Compulsive Sexual Behavior
Compulsive sexual behavior can significantly impact your life. It can severely strain your relationships, inhibit your professional career, cost you substantial amounts of money, and ultimately leave you feeling like you have no control over yourself.
Therapy can lead to forward movement
Therapy can help you understand how things got so bad and help you find tools that will help you reclaim your life. Intentional and consistent work can help you achieve sexual health and feel empowered to repair your relationships. I don't believe understanding compulsive sexual behavior is simply about learning how to stop a behavior. It's about understanding what the behavior has been doing for you, what keeps the cycle going, and developing healthier ways of responding to the underlying needs and emotions.
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Viewing pornography can be powerful, so powerful that you can find your self consumed by it. Many clients struggle with watching it throughout the day and find themselves preoccupied with finding ways to watch it when they are unable to.
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Sex can consume your time and mind. Many clients struggle with unhealthy patterns connected to interpersonal sexual activity, even when they are confronted with serious negative consequences such financial strain, relationship distress, disease, and legal ramifications.
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Masturbation itself isn't inherently problematic. For some people, however, it can become repetitive, difficult to control, or connected to a larger cycle of avoidance, emotional regulation, pornography use, or sexual preoccupation
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Compulsive sexual behavior is often hidden from partners and can remove all trust in relationships when it is discovered. Therapy can help you navigate betrayal, while also helping you make changes to your own sexual behaviors.
The Process
Assessment
The first step is to establish a relationship and review all the important details relevant to the behavior
Plan
Next, it is important to have a structure to follow. A recovery process will be identified, processed, and agreed to in order to help guide your work and engender commitment to the process.
Stabilization
The initial work will help you to stabilize your behavior and corresponding consequences in order to restore your quality of life.
Grow
When the behaviors are in check, the work shifts to deeper levels of understanding in order to help each client know how to remain healthy with sex and how to prevent relapse
Get help without Judgement
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