Adjunctive Services
Let’s Collaborate to Support Your Clients
You’ve built a strong, trusting connection with your client. But despite your best efforts, something keeps them stuck. They’re experiencing flashbacks, nightmares, intrusive thoughts, or deeply entrenched negative self-beliefs that won’t budge. Or they’re navigating complex sexual issues: a sexless marriage, pelvic pain, erectile difficulties, or low libido. Perhaps they’re questioning their gender expression or exploring ethical nonmonogamy.
You’ve tried various approaches, but this feels outside your typical area of expertise. You know they could benefit from trauma-focused therapy, specialized sexual health interventions, or relationship intensives—but you also know how much value your ongoing work brings them. Should you refer them out or continue doing your best to address these challenges on your own?
Why choose? Why can’t it be both?
This is where adjunctive services come in. At the Center for Relationship & Intimacy Well-Being, we offer specialized therapies to complement your work with your client. Together, we can create a holistic, integrative plan that moves them forward while allowing you to stay in your zone of expertise and connection.
What Are Adjunctive Services?
Adjunctive services are specialized therapies designed to supplement the foundational work you’re already doing with your client. Rather than replacing your role, these services provide targeted support in areas that may require advanced training or a focused approach—such as trauma resolution, sexual health, or relationship dynamics.
Our services are collaborative, compassionate, and integrative. Think of us as your trusted partners, working alongside you to address specific needs that go beyond your typical scope while respecting and honoring the deep therapeutic relationship you’ve built.
Adjunctive Services for Therapists and Coaches
Therapists and coaches often face unique challenges in supporting clients. Balancing professional expertise with clients’ multifaceted needs can leave you feeling stretched thin or uncertain about the best course of action. Adjunctive services for therapists and coaches provide tailored support to address these challenges, enabling you to:
Expand Your Offerings:
Partnering with specialists allows you to provide clients with advanced support in areas such as trauma resolution, sexual health, and relationship dynamics without stepping outside your expertise.
Enhance Your Skills:
Working alongside adjunctive specialists offers opportunities for professional growth, allowing therapists and coaches to deepen their understanding of specific modalities and learn integrative approaches to complex client issues.
Maintain Client Trust:
Adjunctive services integrate seamlessly into the client’s journey, preserving the trust and rapport you’ve built while ensuring their needs are met comprehensively.
Relieve Professional Strain:
Coaches often face distinct challenges, such as working with clients who may not have the same therapeutic framework as in traditional therapy settings. Adjunctive services provide a bridge for addressing deeper issues like trauma or relational dynamics, allowing coaches to focus on empowerment and goal-setting while ensuring clients receive specialized care where needed.
Our adjunctive services are designed to complement your expertise, offering both you and your clients a collaborative, holistic path toward healing and transformation.
How Does Adjunctive Therapy Work?
1. Assessment & Consultation:
Once you identify a need, we’ll collaborate with you to determine the most effective adjunctive services for your client. We’ll honor your insights and rapport while offering our expertise to create a tailored approach.
2. Specialized Therapy Sessions:
Your client will receive focused therapy sessions with a specialist in the area they need support. These sessions complement your ongoing work, ensuring seamless and practical integration.
3. Collaboration & Feedback:
We’ll keep the lines of communication open, sharing relevant insights and progress (with client consent) to ensure continuity and alignment with your overall treatment plan.
4. Empowered Transition:
Once the adjunctive work is complete, the client continues their primary work with you, now equipped with new tools, insights, and resilience.
Why are Adjunctive Services Helpful to Clients and Clinicians?
For Clients:
- Access specialized support without losing the comfort and trust of their primary therapist.
- Address complex issues that require focused expertise, such as trauma processing or sexual health challenges.
- Receive holistic care that integrates body, mind, and relational dynamics.
For Clinicians:
- Enhance the therapeutic process without becoming an expert in every niche area.
- Preserve the therapeutic relationship while ensuring your client gets the comprehensive care they need.
- Reduce the pressure of navigating unfamiliar territory and focus on your strengths.
- Ensure you stay within your scope of practice and not risk crossing ethical issues.
