue to grow, I hope to set good examples and influence others in a positive way.”

women supporting women

  • Mary Kathryn Evans

    Licensed Professional Counselor | EMDR Trained | Registered Yoga Teacher

  • Tammy Coker

    Licensed Professional Counselor | Clinical Therapist

  • Courtney Layson

    Licensed Professional Counselor | Certified Sex Addiction Therapist | Certified Multiple Addiction Therapist

  • Gayle Wimberly

    Licensed Professional Counselor | Clinical Therapist

Meet The Team
 

You are worthy of healthy relationships.