Recovery For Partners of Sex Addicts
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Do partner’s of sex addicts need help too? Responses to discovering one’s partner is a sex addict and has been acting out can include anything from violent anger to extreme despair. The moment when a partner becomes aware of the addicts’ behavior is nothing short of traumatic. Yet because of the shameful nature of sex addiction, finding support often does not seem a realistic or necessary possibility for the partner. As a result, many times they experience this crisis in isolation. Read more at Alex’s blog on PsychologyToday.com
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Sex Addiction Is Not So Funny
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From Tiger Woods to Anthony Wiener, most bold-faced names who get caught with their pants down blame their actions on sex addiction, while the public largely scoffs at the label. Alexandra Katehakis in The Fix argues that it’s no laughing matter. To read more click here
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Sex and Love Addicts: How to Find the Right 12-Step Group for You
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Every fellowship has its own personality and culture. 12-step fellowships for sex addiction encompass a broad spectrum, and in Alex’s most recent blog she outlines the profiles of the distinct fellowships that address a person’s sexual behavior. Read More at Alexandra Katehakis’ blog on PsychologyToday.com
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Sex and Love Addiction: What’s The Difference?
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Sex and love addiction are both intimacy disorders but the difference can get confusing. While the motivation and end result of despair are the same for both love and sex addicts, their acting-out blueprints are different. Read More at Alexandra Katehakis’ Blog on PsychologyToday.com
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Listen to Alexandra Katehakis on KABC Radio
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Alexandra Katehakis was recently interviewed about Rep. Anthony Weiner’s recent behavior on KABC’s Morning Show with Peter Tilden and Teresa Strasser. To listen click here
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Watch Alexandra Katehakis on ABC 7 News
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Many people question if sex addiction is a real illness or used by people to get out of trouble. In an interview with Alexandra Katehakis on ABC 7 News, she discusses the difference between sex addiction and cheating.
Click here to watch
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Arousal Templates in Sex Addiction: What Happens When Our Love Map Goes South?
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I see a male client-let’s call him “James”–who is shy, polite, and has a dark secret: he can only achieve sexual gratification by masturbating in public. Since his early teens he has sought sex in covert, furtive ways that typically violate the rights of others: exposing himself in his car while cruising, or eventually masturbating in plain view in crowded buildings. Read More at Alexandra Katehakis’ Blog on PsychologyToday.com
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The Cycle of Addiction
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Sexual acting out in an addictive way typically starts with a need for control. When a person has a set of strong feelings he or she usually has a need for something, and those struggling with sexual compulsivity typically have a long history of unmet needs and suffering. Read More at Alexandra Katehakis’ Blog on PsychologyToday.com
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Sexual Compulsivity: 6 Signs and Consequences
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I have a client I will call Daniel, a religious man and married father of two, who regularly hires prostitutes, has sex with hitchhikers, and downloads porn in his home office while his wife and children are asleep down the hall. And yet Daniel is not convinced that his sexual behaviors are out of control. Read More at Alexandra Katehakis’ Blog on PsychologyToday.com
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Sexual Addiction or Destructive Sexual Behaviors: What’s the Difference?
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Joe’s a 45-year-old father of three, who agreed to marry after he and his wife struggled with their on-again-off-again relationship for five years prior to marrying. Like most red-blooded American males, Joe began using pornography to masturbate when he was a teenager. He started out looking at print pornography, masturbating to images of fairly wholesome young women. Read More at Alexandra Katehakis’ Blog on PsychologyToday.com
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5 Tips to Survive Your Partner’s Sexually Compulsive Behavior
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You thought you had the perfect Kodak-moment life: a handsome husband, a couple of apple-cheeked kids, a plump nest egg hatching in a 401 k. You were the envy of your friends, whom you entertained often in your impeccably restored bungalow on a lovely tree-lined street. Read More at Alex’s Blog on PsychologyToday.com
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Are You A Sex Addict?
By Liz Welch
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Men aren’t the only ones who can’t control their sex compulsion. An investigation of female addicts by Liz Welch an award-winning journalist whose work has appeared in The New York Times, Life, and Inc. Magazine.
To Read Click Here.
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Understanding Female Sex Addiction
By Alexandra Katehakis, MFT, CSAT and Caroline Frost, MA
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With all the skepticism about whether sex addiction really exists, it seems people are even more reluctant to accept that women could be capable of being addicted to sex. After all, aren’t women biologically wired to be choosy about their partners? Don’t women suffer, instead, from too little interest in sex? If anything, aren’t women perceived as being too frigid and fickle about getting it on? Nonsense.
To Continue Reading Click Here.
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Erotic Intelligence for Recovering Sex Addicts
By Alexandra Katehakis, MFT, CSAT
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Alexandra Katehakis discusses how to recover from sex addiction and build a healthy relationship in her recent article, “Erotic Intelligence for Recovering Sex Addicts” published in Counselor Magazine‘s July/August 2010 issue. Click here to read more.
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Understanding Sexual Anorexia
By Caroline Frost, MA, MFTI & Alexandra Katehakis, MFT, CSAT
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Published on GoodTherapy.org, “Understanding Sexual Anorexia” draws attention to Sexual Anorexia. Also known as sexual “acting in,” sexual anorexia is characterized by a severe aversion to sexual contact and the obsessive avoidance of sex. Click here to read more.
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New Book by Alexandra Katehakis!
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Erotic Intelligence Igniting Hot, Healthy Sex While in Recovery from Sex Addiction by Alexandra Katehakis on HCI Books available now at Amazon.com
“Erotic Intelligence celebrates recovery from sex addiction to healthy sexuality. It’s a breath of fresh air.”
–John Bradshaw, author of Reclaiming Virtue: How We Can Develop the Moral Intelligence to Do the Right Thing at the Right Time for the Right Reason
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Recovering sex addicts, their partners, and therapists frequently say they need a practical guide to recovery dating. They want to discover intimate couple-ship, and experience lustful sex and a joyful life. And they want to build a spiritual, supportive relationship. Alexandra Katehakis wrote Erotic Intelligence: Igniting Hot, Healthy Sex While in Recovery From Sex Addiction toprovide specific steps for sexually sober sex addicts and their partners.
If you are in a committed relationship, this book explains how to reengage with your partner, get past the addiction awkwardness, and attain a sexual connection like you’ve never had before. You’ll read first-person accounts of men and women in sexual recovery sharing how their lives were damaged by addiction and then revitalized by these clinically proven practices. Married or single, straight or gay, you’ll benefit from innovative thinking about what constitutes healthy sex after recovery from sexual addiction.
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Addicted to Sex
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Case Study Published in Psychotherapy Networker Magazine March/April 2010
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Effective work with sex addicts must address deep-seated attachment wounds. With Commentary by Joe Kort.
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Supervision of the Treatment of Sexual Addiction: Attending to Counter-Transference Issues
by Alexandra Katehakis, MFT, CSAT-S, CST
Published in Family Therapy Magazine Jan/Feb 2010
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A discussion about the importance of transference and countertransference issues that might arise between supervisee and client, and even between supervisee and supervisor, in the context of sex addiction treatment.
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