Specialized clinicians.
Serious care.

Ian Brown’s path to Iron Ridge spans two decades and three careers. He served in the U.S. military from 2006 to 2012, then spent the next eight years in technology sales and sales leadership — culminating in a VP of Sales role — building and scaling high-performance commercial teams. In 2020, he moved into behavioral health, holding senior roles including VP of Business Development and CEO across treatment organizations, where he applied operational rigor and growth strategy to programs treating addiction, trauma, and mental health.

He founded Iron Ridge to address a gap he watched widen for years: high-functioning men with compulsive sexual behavior, families standing in the wreckage of betrayal, and almost nowhere serious for either of them to go. Iron Ridge is his answer — a private, structured, clinically-led program built for men ready to do the work and the partners who deserve their own care.

Ian Birdwell is a Licensed Professional Counselor and Certified Sex Addiction Therapist (CSAT) who has built his career around the men and families most clinicians aren’t trained to treat. As Clinical Director, he sets the therapeutic standard at Iron Ridge — designing the IOP curriculum, supervising clinical staff, and carrying a focused individual caseload.

His approach is direct, structured, and trauma-informed. He treats compulsive sexual behavior not as a moral failure but as a clinical problem with a clinical solution — one that requires honesty, accountability, and the right container for change. Clients describe his style as steady, unflinching, and quietly hopeful.

Ian holds the CSAT credential through the International Institute for Trauma and Addiction Professionals (IITAP) and is licensed to practice in Texas (LPC #65478). He is also verified on Psychology Today and maintains a private practice at ianbirdwell.com.

Roxcy Brown is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist Associate and an APSAT-Candidate (Associate Partner Specialist in Addiction and Trauma), trained in the Multidimensional Partner Trauma Model — the gold standard for working with partners of sexually compulsive clients. She leads Iron Ridge’s Partner & Family programming, building a track of care that has historically been an afterthought in this field.

Her conviction is simple: when one person enters treatment, an entire system is in crisis. Partners deserve clinical attention — not a list of support-group meetings. Roxcy leads Iron Ridge’s Partner & Family Program with a weekly individual session and a weekly group, coordinated directly with the man’s IOP clinical team, and grounded in current trauma research.

She holds her APSAT credential through The Association of Partners of Sex Addicts Trauma Specialists (APSATS) and is licensed to practice in Texas (LMFT-A #204940).