Working with Sex Addictions and Intimacy Disorders

What is Sex Addiction?  A sex addiction is similar to most other addictions – it is either used to medicate or manage trauma, or it is a control issue – an issue where a part of a person is able to take control or take over for a time and make the person do some kind...

New EMDR Tool for Sex Addiction

EMDR has been widely used in the psychotherapy field for healing trauma.  I have used it for this with people with sex addictions and its been very effective at ending the addiction when the addiction has been driven by childhood trauma, especially childhood sexual...

Sex Addiction and Childhood Sexual Abuse

Some people have a sex addiction because of childhood sexual abuse. The sex addiction is usually about an out of controlness (one’s power and control was taken over during the abuse) that is in their sexuality due to the sex abuse trauma. The sexual abuse traumatized...

Sex Addiction and Intimacy Dissorders

I often talk with people in therapy about how their sexual addiction can be seen as an intimacy disorder. This is not always true, but when it is, the sexual addiction is an attempt to get intimacy needs met, but the real needs don’t get met, or some needs get...