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Sex and Porn Addiction - What treatment looks like...'It is simple work but there are some challenges'.
Sex and Porn Addiction - What treatment looks like...'It is simple work but there are some challenges'. In a conversation with The Messed Up Counsellor, Steve Sharpe of Esteem Therapy Yorkshire explains in easy to understand terms what the treatment for sex and porn addiction looks like. Here is the link to this short video. https://youtu.be/9kyFTQwSvoo
Sex and Porn Addiction - The Power and Danger of Denial
In this recording - see link below - you can hear Steve from Esteem Therapy Yorkshire talking about denial and its catastrophic impact on sex and porn addicts. He is talking to Ian Wallace also known as The Messed-Up Counsellor https://linktr.ee/themessedupcounsellor We will be sharing some more extracts from this full length 45 minute interview between Steve and Ian over the next few weeks including those on the topics of the impact on partners of sex addiction, the link with sexual offending and what treatrment looks like. https://youtu.be/9BhH-_e_p9k
Esteem Therapy Conversation About Sex Addiction
Steve, the Principal Therapist at Esteem Therapy Yorks, was recently invited by The Messed Up Counsellor to participate in a podcast discussing sex and porn addiction. Here is the link to the video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHFvZiKHsv4&t=14s Steve and Ian talk about the nature of sex addiction, how it comes about, the impact on partners, recovery work and looking at CSAM.
VICIOUS TO VIRTUOUS (V2V) FREE ONLINE RECOVERY PROGRAMME FROM SEX AND PORN ADDICTION - Module 6 Common Triggers for Sex Addiction and Porn Addiction - Part A -2 Events - Life Transitions
VICIOUS TO VIRTUOUS (V2V) FREE ONLINE RECOVERY PROGRAMME FROM SEX AND PORN ADDICTION - Module 6 Common Triggers for Sex Addiction and Porn Addiction - Part A - Events - Life Transitions What is this section about? - how unplanned, unpleasant or poorly managed transitions can result in trauma-based negative experiences which are the causal factors for addiction - in assessment, addicts often dismiss the question about trauma experiences (usually as an unconscious avoidance or denial mechanism to dissociate from painful memories) so this meta view of transitions i.. Read More
Sex and porn addiction is a symptom of past trauma.
This post talks about the role of trauma as a commonly occuring causal factor of addiction in my work with clients. usually a shock to clients, this idea is also reassuring as addicts come to understand that their out of control behaviours are a product of somehting that happened to them and not something wrong with them. My clients have been able to make a link between a traumatic event such as parental divorce when they were a child and their addictive behaviours as a result of therapy. What links the event and the adult behaviours is the well-documented process whereby .. Read More
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