A Professional Take On Cybersex and Porn Addiction
I have spent the past 15 years of my professional life treating sexual addiction. Back when I started this work, those of us working with sex addicts were more often challenged in the media and in...
View ArticleWhat Happens During Sex Rehab?
Earlier this month the media revealed that Tiger Woods had entered sex rehab seeking sexual addiction recovery at the Pine Grove Behavioral Health and Addiction Services in Hattiesburg, Miss. Upon this...
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Can Women Be Sex Addicts?
Sexual addiction appears to be a strictly male problem, at least that is all we seem to hear. Men cheating on their wives, men seeing prostitutes, men going to strip clubs, massage parlors and men...
View ArticleHealing the shame-based self in sexual recovery
The saying, “there is nothing worse than a reformed smoker” is even more accurate when applied to recovering sexual addicts. While it is true that early recovery requires a clear and well-defined...
View ArticleSex Addiction: A Basic Introduction (Part One)
Once considered fodder for daytime talk shows and grocery-line literature, today sexual addiction is increasingly acknowledged by the psychotherapeutic mainstream and the general public as a legitimate...
View ArticleSex Addiction: What It's Like to Be a Sex Addict (Part Two)
Sex addicts describe experiencing overwhelming emotional intensity even when simply fantasizing about their sexual activity of interest and describe this emotional state as like “being in the bubble”...
View ArticleSex Addiction: Client Concerns About Treatment (Part Three)
In a recent survey of patients who had been treated for their sexual behavior problems, many of the respondents were pleased with the professional help they obtained for their sexual addiction...
View ArticleSex Addiction, Smartphones, and Social Networking: Understanding the Problem
As Tiger Woods demonstrated by cell-phone texting his mistress while fighting with his wife about infidelity at the same time, it is impossible to help people understand and heal from sex addition...
View ArticleSex addiction, an ever present issue today
I was recently featured on Breakthrough.com’s blog where I discussed the increase in sex addiction treatment over the past year. In fact the Sexual Recovery Institute has had a 50% increase in clients...
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