Author: Forward Therapy
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Treatment for Pornography: From Disease Model to a Response by Men
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 alternative models of addiction? And why don’t we hear more about them? I’ve been working with concerns about addiction to pornography for a number of…
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Healthy Sexuality and Sexual Addiction: Two Ideas Worth Exploring
I was recently contacted by a student who was writing a paper about ‘sexual addiction’. As a counsellor and therapist in private practice, I’m not usually in a position to offer so much assistance to students. But in this case the theme of his particular course – Healthy Sexuality – made me curious. Sexual Addiction…
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Inspiration in Treatment: The Rewards of Working as a Therapist in 2013
How was 2013 for you? What does 2014 have in store? Do you have any New Years Resolutions? When out socially, I’m regularly told that my work must be demanding, difficult and depressing. It must take its toll on you, people say. I don’t want to pretend that being a therapist isn’t challenging and personally…
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Can I see a Medicare Provider for Porn Addiction? Do You Accept Health Insurance?
Meeting with a Medicare provider for porn addiction can be a source of support and treatment. Both men and women contact me seeking help, either for themselves or their partners. Sometimes it is around use of pornography and sometimes for dating websites. Sometimes they seeking mental health treatment for pornography addiction . They are looking…
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Is this Sex Addiction? Questioning ‘Sex Addiction’ in Therapy and Counselling Conversations
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 author worked with a number of men to renegotiate their relationship with ‘sex addiction’ in…
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Therapy and Treatment for Gay Mens Depression
Is Depression more common amongst gay men? I often see this question or similar in counselling forums on Facebook and elsewhere on the net. And as a mental health counsellor who has worked with gay men for much of my career, it’s tempting to jump in with an answer. But what concerns me is what…