Welcome to Betrayal Trauma Recovery. This is Anne. I have Dan Drake with me today. He is a licensed

clinician and a C-SAT supervisor. He's also a certified clinical partner specialist supervisor through APSATs. He's the co-author of

Letters from a Sex Addict. He's also EMDR trained and he is the founder and

clinical director of Banyan Therapy Group in Studio City, California.

In addition to his clinical background, he has taught and spoken domestically and internationally.

His passion is to help sex addicts, their partners, and families restore relational,

mental, emotional, physical, and spiritual wholeness to their lives.

Dan strives to provide a safe environment where his clients can grow and heal.

He uniquely blends his experience with addicts and partners to provide relational healing and integration through all phases of the treatment process.

His website is Banyan Therapy.com

and we will link to that from our website.

Welcome, Dan.

Thank you, Anne.

Thank you so much for having me on.

It's such an honor to be here.

So I asked Dan to come on the podcast today to continue talking about abuse within the context of

sex addiction. So Dan this topic is very relevant and we're seeing it play out in our

world today. What makes you so interested in the topic of domestic abuse?

Coincidentally this was a topic that we at our group wanted to put out some articles about

We've just seen this play out so long especially with sex addicted individuals

You've already had Dr. Manwala on and I'll say my background actually I worked with

Omar for nearly five years. I got to see firsthand the impact that this was having on couples and

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