Category: sex addiction
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Treatment for Pornography ‘Addiction’ to Recover Mental Health
Treatment for pornography ‘addiction’ is increasingly in demand. Compulsive use of harmful pornography can be destructive to your mental health, your relationships, and your sexual functioning. The Internet and smartphones have exposed an entire generation to violent, abusive pornography from an early age. Realising you have a problem with using pornography might lead you to…
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How to Treat ‘Sex Addiction’: The Role of the Therapist
Is sex addiction really a legitimate mental health problem or just an excuse for sleeping around? That was the question Tom Tilley used to open the Hack Live Sex Addicts programme shown on Australia’s public tv broadcaster the ABC this week. I’m sure a lot of viewers were hoping to get a handle on their…
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Sex and Performance Anxiety: Listening to the Body to Quieten the Brain
Erectile dysfunction. Body Dysmorphia. Sex and Porn Addiction. The common factor is they all involve a man’s relationship with his body. Sensations in our bodies can tell us not only what we are experiencing but what we need to do to feel comfortable. The trouble comes when we forget to listen to them, or don’t…
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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…