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.