Adjunctive Service Options at the Center for Relationship & Intimacy Well-Being
Sex Therapy
Navigating issues of libido, arousal, sexual pain, or desire discrepancy can be deeply personal and challenging. Our sex therapists provide a compassionate, science-based approach to help clients reconnect with their bodies and their partners, fostering sexual well-being and intimacy.
Women's Sexual Health
Hormonal changes, perimenopause, menopause, low desire, and pelvic pain are just a few factors that can impact a woman’s sexual health. We work holistically, collaborating with pelvic floor specialists, doulas, and medical professionals to empower women to rediscover their sexual vitality and address relational dynamics impacted by these changes.
Men's Sexual Health
Erectile dysfunction, premature ejaculation, and performance anxiety can significantly affect a man’s self-esteem and relationships. Our approach integrates emotional, physical, and relational perspectives to help men address these challenges with confidence and compassion.
EMDR
Trauma can manifest as intrusive thoughts, flashbacks, and emotional dysregulation. EMDR is a powerful, evidence-based method for resolving traumatic memories and reducing distress. Clients can experience significant shifts in just a few sessions.
EMDR Intensives
For clients ready to make rapid progress, EMDR intensives offer a focused approach to trauma resolution. These multi-hour sessions condense weeks of therapy into a single day or weekend, providing deep healing in a short timeframe.
Relationship Intensives
Whether addressing conflict, rebuilding trust after betrayal, or exploring nontraditional relationship dynamics, relationship intensives provide immersive, transformative support for couples. These sessions create a safe space for profound connection and repair.
How can these Adjunctive Services Help your Client?
- Trauma Resolution: EMDR and EMDR intensives help clients process and release the grip of past trauma, freeing them to engage more fully in therapy and life.
- Sexual Healing: Specialized sex therapy offers a pathway to overcome shame, pain, and disconnection, fostering a healthier relationship with sexuality.
- Relationship Repair: Couples can deepen their understanding and connection through intensive, focused work that complements ongoing therapy.
How can these Adjunctive Services Help Therapists and Coaches?
- Expand Your Toolbox: Provide your clients with access to specialized support without needing to learn every modality.
- Preserve Your Energy: Focus on what you do best, knowing your clients receive the targeted care they need.
- Enhance Client Outcomes: Collaborative care ensures your clients achieve meaningful progress and long-term growth.
- Strengthen Your Practice: Partnering with adjunctive services allows you to offer a wider range of solutions, making your practice more comprehensive and dynamic.
Who Are Adjunctive Services Not For?
While adjunctive services provide specialized and valuable support, they may not be appropriate for everyone. These services are not suitable in the following cases:
- Clients in Immediate Crisis: If a client is in acute distress, experiencing active suicidal ideation, or in need of immediate psychiatric intervention, adjunctive services are not designed to provide emergency care. In these instances, clients should seek crisis-specific support or hospitalization as necessary.
- Clients Unwilling to Engage with Multiple Providers: For individuals who feel uncomfortable or overwhelmed by working with multiple therapists, adjunctive services may not align with their preferences. Clients must be open to a collaborative approach.
- Therapists or Coaches Seeking Complete Autonomy: These services rely on a collaborative partnership. If a referring therapist or coach prefers to manage all aspects of a client’s care independently, adjunctive services may not be the best fit.
- Concerns Outside the Scope of Our Expertise: While we offer a broad range of specialized therapies, there may be cases requiring niche interventions or expertise not provided at our center. In such instances, we’ll help guide referrals to appropriate specialists.
- When There is a Misalignment of Goals: Adjunctive services work best when there is clarity and agreement on the roles of all providers involved. If expectations or goals are not aligned, the effectiveness of the collaboration may be compromised.
By understanding these limitations, we ensure that adjunctive services are utilized appropriately, fostering success and alignment in care for all involved.
Let’s Work Together
At the Center for Relationship & Intimacy Well-Being, collaboration is key to healing. By combining your expertise with our specialized services, we can offer clients the collaborative and effecive care they deserve—empowering them to move past barriers and into thriving, fulfilling lives.
Ready to explore adjunctive services for your client? Let’s connect and create a path forward together.