 With Cook's departure, McIntyre took over as executive director of HA.Counseling sessions with Cook included giving his clients nude massages, ostensibly to desensitize them to male–male contact and homosexual desires; however, this was counter-productive since counselees began having sexual encounters with each other.Cook admitted in a 1987 interview that he had "fell into the delusion" that such actions were a legitimate part of his HA counseling activities, stating