Online therapy for sex addiction, Canadian licence
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Psychotherapist Beth Mares RP works throughout Canada via video therapy or chat, meeting all privacy standards and recognized by most insurance companies.
Find your self--and lose your addiction
Overcoming compulsive sexual behaviour isn't about willpower--it's about getting help to find the underlying causes of the compulsion and change them. You are an individual and need to be treated as such; you can give two people the same label, but their paths to recovery will be different.
Psychotherapy for a sexual addiction doesn't just solve the obvious problem--it also makes life richer and happier. Most of the sex-addicted people Beth sees, who tend to be high-achievers, find this process very rewarding and relatively easy; the success rate is close to 100%, and often only short term therapy (i.e., up to 20 sessions) is required.
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Sexual addiction issues Beth helps with
divorce prevention
distrust, lying, hiding, and cat-and-mouse games that often accompany a sexual addiction
infidelity - affairs - compulsive womanizing
inability to control flirting that is causing professional and/or relationship problems
being in trouble for sexual harassment, or risking a complaint
preferring pornography or other impersonal or anonymous sex to lovemaking
compulsive promiscuity, male or female
failure to practice safe sex
other compulsive sexual behaviours and sexual addictions, including those particularly affecting gay men, compulsive cruising etc.
anxiety disorders and other problems that can underlie a sexual addiction
sex addiction or "sexual anorexia" resulting from limiting religious beliefs in one's family of origin
rebuilding trust
relapse prevention
More issues:
concern about the type of pornography you watch
patterns of arousal that are distressing or seem alien
lack of relationship-building skills that often underlies addictive behaviours
life circumstances or other sexual problems that can trigger or revive a sexual addiction
See also therapy for intrusive sexual thoughts or concerns about fetishes.
Distance counselling for sex addictions online
How to arrange online counselling.
Beth's clients have found video counselling very effective for excessive pornography use and other sexual addictions. Some live in Toronto and are unable to travel to the office because of time or other constraints. Some of them have been from Northern Ontario, where there is a shortage of expertise (North Bay, Thunder Bay, Timmins, Kenora, Parry Sound, Sault Ste Marie, Fort Frances, Temiskaming, Sudbury, Kapuskasing, Temegami, Cochrane, etc. Others live in small centres such as Lindsay and Fenelon Falls in the Kawarthas.) Sessions are typically by video, but can be audio only, and those who can only do sessions on their lunch hour at work and could be overheard use chat.
An addictive process is a never-ending loop in which the addictive behaviour continuously generates the unhappiness it is pursued to alleviate.
ACT--acceptance and commitment therapy
By Beth Mares
The essence of this approach is that instead of perpetuating inner conflict and obsession by trying to strong-arm the self, it helps the client to observe, understand and accept himself, resolve inner conflicts, and move on to finding fulfilment in a way that works instead of futilely pursuing the fantasy represented by an obsession or addiction. While some other approaches to addiction, behavioral problems and emotional distress see them as illness or "sin", I see them as less than optimal ways of coping with the vicissitudes of living in an extremely complex--and less than optimal--society. However, as addictions and prolonged emotional distress frequently cause illness, it makes sense for psychotherapy and addiction counselling to be covered under medical insurance.