Sex and Love Addiction
Houston Addiction Therapy address sex addiction, love addiction, and co-sex addiction by offering individual counseling, couples counseling, group counseling, and intensive workshops. We believe that recovery is possible and that a person suffering from sexual compulsivity or love addiction can learn to heal and have healthy boundaries.
In addressing the compulsivity of sexual addiction we look at issues such as: cybersex addiction, exhibitionism, voyeurism, and compulsive masturbation. Renee Lederman, our clinical director is a certified sex addiction therapist, and has experience dealing with sex addicts and co-sex addicts (COSA). Many times a sex addict will act out by having an affair, using prostitutes, or developing online relationships involving sexual content. We believe sex addiction is not about sex at all. It is an intimacy disorder, where a person uses sexual activity in a search for connection, attention, or love. Many times sex addiction is a way to medicate painful memories and experiences.
Like sex addiction, love addiction is a way to cover emotions. Love addiction usually involves a relationship that starts off very intense, and ends quickly. Love addiction is one of the more difficult addictions to identify and recover from. Many times, a love addict will vacillate from extreme romantic delusions that can lead to behavior such as stalking, or can coincide with self loathing, suicidal ideation, and even self mutilation, due to the extreme pain experienced from typical emotions during love relationships.
The partner of the sex addict, referred to as the co-sex addict (COSA) will also need to participate in therapy. Many times, a co-sex addict (COSA) will feel crazy and wonder if they are the problem. Recognizing or confronting a sex addict is very hard. Many times, a co-sex addict (COSA) feels frustrated because the sex addict denies the problem. Feelings of depression, insecurity, suspicion, anxiety, and confusion, just to name a few, are what a co-sex addict (COSA) will feel.
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