Category Archives: Addiction

Treatment for Pornography: From Disease Model to a Response by Men

Posted on July 22, 2014 by Forward Therapy

Treatment for Pornography Addiction often focusses on the act of watching pornography and assistance to try to reduce the ‘behaviour’. But if such an approach doesn’t work, what are the alternatives and why don’t we hear more about them? I’ve … Continue reading →

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Healthy Sexuality and Sexual Addiction: Two Ideas Worth Exploring

Posted on January 18, 2014 by Forward Therapy

I was recently contacted by a student who was writing a paper about ‘sexual addiction’ for a college course on sexuality. As a counsellor and therapist in private practice, I’m not usually in a position to offer so much assistance … Continue reading →

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Can I see a Medicare Provider for Porn Addiction? Do You Accept Health Insurance?

Posted on December 17, 2013 by Forward Therapy

As a counsellor and therapist specialising in pornography use problems, these are questions I am asked often. Both men and women contact me seeking help, either for themselves or their partners, around use of pornography and dating websites. Sometimes they … Continue reading →

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Is this Sex Addiction? Questioning ‘Sex Addiction’ in Therapy and Counselling Conversations

Posted on July 13, 2013 by Forward Therapy

This paper examines the concept of ‘sex addiction’, and its increasing popularity since the emergence of AIDS in gay communities in the 1980s. Adopting narrative therapy’s ethical orientations of decentred yet influential positioning, and being in a ‘lifelong apprenticeship’, the … Continue reading →

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Help Me, I’m Wasting Time Looking at Pornography!

Posted on December 6, 2012 by Forward Therapy

Wasting time is one reason people contact me for help to stop or cut back on looking at sexually explicit images and videos. There are other reasons too. And there are reasons people start to use pornography in the first … Continue reading →

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