Counseling Sex Addicts
Addiction Therapist in Searcy, AR offers counseling for pornography addicts and we offer family therapy to help family deal with their family member’s addiction. We offer a licensed professional counselor to the person with the addiction. We have helped many sex/pornography addicts recover from an unhappy, lonely, self-destructive pattern of behavior. Many move on from their addiction with the help of our addiction therapist to rebuilding their lives, restoring their families and reaching greater heights than they ever imagined.
Recovery with help from our addiction therapist from sex addiction involves much more than abstinence from the sexually addictive behavior. It involves a long term process, a commitment to healing aimed at achieving the positive outcomes you want in your life. And family members to go to family therapy to help cope.
The very first question that must be answered is the same question Jesus asked the lame man in John 5:6. The lame man had been laying at the Pool of Bethesda for 38 years without healing, which he blamed on the lack of help from others to get him into the pool. Jesus asked him a very important question, “Do you want to get well?” Perhaps Jesus was implying that the lame man was comfortable being lame and not actually wanting a change in his life.
All seeking help with recovery from our addiction therapist must first answer the question, “Do I really want to get well?” If the answer is “yes” then many of the normal excuses go away, i.e., (1) “This takes too much time.” (2) “This costs too much money.” (3) “I don’t want anyone to know I need help.” (4) “I don’t want to go to an addiction therapist.” (5) “I see no need to attend a 12-step program.” (6) “I just can’t take off from work to participate in an intensive therapy program.”
Many of those addicted come up with these and other excuses for neglecting to get the help they need from our addiction therapist, but the fundamental question is, “Do I really want to get well?” If so, an addict will move heaven and earth to get that help.
Sex/Pornography addiction is viewed in the larger context of an intimacy disorder, usually relating back to a relational trauma of some sort during childhood. An addiction therapist says treatment involves resolving the underlying trauma issues and building up the life competencies that have been compromised. This kind of recovery doesn’t occur overnight. In most cases it took many years to develop an active addiction, and it will take a considerable amount of time working with a licensed professional counselor, to overcome the addiction. Of course, the amount of time required is different for each person depending on individual circumstances.
When necessary we are able to recommend weeklong or weekend intensives, aimed at speeding the process of recovery.