Are Your Sexual Behaviors Causing Problems in Your Life?

Counseling or therapy can help you with problems of a sexual addiction or compulsions around sex.

Do you find yourself:

• Having multiple sexual partners without a meaningful relationship?
• Feeling the need for sexual contact with an inappropriate partner, such as a child or a relative?
• Obsessed with pornography?
• Compulsively masturbating?
• Constantly cheating on your partner?
• Frequently or obsessively watching Internet or other pornography?

You may be struggling with sexual problems like compulsivity, which can take on many forms and is fairly common struggle.

“Sexual compulsivity” is a term used to describe patterns where sex feels powerful without being pleasant, something you repeat over and over with less and less reward or sense of control. It can be an illness, much like depression and alcoholism and can also be a way to “manage” emotional pain or trauma from the past or present, or day-to-day stressors and anxiety.

In the most basic terms, a sexual compulsion causes you to adopt harmful or self-destructive sexual habits and relationships leading to destructive social behaviors and choices that can be damaging to both you and to the people with whom you come in contact.

Sexual compulsivity can be a sign of more serious psychological issues—such as depression, early childhood trauma, sexual abuse, anxiety, or others—all of which can be helped by professional counseling. By exploring the patterns of your obsessive thoughts and or compulsive behaviors in counseling and therapy, you will:

• Understand more about the patterns that you exhibit in your thoughts and behaviors;
• Discover the underlying contributors and motivators to these behaviors;
• Find understanding and develop compassion for yourself
• Learn to control and find relief from your sexual behaviors or the triggers to sexual compulsivity so that you can live more freely in your sexual and emotional self;
• Improve the quality of your relationships—both sexual and non-sexual.

I encourage you to contact me or call my Washington, DC office (202-333-1787) if you are seeking help for sexual compulsivity or any related sexual issues.