1. Making Advances Therapeutic Considerations and Settings for Treating FSLAs SASH Conference 2012 San Antonio, Texas, September 20, 2012 Marnie C. Ferree & Kelly McDaniel Making Advances: A Comprehensive Guide for Treating Female Sex and Love Addicts

2. WOMEN ARE DIFFERENT! Women’s bodies are different Women’s experience in therapy is different Treating women effectively is different Making Advances: A Comprehensive Guide for Treating Female Sex and Love Addicts www.sash.net/makingadvances MCF

3. THERAPEUTIC RELATIONSHIP Especially crucial with women Therapist’s role: safety, containment, attachment, mothering Healthy therapist more important than gender Making Advances: A Comprehensive Guide for Treating Female Sex and Love Addicts www.sash.net/makingadvances MCF

4. TREATING WOMEN Requires a slower pace May need attachment/trauma work before able to achieve sobriety Task model not as effective Menstrual cycle affects addictive cycle and treatment Making Advances: A Comprehensive Guide for Treating Female Sex and Love Addicts www.sash.net/makingadvances Kelly

5. ROLE OF SETTING Wardrobe Environment Energy Touch Making Advances: A Comprehensive Guide for Treating Female Sex and Love Addicts www.sash.net/makingadvances Kelly

6. TRANSFERENCE, COUNTERTRANSFERENCE AND ENACTMENTS Making Advances: A Comprehensive Guide for Treating Female Sex and Love Addicts www.sash.net/makingadvances MCF & Kelly Show media clip from HBO’s “In Treatment” (“Transference” episode) http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=end screen&v=pNWv5nkpyng&NR=1

7. TRANSFERENCE, COUNTERTRANSFERENCE AND ENACTMENTS Questions to prompt audience discussion (small groups?) about clip Making Advances: A Comprehensive Guide for Treating Female Sex and Love Addicts www.sash.net/makingadvances Kelly

8. TRANSFERENCE, COUNTERTRANSFERENCE AND ENACTMENTS “Furor therapeuticus” of transference Responsibility of handling counter- transference Enactments: a “jointly created interaction” Making Advances: A Comprehensive Guide for Treating Female Sex and Love Addicts www.sash.net/makingadvances MCF

9. THERAPIST SELF-DISCLOSURE Pros and cons Intentional versus “accidental” Affective disclosure Making Advances: A Comprehensive Guide for Treating Female Sex and Love Addicts www.sash.net/makingadvances MCF

10. TREATMENT SETTINGS Outpatient Clinical workshop / Intensive outpatient Inpatient or “residential” treatment Supportive housing Making Advances: A Comprehensive Guide for Treating Female Sex and Love Addicts www.sash.net/makingadvances MCF

11. LEVELS OF TREATMENT Beginning stage Middle stage Ending stage Making Advances: A Comprehensive Guide for Treating Female Sex and Love Addicts www.sash.net/makingadvances Kelly

12. Making Advances A Comprehensive Guide for Treating Female Sex and Love Addicts All proceeds benefit the Society for the Advancement of Sexual Health www.sash.net/makingadvances Edited by Marnie C. Ferree Writers: Susan J. Campling Robin Cato M. Deborah Corley Marnie C. Ferree Linda Hudson Alexandra Katehakis Kelly McDaniel Anna Valenti-Anderson Jill Vermeire Sonnee Weedn