In today’s society, our youth are being bombarded like never before with sexually explicit materials and opportunities to act out sexually. In some cases, this leads to legal problems and in some cases leads to a variety of other issues -emotional and mental health issues. Star Guides is a place where youth can experience a refuge from these difficulties in a safe setting. It is a place where we can address these issues and start sexual abuse counseling. Star Guides is a unique place for the treatment of pornography addiction to occur. We can completely unplug youth from all technology and allow them the opportunity to begin to develop coping skills to deal with the emotions that they have been avoiding through the use of pornography.
Sexual Abuse Counseling
In the wilderness, we can disrupt those behaviors much more efficiently and much more completely than we would have an opportunity to do anywhere else. By doing so, the adolescent is immediately revealed as to who they are without these coping mechanisms. A lot of times people believe that pornography addiction and sexually compulsive behaviors are primarily issues with boys or men. What a lot of people don’t know is that it is just as prevalent in young women.
Society is teaching our young women these days that all they have to offer is their bodies and what they can do sexually. In the wilderness, we take all of that away and have an opportunity to learn skills and teach them that they can do things that they never thought they could do. It builds their sense of worth so that they can move beyond the issues that they’re having with sexually compulsive behaviors or pornography addiction.
How Does Star Guides Treatment Work?
The wilderness has a way of revealing a youth for who they are at their core. So many of our youth, because of dependency on technology, have been hiding behind their smartphone or their electronic device. We get them into the wilderness setting, and we’re able to help them begin to understand who they are.
Wilderness therapy has a capacity for change that is far greater than outpatient therapy, residential treatment, or any other treatment venue. Wilderness therapy will be the best venue for treating sexual behavior problems among teens and young adults.