GACA Professional Development

 Virtual Only

Sex Addiction Summit

Friday, January 31, 2025 -

 Saturday, February 1, 2025

Friday, January 31

Sexual Addiction, Betrayal Trauma and Relationship Recovery

8:45 AM Check-In  

9:00 AM Workshop Begins

12:15 PM Lunch Break

12:45 PM  Workshop Resumes

4:00 PM Workshop Concludes

Location:  Online

Saturday AM, February 1

Sharpen Your Tools, It's an Addiction Too, Let's Talk about Sex! 

8:45 AM Check-In  

9:00 PM Workshop Begins

12:15 PM Workshop Concludes

Location:  Online

Saturday PM, February 1

Let’s Talk About Sex Ethically: Clients Deserve Better

12:45 PM Check-In  

1:00 PM Workshop Begins

4:15 PM Workshop Concludes

Location:  Online

12.0 CE Hours Approved by GACA and NAADAC. Applied with GAMFT and GSCSW.

Approved for 12.0 Clock Hours with NBCC.

Sexual Addiction, Betrayal Trauma and Relationship Recovery

Description: 

This Program Will cover the overview dynamics and overview of sexual addiction and then give an overview of recovery for the addict. Then I will give an overview of betrayal trauma and the recovery process for the betrayal partner. Finally, I will give an overview of the healing of the relationship, betrayal trauma, and relationship healing. 

Learning Objectives:

1. The attendee will learn the Clinical criteria for an individual with sexual addiction that  presents in treatment. 
2. The attendee will learn an overview of the task model for recovery from sexual addiction. 
3. The attendee will learn about Betrayal Trauma and what makes it such an intense form of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. 
4. The client will learn an overview for recovery of how an individual who experiences betrayal trauma finds resolution 
5. Finally, the client learn an overview of the process for healing and the recovery process for couples who recover from sexual addiction and betrayal trauma. 

Sharpen Your Tools! It's an Addiction Too, Let's 

Talk about Sex!

Description: 

Sexual Behavior Problems (PSB) cannot be controlled and this a phenomenon that is the next door neighbor to substance use and abuse problems. The sexual thoughts, urges, desires, and behaviors are excessive and without help, cannot be controlled. This course will educate the learner participant about what PSB is and how to support clients when they present with this. Learner participants are welcome to bring cases for staffing with the presenter and anonymity of actual client/patient names is requested for cases reviewed.

Learning Objectives:

1. Learn about the pathology of Problematic Sexual Behaviors (PSB)
2. Identify challenges faced by mental health counselors working with individuals living with PSB 
3. Describe Treatment Methods for PSB

Let’s Talk About Sex Ethically: Clients Deserve Better

Description: 

As counselors, we strive to prepare clients for life without abusing substances, yet we repeatedly ignore that sex is an important part of life. The standard line about staying out of relationships for the first year clean might be helpful to keep clients single during treatment, but then they’re out on their own, attempting to engage in relationships that include sex. Many clients may not have had sex without being loaded for years, some decades. Clean time alone doesn’t magically prepare people for sex. It’s our ethical duty to give them the tools for negotiating sex. So let’s talk about sex & how to serve our clients more ethically.

Learning Objectives:

1. Attendees will explore how the traditional view of communicating about sex during treatment negatively impacts the treatment provided.
2. Attendees will learn a framework for negotiating sex based on consent & clear communication.
3. Attendees will practice learned skills to be able to address sex with clients ethically.                                                                                                                                                   Presenter:  Lanny Ledford, LCSW, CSAT
   In 2001 while traveling in Spain, I discovered “The Camino De Santiago” also referred to as the “The Way”. . . I walked the five hundred miles completing this life-changing experience which began my journey into becoming a therapist and starting the practice of helping others on their journey. My journey continued as I went on to earn an undergraduate and then master’s degree from the School of Social Work at the University of Georgia.
   I pursued licensure and am currently a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (GA License # CSW004082) and have been practicing over the past two decades.
   I gained experience in working with clients as they go through the legal/court system with addiction, anger management or domestic violence. As I moved into private practice, I began to work with mood disorders like anxiety and depression. I also started to focus on trauma being at the core of compulsive behavior that can lead to addiction.
   While I have been specializing in pornography / sexual addiction, as well as complex trauma, I also work with clients experiencing post-traumatic stress disorder, betrayal trauma, depression, anxiety, and substance abuse.
   I am a Certified Sexual Addiction Therapist. I also have certifications in EMDR and TEAM CBT.
   Reflecting back at my journey, I look at therapy like walking on the Camino. . . Starting on a life-changing journey, then walking side by side building a mutually respectful client-therapist relationship, offering guidance, expertise, and techniques in recovering from mental and behavioral struggles. . . then celebrating the healing, progress, change, and recovery as we walk along “The Way" one day at a time.
   
   Presenter:  Dr. Christine Page, PhD, LPC

Christine J. Page, PhD, LPC is a Licensed Professional Counselor in the State of Georgia and she has specialized mental health counseling training in trauma, mood disorders, sex offender evaluations and treatment for sex offenders. She provides counseling supervision to college students and to those who are working towards gaining licensure to become mental health counselors. She is a Certified Forensics Counselor through the National Association of Forensics Counselors (NAFC). She holds membership with the National Chapter of the Association for the Treatment and Prevention of Sexual Abuse (ATSA) and the Local Chapter: Georgia Association for the Prevention and Treatment of Sexual Abuse (GATSA). She is a member of The Society for the Advancement of Sexual Health (SASH) and she is a member of Association for Counselor Education and Supervision (ACES). She completed TF-CBT (Trauma Focused-Cognitive Behavioral Therapy) training through the Medical University of South Carolina, she is a Certified Professional Counselor Supervisor (CSPS) governed by the Licensed Professional Counselors Association of Georgia and is a Board Certified Counselor under the governorship of the National Board of Certified Counselors (NBCC). 

Presenter:  Peyton Waggener, MS, LPC, CMAC, NCC, CCH

Peyton’s passion is facilitating growth and healing using clients’ & clinicians' intersecting identities, both visible and invisible, as strengths. She is skilled in the areas of sexuality & relationship structure minorities, BDSM/Kink, parenting, anxiety management, aging, career counseling, creativity coaching, mood disorders, divorce recovery, incarceration and reentry, and those who practice alternative spiritualities. She is sex-positive & sex-work-positive. She enjoys working with those in substance abuse recovery, using both clinical skills and lived experience. 

Peyton has worked in behavioral health for over two decades guiding individuals through self-discovery by providing direct services, program management, & clinician education.  She is a Certified Clinical Hypnotherapist – a fantastic modality for change, healing & growth. She uses CBT to help identify underlying beliefs that motivate clients to persist in harmful patterns, allowing clients to make more successful choices. She is an Anger Management Specialist & an Active Parenting Now Facilitator. She enhances her counseling with Motivational Interviewing, experiential interventions, & creative interventions while using a social justice framework. She is on the certification track in Relational Life Therapy, Terry Real’s relationship counseling modality.

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Georgia Addiction Counselors Association has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 7302.  Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. Georgia Addiction Counselors Association is solely responsible for all aspects of the program.