As certified NJ sex addiction counselors at Leadem Counseling & Consulting Services (LCCS), we offer help with sex addiction because we believe that the advent of cyber sexual opportunities on the internet has catapulted Sexual and Love Addictions into the role of the fastest growing threat to an individual’s physical, emotional, and spiritual well-being. It matters little whether you are the addicted person or someone who cares about one. Accepting the need for Sexual Addiction Counseling may be the greatest contribution you make to your personal recovery and may increase the likelihood of having your romance survive the betrayal it has endured.
The devastating cost to the quality of human life has moved this addiction into public attention through the exposition of public figures, but the problem is not one that exclusively targets the wealthy or the famous. The costs associated with the disorder can be found in struggling marriages, financial mismanagement, chaotic families, chronic alcoholism and drug abuse relapse, and criminal consequences, to name but a few.
Help with sex addiction is available and hope is within reach if the addict or his/her family is willing to expose the secrets.
The disorder, although not identified as such in the diagnostic manuals, is recognized by knowledgeable addictions treatment professionals as one of the primary obstacles to the maintenance of sustained sobriety in the recovery from Alcoholism and other forms of substance dependency.
Sex Addiction Defined
Sexual addiction is a pathological relationship with a mood-altering experience which becomes central to the addicted person’s life. The four-step cycle the sexual addict progresses through intensifies with each repetition:
- Preoccupation with sex — the trance or mood wherein the addicts’ minds are completely engrossed in thoughts of sex
- Sexual Ritualization — the addicts’ own special routines that lead up to the sexual behavior
- Compulsive sexual behavior — the actual sexual act, which is the end goal of the preoccupation and ritualization
- Despair — the feeling of utter hopelessness addicts have about their behavior and their powerlessness
Areas of Focus
Leadem Counseling & Consulting Services offers private and confidential counseling services to individuals and families whose lives have been touched by Sexual Addiction or Sexual Anorexia.
- Sexual Sobriety
- Trauma Recovery
- Relapse Prevention
- How to Regain Trust
- Exploring Spirituality
- Detachment With Love
- Establishing Abstinence
- Practicing The Principles Of 12 Step Recovery In All Our Affairs
- Developing and Maintaining Intimate Friendships And Romantic Relationships
- Helping A Loved One Get Help For Their Problem
- Improving Troubled Relationships With Our Children
- Improving Communication
- Working With At-Risk Teens
- Rising Above Co-Dependence
- Coping With Childhood Trauma
- Understanding Co-Sexual Addiction
- Multiple Addictions (Cross Addiction)
Treatment Options
The Leadem Counseling & Consulting Services’s commitment to the provision of a comprehensive array of services has come from the breadth of experience that we have accumulated in the treatment of addicted people and their loved ones. The following modalities are available:
Individual Therapy
Individual therapy is designed to provide analysis, direction, and support in a therapeutic relationship whose hallmark feature will be mutual respect and responsibility. We believe that a therapy session should be guided by the needs of the client and treatment plans are designed around the needs the client presents. Our staff has an experiential orientation and a working knowledge of the 12 Steps.
Group Therapy
Group therapy provides a melting pot of personalities for each of the group’s members to develop skills needed to relate to a diverse population of people. Groups are generally designed as closed-ended which promotes optimum confidentiality and group cohesiveness.
Couple’s Therapy
The development and maintenance of a rewarding romantic relationship will involve an intense commitment to the 12-Steps and a willingness to address the challenges that each member has brought to the union. LCCS staff will work to assist the members in resolving immediate conflicts while working to uncover the antecedents to the current difficulty.
Sexual Addiction Assessment
An assessment to determine if an individual is suffering with a Sexual Addiction should involve a comprehensive investigation into the individual’s sexual, emotional, and spiritual development.
Aftercare Support
Our after-care support services are intended to provide therapeutic services to sexually addicted people and their families who are completing residential treatment and require transition support to stabilize their early recovery efforts. The focus of aftercare support is primarily on bridging the gap to 12-Step Groups and developing a relapse prevention plan.
Our NJ sex addiction counselors will show you out of the maze for we have learned the way ourselves. To speak to one of our therapists or to make an appointment, please contact us.