Knowing the Root Cause of Your Addiction
Knowing the Root Cause of Your Addiction When focusing on making changes to addictive patterns of behavior, the behavior itself tends to take center stage. Whether it's compulsive sexual behavior, al ...
Rekindling Your Relationship While in Sex and Porn Addiction Recovery
Rekindling Your Relationship While in Sex and Porn Addiction Recovery Whether you're in recovery for a sex or porn addiction , or you're in a relationship with someone who is, it can be difficult t ...
The Importance of a Sexual Compulsivity Relapse Prevention Plan
The Importance of a Sexual Compulsivity Relapse Prevention Plan Stopping a behavior pattern isn't an easy thing to do. It's also not enough to just stop the behavior. Stopping the behavior pattern is ...
5 Reasons Group Therapy Can Help with Sex and Love Addictions
5 Reasons Group Therapy Can Help with Sex and Love Addictions In offering group therapy to our clients, it is often unclear to them why group therapy is recommended. Yet in working with issues surrou ...
Motivation to Change
Motivation to Change Finding motivation to make changes can be difficult. It can also be contradictory. For example, in therapy, many clients will come with the belief that they want to make changes. ...
Sexual Compulsivity and What Makes Sense to You
Sexual Compulsivity and What Makes Sense to You In this video, Michael Salas talks about personal considerations that you need to make regarding sexual compulsivity. Because opinions can differ gre ...
Gaslighting Makes the Real Unreal
Gaslighting Makes the Real Unreal Gaslighting is a term that is used for someone who is being lied to, but also convinced that their reality isn't actually real. This term is commonly associated with ...
Sex Addiction Can’t Be Diagnosed By Proxy, But it Still Can Feel Very Real
Sex Addiction Can't Be Diagnosed By Proxy, But it Still Can Feel Very Real In a CNN piece, sex therapist Ian Kerner discusses ongoing discussions on sex addiction. In his well-articulated piece, h ...
Sex Addiction Definitions and Treatment Options
Sex Addiction Definitions and Treatment Options Previously published on the Huffington Post On November 29th, the American Association of Sexuality Educators, Counselors, and Therapists (AASECT ...
The Benefit of Therapy for Partners of Sex Addicts
The Benefit of Therapy for Partners of Sex Addicts In this video, I discuss the benefits of the partners of sex addicts coming into therapy and turning their focus inward to move towards a path o ...