C-SASI is a long-time leader in the sex addiction field...

providing training, certification, ongoing professional development opportunities, education and support from a Christian worldview for those working in the sex addiction and partner trauma fields. We want to help others — pastors, lay leaders, coaches, clinicians, group facilitators — to provide betrayed partners opportunities to heal and sex addicts opportunities to actively participate in recovery and stay clean, sober, and live a healthy and faithful life.

C-SASI is a non-profit organization run by a volunteer board, some of whom also provide supervision for our trainees at a reduced rate (from field standards). To cover our expenses we rely on the donations of those who share a common vision. Donations help us to:

  • Train and certify clinicians, pastors, coaches, lay leaders, and others to work with sex addicts, partners, and their families from a Christian perspective

  • Use technology to train professionals online in order to reduce travel expenses

  • Continue to expand to train and certify professionals internationally

  • Pay a part-time administrator and website developer

  • Promote and run our conferences

  • Work toward increasing our reach and impact in the recovery community

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OUR MISSION

Christian Sex Addiction Specialists International (formerly IACSAS) is a non-profit, Christian organization comprised of leaders in the sex addiction/partner trauma fields. Our goal is to equip Christian therapists and clinicians; life coaches; pastors and ministers; and lay church leaders with the resources they need to effectively and ethically help those whose lives have been impacted by sexual addiction. We achieve these goals by:

  • Offering professional development opportunities—including advanced training and certification—to clinicians and life coaches who have undergone previous training in sex addiction and partner (of sex addict) trauma training with another approved organization

  • Offering training and certification for clergy, para-church organizations, and lay leaders who support those wounded by sexual addiction—including pastoral sex addiction specialist training

  • Providing clinical supervision (therapists) and peer supervision and/or mentoring (coaches/church community) for those practicing or ministering in the sex addiction/partner trauma fields

  • Organizing an annual conference—for those who work in these fields—which serves as an opportunity for face-to-face professional development, networking, and peer support

  • Providing online communities for those who work in this field

OUR VISION IS TO:

  • Equip ourselves and other believers with the knowledge and skills needed to provide ethical care and relational healing for addicts, partners, families and Christian communities impacted by sexual addiction and betrayal trauma 

  • Advocate for ethical care in the clinical and church communities

  • Create awareness of how healthy sexuality, as defined by Christian principles, is developed and maintained

  • Collaborate with organizations around the globe who train and equip clinicians and pastoral care providers in sex addiction therapy/support best practices

  • Make research and other resources available to those working, studying, etc. in this field

OUR Faith Statement:

Affiliation and Theology: C-SASI’s board and certified members are made up of men and women from a variety of Christian denominations.

C-SASI, as an organization, firmly honors our Christian moorings which can be expressed in several ways, but our bottom line affirmation of faith is the Apostles Creed and Nicene Creed, all the while having a gentle but generally more evangelical ethos.

Some of the definitions of "sin" that we use in our training program are "anything that alienates us from God" and "failure in word, deed, or desire to rightly love God and neighbor" and "a failure to live up to the higher righteousness as described by the Gospel of Matthew" and "anything that offends God, God's creation, or is a moral transgression" and "anything contrary to the Christian narrative and story from the Bible."

Much of our training program draws upon the New Testament but in particular: Matthew, Mark, Luke (Acts), John, and the Letters of Paul.

We believe that sex addiction is best addressed by a treatment protocol based in a Christian worldview in order to achieve the substantive changes necessary for an enduring transformation of the whole person and his/her relationships, rather than just the aim of achieving sobriety. Our training program draws upon the latest research in psychology, addiction, neuroscience, and trauma alongside applying best practices in all treatment protocols. All of this is firmly grounded in the Christian worldview.

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Note: we welcome people with various religious backgrounds and denominations into our training program and membership. For example, one recent training session was made up of non-denominational, protestant, catholic, Baptist, and Lutheran as well as a couple of people from who do not, themselves, profess a particular faith but work with clients of a variety faiths and religious backgrounds.