What is Recovery?
You are not in recovery when you make a conscious decision to make no effort to discontinue your acting-out behavior.
The definition of sexual addiction is "an unhealthy and/or a harmful relationship with sex."
What does this mean? It means that you are unable to stop acting-out in sexual ways that are harmful to your personal, professional or social life; or you are unable to stop acting-out in sexual ways that are putting your health at-risk. Examples of this may include: inability to stop viewing pornography, having affairs, compulsively masturbating, or having unprotected anonymous sex.
When someone has a sexual addiction, they are in a relationship with their acting-out behavior. In order to end the addiction that relationship must end. I am an internationally Certified Sexual Addictions Therapist (CSAT) through the International Institute for Trauma and Addiction Professionals (IITAP) and a member of the Society for the Advancement of Sexual Health (SASH).
I have several years of successful experience working with men, women and adolescents who struggle with sexual addictions. Using a task-centered treatment approach, I will devise a personal treatment plan. If this plan is followed, the harmful relationship with the sexual acting-out can be severed, restoring health and wholeness.
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