Marriage Counselors & Sex Addiction Therapists

Kevin Leapley, MA, LPC, CSAT

We can learn to self-sooth through the use of certain sounds.  Listen to beautiful or soothing music, or to CD of the ocean or other sounds of nature can be very relaxing.  For some people, having a baseball game on the radio while they work can be very self-soothing.  For others, sitting by a waterfall can provide […]

What better gift did God provide than our vision?  A large percentage of our brain has been set aside solely for our sense of vision.  What we see can have a very powerful affect upon how we feel about ourselves, others, and our world (both positively and negatively).  So, it is an important tool for […]

The symptoms of anxiety disorder are generally characterized by consistent, extreme, and unfounded fear, worry, or dismay.  For example, a person with anxiety disorder may feel anxious about life with no specific reason.  He or she may simply have an underlying fear but not be able to share what that fear is attributed.  The person […]

Depression is a mood disorder that causes a consistent feeling of sadness and loss of interest. It affects how a person feels, thinks and behaves and can lead to a variety of emotional and physical problems. At any point in time, 3 to 5 percent of people suffer from major depression; the lifetime risk is […]

Sexual Addiction Triggers When working with men that struggle with sexual addiction, I often will discuss their triggers that precede the last acting out behaviors.  The triggers usually fall into the acronym B-L-A-S-T-E-D. The more the sex addict can understand his real need rather than the need for sex, the more he can replace unhealthy […]

Love Addiction consists of three components: Romance, Relationship and Sexual Addiction. Signs and Characteristics of Love Addiction: Lack of nurturing and attention when young Feeling isolated, detached from parents and family Compartmentalization of relationships from other areas of life Outer facade of “having it all together” to hide internal disintegration Mistake intensity for intimacy (drama […]

We have recently added a sexual addiction questionnaire to our website to assist visitors in their assessment of whether they may have sexual addiction.  This screening measure is not designed to make a diagnosis of a sexual addiction or take the place of a professional diagnosis or consultation.  We have gathered 25 different questions that […]

Core Belief #4: Sex Is My Greatest Need The 4th and final core belief  of a sex addict is “Sex is one of my greatest needs.  I’ll do anything to get it.”  Most men that I work with in my sex addiction counseling practice will often deny that this is true in their thinking until […]

The 3rd core belief of a sex addict is “I can’t trust anyone to meet my needs but me.”  This belief originates in childhood when the sex addict may have learned to meet other family member’s needs but felt rejection, abandonment, or neglect when it came to his/her own needs being met.

Distorted Core Belief #2 “If you really knew me, you’d reject me” This second belief derives from the first belief of shame: I am a bad and unworthy person.  The sex addict fears above everything else in his life being rejected and therefore, alone.  The sex addict will keep secrets, lie, hide, create a false […]

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