The leading challenge for addiction recovery is not establishing sobriety, but rather maintaining sobriety. Taught by Dr. Patrick Carnes, the workshop is designed to introduce therapists to the concept o task centered therapy. Specific topics to be covered are:

• Motivation to come to your own assistance
• The role of addiction interaction
• Cybersex and accessing the unresolved
• The internal tasks of restructuring of relationship w With self-abuse, shame, and grief
• The external tasks of creating a recovery system: Work, finances, family, and physical well-being
• Establishing a zone for recovery