Female Sex Addiction Counselling

Private Confidential Counselling For Women With Sex Addiction By Renowned Sex Therapist In Sydney & Online

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WHAT IS FEMALE SEX ADDICTION COUNSELLING

Female sex addiction counselling at ASAA encompasses understanding women’s needs to permanently stop their problematic dependence on sex, and developing a healthy balanced relationship with their sexuality. In a therapy session, your sex therapist/counsellor will provide support, education, relapse prevention and coping skills, self management strategies, assign homework tasks, ask questions, and listen to you with the upmost respect. A sex therapist is a specifically trained professional counsellor, who is qualified to understand, treat, and manage your sexual behaviours and sexual concerns.

WHAT IS FEMALE SEXUAL ADDICTION   

Fundamentally, male and female sex addiction are the same. Sex addiction is often seen as a male problem, however sex addiction does not discriminate and can affect anyone. Most female sex addicts are well educated, intelligent, and highly functioning individuals in society, but are hesitant to reach out for help due to shame and fear of social stigma.

  • Female sexual addiction is characterised by escalations of  compulsive sexual thoughts, fantasies and acts she cannot control

As common in all sexual addictions, female sexual addiction can be understood as a mostly unconscious mechanism to cope with unresolved emotional life trauma, including early life trauma, dysfunctional family of origin, childhood sexual abuse, other childhood abuses, dysfunctional relationship(s) and abuse in later life, health trauma, grief and loss issues, and PTSD.

Sex addiction is a state of emotional dependency on sex as a form of ‘self medicating’. Sexual highs are euphoric experiences and triggered by elevated dopamine and opioid peptide activity in the brain’s reward circuits during sex. Brain highs feel good and distract from negative emotions, but are short lived and soon followed by withdrawal and dysphoria.

As common in all addictions, lasting satisfaction can never be achieved and cravings return. Eventually, moderate to serious mood swings may become noticeable, and may peak in intense frustration or violent anger when sex is unattainable. (related to SRD or Sexual Rage Disorder).

CONSEQUENCES OF UNTREATED FEMALE SEX ADDICTION 

  • The term female sex addiction referes to inability to permanently limit, or stop, her sexual behaviour despite her full awareness of the negative consequences her behaviour is causing.

Female sex addicts are at high risk of

  • Compromising personal safety
  • Acquiring and spreading sexually transmitted infections, STIs
  • Experiencing unwanted pregnancies
  • Rape
  • Abuse
  • Domestic Violence
  • Sexual Violence
  • Rejection
  • Discrimination
  • Manipulation
  • Abandonment
  • Financial loss/exploitation
  • Loss of workplace, position, status, career
  • Loss of marital partner, family, children, friends
  • Loss of good health
  • Loss of self esteem
  • Loss of hope
  • Shame
  • Legal prosecution in regard to sexual activity
  • Being murdered

FURTHER INFORMATION

Please read further information on our designated page Sex Addiction Information.

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Help is on hand if you have concerns about a personal sexual addiction. Please Enquire Or Book Online anytime, or contact our discreet and confidential sex addiction specialist Heide in Sydney during office hours (+61) 02 9380 4486 or email  info@sexaddictionaustalia.com.au