Topics discussed in this episode🟣 Sobriety and a second career in recovery after working as an educator for 20 years🟣 Feeling terrified starting private practice and trying different niches 🟣 Deciding to focus on intimacy and sex addiction and create the Center for Intimacy🟣 Internal family systems: Exile🟣 When sex becomes problematic 🟣 Power of co-regulation and dysregulating🟣 Secrets, betrayal, function, and different levels of desire🟣 40% of people with SUD have unhealthy relationship with sex🟣 Sexual recovery's role in SUD recovery🟣 Growing, training, and supporting a team🟣 Running 2 parallel staff to avoid dilution of intimacy🟣 Making a practice like a teaching hospital and the importance of supervision🟣 Creating community among therapists🟣 2-week intensive program for sexual addiction or trauma🟣 How codependency gets distorted and why it often comes up later in recovery🟣 Betrayal blindness and isolation of partners 🟣 PTSD, relational trauma, and maladaptive behaviors🟣 Stigma, shame, harm reduction, and sex addictionAddiction Podcast Guest:Gary Katz LCSW, CSAT-S Psychotherapist, Owner of Center for Intimacy Recovery,✉️ garykatz@intimacyrecovery.com🔗https://www.intimacyrecovery.com/🔗LinkedIn Profile https://www.linkedin.com/in/garykatz-lcsw-csat/🔗Clinical Director, Nancy Tricamo https://www.linkedin.com/in/nancy-tricamo-7153892/Book mentioned: Betrayal Trauma: The Logic of Forgetting Childhood Abuse Reprint Edition Jennifer J. FreydGuest location: VermontAddiction Podcast Host:Chris Langley, Co-Founder | Addiction Recovery Place