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counseling for sex addictinFront Range Counseling Center has counselors that specialize in sexual addiction counseling and provide men’s sexual addiction group therapy groups in both its Denver Southeast office and Littleton office. We enjoy writing articles about sexual addiction topics and how best to make sure you fully understand the real issues underneath the addiction. We also try to provide tools for relapse prevention, working recovery, healing for the partner, and what to expect from counseling.

We believe there is no one way to work recovery so within this blog we try to provide many different ideas and ways to work your journey of healing and freedom. We also strongly believe that a sex addict and his/her partner need marriage counseling from a therapist who understands the special circumstances and direction for your relationship to experience restoration.  Call us today at 303-933-5800 or request information through our contact form.

Attachment Theory & Relationship Anxiety Attachment theory explains that our partners represent both a safe haven and a secure base. If our partner is neither emotionally available or responsive, our external world can feel overwhelming and threatening. In helping marriages heal from past betrayal, re-establishing trust is extremely important for the relationship to survive. Inside […]

What is Sexual Addiction It is important to understand that sex addiction is a “solution” to pain, past trauma, and anxiety – addiction literally becomes a coping mechanism. If somebody starts doing something to cope, and if they do it long enough, the body adjusts to the point that it needs that level of activity […]

Often in relationships where addiction is present, the couple will play a rotating roles of “Persecutor/Perpetrator”, “Victim”, and “Rescuer”.  This is is called a “Drama Triangle.”  These are roles that both the partners learned in childhood as normal and each don’t recognize the drama that occurs and the cycle of dysfunction that never seems to […]

Sexual Addiction Recovery Support System Every person that struggles with sexual addiction and desires recovery will need to have a support community of other recovering sex addicts. Initially, my clients will often be resistant to joining either a counseling group or 12-step sex addiction recovery group.  My response is “If you are truly sick and […]

“The pursuit of purity is not about the suppression of lust, but about the reorientation of one’s life to a larger goal.” Dietrich Bonhoeffer Often in recovery from sexual addiction, the goal is to stop the out of control sexual behaviors and to maintain sexual sobriety.  I believe this is a healthy and good goal […]

Partners Non-Negotiable Boundaries The partner of sex addicts are in a difficult situation of not wanting to control the sex addict’s recovery or behaviors but wanting to feel safe in the relationship.  The betrayal by the sex addict has essentially destroyed any trust or foundation of security in the relationship.  

Porn Induced Erectile Dysfunction Often I hear the question from men “What is the big deal with watching porn?  It is legal and no one gets hurt.  Isn’t it normal for men to watch porn?” My reply is to challenge the question about it being “normal”.  I usually affirm that it is probably normal but […]

The JAMA Psychiatry article publish in May 2014 is the first brain-scan study on porn users.  According to the results of the study, Researchers found several brain changes that correlated with the amount of porn was consumed. The people that were studied were moderate porn users, not classified as addicted. In this study, experts at Germany’s Max Planck Institute […]

STEP TWELVE – “Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to Sexaholics, and to practice these principles in all our affairs.” At this point in our recovery process, we must be practicing the first two maintenance steps, Steps Ten and Eleven, to the best of […]

STEP ELEVEN “Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood him, praying only for knowledge of his will for us and the power to carry that out.” Step Ten, the first of the maintenance steps: 1. Suggests taking a daily personal inventory and when we are wrong, promptly […]

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