Licensed marriage and family therapist Jill Vermeire was on hand during the filming of Sex Rehab with Dr. Drew, bringing her clinical expertise to the world of reality TV. She’s agreed to lend us her perspective on the show’s shoot, as well as the rehabilitation of the cast. Below, Jill talks about the show’s season finale and the cast of patients’ progress since taping the show.

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Licensed marriage and family therapist Jill Vermeire was on hand during the filming of Sex Rehab with Dr. Drew, bringing her clinical expertise to the world of reality TV. She’s agreed to lend us her perspective on the show’s shoot, as well as the rehabilitation of the cast. Below, Jill talks about the show’s seventh episode: Kari Ann’s dismissal, the pitfalls of porn, Kendra’s fears and the Selma incident (revisited).

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Licensed marriage and family therapist Jill Vermeire was on hand during the filming of Sex Rehab with Dr. Drew, bringing her clinical expertise to the world of reality TV. She’s agreed to lend us her perspective on the show’s shoot, as well as the rehabilitation of the cast. Below, Jill talks about the show’s sixth episode: the confrontation between Kari Ann and Selma the tech, the resulting dismissal of Selma, the visit from Phil’s father and Kendra’s relapse.

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The drama keeps on rolling on Sunday’s episode of Sex Rehab with Dr. Drew (premiering at 10/9c). The group is already frazzled over James’ “rape” comment to Jennie when more disaster strikes, and this time it’s related to Kari Ann. Preview above.

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Sex Rehab with Dr. Drew has been making the media rounds, as everyone from Conan O’Brien to Oprah Winfrey have attempted to wrap their audiences’ heads around the concept of sex addiction. One cast member/patient absent from the coverage, though, has been openly gay producer/director Ducan Roy, and he says this is no coincidence on his blog. In a post titled “F*** you Oprah,” Duncan writes: “How do I feel about being excluded from Oprah’s Sex Rehab special? You may well ask dear blog readers. I feel PISSED OFF! The producer are [sic] blatantly, rampantly homophobic. The producer’s excuse? They didn’t want to confuse the issue of sex addiction with a gay story. F*** YOU OPRAH!”

Duncan shades in his anger a bit: “Mostly, though, I am seething about the media’s approach to anything gay. Our stories are never integrated hence we are never integrated.” He also says some stuff about the gay and black communities that’s at least beside the point and also potentially problematic. You should read it all, if only to pick his brain.

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Licensed marriage and family therapist Jill Vermeire was on hand during the filming of Sex Rehab with Dr. Drew, bringing her clinical expertise to the world of reality TV. She’s agreed to lend us her perspective on the show’s shoot, as well as the rehabilitation of the cast. Below, Jill talks about the show’s fifth episode: Kari Ann’s new-found interest in sharing, Duncan’s thing for straight guys and James’ rape comment to Jennie.

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Licensed marriage and family therapist Jill Vermeire was on hand during the filming of Sex Rehab with Dr. Drew, bringing her clinical expertise to the world of reality TV. She’s agreed to lend us her perspective on the show’s shoot, as well as the rehabilitation of the cast. Below, Jill talks about the show’s fourth episode: withdrawal, the amount of time the patients are asked to refrain from masturbation, Kari Ann’s “disrespectful” (according to Phil) wardrobe, and art therapy.

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Licensed marriage and family therapist Jill Vermeire was on hand during the filming of Sex Rehab with Dr. Drew, bringing her clinical expertise to the world of reality TV. She’s agreed to lend us her perspective on the show’s shoot, as well as the rehabilitation of the cast. Below, Jill talks about the show’s third episode: the rivalry between Kari Ann and Kendra, the concept of enmeshment and the philosophy behind having the female patients remove their makeup in group.

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Dr. Drew appeared on Wednesday’s episode of The Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien to discuss (what else?) VH1’s Sex Rehab with Dr. Drew. It was a cool appearance (watch a clip above), since it sort of lightened the show’s heavy, heavy subject matter. It also may be helpful to people to hear Drew’s answers to some of the FAQs on the show and sex addiction in general. We covered almost all of this (multiple times, actually), and yet people still wonder how a co-ed sex rehab facility could possibly work, for example. Trust the good doctor, people.

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Licensed marriage and family therapist Jill Vermeire was on hand during the filming of Sex Rehab with Dr. Drew, bringing her clinical expertise to the world of reality TV. She’s agreed to lend us her perspective on the show’s shoot, as well as the rehabilitation of the cast. Below, Jill talks about the show’s second episode: dealing with Kari Ann’s attitude, her own disagreements with Dr. Drew and drawing the line between a good person who’s done some bad things and an actual bad person.

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On dealing with Kari Ann’s disagreeable behavior in Sex Rehab, Dr. Drew told us: “We have to be delicate, gentle, and give them room to get with it. In substance treatment it’s, ‘Hey, you either want to get with it, or you don’t. If you don’t, get out of here.’ In sex addiction, you try to give them a little more space and that’s why we were sort of trying to cooperate with her.” Hence, allowing her to dictate: “The easiest way to wake me up is with a cup of juice.” Tune in to Sunday’s show (premiering at 10/9c) to see if Kari Ann gets her juice.

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