Patrick Fleming (Author)
Patrick Fleming, MDiv, MSW, LCSW, CSAT, is a psychotherapist in private practice with his wife, Sue Lauber-Fleming, in St. Louis. He trained extensively with Patrick Carnes, Ph.D., an international expert and researcher in the field of sexual addiction. Fleming has over twenty years of experience providing counseling to individuals, couples, and groups facing a wide variety of psychological problems, including male and female adult victims of childhood sexual abuse, some of these victims of clerical abuse. In the last fifteen years, he has specialized in working with those suffering from sexual compulsivity and addiction. He is a certified sexual addiction therapist. His expertise has led him to work extensively with priests and other clergy, Catholic and Protestant, who have abused. Patrick is also a former parish priest and hospital chaplain. With Sue Lauber-Fleming he founded Double Rainbow Coaching, Counseling and Consulting, a private practice dedicated to interweaving psychology with faith and spirituality to promote the healing and growth of individuals and groups. Together, they provide group and individual psychotherapy to recovering Catholic priests and brothers at the Recon program outside of St. Louis, Missouri.
Sue Lauber-Fleming (Author)
Sue Lauber-Fleming, RN, MA, LCSW, is a psychotherapist in private practice with her husband, Patrick Fleming, in St. Louis. She trained extensively with family therapy pioneer Virginia Satir. She has over twenty years of experience working with individuals and groups and addressing a variety of psychological problems. The focus of her work has been bringing healing to adult survivors of childhood sexual abuse, including those abused by clergy. She is herself a survivor of clerical sexual abuse. In more recent years, she has been providing group and individual counseling to priests who have abused. Sue has been a psychological and organizational consultant to several Catholic religious communities and teaches and has facilitated year-long community-building classes for the international novitiate of a religious order of men for the past twelve years.
Mark T. Matousek (Author)
Mark T. Matousek, MS, CCDC, was born and raised in Bayside, New York. He graduated from Cathedral Preparatory Seminary High School and earned a Masters Degree in Rehabilitation Counseling from St. John's University. He has focused his work in the area of addictions and earned his CCDC (Certified Chemical Dependency Counselor) certification. He was the administrator of an inpatient drug and alcohol program in Maryland and also worked for the American Cancer Society. Mark located to Missouri to become the director of clinical services of Recon, Inc. He has been with the Recon program for thirteen years. He works closely with the staff of Recon in assisting and educating the Catholic Church regarding the problems of sexual abuse and the need for permanent residency programs for post-offenders.