Looking for Sexual Addiction Treatment Or Pornography Addiction Treatment
Sexual addiction can destroy a relationship and drives feelings of loneliness, shame, and guilt. Forty million adults in the United States admit to viewing pornography regularly, while 10% acknowledge that they cannot stop. You might be hiding your compulsive sexual behavior from your partner, or they have just discovered it.
What is Sexual Compulsive Behavior?
At Richer Life Counseling Las Vegas, we view any compulsive behavior from substances such as alcohol, sugar, drugs, to process behavior such as gambling, pornography, shopping are all ways to numb out. When you enter into problematic behavior, your brains get a rush of feel-good chemicals, and you start to crave these feeling over and over again. With time we need to have more and more of a substance to have the same feeling.
Sexual addiction, pornography addiction, can be used to numb out. You start thinking about your sexual behavior, and you cannot stop thinking about it until you act out the behavior. Maybe you spend hours a day disconnected from your relationship looking for a sexual connection. Often pornography addiction or sexual addiction starts as a way for you to escape emotional problems in your life. It might feel like you cannot just stop your sexual behavior. That is because your brain has developed pathways of dealing with emotions through numbing out.
When using sex as a way to numb out you can lose the joy in the act, and start to feel loneliness, shame, and guilt. We help our clients stop unwanted sexual behavior and learn to develop healthy sexual behavior. Our clients can learn to connect to each other and understand what drives their unwanted sexual behavior.
Treatment Services
Pornography Addiction Therapy
Hiding porn from your partner, fighting about your use of porn, to just feelings of shame and guilt around your use of pornography. Your use of pornography could be keeping you from having the type of relationship you would like, or damaging your relationship you already have. Pornography addiction has become a silent epidemic that affects so many.
Signs and Symptoms of Pornography Addiction
- Obsessing with pornography. It feels like you can’t stop, viewing it multiple times a day, viewing it in the bathroom, in public, while driving, or at work.
- You spend more time watching pornography then you do in other enjoyable actives
- Spend less time with others
- You avoid spending time attending to personal responsibilities
- Feel shame and guilt after viewing pornography
- Spending more money than you should on pornography
- Have cravings to view more pornography, feeling trigger throughout the day
- You lost time spending hours viewing pornography or trying to sneak it in as often as you can
- Losing interest in sex
- You have injured yourself by masturbating
Start your recovery from pornography addiction today. Learn more about how porn addiction could be affecting your life. Contact us today to get started with your pornography addiction treatment.
Sexual Addiction Therapy
Sexually compulsive behavior can include pornography addiction but also includes other sexual behaviors. These behaviors can create feelings of distress, hopelessness, shame, and guilt. You might have tried to stop these sexually compulsive behaviors, yet you keep acting out sexually. Your sexual behavior is ruining your relationship, could be costing you your just and is putting you in dangerous, high-risk situations.
Signs and Symptoms of Sexual Addiction
Ways of Sexually Acting Out
- Pornography Overuse – viewing multiple times away, spending hours at a time
- Prostitution – seeing escorts, massage parlors
- Chronic Masturbation – With or without viewing pornography, with the possibility of injury
- Exhibitionism or Voyeurism
- Having multiple affairs
- Risk-taking sexual behaviors – multiple partners, unprotected sex
- Spending more money and time then you would like in the pursuit of sex
- Sending sexual images via text or sexting to another outside of your relationship
Effect of Sex Addiction
- Experiencing a decline in a personal relationship, social and family engagement
- Lower concentration and productive at work
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexually transmitted infections (STI’s)
- Anxiety
- Depression
- Substance misuse or abuse
Start your recovery from sex addiction today. Learn more about how your sexual addiction could be affecting your life. Contact us today to get started with your sexual addiction treatment.
Sexual Addiction & Pornography Addiction Couples Counseling
Affair, infidelities, looking at porn and hiding it all create a breach of trust in the relationship. No matter what compulsive sexual behavior you have or your partner has, it is hurting your relationship. The intense feeling of pain and hurt, along with shame and guilt can start to be healed with couples counseling. Couples can overcome sex addiction or porn addiction; it just takes times.
If you are ready to start to heal your relationship from the hurt and the pain that comes from a partner that has a sexual addiction & pornography addiction contact us today. Couples counseling will be a safe place to explore all the pain and hurt and learn how to heal.
Sexual Addiction Treatment & Pornography Addiction Treatment
Our clients want to change or limit their sexual numbing behavior. Both pornography addiction treatment and sexual addiction treatment include learning what your triggers are, how to develop new daily active, understanding your own emotional cycle, and learning to connect in more personally meaningful ways. Our clients discover personal meaning in their own lives and learn how to connect in meaningful ways to friends, family, and intimate partners.
What Keeps You Away From Sexual Addiction Treatment Or Pornography Addiction Treatment
The therapist is going to judge me for my porn use?
That might be true if you are seeking out a therapist who doesn’t understand or has not worked with pornography addiction. It is not the therapist job to make any judgments about what you want. My clients learn to set their own bottom lines that work or don’t work for them. If you want to stop but can’t give up porn just yet, coming into therapy can help you understand what it does for you to keep using pornography.
Will you really understand our problems?
We might have different sex, age, and life experience. It can be scary to open up to a stranger about personal problems. I am so honored to be in the profession that can help you on your journey. I do my best to connect with you emotionally.
Why stay married after betrayal?
I’ve always told myself (and everyone else in my life) that if I were in a relationship where my partner had an affair(s), I would leave. We have heard this form many hurt partners that we work with. We have even heard I left every other relationship when someone had an affair, but this one seems so hard to leave. There is never just one reason why you will want to stay and repair with your partner. It is hard work, it is painful work. But we have seen many couples who find that healing the pain of infidelity through affair therapy has provided them with a healthier happier relationship.
Can a marriage work after finding out about sexual addiction or porn addiction?
Marriage can work after finding out. Marriage is a commitment to be there for your partner. No matter the reason why the additive behavior exist both partners can learn how to make a healthier marriage. Many couples will avoid thinking or talking about sexual compulsive behavior, but the hurt will linger on and come back at some point in the relationship if you do not address it. Clients who we have worked with will not just heal the hurts of the sexual compulsive behavior but will leave therapy having a healthier relationship than ever before.
Why seek out a counselor who specializes in sexual addiction and pornography addiction?
Seeking a counselor specializing in sexual addiction and pornography addiction will lead to more profound healing. Many therapists might use their judgments about sex and sexual addiction and pornography addiction when treating it. At Richer Life Counseling we specialize in helping relationship heal from sexual addiction and pornography addiction. We do more than just giving out worksheets, and talking about the addition. Couples will learn to access what lead to the breach of trust, and how to safeguard their relationship form any future violations of trust
Start Recovery From Sexual Addiction and Pornography Addiction Today
If you or your partner is struggling with sexually compulsive behavior, Richer Life Counseling Las Vegas can help you today. Along with individual therapy and couples counseling, we have developed an intensive outpatient program offering group therapy for sexual addiction. Along with an online recovery program for sexual addiction. You can check out our recovery program at www.richerliferecovery.com