ABOUT IRON RIDGE
Why we built this.
Iron Ridge Recovery is a clinically led IOP for compulsive sexual behavior, founded in Austin, Texas by three co-founders on the clinical and business sides.
Our story
Iron Ridge is Texas’s first and only intensive outpatient program built exclusively for the CSBD-presenting population — in-person in Austin and by secure telehealth across Texas. This disease affects people across the entire state, and the men we treat consistently report the same barrier before finding us: they could not get vulnerable in mixed-diagnosis groups where their relational damage, their partner’s betrayal, and their CSBD-specific shame sat next to unrelated presentations. Building this program for that population, in that state, was the point from day one.
Iron Ridge Recovery started with a simple observation: the men who needed the most structured clinical care for compulsive sexual behavior were the least likely to walk into a room full of strangers to get it. High-functioning professionals — executives, physicians, attorneys, founders — do not typically self-refer to a peer support meeting. They wait, often for years, while the pattern gets more expensive to carry.
We built Iron Ridge as an intensive outpatient program specifically for that man: clinically led, discreet, and structured enough to interrupt a pattern that has organized itself around concealment. The clinical model is built on the ICD-11 classification of Compulsive Sexual Behavior Disorder (6C72) and delivered by a Certified Sex Addiction Therapist, not a general practice.
We also built a parallel track for partners. Betrayal trauma is its own clinical injury, and it deserves its own clinicians — not a seat in the addict's program. Iron Ridge treats both sides of the household, on separate tracks, from day one.
Three of us founded Iron Ridge together: two licensed clinicians and one operator. What follows is who we are, how we think about this work, and why the model is built the way it is.
The founders
Ian Brown
Founder & CEO
Built the organization and runs it — strategy, operations, and the partnerships behind the clinical work.
Ian Birdwell, LPC, CSAT
Co-founder & Clinical Director
Sets the clinical standard for the men's IOP and carries a focused individual caseload.
Roxcy Brown, LMFT-Associate, CCPS-C
Supervised by Alycia DeGraff, PhD, LMFT-S (TX #202842)
Co-founder & Director of Family Programming
Directs clinical care for partners carrying betrayal trauma.
Clinical model
Iron Ridge's clinical arc runs eight weeks, 9–12 clinical hours per week — 72–96 total clinical hours — across three phases.
Stabilization
Weeks 1–3
Trauma Processing
Weeks 4–6
Relapse Prevention
Weeks 7–8
Why Iron Ridge
Built for the man who won't sit in a group of strangers.
Iron Ridge is a small, structured program for high-functioning men — not an open community meeting. Group size, format, and pacing are built around men who have never told anyone what they are carrying.
Clinically led, not peer-led.
Every process group and every individual session is led by a licensed clinician. Peer support has a place in long-term recovery, but the clinical work of an 8-week IOP is led by clinicians, not by other clients.
Confidential by design, not by promise.
Iron Ridge is private pay and out-of-network. We do not report to your insurance on your behalf. Confidentiality is built into the financial model, not just stated as a value.
Structured enough to interrupt a pattern that has organized itself around concealment.
A pattern that has survived years of private effort to stop rarely responds to more private effort. The structure of an intensive outpatient program — set hours, set clinicians, set accountability — is what interrupts it.
Location
4030 W. Braker Ln, Suite 410, Austin, TX 78759
When you're ready, we're here.
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