Pornography use and recovery / PPU-A20-4
Reviewing Sexual Wellbeing Goals — Session activity
Facilitate a structured practice of reviewing sexual wellbeing goals with preparation, reflection, and an agreed closing.
30 minutes · Session guide · Mental health professionals
Fictional example: Noah notices improved sleep but ongoing guilt and wants help understanding both.
Use within your training and assessment of readiness. Review can consider agency, functioning, relationships, and values without a universal frequency target.
0–5 min | Agree on purpose and fit
Explain the educational scope. Ask what would be useful, check readiness and access needs, and establish choices to observe, adapt, or pass. Use an ordinary example; do not solicit trauma narratives.
5–10 min | Orient with an example
Review can consider agency, functioning, relationships, and values without a universal frequency target. Fictional example: Noah notices improved sleep but ongoing guilt and wants help understanding both. Ask what is observed and what remains uncertain.
10–20 min | Practice and compare
Compare a chosen goal with actual experiences and decide what to retain, revise, or discuss with a qualified clinician. Offer quiet individual work, a supported conversation, or an observing role. Compare two possible responses without evaluating people as right or wrong.
20–25 min | Reflect on meaning
Which part of the goal or support plan needs revision? Ask what fit, what did not fit, and how culture, power, disability access, or external conditions affect the options.
25–30 min | Integrate and close
Invite one optional next step or support request. Orient to the current setting, allow an unfinished question to remain unfinished, and agree how to revisit it. End early or adapt if activation increases.
Adaptations
For a group, use fiction and no compulsory round-robin disclosure. For remote use, allow off-camera reflection and private notes. For brief use, keep one example and one question while retaining opening and closing choices.
Prompts for this resource
- What outcome would make this practice useful?
- Which part of the goal or support plan needs revision?
- What adaptation or follow-up is needed?
Conceptual background
AASECT Position on Sex Addiction — American Association of Sexuality Educators, Counselors and Therapists
Background on the approach only. Original exercises and wording are by More Than Therapy with AI assistance; the source does not validate or endorse these materials.