Sexual Addiction: ‘It’s Not About Sex’

My most recent article in Counseling Today magazine examines how sexual addiction impacts couples and how counseling can help both partners on the path to recovery. I was particularly intrigued by a book one of my sources, Barbara Steffens, co-authored, Your Sexually Addicted Spouse: How Partners Can Cope and Heal. Steffens rejects the typical co-addiction/co-dependency model for working with the spouses of sexual addicts, treating their experience as a trauma instead. Read the entire article here.