Sex and Pornography Addiction Counseling:
How many times have you experienced the same pattern over and over again? Promised yourself and God that it's the last time only to find yourself back in the same place. Do you wish it would just stop?
You Can Break Free.
Jaeger Counseling specializes in helping individuals and couples impacted by pornography and sexual addiction. These struggles are often rooted in deeper emotional pain, unresolved wounds, trauma, shame, loneliness, or unhealthy coping patterns that may have begun early in life.
Research has shown that many individuals struggling with compulsive sexual behaviors have experienced some form of emotional trauma, relational wounds, or early exposure to sexually explicit material. In today’s digital world, children are often exposed to pornography at a very young age, which can deeply affect emotional development, relationships, and patterns of coping.
Sexual addiction, like many other addictions, often begins as an escape from emotional pain, stress, loneliness, anxiety, rejection, or unmet emotional needs. Over time, these behaviors can become compulsive and difficult to control, even when they begin damaging a person’s relationships, emotional health, spiritual life, or sense of self-worth.
Pornography and sexual addiction can look different for each individual. For some, the struggle may involve compulsive pornography use or masturbation. For others, it may progress into behaviors that create serious consequences emotionally, relationally, spiritually, or sexually.
Healing is possible. Counseling can help individuals uncover the underlying issues driving the behavior, develop healthier coping skills, rebuild trust, restore intimacy, and move toward freedom, healing, and lasting change in a supportive and nonjudgmental environment.
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Behaviors May Include One or More of the Following:
- Viewing Pornography
- Compulsive Masturbation
- Pornography coupled with Masturbation
- Hiding porn use or sexual behaviors
- Several failed attempts to decrease, control or stop sexual behaviors
- Continuation of sexual behaviors despite negative consequences in marriage, career, personal relationships and finances.
- Sexting
- Affairs
- Depression and/or anxiety
- Feelings of guilt, shame and embarrassment
- Being preoccupied with or persistently craving sex
- Infidelity
- Feeling irritable or angry when unable to engage in the desired behavior
- Visiting strip clubs or adult stores
- Watching others in a sexual way (voyeurism)
- Exhibitionism
- Phone, text or chatroom sex
- Sex with anonymous partners
- Paying for Sex (prostitutes, massage, escorts)
Jaeger Counseling believes that the real problem with sexual addiction isn't simply out of control sexual behaviors, it involves underlying "wounds" or traumas that the individual is numbing, medicating or covering up with the sexual addictive behaviors. The sexual behaviors become a coping mechanism to deal with internal pain, fear of being hurt, fear of being abandoned or shame.
I have great compassion and understanding for those struggling. I am committed to providing a therapeutic environment that is never shaming, fully accepting and safe for recovery and healing.
If you are not sure if you have a problem take this free self test.
Pornography and Sexual Addiction Counseling
In the first counseling session we will begin to gather information about your sexual behaviors, provide information on tools for getting free from those behaviors, begin identifying underlying issues of the addiction and give direction on beginning your journey of healing and freedom from these behaviors.
If you are struggling with addictive behaviors and have come to a place of wanting to finally get free, don't
hesitate!
Call me today or schedule online Here to break free.
Free Resource: How to Quit Porn, 6 Essential Steps
If married or in a close relationship, nearly all spouses of those struggling with pornography and sexual addiction behaviors are traumatized by the lies, deception and betrayal. As a result they are in need of their own support and they need treatment too. Most often, you will both be connected with a counselor to help explore her healing journey. At the appropriate time, marriage counseling will be a vital part of the healing process.
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