Sex Addiction Therapy & Counseling
Do you want to find relief, gain control and improve your relationship with intimacy?
Physical intimacy can be an invigorating part of being alive. Certain sexual patterns disrupt intimacy and distort your relationships. This can put you in a cycle that hurts you and others.
I recognize that your intimacy and sexual concerns may not necessarily constitute addiction but that you can still benefit greatly from working on them. As I refer to sex addiction, please know that I have an appreciation that you are somewhere on a continuum with the extent of your current problem.
Sex addiction comprises an array of behaviors that are stimulating, have a powerful pull to engage in, and can lead to emotional, relational, legal, financial, health, and other problems. It can be a means of coping with or bypassing intolerable feelings you may not have been given the tools to deal with. This is not your fault and you no longer need to be stuck in patterns that leave you feeling down, guilty, confused, or shameful. In working with me, you will get the tools and clarity to decide what changes you want to make. In this work, I often find there is a well of feelings that have been obscured—and can be tapped into to facilitate healing.
I will help you create a more fulfilling relationship with yourself and your sexuality. By exploring your patterns in a confidential non-judgmental space, you’ll gain a new awareness about yourself—your strengths and abilities to change, as well as your blindspots and opportunities for improvement.
This is always a unique, individualized process that can facilitate profound changes in your life. I can help you develop practical boundaries and strategies to navigate life and define healthy sexuality for you.
You deserve a fulfilling life where sex can be a dynamic and satisfying component.
Signs of intimacy issues and sex addiction:
Preoccupation with thoughts of, and using sex, affairs, pornography, phone sex, hook-up apps, prostitution, cruising, masturbation, cybersex, chatting, strip clubs, fetishes, exhibitionism, voyeurism, and related acts compulsively
Conflict, shame, guilt or other distressing feelings regarding your sexual behavior
Hiding your sexual behavior and feeling like you are leading a double life
Using sex and other stimulating behaviors in response to feeling down, anxious, lonely, angry, stressed, or accomplished, successful, happy, etc.
Having made attempts to limit or stop your sexual behavior but been unsuccessful
Intimacy issues in your relationships such as cheating, affairs, lack of interest in sex with your partner(s) due to your sexual acting out or being caught acting out.
Increased dissatisfaction with your partner’s attractiveness or decreased ability to be aroused by sex outside of your set of addictive sexual acts
Wondering if your sexual patterns may be part of your difficulty in finding a partner and maintaining a relationship
Feeling isolated in your sexual acting out
An escalation of the intensity,frequency,risks and type of sexual fantasies and/or behaviors that you are drawn to.
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Are you ready to experience more fulfillment with sex and intimacy?
In your sessions, you’ll discover new ways to:
Process hard feelings without turning to sex as a coping strategy
Develop healthy boundaries that help you live more intentionally
Free yourself from the shame, guilt, or conflict you’ve been internalizing
Learn to be present and available for a loving relationship.
