A Starter Conversation for Problems with Alcohol
Alcohol means different things to different people, but everyone has a relationship to it be it associated with enjoyment, avoidance, overindulgence, moderation or struggle. Reflecting on the kind of...
View ArticleGay Men and ‘Sex Addiction’
Tweetby Niclas Ericsson. Have you ever wondered if you are addicted to sex? Or have you had anxiety because you could not seem to stop surfing porn despite trying? In this case you are not alone. It is...
View ArticlePornography ‘Addiction’ Therapy: Help to Research Your Own Expert Knowledge
TweetHelp for pornography addiction is a therapy topic I am regularly consulted about. I’ve been working with ideas and strategies associated with ‘porn addiction’ for a number of years. I’ve had...
View ArticleHelp Me, I’m Wasting Time Looking at Pornography!
TweetWasting time is one reason people contact me for help to stop or cut back on looking at sexually explicit images and videos. There are other reasons too. And there are reasons people start to use...
View ArticleIs this Sex Addiction? Questioning ‘Sex Addiction’ in Therapy and Counselling...
TweetThis paper examines the concept of ‘sex addiction’, and its increasing popularity since the emergence of AIDS in gay communities in the 1980s. Adopting narrative therapy’s ethical orientations of...
View ArticleCan I see a Medicare Provider for Porn Addiction? Do You Accept Health...
TweetAs a counsellor and therapist specialising in pornography use problems, these are questions I am asked often. Both men and women contact me seeking help, either for themselves or their partners,...
View ArticleHealthy Sexuality and Sexual Addiction: Two Ideas Worth Exploring
TweetI was recently contacted by a student who was writing a paper about ‘sexual addiction’ for a college course on sexuality. As a counsellor and therapist in private practice, I’m not usually in a...
View ArticleTreatment for Pornography: From Disease Model to a Response by Men
Treatment for Pornography Addiction often focusses on the act of watching pornography and assistance to try to reduce the ‘behaviour’. But if such an approach doesn’t work, what are the alternatives...
View ArticleHow to Treat ‘Sex Addiction’: The Role of the Therapist
TweetIs sex addiction really a legitimate mental health problem or just an excuse for sleeping around? That was the question Tom Tilley used to open the Hack Live Sex Addicts programme shown on...
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