Kathie Higgins, LPC, LMFT, LCDC, LSOTP

Allied Youth and Families

Established 1980

Phone: 214-943-1044
Fax: 214-631-7501
kathiehiggins1@gmail.com

 

Established Allied Youth and Families in 1980. Thirty nine years in practice, twenty eight years experience of working with people who have sex offenses.

EDUCATION

• MA Criminal Justice - John Jay College of Criminal Justice, New York, New York.
• BA Psychology - Mercy College, Dobbs Ferry, New York

THE ALTERNATIVES PROGRAM

• Specializes in the treatment of adult men who have committed sexual offenses.
• Offense cycle work within a group setting.
• People can safely talk about their deviant behavior and lifestyle with the idea of change and creating a positive lifestyle for themselves and others.
• One of the goals is to learn and understand what caused the offender to act out so they do not reenact their crime.
• Behavioral controls are learned and olfactory aversion may be required.
• Strategies for managing and controlling sexual deviancy and reducing deviant arousal patterns are taught.
• Reducing thinking distortions and raising the offender's standard of living through a positive vision.
• Transactional Analysis (Parent, Adult, Child ego states) are explored, especially in regard to the rebellious child.